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Bird Skin Coat is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent and descent—doves and dives, sparrows and slugs, attics and cellars—this collection reflects Sorby’s keen eye for blending images. As they shuttle between the Upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, these poems explore how the radical instability of the world is also the source of its energy.
 
 
Honorable Mention, Posner Book-Length Poetry Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers 
 
Winner, Best Book of Poetry, Midwest Book Awards
 
Winner, Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers

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  1. CONTENTS
  2. p. ix
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. xi
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  1. PART ONE
  1. Bird Skin Coat
  2. pp. 3-4
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  1. Breathing Out Smoke
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  1. Nostalgia for the Present
  2. pp. 7-8
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  1. Rose
  2. pp. 9-10
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  1. Whose Woods These Are
  2. pp. 11-12
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  1. Neighborhood Watch
  2. pp. 13-14
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  1. Small Talk
  2. pp. 15-16
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  1. Middle Distance
  2. pp. 17-18
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  1. Erin’s Leather Jacket
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  1. Dragons of the Bible
  2. pp. 21-22
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  1. Walking Directions
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  1. What Helen Caught
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  1. Catch and Release
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  1. Conversion Narrative
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  1. Mountain of Names
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  1. The Snow-Woman
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  1. The Diagnosis
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  1. Insomnia
  2. pp. 37-38
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  1. PART TWO
  1. Kickflip
  2. pp. 41-42
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  1. The Attic of the Attic
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  1. Prosperity
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  1. Flyover state
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  1. Taj Maha
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  1. American Camel
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  1. Sky Falling on Cedars
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  1. Sleeping with Stars
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  1. Forest Floor
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  1. Sleeping in the Pioneer Rooms
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  1. Objects Made Real by Observation
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  1. Night Train to Whitefish
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  1. In the Good Pain Wing
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  1. Six Degrees of Separation
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  1. Transport to Sumer
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  1. Museum Study
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  1. First Lady of the War
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  1. The Urn
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  1. Dove and Dove
  2. pp. 77-78
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  1. Notes
  2. p. 79
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