What We Learn from Birds

What We Learn From Birds is more than a stunning debut of poems; it is a collection of a woman's many selves-punk librarian, scorned lover, gentle mother, glitter-clawed bitch, worried daughter, hopeful dreamer. What We Learn From Birds is the kind of book that knocks on the right doors of your heart. You can't help but let it in.

-Julia Schneider, Founder and Director of Narrative Rx



It may be true that we "wreck ourselves /with the relentless wanting of things." But, simultaneously hard-edged and sensual, self-scouring and resilient, Gillian Freebody's poems make room for love-wild, inspired, transformative-even in this life of pain. This is a book to celebrate and to learn from.

-Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers