Birds of clay / Aleksandra Lane.

Poems.

Earthquake -- Easter -- Father's conversations with God -- Knife -- Outside -- War interrupted. This is how it starts. Before the explosion. Under siege. Blue helmet. Liberation. Reconciliation. A refugee -- Birds of clay. Contour. On religion. Music. The lucky couple. The monk. Grandmother on literature. In oven a leg of lamb, no doubt. The uncle. Café in the town centre. Aftermath. The uncle #2. Aftermath #2 Lover's owl. The lover. The forgetters. The forgotten -- Another legendary sky. Callisto. Arrow. Thirst. Crux -- Bullet time. Possessed. Paperman. Doll lover. The Economist. Three cheers for liberation. Gutted. Beauty spot. One way street. Dead pixel. Unabridged. Diamonds. Wellington Inc. Sold out. Non sequitur. Strong City. Adam and Eve. Quo vadis -- A little too rare. Chicken/egg. Thirty. Looking back. Red. While I was away. A different rain. Whenever gypsies gather around for a wedding. Double portrait. Still. Winter. Old man's grudge. Skin and bones. Portrait of Charlie nodding towards cubism. Travels with Charlie. Godwalks. Final discourse -- Affairs of grammar and style. Comma splice. On beautiful conjunctions. Growing sentence pains. Correlative. Copula. Metric lust. The house on the sharp corner of the present tense. Semicolon man. Punctuation, my dear Pandora. The life of ellipsis -- There are no ghosts in America. Who talks a lot either knows a lot or lies a lot. Whether the pot hits the stone or the stone hits the pot, the pot is in trouble. A man wants to be better than everyone, but worse than his son. There is no such thing as a tree without a branch or a man without a fault. It's better for your foot to slip than your tongue. It's better to have a bad year than a bad neighbour.

"This ... first collection (in English) mixes powerful lyrics, Serbian proverbs and literary experiments, and moves from the Balkan wars to New Zealand"--Publisher information.

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