Bird Body by Zoë Fay-Stindt

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Bird Body by Zoë Fay-Stindt

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Bird Body offers powerful, complex and incisive glimpses into the tensions that lie at the heart of survivorship. “Everyone wants you to stop writing/about it, this unkillable thing, enough, enough. /You have been loved, yes, / you are fortunate,” she writes, pushing back against demands that society makes of survivors: don’t speak, stay open, forgive, be grateful, move on. This forceful debut investigates virtue and shame, asking, “what use does good have/ in this old world? And what shade of it are you today? Fay-Stindt’s work resists easy conclusions, encouraging us to hold space for trauma and ambiguous grief alongside “every earthly wonder.” many survivors will recognize their experiences in these poems. This chapbook is a form of care and advocacy that refuses shame and prioritizes connection. Art that addresses trauma shouldn’t have to be beautiful—just to tell one’s story is enough—but Bird Body is, and I cannot imagine a greater gift.

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