The Boy Whose Hands Were Birds (ISBN 1599481448)

One of the best books of poetry I've read this year!:
This is an excellent book of poetry. It's humorous and dark and biting and alive. It's a slim volume, full of sleep and birds and fathers and ducks. It's a book of creation and mythology and humanity. Wow...it's... I know that I'm not getting at it. I'm using all those grand and archetypal descriptions people like to use to describe poetry generically because it's supposed to be fleeting and esoteric and all of that, right? But, I'm not making it up, or pulling it out of my bum, this book, it's really good. A little Charles Simic, a little John Berryman, a lot, lot, lot of the fabric of poetry itself, The Boy Whose Hands Were Birds is a worthy and wonderful purchase.