by Zachary Asher
University of Utah Press, 2020
Paper: 978-1-60781-768-0 | eISBN: 978-1-60781-769-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3601.S5425
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6

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Winner of the 2019 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry

Zachary Asher’s second collection, gone bird in the glass hours, is a play in verse, featuring seven voices. It begins with a rabbi, bewildered and bent by personal grief, guided and beguiled by elusive Blue Postman into the world of “the glass hours” and its inhabitants.

Rooted in magical realism, gone bird in the glass hours experiments with multiple forms from epistles to centos, from fractals to prayers. These poems are brave in their excavations of grief and solace, wonder and rage, collective trauma and, ultimately, transcendence. 


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