bird of winter by Alice Hiller
PBS Summer Special Commendation 2021 Abigail Parry “Alex Josephy’s new book of

“Alex Josephy’s new book of poems is an example of poetry’s gift – unpretentious

Enigmatic definitions alternate with a series of coded questions charged with melancholic gravity

that Huidobro had reached his maturity after the Parisian apprenticeship

experienced horror and icy

Often awkward

bird of winter by Alice Hiller <br><b>PBS Summer Special Commendation 2021</b> Abigail Parry “Alex Josephy’s new book ofPBS Special Commendation Summer 2021Alice Hillers debut performs an act of witness and restitution. Working with her childhood and adolescent medical notes, bird of winter creates a redemptive language to speak the darkness of being sexually abused by a family member. Through the excavated histories of Pompeii and Herculaneum, these poems additionally document the grooming that prepares a child for sexual abuse, and the vulnerability which remains