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everydayliving.With a knack for findinghumor in grief and absurdity inbeauty,Ali Liebegott embraces life'scasual highs and inevitable lows,exposing her humanity and invitinga connectivity with ourselves andthe people who populate ourgorgeous,ridiculous,sometimespainful planet.  \n\"The Summer of Dead Birds is a near mythic journey intolife-stopping loss:a howl,and a hymn to what's mortal.But in Liebegott's spare,rich language and lines(and inthe silences between the lines),what is gone might blinkbriefly alive again—not to hold,but to love.”  \n—MARIE HOWE,author of Magdalene  \n“Sweet and so sad and the writing's perfect.”  \n—EILEEN MYLES,author of Afterglow (a dog memoir)  \n“A fierce,funny,agonized,cracked-open aria in homage tothe presence and passing of fiercely loved things.Grip-pingly,heart-wrenchingly sad,it also makes me feel lessalone in facing the love and loss at the core of living,whichis also to say dying.\"  \n—MAGGIE NELSON,author of The Argonauts  \n“Brilliant!We are fortunate to have the stark genius of AliLiebegott on earth to push our lives forward like all thebest poets do.”  \n—CACONRAD,author ofWhile Standing in Linefor Death  \n\"Full of wry heartbreak and sweet,sad humor,righteousfury and tender grief,The Summer of Dead Birds reconnectsus with our own humanity.Ali Liebegott is never unawareof the absurdity of our lives,in all their gorgeousness andgravity,and reading her you feel on the verge of a new per-spective,one that could heal all wounds,solve all mysteries,turn a sob into a guffaw.”  \n—MICHELLE TEA,author of Against Memoir  \n“Ali Liebegott's The Summer of Dead Birds is a chronicle ofgrief &its animals—the birds our cities kill,the dogs whoare our best friends,the lovers we can't keep,the strangebeauty of a mother's death,the strange translation of all ofdeath’s old meanings in a time of mass extinction.Funny&wise,full of kindness &the gentle little strangenessesof real life,this book's elegies are good schools for living.\"—ARIANA REINES,author of Mercury  \n“A linked sequential lyric memoir balancing aphoristic in-genuity,deadpan irreverence,and the deep interior explo-ration of the soul,The Summer of Dead Birds is a cantos ofqueer grief exploring the end of a life and the end of arelationship.Gorgeous,tortured &an important tour deforce!”—SAM SAX,author of Madness  \n\"'How does a person dislodge the scenes/that burn in-side them like arsoned cars.This is the crucial question TheSummer of Dead Birds asks and—with honest,at times fun-ny,always quietly gorgeous,direct,and generous poetry—answers.I found myself reading this book nearly breath-lessly,amazed at the human and animal presences,gratefulto this poet for keeping a record of her survival.”  \n—MATTHEW ZAPRUDER,author of Why Poetry  \n“A manual for grieving,but also,most importantly,a vitalsalve for the problem of living.”  \n—KAROLINA WACLAWIAK,author of The Invaders  \nThu Summonoead   Bnd  \na i tgot   \nPublished in 2019 by the Feminist Pressat the 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