Bird Eating Bird: Poems

By Kristin Naca

Bird Eating Bird is a new collection of poems from Kristin Naca, winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU prize as chosen by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa. Playful and serious all at once, Kristin’s work explores the richness of her cultural and linguistic heritage and perpetuates NPS’s tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser-known poets.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Sep 29, 2009
• ISBN: 9780061901454

Kristin Naca

Kristin Naca is a CFD Fellow at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches Asian American and Latino poetry and creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, North American Review, and Rio Grande Review. She lives in Minneapolis.

Reviews for Bird Eating Bird

[plenilune · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is what more 21st century poetry should aspire to: explorations of and conversations with and within a world that is both borderless and meticulously categorized. It is bilingual, multicultural, written with a deft touch and an unself-conscious wit. Of particular note is the centerpiece of the collection, the long poem "House" that explores language, a word, a concept, in ways both seemingly obvious and fascinatingly enlightening.