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    Hawk and Songbird: Poems
    Hawk and Songbird: Poems
    Hawk and Songbird: Poems
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    Hawk and Songbird: Poems

    By Susan Cowger

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    Pandemic at full tilt, the diagnosis came--cancer. Maybe you've known crisis or are walking a loved one through the terrible unknown. The heart plummets. The mind shrills. We blame genetics. Toxins. Lifestyle. How can we not blame ourselves? Can this be thrown on God?

    If we listen to the emptiness behind every unanswered why, what will we hear? While life and death circle overhead, heckle and intimidate, exhausting faith, these poems talk with touchstones around us. Eavesdrop on whispers for answers. These poems explore what we have--and what's left. Who made the hawk? And the lionhearted songbird? What do they tell us about courage? What else is present?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateFeb 28, 2024
    ISBN9798385212019
    Hawk and Songbird: Poems
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    Susan Cowger

    Susan Cowger is a poet and artist whose lens to the world is image. Her poems have appeared most recently in In A Strange Land: Introducing Ten Kingdom Poets (Cascade, 2019), Ekphrastic Review, Windhover, Perspectives, Crux, McGuffin, and Presence. Publication also includes the chapbook Scarab Hiding. Susan is founder and past editor of the journal Rock & Sling. Connect with her on Facebook and at www.rockwoodwire@blogspot.com.

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      Hawk and Songbird - Susan Cowger

      Hawk & Songbird

      Poems

      Susan Cowger

      Hawk & Songbird

      Poems

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      Names: Cowger, Susan. | other names in same manner

      Title: Hawk & Songbird : Poems / Susan Cowger.

      Description: Eugene, OR: Cascade Books,

      2024

      | Series: Poiema Poetry Series.

      Identifiers:

      isbn 979-8-3852-1199-9

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      isbn 979-8-3852-1200-2

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      isbn 979-8-3852-1201-9

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      Subjects: LCSH: subject | subject | subject | subject

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      2024

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      02/02/24

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Preface

      To Save a Robin

      Hooked Beaks and Talons

      New Moon

      Before I Ask for Anything

      I Talk into My Hands

      Fast and Shallow

      Claws

      Float Across Azure

      Waiting for the Scan to Be Read or Time between the Times

      Enough for Today

      Should You Cover That

      Speaking of Weather

      Momma Was It Like This

      Poverty

      Holiest

      Burning with Ash

      Come Back Coyote

      The Boy Sweeping Whispered Love Fiercely

      Your Number’s Up

      Wings and Hollow Bones

      Long Nights’ Moon

      On The Observation Deck: A Resuscitation

      Canada Geese Sail

      When My Head Is Cold

      When I Pray to Be Healed

      All Ears

      Instruction in Case You Wake Early

      Sigh too Brief to Mention

      The Burden of Gifts

      The Wonder of Weeping

      Marriage or Earth’s Own Smell

      Seventeen Houseplants

      Honey from a Rock

      Mud until Today

      Exaudi Nos Domini (Hear us Lord)

      A Song in This Place

      Blood Moon

      Momma What Did You Call

      The Conductor’s Baton

      Summon This Kind of Prayer

      An Incident

      When a Rib Tears Away

      Wind Crying to Get In

      Putting on a Swimsuit

      She Says You Get What You Get

      Sugar Moon or There is No Cure Yet

      The Uncertainty Principle

      Too Close to My Eyes

      Memorial

      The Day Before We Leave Seattle

      Exposure

      My New Name

      A Valley Wide as Spring

      Escape

      A Hawk Does Not Have a Song

      Sunrise and Moonset

      Immortal Invisible

      Coyote Alive

      Transfiguration

      Thirst of Shore Meets Parch of Water

      Behind the Blinds

      17 Degrees Snow Blinding Light

      Red-Tailed Hawk

      Symptoms of Morning

      Time Disappears (while painting)

      He of Old Age Died

      Dear Hawk

      Lunula

      Finding You Again

      Prayer Without Words

      Plumage The Wing and Its Mighty Elbow

      Selah To Understand More Than a Sentence

      The Precipice

      Care Giver

      What Happened

      An Afterword

      Breath Holding

      Acknowledgments

      "Keep eye contact with these poems. Susan Cowger pioneers the lamentable animal wilderness of suffering and reports back with language that coheres where there seemed only incoherence. Cowger conducts the passage through the ambivalence and confusion of pain with great care, such that, as we attend to these poems, we discover ourselves to be loved

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