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Karen McCarthy Woolf
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Fiction
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2014
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Carcanet Press Ltd.
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English
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*An Aviary of Small Birds* is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labor and an emergency caesarean, the baby's heart gives out. For t