Juvenilia

The North American debut by cult favorite New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird, Juvenilia wrangles the flamboyant, provocative pique of youth into a poetry collection highly focused and desperately alive.this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girlwith many beneficial thoughts and feelingswith themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she isjuxtaposing many classical and modern breezesBird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fogor a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the desertthis is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tendernessheartbreaking and charged with treeswithout once sacrificing the forestWhether you are masturbating luxuriously in your parents sleepoutor pushing a pork roast home in a vintage pramthis is the book for youheroically and compulsively stupid