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Features new poems and extensive author notes.
Includes poems featured in Only Poems and the Individual World Poetry Slam.
“Ryler Dustin’s Heavy Lead Birdsong is an unflinchingly honest book that looks into the beautifully flawed heart of humanity and refuses to turn away.”
—James Crews, author of How to Love the World and The Sacred Everyday
“Ryler Dustin is hands down the most exciting young poet I have encountered in ten years of coast-to-coast travels through the poetry underground. Read this book; you’ll find him telling you truths—like all great poets—that he has no right to know.”
—Jack McCarthy, author of Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery
In these pages, an old man plants orchards in his own chest, angels write messages encoded in boxcar graffiti, and a dangerous car ride through the dead of winter takes us to the Ice Age, where we might have been snuffed out forever. Inspired by science and religion, grounded in subtle humor, these poems celebrate the kind of human spirit that can save us.
RYLER DUSTIN 