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Bye Bye Blackbird

by Doreen Stock

Released on Apr 15, 2021

SKU: 978-1-948461-81-8 Category: Chapbooks

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Description

Bye Bye Blackbird

by Doreen Stock

In Bye Bye Blackbird, Doreen Stock explores the last days of her 93-year-old mother, Annetta Winnick. In this theme-based suite of poems, we move in mythic time and through the moments of loss and conveyance that characterized this woman’s journey toward the end of her life—always against the background of the mother-daughter relationship.

About the Author

photo of author Doreen Stock with mother Annetta
“Doreen at Annetta’s Birthday”  Marcelo Holot©

Fairfax, Californian poet, literary translator, and memoir practitioner, Doreen Stock, recently launched a chapbook of poems, Tango Man, (Finishing Line Press) in August 2020. Other works include: My Name Is Y, (Norfolk Press, 2019), an anti-nuclear memoir; Three Tales from the Archives of Love, (Norfolk Press, 2018), a work of historical fiction; Talking with Marcelo, (Mine Gallery Editions, 2017), a book-length interview of Argentine Journalist Marcelo Holot; In Place of Me, Poems Selected and with an Introduction by Jack Hirschman, (Mine Gallery Editions, 2015); The Politics of Splendor, (Alcatraz Editions, Santa Cruz, 1984), poems and translations. An interview and reading of Doreen’s poetry can be viewed online at Marin Poet’s Live! She is a founding member of The Marin Poetry Center.

Visit doreenstock.com or facebook.com/doreen.stock.52, for further information and current ruminations.

Enjoy a video of Doreen reading from the book:

Doreen Stock — A Featured Poet on The Poetry Box LIVE (March 2021)

Early Praise for Bye Bye Blackbird:

In Bye Bye Blackbird, poet Doreen Stock leads us through a dark tempest where navigating a torrent of family matters, she witnesses with vivid imagery and an unflinching eye, the final strains of a mother who’s lived a long, exuberant life.

—Michael D. Amitin, Parisian musician, International Beat Poet Laureate, 2020-2021

A medley of poems and prose-poems revealing with compassion, humor and musical remembrances the loving relationship between a daughter and her mother, in life and death. Of the poems I was particularly moved by the especial brilliance of “Mother Horse.”

—Jack Hirschman, American poet & activist

Doreen Stock is a master of her craft, and her newest collection of poems captures her mother’s last days and beyond with heart-wrenching grace, beauty, humanity, and artistry. Each poem is a jewel, a layered world of story, memory, love and senses, light and dark. Her work does what only the best art can: it connects readers with what it is to love, to lose, and to be fully alive in this world. You will keep this book on your shelf as a reminder of what matters, and you will want to come back to it again and again.

—Julie Fingersh, freelance journalist and writer, The New York Times and O: The Oprah Magazine

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Weight 4 oz
Dimensions 5.5 × 8.5 × .3 in
ISBN

978-1-948461-81-8

Pages

32

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Sample Poem

Mother Horse

Long ago when mothers were horses
with their big hearts against our small heads
we were calm next to their giant bodies and nothing
was too hard for them to do. They could lift us onto
their backs and run into the night sky never ever leaving
us behind, long ago, when we could feel them around us,
and they would bend their heads down to drink of still waters
and we were warm and safe.

Then came a time like Guernica. And they were terrified and white
with anguish, their big blue teeth bared in tragic ways, their necks
arched to the breaking point by the cruel harnesses of pain.

And then we were forced to lead separate lives. And we longed for
them as they streaked through our dream. They roamed the worlds
in search of us, and we could hear them whinnying across the abyss
of ice and black water that we would have to cross if ever we were
to find them again.

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