“This is a lyrical treat.”
—Publisher Weekly, starred review

“For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds opens a magical place of clean-lined prose, scholarly knowledge, and inspiration. The writing is deep and lucid, it cuts to the bone and yet respects the mystery of things. It works by a literary transfiguration. The poet shines with bright rays of thought and skill as she stands on a mount of experience created by the songs of poets and birds—from Sappho and Ovid to Robert Duncan and Anne Carson, from nightingales to lyrebirds—until they appear next to her and converse with her as she writes.”
—Robert Adamson

This book will be available September 1, 2021