Mamabird by Katie Fesuk

$19.99

 

 

Katie Fesuk‘s Mamabird takes us through so many layers of a woman’s experience — girlhood, daughter-hood, wife-hood, motherhood — with language that’s lush and lyrical, at once questioning and affirming. Her speaker moves through the inevitable losses, too, with the kind of deep inwardness that also reaches outwards. It’s that sense of inner freedom — her very birdness, throughout — that makes those losses seem translucent, filled with light, almost numinous.

–Cecilia Woloch, www.ceciliawoloch.com

 

Family, love, death, pain, joy—these are all the abstractions of life beautifully coming together in Mamabird in vivid images and stories that bridge the gap between ephemeral moments. Fesuk has created a world where people wonder what they should take with themselves, what is important, and what is not. The mamabird always knows that family is most important even when, as in “Two Kinds of Blue,” it is “Hard to know which story/began with another.” Fesuk knows that it’s the memory of people and events that bind us together in the deepest love possible. This is a remarkable and auspicious debut. 

–William Walsh

 

The poems of Mamabird embrace a world both pastoral and domestic: a world of father, mother, husband, wife, daughter, and son. And though many of us are at home in this familiar place, the gift of these generous poems is that of tongue & wing: a lifting of the everyday into a light made lyrical and transcendent. These poems are articulate and canny, and touch at what is uncanny at the heart of our most human experiences. 

–Ralph Tejeda Wilson

 

Katie Fesuk‘s Mamabird is refreshing for its harnessing of a new world behind our world of quotidian phenomena. Deeply intimate, loving, and honest, Fesuk’s second collection, Mamabird, thrums with lyrical musicality; her language is aurally textured, lucid, and deeply beautiful. The poems vacillate between human vulnerability and confidence of spirit. They are anything but solipsistic: they are giving, inspiring, and find light in the most stygian of darkness. Fesuk’s book is a triumph; it soars, and I look forward to following its journey again and again.
–William Wright
 
 
 

 

 

 

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Mamabird

by Katie Fesuk

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-106-4

2020

Fesuk, a Massachusetts native, teaches English in Marietta, Georgia and has earned degrees from the University of Georgia, Agnes Scott College, Kennesaw State University, and, most recently, the Etowah Valley MFA from Reinhardt University. Her current full-length manuscript, Mamabird (Finishing Line Press), will be available for pre-order beginning September 3 for its January 2020 release. Fesuk studied English and Creative Writing in the doctoral program at Georgia State University and was a Georgia Author of the Year Award nominee for her chapbook If Not an Apple (La Vita Poetica Press). She worked as Poet in Residence at The Walker School, served as Creative Writer in Residence at the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, and published poems that can be found in more than forty journals including Five Points, Poet Lore, The Pedestal, Slant, Atlanta Review, and Wicked Alice.

 

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