Tag: metaphor

  • Night Locks the Birds in the Sky: Review of Bird Ornaments

    Night Locks the Birds in the Sky: Review of Bird Ornaments

    Narya Rose Deckard

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    How many ways can we come to know the body through metaphor? In Angel T. Dionne’s book of poems Bird Ornaments, it can be and become so many things: a “dimensional graph/of genetic variations,” string beans for arms, caterpillars for eyebrows, teeth become adversaries. And usually when we think of metaphors, we imagine them opening… Read more