These Hollowed Bones
Poetry
By Amelia Díaz Ettinger
Perfect-bound paperback | 5.5 x 8.5 | 106 pages | April 2, 2024 | 978-1961864009
In These Hollowed Bones, birds are the conduit for conversations of internal emotions and the natural world. This collection ties together the themes of loss, marriage, and ecology, topics that are at once personal and universal. The voices contained within these poems speak of the isolation felt by both avian and human due to migration and loss of habitat, loss of home. Nature and bird lovers will find solace and self-recognition within these pages.
Reviews
'It is Ettinger's encounters with birds that reflect some of our most vulnerable human qualities.'
—TAK Erzinger, poet, winner of the 2021 Whirling Prize, University of Indianapolis
'A collection the reader can come home to again and again, in any season.'
—Brittney Corrigan, author of Solastalgia
'Flighted on hope and feathers. Wonderment unfolds effortlessly on the page with the poet's sprawling knowledge dovetailed perfectly with an artist's eye.'
—Jessica Mehta, author of Constellations of My Body
About The Author
Amelia Díaz Ettinger is the author of four previous books of poetry: Self Dissection (The Poetry Box), Learning to Love a Western Sky (Airlie Press), Speaking at a Time /Hablando a la Vez (Redbat Press), and Fossils in a Red Flag (Finishing Line Press). In an earlier version of herself, Amelia Díaz Ettinger trained as an ornithologist at Washington State University. Her passion for birds has been a constant in her tumulus wandering life. In this work she pays homage to the feather birds that have given her so much solace.
