A Theory of Birds Magical Negro and social bias played out

and social bias played out in terms of race and/or class

' getting to the truth of living in the dystopia of poverty

Covers risograph printed by Earthbound Press

the process of aging

A Theory of Birds Magical Negro and social bias played outZaina Alsous 'Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funerals' This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative