Every Bird is One Bird
Every Bird is One Bird by Francine Sterle, published by Tupelo Press on September 14, 2001, is a collection of poetry that delves into the intricate relationships between nature and personal introspection. This 1st paperback edition spans 88 pages and is presented in English. Sterle’s lyrical focus captures the savage, sensual, and redemptive aspects of the world outside her window, inviting readers to explore the emotional connections that bind the external landscape to internal experiences.
In this work, Sterle’s poems reveal a prismatic quality, emphasizing the flow of time and detail as they traverse the northern Minnesota landscape, characterized by its shrub swamps, needleleaf forests, and grassy fields. The collection showcases her deep connection to this environment, as she shares vivid imagery of lakes, wildlife, and wildflowers. Through hauntingly beautiful phrases, Sterle moves effortlessly between grand themes and intimate moments, creating a rich tapestry that resonates with the reader’s own sense of place and belonging.
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When Francine Sterle focuses her lyric attention on the world outside her window, what resonates is the savage, the sensual, the redemptive.
Co-winner of the Tupelo Press Editor’s Prize in Poetry, “Every Bird is One Bird” explores the intimate and intricate relationships that exist between untamed nature-the world we watch-and inwardness-the world we sense. The poems disclose the unending and essential flow between the two. Fiercely beautiful, they convey an instinctive, emotional involvement that aspires to pure song.
Many of the poems have a prismatic quality and depend on an incremental progression of time and detail. The landscape of northern Minnesota–its shrub swamps and needleleaf forests and grassy fields–is the archetypal and mythic well from which Sterle draws.
She is rooted in her landscape-it is her source and her resource. As she shares her world of lakes and stunted pines, wildlife and wildflowers with us in hauntingly beautiful phrases, she moves softly and swiftly between the grand and the intimate. It claims her as a writer, and us as readers.
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