The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Logan Garner writes his home alive. The gentleness with which he observes and touches life resounds. Each poem becomes a proportion and part of the fallen whole. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>- Elisa Carlsen </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Cormorant</em></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is filled with huckleberries bats barn swallows flowers fish frogs. The I of the poem speaker finds itself through observation of what is all around: the living and the dying and the things that live through soil. Even dirt becomes a bath! And human relationships unfold on landscapes of literature and longing. If there's a god in this collection it's found in germination: They grow from the dead you know </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>- Pádraig Ó Tuama author of </span><em style=color: rgba(71 71 71 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>44 Poems on Being with Each Other </em><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Reverent full of forest shadows and sea mist these poems ache with a searching committed love. The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds is an essential praise-record of the Oregon Coast's boundless beauty and how luminous we can become when we give ourselves over to it. Logan Garner's debut collection had me dancing and singing by the wood stove. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>- Cliff Taylor author of </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Notes of An Indigenous Futurist </em></p>