About BirdGirl Handbook:
"Amy Newman shows us a world within the contours of a whitewahed yard, its ivy and grackles and wonded fawns. The natural world as it exists calls to us, intelligence is a tactile landscape we wander with this girl who is both bird and wish, who is the longing for and the power of flight in each of us. In this beautiful little book, thought becomes life and voice becomes body, full of the sound of birds even when the birds are gone."
--Reginald Shepherd
Read samples of Amy Newman's poetry, first printed in The Laurel Review.
Amy Newman is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University and author of Order, or Disorder (1995), which recieved the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize, Camera Lyrica (1999), which received the Beatrice Hawley Award, and fall (Wesleyan, 2004).