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Birds for a Demolition by Manoel De Barros

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5.0

I discovered this collection by a review at wordswithoutborders.com and promptly ordered it. I took it for walks with me, read it in trees and on rocks, used its poems to teach my students how to find beauty and depth in the natural world, and quoted it often to my friends and those I wished would become my friends. Its words do what I want my words to do: grant the gift of the author's perception, with its simplicity, magic, melancholy, and celebration, to the reader, and allow him or her to continue to gaze through those eyes for days.
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