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In These Hollowed Bones, birds are the conduit for conversations of internal emotions and the natural world. This collection ties together the themes of loss, marriage, and ecology, topics that are at once personal and universal. The voices contained within these poems speak of the isolation felt by both avian and human due to migration and loss of habitat, loss of home. Nature and bird lovers will find solace and self-recognition within these pages.

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"'These Hollowed Bones is, fittingly, flighted on hope and feathers. Díaz Ettinger flawlessly bridges the perceived divide between us and our winged brethren to uncover worlds of shared intimacy-both within our shared world and ourselves. We have always looked to the sky for answers, found our dreams of flight the most wondrous. In this collection, such wonderment unfolds effortlessly on the page with the poet's sprawling knowledge dovetailed perfectly with an artist's eye.' Jessica Mehta, author of Constellations of My Body 'In These Hollowed Bones Ettinger acts as an ornithologist drawing on her astute observations of birds to convey her message. Throughout the collection it is these sharp images and motifs that create an atmosphere of longing whether for a deeper closeness to her mother or an exploration of her heritage. It is Ettinger's encounters with birds that reflect some of our most vulnerable human qualities.' TAK Erzinger, poet, winner of the 2021 Whirling Prize, University of Indianapolis 'Within the pages of These Hollowed Bones Amelia Díaz Ettinger has assembled a flock of poems that sing complex and haunting songs of ancestry, migration, ageing, and loss. Set against the backdrop of a world reshaped by climate change and fire, Ettinger's birds bank between metaphor and persona, sometimes standing in for family members and sometimes inhabited by the poet herself. But whether perched in the loneliness of an empty nest or yearning for her home country, like the birds she writes about, Ettinger knows ""that fear flees when there's community"". Ettinger's poems build that community, that ""gifted grace of a murmuration,"" through the precise and tender lens of an ornithologist's eye, a poet's eye. These Hollowed Bones is a brilliant ""theater of synchronicity,"" a collection the reader can come home to again and again, in any season.' Brittany Corrigan, author of Solastalgia"

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Amelia D�az Ettinger is the author of four previous books of poetry: Self Dissection (The Poetry Box), Learning to Love a Western Sky (Airlie Press), Speaking at a Time /Hablando a la Vez (Redbat Press), and Fossils in a Red Flag (Finishing Line Press). In an earlier version of herself, Amelia D�az Ettinger trained as an ornithologist at Washington State University. Her passion for birds has been a constant in her tumulus wandering life. In this work she pays homage to the feather birds that have given her so much solace.

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