Ryler Dustin's Heavy Lead Birdsong is a collection of surprising love poems. An old man plants orchards in his own chest. Angels write messages encoded in boxcar graffiti, and anyone who can read the paint on a passing freight train gets the news. A dangerous car ride through the dead of winter ends up taking us all the way back to the Ice Age.
The book is inspired by science and religion, and it lets them share the same room. A poem might start with a fossil and end with a prayer, or begin in church and wander off toward the stars. Ryler treats both as ways of paying attention, and the poems are full of the things he pays attention to: trains, trees, cold roads, old bodies, and the long history of the planet sitting underneath all of it.
The humor is subtle, and it does real work. These poems are funny the way people are funny at funerals and weddings, quietly, as a way of staying on their feet. It keeps the book from getting too grand, and it keeps the sad parts honest.
The political sorrows of our moment sit in the background, and the poems know they are there. They don't ignore the news. They just refuse to let it have the last word. What they reach for instead is the kind of human spirit that can save us, the stubborn, loving, slightly ridiculous kind that plants an orchard in the middle of winter.
There is grief in these pages, and age, and real fear on a bad road. There is also a great deal of warmth. These are love poems for people, for the planet, and for whoever might be listening.
Heavy Lead Birdsong is for readers who want poetry that is strange, funny, and tender
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