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Sometimes the Birds Come Back

Year

2025

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

Nishi Patel

Summary

How does one navigate a life forward after being lost and stagnant with grief? With a longing for answers, Nishi Patel's second poetry collection is wonderous and philosophical. Sometimes the Birds Come Back is an inquisitive journey interrogating the nature of death and the meanings of life with the possibility of finding happiness again. Complete with hand-drawn illustrations, Sometimes the Birds Come Back is a meditation on the beauty and grace of the natural world, noticing the cyclical nature of grief, and rekindling our relationships with oneself, the people we love, and the earth we live on. In these poems, memories, grief, happiness, and longing are all fields of gold.

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