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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Author-poet Stephan Cox writes a wide variety of poems that comment on modern life in "Dead Birds Fall from the Sky". The title of this collection of poems is also the first offering in this book. "Dead Birds" has nearly two hundred fifty pages of poems. One poem concerns someone finding four messages on her answering machine from someone who died in the 2001 World Trade Center Attack while another one concerns the death of actor Steve McQueen. Still others speak of someone leaving the tap water flowing in a ladies' room, riding in a car for hours with someone who says nothing while they both just smoke cigarettes, and of a single grey glove found run over and flattened in a road's intersection. Stark and mostly urban black and white photographs accompany but do not necessarily illustrate the poems.
"Dead Birds Fall from the Sky" offers a wide variety of blank verse poems that deal with a range of human experiences and emotions. This book of poems makes eloquent comments on such things as the end of the public telephone booth and its use and the loss of an adopted daughter due to bureaucratic mistakes. Most of Stephan Cox's poems are short, comprising of only a page or two, but they all offer a look into the human experience that will leave the reader thinking for a long time after reading each selection. "Dead Birds Fall from the Sky" is a terrific poetic offering for the thoughtful reader.
