ReviewKatie Fesuk's Mamabird takes us through so many layers of a woman's experience--girlhood, daughter-hood, wife-hood, motherhood--with language that's lush and lyrical, at once questioning and affirming. Her speaker moves through the inevitable losses, too, with the kind of deep inwardness that also reaches outwards. It's that sense of inner freedom--her very birdness, throughout--that makes those losses seem translucent, filled with light, almost numinous.--Cecilia WolochFamily, love, death, pain, joy--these are all the abstractions of life beautifully coming together in Mamabird in vivid images and stories that bridge the gap between ephemeral moments. Fesuk has created a world where people wonder what they should take with themselves, what is important, and what is not. The mamabird always knows that family is most important even when, as in "Two Kinds of Blue," it is "Hard to know which story/began with another." Fesuk knows that it's the memory of people and events that bind us together in the deepest love possible. This is a remarkable and auspicious debut.--William WalshThe poems of Mamabird embrace a world both pastoral and domestic: a world of father, mother, husband, wife, daughter, and son. And though many of us are at home in this familiar place, the gift of these generous poems is that of tongue & wing: a lifting of the everyday into a light made lyrical and transcendent. These poems are articulate and canny, and touch at what is uncanny at the heart of our most human experiences.--Ralph Tejeda WilsonKatie Fesuk's Mamabird is refreshing for its harnessing of a new world behind our world of quotidian phenomena. Deeply intimate, loving, and honest, Fesuk's second collection, Mamabird, thrums with lyrical musicality; her language is aurally textured, lucid, and deeply beautiful. The poems vacillate between human vulnerability and confidence of spirit. They are anything but solipsistic: they are giving, inspiring, and find light in the most stygian of darkness. Fesuk's book is a triumph; it soars, and I look forward to following its journey again and again.--William Wright