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  • An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment

    An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment - Paperback

    An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment - Paperback

    By Cara Benson

About Cara Benson Books

Cara Benson's writing has been published in The New York Times, Boston Review, Orion Magazine, Sierra Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Terrain, and selected for Best American Poetry. Her first book, a collection of prose poems called (made), was well reviewed in The Huffington Post and The Brooklyn Rail, among other publications. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and the bpNichol Award. Benson wrote a series on walking in the woods for the Best American Poetry website and taught poetry in a NY State Correctional Facility for eight years. She lives in a former church on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians in upstate NY.