Larks Safina Bibi using warmth

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A growing confidence with literature

to an identity centered around a refutation of colonialism

cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian dream for their independent societies

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Larks Safina Bibi using warmthThe core of Larks is rural and mythic and true, existential and domestic, tender while full of sharp grief and documentation. Circling genealogies of silence and harm in a southern family, Larks centers on the relationship and memories of three sisters and Ovid's telling of Philomel. In a landscape inhabited as much by farm animals (cows, goats, chickens, and barn kittens) as by the family, the lyric poem parses and articulates the self's history from