THE BIRD TRADE, Ama Birch (second edition)

We are pleased to print a wider second run of Ama Birch's wonderfully generous, inventive, and incisive chapbook, "The Bird Cage," originally released in 2023. The new edition of the book features French Brown Kraft covers, felt textured text weight interiors, and ten sewn copies (sent to Ama).

"Cake ambrosia
Follow misery
Despondence.
Longing for
Maps to other ideas."

Ama Birch is the author of "(Spirit)," "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," "Faces in the Clouds," "Sonnet Boom!," "Ferguson Interview Project," and a video game available for Android, "Space Quake by Ama Birch." She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the California Institute of the Arts. She has been published by Grove Atlantic, Great Weather for Media, Autonomedia, A Gathering of the Tribes, Vail/Vale, Vitrine, Insert Blanc Press, Live Mag!, Fellswoop, Apricity, Belladonna*, and The Brooklyn Rail. Birch did a residency at the Atlantic Center of the Arts. She was born on the Lower East Side during a blizzard.

$13, plus shipping. 8.5" x 11", 24 pages, heavy-duty side-stapled, printed on French Tile Green cover stock, interior printed on French Sweet Tooth heavyweight text paper. First edition of 50. Set in BT Grotesk Spiral and designed by The Aliens (@thealiens.online).