A Massacre of Hummingbirds

"People say it can't be trusted - language, that silvery disease..." In this startling debut, Paul Blake leads us on a virtuosic journey through language and landscapes - urban, exotic, historical, imagined, erotic, rural - and on the way invites us to find our own destinations, our own cures for the silvery disease, our own 'rough breathing' and 'quietly moving on'