Men With The Throats of Birds

Finalist for the 2023 Chapbook Series contest by Cutbank Books.

“In the poems of Men with the Throats of Birds we enter the consciousness of the hardscrabble outdoors workers whose bodies suffer into a philosophy of special knowing. I don’t know another poet whose work is more convincingly imbued with the loam and rock of earth. Threnodic, musical, intimate, mysterious, and accessible, Escobar has produced one of the truly distinguished books of the year.”

— Kevin Clark, author of The Consecrations and Self-Portrait with Expletives

“Line by line, these poems dive open-eyed into the steaming heart of language and emerge with phrases that surprise and delight. Lives fade, seeds are sown, the world crumbles and begins again.”

— Jabari Asim, author of Stop and Frisk: American Poems