Description
An intense, visionary sequence of poems, *Cave Birds* descends into an underground world where violence, guilt, and spiritual crisis unfold as an alchemical drama. Through stark, dreamlike imagery, the work explores death and regeneration, judgment and redemption, and the possibility of transformation through confrontation with the self. Leonard Baskin’s powerful drawings deepen the book’s primal atmosphere, complementing Ted Hughes’s elemental, mythic verse. Dark, theatrical, and richly symbolic, this unified collection stands among Hughes’s most compelling explorations of the human psyche.
Available Editions
paperback
Viking Press
Published Jan 1, 1978
60 pages
ISBN: 0670209279
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Details
First Published
1978
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Cave Birds by Ted Hughes.