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| Author | : Billy Collins |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2012-11-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0231150873 |
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine expression. Here, in this substantial anthology, more than one hundred contemporary and classic poems are paired with close to sixty original, ornithologically precise illustrations. Part poetry collection, part field guide, part art book, Bright Wings presents verbal and visual interpretations of the natural world and reminds us of our intimate connection to the "bright wings" around us. Each in their own way, these poems and pictures honor the enchanting creatures that have been, and continue to be, longtime collaborators with the poet's and painter's art. Poet and bird pairings include: Wallace Stevens and the Blackbird; Emily Dickinson and the Robin; Marianne Moore and the Frigate Pelican; Thomas Hardy and the Goldfinch; Sylvia Plath and the Pheasant; John Updike and the Seagull; Walt Whitman and the Eagle; Billy Collins and the Sparrow.
| Author | : Mary Oliver |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press |
| Total Pages | : 102 |
| Release | : 2008-04-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780807068922 |
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: "For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit, a soul. And no less, to make this work, / the soul has need of a body, / and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable / beauty of heaven / where I fly so easily, so welcome, yes, / and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart." This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver's work, includes an entirely new direction in the poet's work: a cycle of eleven linked love poems-a dazzling achievement. As in all of Mary Oliver's work, the pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog, Percy. But here, too, the poet's attention turns with ferocity to the degradation of the Earth and the denigration of the peoples of the world by those who love power. Red Bird is unquestionably Mary Oliver's most wide-ranging volume to date.
| Author | : Simon Armitage |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141027118 |
Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. They are much watched and much loved, not least by poets. Bird poetry is as old as British poetry itself, and a remarkable number of poets have written poems about birds. Indeed some of the most famous poems in the language concern birds, from Keats's nightingale and Shelley's skylark to Yeats's swans and Hardy's thrush. In this wonderful anthology poet Simon Armitage and birdwatching enthusiast Tim Dee gather together the best of the past and the present, including those famous poems but also many overlooked gems. And in a fascinating divergence from standard anthology practice, the poems are organized according to ornithological classification, beginning with poems by Marianne Moore and David Wright on the ostrich and the emperor penguin and ending with Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens on the oriole and the blackbird.
| Author | : Zaina Alsous |
| Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
| Total Pages | : 89 |
| Release | : 2019-10-14 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1610756746 |
Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funerals This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds—particularly extinct species—become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze. Putting ecological preservation in conversation with Arab racial formation, state vernacular with the chatter of birds, Alsous explores how categorization can be a tool for detachment, domination, and erasure. Stretching their wings toward de-erasure, these poems—their subjects and their logics—refuse to stay put within a single category. This is poetry in support of a decolonized mind.
| Author | : Eileen Spinelli |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2004-04 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780805067132 |
More than twenty-five poems about both common and unusual birds.
| Author | : Helen Vendler |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2015-05-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0674736567 |
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades’ worth of Helen Vendler’s essays, book reviews, and occasional prose—including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture—in a single volume. “It’s one of [Vendler’s] finest books, an impressive summation of a long, distinguished career in which she revisits many of the poets she has venerated over a lifetime and written about previously. Reading it, one can feel her happiness in doing what she loves best. There is scarcely a page in the book where there isn’t a fresh insight about a poet or poetry.” —Charles Simic, New York Review of Books “Vendler has done perhaps more than any other living critic to shape—I might almost say ‘create’—our understanding of poetry in English.” —Joel Brouwer, New York Times Book Review “Poems are artifacts and [Vendler] shows us, often thrillingly, how those poems she considers the best specimens are made...A reader feels that she has thoroughly absorbed her subjects and conveys her understanding with candor, clarity, wit.” —John Greening, Times Literary Supplement
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| Publisher | : Barefoot Books |
| Total Pages | : 88 |
| Release | : 2000-03 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781841480459 |
Drawn from oral traditions that stretch back to ancient times, these stories and poems about birds from around the world both educate and fascinate. Full-color illustrations.
| Author | : Enid Osborn |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2011-09-01 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780615536323 |
In this diverse anthology, over 80 poets of the Golden State hold forth on the theme of crows and ravens offering passionate, vivid, sometimes humorous, and ever-surprising views of these common birds that live among us, but retain their mystery. Herein lies a lively exploration of the dark muse: proof that these paradoxical birds, called "black as the sun" by Gary Snyder, continue to fascinate, and are busier than ever strutting, flying, perching, preening, and disturbing the peace of poets with their raucous noise.
| Author | : William Wordsworth |
| Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2020-02-20 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1528789393 |
This beautiful pocket-sized volume is a compilation of William Wordsworth’s poetry on birds. The collection includes lyrical, melancholic poems alongside whimsical pieces that will make readers’ heart’s soar. With themes of freedom, hope and love in The Book of Birds Wordsworth uses darker imagery to express his innermost thoughts and views of the world through the beautiful imagery of birds. This carefully curated book collates some of the poet’s most inspiring work as well as a few of his seminal pieces. This collection includes fantastic poems such as: - The Green Linnet - To a Sky-lark, 1807 - To the Cuckoo - The Sparrow’s Nest - A Wren’s Nest - Animal Tranquillity and Decay - The Contrast – The Parrot and the Wren Proudly republished by Read & Co. Books Ragged Hand, Wordsworth’s Poetry on Birds is now in a new compact, pocket-sized edition. This collection is completed by an introductory excerpt from Reminiscences, 1881, by Thomas Carlyle, and would make the perfect gift for lovers of birds and collectors of Wordsworth’s poetry.
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| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0618188657 |
Natalie, who likes to write poems, goes to a poetry reading and discovers that a poem needs to be read out loud at just the right time.
