On Wings of Song : Poems About Birds

McClatchy J.D. Editor

ISBN 10: 0375407499 / ISBN 13: 9780375407499

Published by Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, NY NY, 2000

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NEW copy with unfurled book ribbon. Light cover wear masked in plastic jacket cover . Light remainder mark top edge. Still a very good gift copy. Seller Inventory # 014101

Bibliographic Details

Title: On Wings of Song : Poems About Birds

Publisher: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, NY NY

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis:

From backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this delightful volume.

Some of the winged treasures: Emily Dickinson on the jay; Gertrude Stein on pigeons; Seamus Heaney on turkeys; Tennyson on the eagle; Spenser on the merry cuckoo; Amy Clampitt on the whippoorwill; Po Chü-i on cranes; John Updike on seagulls; W.S. Merwin on the duck; Elizabeth Bishop on the sandpiper; Rilke on flamingoes; Margaret Atwood on vultures; the Bible on the ostrich; Sylvia Plath on the owl; Melville on the hawk; Yeats on wild swans; Virgil on the harpies; Thomas Hardy on the darkling thrush; and Wallace Stevens on thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird.

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