On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds

Mcclatchy, J. D. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0375407499 / ISBN 13: 9780375407499

Published by Everymans Library, North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A., 2000

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Later Printing. The Book Is Bound In Blue Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Front And Spine. Blue Marker Ribbon Bound Ind. The Price On The Flap Has Been Shaded Over, But Is Still Easily Readable. Seller Inventory # 024885

Bibliographic Details

Title: On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds

Publisher: Everymans Library, North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

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.

About the Author:

J. D. McClatchy is the author of five collections of poems: Scenes From Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, Ten Commandments, and Hazmat. He has also written two books of essays: White Paper and Twenty Questions. He has edited many other books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, Poets on Painters, and Horace: The Odes. In addition, he edits The Voice of the Poet series for Random House AudioBooks, and has written seven opera libretti. He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins, and is now a professor at Yale, where since 1991 he has edited The Yale Review. He lives in Stonington, Connecticut.