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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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Peter Springstein
reviewed On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds on July 23, 2014
On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds
I found this book of poems a mixed bag. But I also really like these Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthologies. As a birder, I have a good knowledge of birds and have certain impressions. So it's hard for me to get excited about poems about vultures, or gulls, doves. Some of my views about certain species are at odds with the poets. Other poems are quite good: Hall's "Short Circuit," or Thomas' "The Owl," or Merwin's "Fly" to name a few. An Ojibwa song called "The Loon Upon the Lake" is especially beautiful. A couple of the poems are very old and written in middle English (Chaucer). I found these hard to understand. If you like birds and poetry, then this small book is for you. Recommended.
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