This Nest, Swift Passerine
Tupelo Press, 2009
Paper: 978-1-932195-60-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3602.E24T48 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
Paper: 978-1-932195-60-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3602.E24T48 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
One of America’s most acclaimed younger poets entwines original and scavenged texts, lyric fragment and lyric song, to make a new form—this book—from wild metaphor. A passerine is a bird of the taxonomic order Passeriformes, often called “songbirds” or “perching birds.” The passerines are among the most diverse of terrestrial vertebrates, and in his book-length canticle—both aria and elegy—the poet sings like a modern-day St. Francis to the wonder of creation in its splendor and peril.
