The Poetry Of Birds

Author : Simon Armitage,Tim Dee
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141027111

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The Poetry of Birds by Simon Armitage,Tim Dee Pdf

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 : Billy Collins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231150873

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Bright Wings by Billy Collins Pdf

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 : Dylan Nelson,Kent Nelson
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429928052

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Birds in the Hand by Dylan Nelson,Kent Nelson Pdf

A unique anthology of avian literature From the myths of ancient Greece to the fables of Aesop, from Chaucer to contemporary poetry and fiction, birds are central to literature because they connect us intimately to the natural world. Whether we watch birds at our feeders, travel vast distances to identify rare species, or simply pause in a busy day to listen to the coo of a dove or the trill of a warbler, birds sustain us. Birds in the Hand is a collection of contemporary fiction and poetry that explores the complex, often startling ways in which birds shed light upon our lives. In work from a diverse and celebrated group of contemporary authors such as Charles Baxter, T.C. Boyle, Jim Harrison, Flannery O'Connor, Pattiann Rogers, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Ethan Canin, and Jorie Graham, birds are sources of inspiration, confrontation, and revelation. These stories and poems take us from New York and Hoboken to the Salton Sea and the wilds of Montana, from a hardware store to the westernmost Aleutian island, from a prison to marshes, forests, and seacoasts. Field guides and natural history books cannot capture the essence of why birds thrill us. Birds in the Hand uses the vitality and nuance of fiction and poetry to get at the heart of our mysterious sense of birds and the way they can reflect the brightest and darkest aspects of our own natures.

Author : Zaina Alsous
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781610756747

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A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous Pdf

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 : Judith Wright
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0642107742

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Birds by Judith Wright Pdf

The poems are complemented by full-colour illustrations drawn from the National Library's Pictures Collection, featuring the work of artists such as John Lewin, Lionel Lindsay, Lilian Medland, William T. Cooper and Betty TempleWatts.

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528789394

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The Book of Birds by William Wordsworth Pdf

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.

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547319498

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers by D. H. Lawrence Pdf

"Birds, Beasts and Flowers" is a collection of poetry by the English author D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1923. The poems in the collection include some of Lawrence's finest reflections on the "otherness" of the non-human world. The recollections on the topic were inspired by Lawrence's stay in San Gervasio near Florence in September 1920. The author managed to transfer the atmosphere of that place and time masterfully.

Author : Faraway
Publisher : Central Avenue Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771681841

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Sad Birds Still Sing by Faraway Pdf

Sad Birds Still Sing is the highly anticipated book of poetry from anonymous author Faraway. In less than a year, he became one of the most recognizable figures on the platform he writes: Instagram (@farawaypoetry). In this book of selected poems and writings, Faraway takes the reader on a journey of discovery, with a message of hope running as the main artery through the pages. It fearlessly dives into the depths of the human condition, tackling topics such as new and old love, heartbreak, loss, anxiety, self-love, dreaming, and much more.

Author : Susan Goyette
Publisher : London, Ont. : Brick Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015048577343

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The True Names of Birds by Susan Goyette Pdf

The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a voice that has captured the attention of Canadian poetry readers for the last half-dozen years. Deeply centred in domestic life, Goyette's work is informed by a muscular lyricism. These are poems that push the limits, always true to their roots. "This is a fresh new voice with a tense lyrical intelligence. This is a collection to begin everything with, a cure for silence, secrets that arrive with a steady eloquence." --Patrick Lane

Author : Harold John Massingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Birds
ISBN : UCAL:B4630754

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Poems about Birds by Harold John Massingham Pdf

Author : Barry Hill,John Wolseley
Publisher : Garnet Publishing Ltd
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Birds
ISBN : 1921401532

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Lines for Birds by Barry Hill,John Wolseley Pdf

They follow flight paths and habitats of birds, from the Victorian Mallee to the forests of South East Asia, to Japan and the South of France. Sometimes, as the painter says, its almost as if I am looking at the earth with a birds eye view the birds suggest new ways of telling stories about the earth.

Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811226196

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The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger Pdf

A new collection from “one of the world’s great essayists” (The New York Times) The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into “a vortex for the entire universe” (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colorado River, records the dreams of people named Chang, and shares other factually verifiable discoveries that seem too fabulous to possibly be true. The second section collects Weinberger’s essays on a wide range of subjects—some of which have been published in Harper’s, New York Review of Books, and London Review of Books—including his notorious review of George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points and writings about Mongolian art and poetry, different versions of the Buddha, American Indophilia (“There is a line, however jagged, from pseudo-Hinduism to Malcolm X”), Béla Balázs, Herbert Read, and Charles Reznikoff. This collection proves once again that Weinberger is “one of the bravest and sharpest minds in the United States” (Javier Marías).

Author : William Benton
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0764920227

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Birds by William Benton Pdf

This book was first published in 1972 by the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Portland Museum of Art School in Oregon, as a limited edition of 200 copies. On the right-hand side pages Benton ingeniously portrays the essence of one type of bird, simply by arranging the letters of the bird's name. Its simplicity is breathtaking--and flocks of fun!William Benton received his early training in music and worked as a jazz musician before becoming a writer. His seven books of poetry include Marmalade, Normal Meanings, and The Bell Poems. His poetry has also been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307477729

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Pdf

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

Author : Joan Colby
Publisher : Poetry Box Select
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948461609

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The Kingdom of Birds by Joan Colby Pdf

Joan Colby, a masterful poet and avid bird lover, takes us on a lyrical exploration inside the bird kingdom. Through her careful observances and vivid imagination, we often see ourselves-our human interactions, our social conditions, our philosophies, our celebrations, our grief. And sometimes, of course, a poem is simply about the bird. There's always one Who is preoccupied-a dreamer Contemplating the poetry of a cornfield, Gleaning the easy pickings of The left behind.