Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is both a celebration of the birds around and above us and a field guide to the American soul.
ANDREW RUBENFELD is professor of literature at Stevens Institute of
Technology where he teaches courses on American nature and
environmental writing. He has served as president of the Linnaean
Society of New York, the nation's second oldest ornithological and
conservation organization, and is a founding member of the Birders'
Coalition for Gateway, to restore the Jamaica Wildlife Refuge
following Hurricane Sandy.
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS is the award-winning author of numerous
books, including Refuge- An Unnatural History of Family and Place,
When Women Were Birds, and Erosion- Essays of Undoing. A member of
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently the
Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School, dividing her
time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Castle Valley, Utah.
"Beyond singsong delight, the pieces provide a fascinating index of
the development of American literature through the centuries: why,
one might ask, might authors now find birds a subject more fit for
poetry than prose, where two centuries ago the opposite was true?
In any case, the volume demonstrates that delight can come in small
packages." —The New Criterion
“Evocative and absorbing. . . . All who read it will find their own
favorites among the 74 appealing selections and will marvel at the
many different ways to see, think about, describe, and cherish
birds and their place in our lives.” —The Urban Audubon
“An exquisite compendium celebrating America’s ornithological
obsession.” —Kirkus Reviews
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