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The Names of Birds
By Tom Crawford
Forward by David James Duncan
978-1-890932-39-8
Poetry/Literature
$ 14.95/Soft Cover + .50 handling = $ 15.45
144 Pages
2011-10
A book that appeals to birders, naturalists, environmentalists and serious readers of poetry.
“I took an intense delight in these poems that carry you this way and that far from what you are,
which is the duty of fine poetry, which is what this is.”
— Jim Harrison, The Farmer's Daughter
“A wonderful collection of truly touching poems about birds and birders mixing it up in the wide
world. Many words in these poems, pictures and patterns they compose shaking ‘the heart awake.’
I’ve read them more than twice.”
—Pattiann Rogers, Firekeeper, New and Selected Poems
A wonderful read. Loved the way Crawford paced the poems,
described them with such a light and
humorous pen,
how the poems are friends of birds, intimate partners and friends on the inside—very
sweet, each poem takes the reader's heart for an encounter with truth.
—Jimmy Santiago Baca, A Place to Stand, The Esai Poems
A nuthatch walking perpendicular down a tree, "dressed to kill," the hydraulic lift of the sand hill cranes’ legs at take-off, the song of the vireo. Perhaps birders are a special species but they also include many of us, who if not trained to binoculars, are still stopped in our tracks at a flickering wing in our peripheral vision. In this latest collection of poems, Tom Crawford lends his keen sense of observation and resonant language to the wonder and evocative nature of birds in all their multiplicity. From his travels his writing is infused with Eastern thought and a sense of mysticism.
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I was born to birds, / what’s gold in the wing / on takeoff, and makes a little hole /
in the sky my eyes can follow.
Tom Crawford is author of five previous books of poetry, and recipient of the Pushcart Prize,
ForeWord Book of the
Year, the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.
David James Duncan is known for his best-selling novels, The River Why and The Brothers K. Brothers K was NY TIMES
NOTABLE BOOK, 1992.
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