American birds : a literary companion / edited by Andrew Rubenfeld and Terry Tempest Williams.
2020
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Title
American birds : a literary companion / edited by Andrew Rubenfeld and Terry Tempest Williams.
ISBN
9781598536553 (hardcover)
1598536559 (hardcover)
1598536559 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Library of America, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
xix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Exhibited
2020-2021 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1105148329
Summary
"Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and avid birder Andrew Rubenfeld, in collaboration with acclaimed writer Terry Tempest Williams, who provides a foreword, gathers evocative and surprising writings on birds and our fascination with them from an astonishing array of American poets and writers. The result is a literature of singular depth and beauty, with occasional flights of fancy in the mix. Experience the exquisite beauty of Native American songs about birds. Accompany Lewis and Clark as they encounter new species, Audubon as he sketches near New Orleans, and Emerson and Thoreau birding together around Walden Pond. Delight in Sarah Orne Jewett's poignant tale of a snowy egret in the Maine woods and Florence Merriam's portrait of a winter wren in Central Park. Join Rachel Carson as she watches skimmers along the Atlantic coast and Roger Tory Peterson observing snail kites in the Everglades. And thrill to an impressive roster of modern and contemporary poets, including Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Sterling A. Brown, Cornelius Eady, Mary Oliver, Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, and David Tomas Martinez, as they evoke the magic and haunting beauty of America's birds."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / by Terry Tempest Williams
Introduction / by Andrew Rubenfeld
Three American Indian songs about birds. Hawk chant of the Saginaws (Ojibwa) ; The mocking-birds song (Tigua) ; The road-runner (Pima)
On the humming bird (1782) / J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
from Journals, 1805-1806 / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
from Mississippi River journal, 1820-1821. Ivory-billed woodpecker (1838) / John James Audubon
To a waterfowl (1821) / William Cullen Bryant
from Journals, 1838-1862 / Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Journals, 1852-1858 / Henry David Thoreau
A bird came down the walk- (c. 1862). The way to know the bobolink (c. 1873) / Emily Dickinson
Birds migrating at midnight (1882). Bird-whistling (1882). Birds
and a caution (1882) / Walt Whitman
A white heron (1886) / Sarah Orne Jewett
The man-of-war hawk (1888). The blue-bird (late 1880s) / Herman Melville
Winter wren (1889) / Florence A. Merriam
The mocking bird (1891) / Sidney Lanier
A word to the beginner (1895). Goldfinch (1895) / Frank M. Chapman
Wild life about my cabin (1904) / John Burroughs
from An autobiography (1913) / Theodore Roosevelt
A new world (1913). North Fork of the Merced (1911) / John Muir
The oven bird (1916) / Robert Frost
Purple martins (1920) / Carl Sandburg
The fish-hawk (1922) / John Hall Wheelock
The frigate pelican (1935) / Marianne Moore
Flood tide (1941) / Rachel Carson
The heron (1941) / Theodore Roethke
April : sky dance (1949) / Aldo Leopold
Kites over the sawgrass (1956) / Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher
Swallow clouds (1956) / Edwin Way Teale
Up from the egg : the confessions of a nuthatch avoider (1957) / Ogden Nash
Vulture (1963) / Robinson Jeffers
Bird song (1963) / William Carlos Williams
Sandpiper (1965) / Elizabeth Bishop
The mockingbird (1965) / Randall Jarrell
If the owl calls again (1966) / John Haines
Swan and shadow (1968) / John Hollander
Juncos (1973) / William Stafford
Magpie's song (1974) / Gary Snyder
The raven (1976) / Barry Lopez
House sparrows (1979) / Anthony Hecht
Idyll (1980) / Sterling A. Brown
The ever hungry jay (1980) / Faith McNulty
Emplumada (1981) / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Redwing blackbirds (1981) / Robert Penn Warren
A listener's guide to the birds (1981) / E.B. White
The birds (1982) / Robert Creeley
The great horned owl (1982) / Charles Simic
Crows in a strong wind (1986) / Cornelius Eady
Kingfisher (1987) / David Wagoner
Waterbird (1987) / May Swenson
Snowy owl near ocean shores (1991) / Duane Niatum
Peregrine falcon (1991) / Terry Tempest Williams
Gannets (1992) / Mary Oliver
Crow law (1993) / Linda Hogan
Shorebird-watching (1994) / Amy Clampitt
Ravens at Deer Creek (1998) / Robert Wrigley
from Red-tails in love (1998) / Marie Winn
A barred owl (2000) / Richard Wilbur
I was sleeping where the black oaks move (2003) / Louise Erdrich
Cliff swallows (2003) / Debra Nystrom
A pair of tanagers (2004) / Mark Jarman
Screech owl (2004) / Ted Kooser
Snow goose migration at Tule Lake (2005) / Pamela Uschuk
Peregrine falcon, New York City (2006) / Robert Cording
The cactus wren (2006) / Ursula K. Le Guin
Black phoebe (2006) / Timothy Steele
from The echo maker (2006) / Richard Powers
from The life of the skies (2008) / Jonathan Rosen
Red-legged kittiwake (2009) / Emily Wilson
Blackbird (2010) / C.K. Williams
Ruddy duck (2012) / Jack Collom
Answering the call (2013) / Rick Bass
The Acadian flycatcher, not (2013) / Wendell Berry
Of mockingbirds (2014) / David Tomas Martinez
Indigo bunting (2017) / Sidney Wade
from Birding without borders (2017) / Noah Strycker
Unknown bird (2001) / W.S. Merwin.
Introduction / by Andrew Rubenfeld
Three American Indian songs about birds. Hawk chant of the Saginaws (Ojibwa) ; The mocking-birds song (Tigua) ; The road-runner (Pima)
On the humming bird (1782) / J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
from Journals, 1805-1806 / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
from Mississippi River journal, 1820-1821. Ivory-billed woodpecker (1838) / John James Audubon
To a waterfowl (1821) / William Cullen Bryant
from Journals, 1838-1862 / Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Journals, 1852-1858 / Henry David Thoreau
A bird came down the walk- (c. 1862). The way to know the bobolink (c. 1873) / Emily Dickinson
Birds migrating at midnight (1882). Bird-whistling (1882). Birds
and a caution (1882) / Walt Whitman
A white heron (1886) / Sarah Orne Jewett
The man-of-war hawk (1888). The blue-bird (late 1880s) / Herman Melville
Winter wren (1889) / Florence A. Merriam
The mocking bird (1891) / Sidney Lanier
A word to the beginner (1895). Goldfinch (1895) / Frank M. Chapman
Wild life about my cabin (1904) / John Burroughs
from An autobiography (1913) / Theodore Roosevelt
A new world (1913). North Fork of the Merced (1911) / John Muir
The oven bird (1916) / Robert Frost
Purple martins (1920) / Carl Sandburg
The fish-hawk (1922) / John Hall Wheelock
The frigate pelican (1935) / Marianne Moore
Flood tide (1941) / Rachel Carson
The heron (1941) / Theodore Roethke
April : sky dance (1949) / Aldo Leopold
Kites over the sawgrass (1956) / Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher
Swallow clouds (1956) / Edwin Way Teale
Up from the egg : the confessions of a nuthatch avoider (1957) / Ogden Nash
Vulture (1963) / Robinson Jeffers
Bird song (1963) / William Carlos Williams
Sandpiper (1965) / Elizabeth Bishop
The mockingbird (1965) / Randall Jarrell
If the owl calls again (1966) / John Haines
Swan and shadow (1968) / John Hollander
Juncos (1973) / William Stafford
Magpie's song (1974) / Gary Snyder
The raven (1976) / Barry Lopez
House sparrows (1979) / Anthony Hecht
Idyll (1980) / Sterling A. Brown
The ever hungry jay (1980) / Faith McNulty
Emplumada (1981) / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Redwing blackbirds (1981) / Robert Penn Warren
A listener's guide to the birds (1981) / E.B. White
The birds (1982) / Robert Creeley
The great horned owl (1982) / Charles Simic
Crows in a strong wind (1986) / Cornelius Eady
Kingfisher (1987) / David Wagoner
Waterbird (1987) / May Swenson
Snowy owl near ocean shores (1991) / Duane Niatum
Peregrine falcon (1991) / Terry Tempest Williams
Gannets (1992) / Mary Oliver
Crow law (1993) / Linda Hogan
Shorebird-watching (1994) / Amy Clampitt
Ravens at Deer Creek (1998) / Robert Wrigley
from Red-tails in love (1998) / Marie Winn
A barred owl (2000) / Richard Wilbur
I was sleeping where the black oaks move (2003) / Louise Erdrich
Cliff swallows (2003) / Debra Nystrom
A pair of tanagers (2004) / Mark Jarman
Screech owl (2004) / Ted Kooser
Snow goose migration at Tule Lake (2005) / Pamela Uschuk
Peregrine falcon, New York City (2006) / Robert Cording
The cactus wren (2006) / Ursula K. Le Guin
Black phoebe (2006) / Timothy Steele
from The echo maker (2006) / Richard Powers
from The life of the skies (2008) / Jonathan Rosen
Red-legged kittiwake (2009) / Emily Wilson
Blackbird (2010) / C.K. Williams
Ruddy duck (2012) / Jack Collom
Answering the call (2013) / Rick Bass
The Acadian flycatcher, not (2013) / Wendell Berry
Of mockingbirds (2014) / David Tomas Martinez
Indigo bunting (2017) / Sidney Wade
from Birding without borders (2017) / Noah Strycker
Unknown bird (2001) / W.S. Merwin.
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