Bird lovers, backyard / Thalia Field.
2010
PS3556.I398 B57 2010
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Title
Bird lovers, backyard / Thalia Field.
ISBN
9780811218405 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0811218406 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0811218406 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Imprint
New York : New Directions, c2010.
Language
English
Description
131 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PS3556.I398 B57 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)464580535
Summary
"Bird Lovers, Backyard continues Thalia Field's interrogation of the act of storytelling. Field's illuminating essays - or stories - in poetic forms place scientists, philosophers, animals, even the military, in real and imagined events. An assortment of indeterminate characters contemplates subjects as diverse as pigeons, chat rooms, nuclear testing, the Apollo missions, the development of seaside beaches, Konrad Lorenz, the American author and animal trainer Vicki Hearne, and the Swiss zoologist Heini Hediger. Easy categories of fact and fiction, human and animal, science and fantasy, are dislodged through questioning the ethics of what we are willing to do with words. Field spins a novelistic world where life is haunted by echoes - story and event survive through daring language and the elegies of history." --Book Jacket.
Formatted Contents Note
Apparatus for the inscription of a falling body
Crossroads
This crime has a name
Parting
A weedy sonata
Exposition: he told animal stories
Development: another case for television
Recapitulation: youthful folly
Discussion group
On the increase of the habitable earth.
Crossroads
This crime has a name
Parting
A weedy sonata
Exposition: he told animal stories
Development: another case for television
Recapitulation: youthful folly
Discussion group
On the increase of the habitable earth.
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP1178
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