From backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-...
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Jun 13, 2009
Juliet
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This is a wonderful little book, packed full of great poems about birds of all types. The book is divided into sections such as: The Backyard; The Hawk and Legendary and Emblematic Birds. Poems include classics such as Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and Wallace Stevens' 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird along with less well known poems by a diverse array of poets including Walt Whitman, Lewis Carrol and Gertrude Stein. My favourite poems were often about my favourite birds, for example Ted Hughes'
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Apr 12, 2010
Carol
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This was a gift from a dear friend. She knew that I love poetry and birds. It has all my old favorites of poems about birds and oodles of those I had never read. This is a great way to get introduced to other authors. It is small enough to put in your purse so that you can read from it when you wait and comes with ribbon to mark your place. It is a wonderful little book.
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