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Hawks on High: Everyday Miracles in a Hawk Ridge Season
“…a perfect diamond, hard as an eagle talon, each facet sparkling with truth.” Laura Erickson
“…a kind of sober majesty worthy of Robinson Jeffers. Hawks on High is a wildly life-affirming book.” Bart Sutter
“Perry’s precise elegant, and breathtaking drawings bring the hawks close to us, closer than binoculars can. This is a perfectly pitched book.” Ann Klefstad
“…a kind of sober majesty worthy of Robinson Jeffers. Hawks on High is a wildly life-affirming book.” Bart Sutter
“Perry’s precise elegant, and breathtaking drawings bring the hawks close to us, closer than binoculars can. This is a perfectly pitched book.” Ann Klefstad
96 pages, Paperback
Published September 9, 2019
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November 14, 2019
It's about time someone wrote a book of poems about Hawk Ridge in Duluth. And it took a newcomer to do it. Author Phil Fitzpatrick has only been coming to the bird migration station on the ridge for two years. However, with his "new eyes," that was long enough for him to amass enough poems for this book. His poems are combined with pen and ink drawings by artist Penny Perry.
My favorite poem is "Pringles Prize." It describes how the hawk ridge workers use Pringles potato chip cans to contain the hawks they catch in mist nets on the ridge. Once the hawks are slipped into the cans, their legs can be easily banded for later identification. Before a hawk is released, the birder eases it "from its cardboard confines" for a short show-and-tell to the gathered bird-watchers. Then it "lifts above wide-eyed kids who now love hawks even more than Pringles."
Love the wonder and subtle humor of that ending!
My favorite poem is "Pringles Prize." It describes how the hawk ridge workers use Pringles potato chip cans to contain the hawks they catch in mist nets on the ridge. Once the hawks are slipped into the cans, their legs can be easily banded for later identification. Before a hawk is released, the birder eases it "from its cardboard confines" for a short show-and-tell to the gathered bird-watchers. Then it "lifts above wide-eyed kids who now love hawks even more than Pringles."
Love the wonder and subtle humor of that ending!
October 16, 2019
An entertaining, educational, exceptional book.
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