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American birds : a literary companion / edited by Andrew Rubenfeld and Terry Tempest Williams.

by Rubenfeld, Andrew, editor., Williams, Terry Tempest editor.

New York : Library of America, 2020

xix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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 Cr?evecoeur -- 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.

"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.

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