Poetry. In THERE ARE BIRDS, John Taggart explores the meaning of being singular though a range of American precursors: poets such as Marianne Moore and Louis Zukofsky, "nature boys" John and William Bartram, musicians, photographers, and private detectives. As Nathaniel Mackey writes, "Beautifully, indelibly, THERE ARE BIRDS advances a notational method and measure all its own-part flight, part aesthetic tractatus, part lab report. More compunction than consolation but a long sorrow song as well, it plies a bracing, severe ...
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Poetry. In THERE ARE BIRDS, John Taggart explores the meaning of being singular though a range of American precursors: poets such as Marianne Moore and Louis Zukofsky, "nature boys" John and William Bartram, musicians, photographers, and private detectives. As Nathaniel Mackey writes, "Beautifully, indelibly, THERE ARE BIRDS advances a notational method and measure all its own-part flight, part aesthetic tractatus, part lab report. More compunction than consolation but a long sorrow song as well, it plies a bracing, severe tonic both iterative and terse, a work of uncanny stretch and compression."
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Add this copy of There Are Birds (Flood Editions) to cart. $35.87, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Flood Editions.
Add this copy of There Are Birds (Flood Editions) to cart. $66.06, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Flood Editions.
