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From backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this delightful volume.
Some of the winged treasures: Emily Dickinson on the jay; Gertrude Stein on pigeons; Seamus Heaney on turkeys; Tennyson on the eagle; Spenser on the merry cuckoo; Amy Clampitt on the whippoorwill; Po Chü-i on cranes; John Updike on seagulls; W.S. Merwin on the duck; Elizabeth Bishop on the sandpiper; Rilke on flamingoes; Margaret Atwood on vultures; the Bible on the ostrich; Sylvia Plath on the owl; Melville on the hawk; Yeats on wild swans; Virgil on the harpies; Thomas Hardy on the darkling thrush; and Wallace Stevens on thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird.
The price of "On Wings Of Song (Hardcover Book)" at Up Up & Away! Cincinnati (Blue Ash) is USD $18.00.
The publisher of "On Wings Of Song (Hardcover Book)" is Knopf Publishing.
The genre of "On Wings Of Song (Hardcover Book)" is Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors).
"On Wings Of Song (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Hardcover Books.
The writer of "On Wings Of Song (Hardcover Book)" is J. D. McClatchy.
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