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American birds : a literary companion /

"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 genr...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rubenfeld, Andrew (Editor), Williams, Terry Tempest (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Library of America, [2020]
Subjects:
Birds > Literary collections.
Birds > Fiction.
Birds > Songs and music > Texts.
Birds in literature.
American literature > 20th century.
American literature > 21st century.
Essays.
Short stories.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Crèvecoeur
  • 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.