There Are Birds [Paperback]

John Taggart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2008

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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"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." Nathaniel Mackey

About the Author

John Taggart is the author of fourteen books of poetry and two books of criticism. He was, for many years, a professor of English and director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. He lives near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

Product Details

• Paperback: 89 pages
• Publisher: Flood Editions (September 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978746775
• ISBN-13: 978-0978746773
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,138,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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