The bird-while : poems / by Keith Taylor ; with illustrations by Tom Pohrt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Keith, 1952- author.

Contributor:

Pohrt, Tom, illustrator.

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

78 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Keith Taylor's latest work, The Bird-while, is a collection of poems that meditate on the nature-both human raid non-human-that surrounds us daily. It evokes certain Eastern meditative poets who often wrote in an aphoristic style of the spirit or the mind mirroring specific aspects of the natural world. Tom Pohrt's original illustrations are scattered throughout the text, adding a stunning visual element to the already vivid language. The book moves from the author's travel accounts to the destruction of the natural world, even species extinction, to more hopeful poems of survival and the return of wildness, and an its core is a reminder of Emerson's idea that natural facts are symbols of spiritual facts. Book jacket.

Contents:

Picasso and the Taj Mahal 1

The Collections in London 2

Banff: Running-Away 3

Hitchhiking and Immortality 4

At the Flower Merchant's in Toulouse 5

South of Toulouse: Snow 6

The Criticism, of My French Poems 7

My Daughter's Narcolepsy 8

When the Girls Arrived in Copenhagen 9

After She Was Sick 10

Bharatpur: Dying Antelope 11

A Return 13

Mapping the River 14

Stone Tools 17

The Day the Trees Came Down 18

Circle in the Wind 21

Sea and Rain: Lake Michigan 24

Reading Late 25

Chasing the Ancient Murrelet 26

Castle, Nowhere 29

One Species to Mourn 30

The Last Roost 34

Drummond Island Fossils 35

Statue of the Blind Girl 36

Prairie Fire 37

No One Dared Call It Beautiful 38

Later 39

I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes 40

Landscape of Fear 41

In the Presence of Large Predators 42

Sign 43

The Hybrid at Burt Lake 44

All I'm Trying to Do 45

After Goya's Dream 46

Banff: Running Away Ducks 47

Bird Rescue 49

The Weaver 51

A Ruby-throated Humming-bird Triptych 52

Bay of Islands: Attacked by Oystercatchers 54

The Gardener Remembers 55

Marginalia for a Natural History 59

Kingston Plains: The Ghost Forest 67

Summer Teaching 68

Schumann, While Driving 69

Our Castle and the Wild Dogs 70

To Face the Ordinary 71

Argument with Emily: Amber Afternoons 72

Winter Finches 73

Acolytes in the Bird-while 74.

ISBN:

081434240X

9780814342404

OCLC:

953843697