The sphere of birds / Ciaran Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Ciaran, 1971-

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard series in poetry : open competition award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Historical poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Sphere of Birds, Ciaran Berry's debut collection of poems, effortlessly moves back and forth between here and there, then and now, the personal and the historic, the modern and the mythic. Berry imagines the transatlantic journeys of John James Audubonand reveals his own heartfelt experience moving from his first house. The poems take as their subject such varied experiences as an eye exam in Manhattan and chasing rabbits around a beach in Donegal. These poems have a strong sense of place, whether it's the imagined space of Coney Island in 1903 or the playground of Berry's childhood conv

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Cold Pastoral""; ""One""; ""Orchid""; ""For the Birds""; ""Blindness""; ""Foundlings""; ""Topography with Storm Petrels & Arctic Tern""; ""Electrocuting an Elephant""; ""The Parsley Necklace""; ""Two""; ""Harbinger & Ghost""; ""Over By""; ""A Beard of Bees""; ""Donegal Fences""; ""Cuckoo Spit""; ""Oblique Projection""; ""The Sphere of Birds""; ""The Hive""; ""Three""; ""Trajectory""; ""Moving & Storage""; ""April 1941""; ""The Act of Seeing""; ""On the Anatomy of the Horse""; ""Extraction""; ""Two Funerals""

""Notes""""Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

"Open competition award"--P. 4 of cover.

Poems.

ISBN:

0-8093-8730-1

OCLC:

856870433