{"product_id":"on-wings-of-song-poems-about-birds-9780375407499","title":"On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome 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 Ch -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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. D. McClatchy is the author of five collections of poems: \u003cb\u003eScenes From Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, Ten Commandments, \u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHazmat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He has also written two books of essays: \u003cb\u003eWhite Paper\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eTwenty Questions\u003c\/b\u003e. He has edited many other books, including \u003cb\u003eThe Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, Poets on Painters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHorace: The Odes\u003c\/b\u003e. In addition, he edits The Voice of the Poet series for Random House AudioBooks, and has written seven opera libretti. He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins, and is now a professor at Yale, where since 1991 he has edited The Yale Review. He lives in Stonington, Connecticut.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565763891474,"sku":"9780375407499","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_602f5074-59f1-4466-9f80-116fc60c53bb.jpg?v=1731888222","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-wings-of-song-poems-about-birds-9780375407499","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}