Glossary of Chickens

by Gary J. Whitehead

Book Overview

An inventive and observant collection of lyric poems from the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

With skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the symbolism of words. Like the hens of the title poem, Gary J. Whitehead's lyrics root around in the earth searching for sustenance, cluck rather than crow, and possess a humble majesty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691157464
• ISBN13: 9780691157467
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"