The Principle of Rapid Peering

by Sylvia Legris

Self-seeding wind

is a wind of ever-replenishing breath.

--from "The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering"

The title of Sylvia Legris' melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the feeding behavior of certain birds. Rather than waiting passively for food to approach them, these birds live in a continuous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811237648
• ISBN13: 9780811237642
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"