This Nest, Swift Passerine

By Dan Beachy-Quick

One of America's most acclaimed younger poets entwines original and scavenged texts, lyric fragment and lyric song, to make a new form--this book--from wild metaphor. A passerine is a bird of the taxonomic order Passeriformes, often called "songbirds" or "perching birds." The passerines are among the most diverse of terrestrial vertebrates, and in his book-length canticle--both aria and elegy--the poet sings like a modern-day St. Francis to the wonder of creation in its splendor and peril.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932195602
• ISBN13: 9781932195606
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"