Whirl Is King: Poems from a Life List

by Brendan Galvin

For nearly five decades, award-winning poet Brendan Galvin has written about the birds of the tidal flats, woods, and marshes around his Cape Cod home and on islands in the North Atlantic. He knows their field marks, habits, and songs, and his work demonstrates an obvious fascination with them. Whirl Is King gathers forty-three of his bird poems about herons, owls, shorebirds, warblers, raptors, wrens, and other exotic visitors blown in by wind...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133507
• ISBN13: 9780807133507
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"