When Birds Are Near

Dispatches from Contemporary Writers

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2020
Comstock Publishing Associates (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5091-5 (ISBN)

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In this dazzling literary collection, writers explore and celebrate their lives with and love for birds—detailing experiences from Alaska to Bermuda, South Dakota to Panama. In When Birds Are Near, fresh new voices as well as seasoned authors offer tales of adventure, perseverance, and fun, whether taking us on a journey down Highway 1 to see a rare California Condor, fighting the destruction of our grasslands, or simply watching the feeder from a kitchen window.

But these essays are more than just field notes. The authors reflect on love, loss, and family, engaging a broad array of emotions, from wonder to amusement. As Rob Nixon writes, "Sometimes the best bird experiences are defined less by a rare sighting than by a quality of presence, some sense of overall occasion that sets in motion memories of a particular landscape, a particular light, a particular choral effect, a particular hiking partner." Or, as the poet Elizabeth Bradfield remarks, "We resonate with certain animals, I believe, because they are a physical embodiment of an answer we are seeking. A sense of ourselves in the world that is nearly inexpressible."

When Birds Are Near gives us the chance to walk alongside these avid appreciators of birds and reflect on our own interactions with our winged companions.

Contributors: Christina Baal, Thomas Bancroft, K. Bannerman, R. A. Behrstock, Richard Bohannon, Elizabeth Bradfield, Christine Byl, Susan Cerulean, Sara Crosby, Jenn Dean, Rachel Dickinson, Katie Fallon, Jonathan Franzen, Andrew Furman, Tim Gallagher, David Gessner, Renata Golden, Ursula Murray Husted, Eli J. Knapp, Donald Kroodsma, J. Drew Lanham, John R. Nelson, Rob Nixon, Jonathan Rosen, Alison Townsend, Alison Világ

Susan Fox Rogers is Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Bard College. She is the author of My Reach and the editor of ten previous anthologies, most recently Antarctica.

Introduction

1. Nighthawks: Lake Perez

2. Spotted Owls

3. Birding in Traffic

4. Buried Birds

5. The Problem with Pretty Birds

6. Red-headed Love Child

7. Crane, Water, Change: A Migratory Essay

8. The Black and White

9. One Single Hummingbird

10. Assault on the French Canal Bridge

11. Wild Swans

12. The Snowy Winter

13. Koan

14. This Is My Tribe

15. In the Eyes of the Condor

16. Little Brown Birds

17. The Keepers of the Ghost Bird

18. The Hour (or Two) before the Dawn

19. Secret of Owls

20. Guardian of the Garden

21. Chasing the Ghost of the Imperial Woodpecker

22. Extralimital

23. Death and the Rose-breasted Grosbeak

24. Birding on Bleaker Island

25. Nest Watcher

26. My Bird Problem

Erscheinungsdatum	25.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	5 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-5091-7 / 1501750917
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-5091-5 / 9781501750915
Zustand	Neuware