*Bird Eating Bird* is a new collection of poems from Kristin Naca, winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU prize as chosen by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa. Playful and serious all at once, Kristins work explores the richness of her cultural and linguistic heritage and perpetuates NP
Red bird: poems
โ Scribed by Mary Oliver
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 24 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog Percy, Red Bird is a quintessential collection of Oliver's finest lyrics.
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