Ebook: Sparrow Tree
Author: Lewis Gwyneth
- Tags: Birds, Poetry, Birds -- Poetry
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; SYRINX; Sparrow Tree; Taxonomy; Field Guide to Dementia; Guest; What Do Birds Say?; Murmuration; Birder; Virgin; LOGOS; Small Brown Job; Love Poem; Splinter; Imaginary Walks in Istanbul; FEATHER; Quilting for Childless Women; 1 Pine Trees (Crib Quilt); 2 Broken Plates; 3 Tumbling Blocks; 4 Crazy Quilt; 5 Broken Star; 6 Triangles; 7 Double Wedding Ring (for H.W.); 8 Log Cabin, Barn Raising Variation (Crib Quilt); 9 Ocean Waves (for A.J.); 10 Bricks in Bars; 11 Crosses and Losses.;?Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year) Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive Sparrow Tree puts nature writing in a spin, presenting a huge variety of birds, both British and American: blue tits, blackbirds, egrets, juncos, starlings, herons and humming-birds as well as the sparrows of the title. The book explores birds as mouthpieces for inhuman song and the wild inside the mind. Launching flights of avian fancy or fantasy on several levels, Sparrow Tree moves from birdsong as proto-language to birds as decorative beings. The collection includes her already well-known How to Knit a P.
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