Whirl is king
Subtitle: poems from a life list
By: Brendan Galvin.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 67
ISBN-13: 9780807133491; 9780807133507
Description: "For nearly five decades, 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 and storm. Whirl is King features Galvin's hallmark descriptive powers and verbal music on full display and demonstrates his talent as a contemporary poet."--Jacket.