| IN these fourteen essays, MerrillGilfillan reflects on moments in the world of birds and on the essence of birds in the human landscape. From the Massachusetts shore to Wyoming s moun- tains, from the Catskills to southern Arizona, and along the banks of the Mississippi, the Musselshell, and the Cimarron, these sketches of days-in-place and memory sorties size and invokeAmerican spaces, some of the streams that sustain them, andthe birds always there to lend grace and good sense.MERRILL GILFILLAN is the author of six books of prose,including Magpie Rising (winner of the PEN/Martha AlbrandAward), and Chokecherry Places (winner of the Western StatesBook Award and Colorado Book Award), and nine books ofpoetry. He lives in Colorado. |
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