The Bird-While

by Keith Taylor

Short poems that look closely at small moments in a personal history, in art, and in the natural world.

"A Bird-while. In a natural chronometer, a Bird-while may be admitted as one of the metres, since the space most of the wild birds will allow you to make your observations on them when they alight near you in the woods, is a pretty equal and familiar measure" (Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journal, 1838). Without becoming didactic or pedantic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081434240X
• ISBN13: 9780814342404
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.9"