{"product_id":"bird-city-american-eye-ahrend-torrey-9781936671816","title":"Bird City, American Eye","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the stillness of the heart in flight, we find poems colored with mindful observations: birds, humanity, relationship. Set in the lagoons, rivers, neighborhoods, gardens, caf駸, marshlands, and highways of southern Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Where might we be, or not be, without them?\" (\"Near the Mississippi ...\"). Poems inhabited with hummingbird, swan, egret, stork, crow, duck, mother bird's beak-of-seeds, starlings, chickens, sanderlings, blue jay, heron, house sparrow, hawk and robin, white ibis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"like soft rain, \/ to wake you, to console \/ your pounding heart, \/ ... \/ Listen, \/ he said, \/ become these crickets.\" (\"I Asked a Tibetan Monk ...\"). Gratitude to replace annoyance, gratitude for what didn't happen, gratitude for knowing how it feels to be loved, for the never uttered before moment. Time burning, and drifting into the ephemeral. \"silence and wind dance together \/ a solemn dance\" (\"Trying to Save Her ...\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeauty in knowing and not knowing. Sensitivity to sound and rhythm, daring in forms, Bird City, American Eye offers a place for quiet reflection and heartfelt action, a place where \"another still and untouched thing \/ feels love.\" (\"I Throw Rocks ...\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ahrend Torrey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936671816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936671816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pinyon Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Ahrend Torrey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056763007231,"sku":"9781936671816","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c4b915b-2498-4f6f-b63f-cb52211a976e.jpg?v=1685043135","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bird-city-american-eye-ahrend-torrey-9781936671816","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}