{"product_id":"birds-and-other-beast-r-h-peake-9781953150356","title":"Birds and Other Beast","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is tremendous variety in form, theme, and tone in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoems in this volume. Many of the poems may strike the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereader as corroboration of Thoreau's view of wildness and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewilderness because Peake's love of wild things forms his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoetic center, but this book also includes intense love poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas well as celebrations of birds and trees and lightning bugs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough Peake celebrates nature, he does not view it with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esentimentality. He faces without tears a world in which one\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecreature preys upon another for survival, and he looks without\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efear to the \"revelry of the grave\" when his form becomes food\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor worms and feeds the laurel bushes growing over him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to critic John Lang, Peake's poems reveal \"a poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhose ear is attuned to the music of words\" His poems abound\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"in beautiful lines and images: 'The black-necked waders cry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein their wet fields, ' for example, and 'skies the white-faced ibis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esoars.' Such lines embody in Fred Chappell's phrase, 'the eye's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejoy.'\" Like Peake's descriptions of finding a rare green kingfisher, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor readers of his poems, \"Delight follows discovery.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. H. Peake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953150357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953150356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lettra Press LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d","brand":"R. H. Peake","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076997378303,"sku":"9781953150356","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9951fce5-a7ec-4e24-860f-2010cb5918f9.jpg?v=1685467822","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/birds-and-other-beast-r-h-peake-9781953150356","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}