{"product_id":"mid-flight-birder-mia-schilling-grogan-9798901468760","title":"Mid-Flight Birder","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of Mia Schilling Grogan's musical, nuanced, and carefully wrought poetry is a deep longing for a voice outside the self. While translating the words of the great Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, Grogan finds herself dissatisfied with rendering mere language on the page and the images of nature. \"Gabriela, it is not enough,\" she writes in a poem. \"I want to hear you.\" At the same time, this poet seeks, and often finds, a powerful spirituality in everyday life - during a ride on a commuter train, for example, a concert in a park, or a long lunch in the kitchen with a friend. In poem after poem in this radiant book, Mia Schilling Grogan reveals \"the beauty always lurking in the common of our days.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid M. Katz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Biographer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMia Grogan's beautifully crafted \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMid-Flight Birder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebrims full of watchfulness and mystery. As she puts it, \"when we bless the bread \/ and wine, we \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e at table in an upper \/ room.\" Our parents, long gone, still hold us close. Song and fear, wrapped in memory, connect past and present. Called \"to unknot it all,\" the poet examines her overlapping roles of teacher, scholar, parent, daughter, sibling, and spouse across decades, observing wryly, in retrospect, that she has often been drawn to \"[think] about birds \/ and faith.\" She declares what we seek most is \"the circle that contains \/ everyone, lost and found.\" In this way, these poems gift us prayer, \"tender care,\" and an \"abundance of solace, \/ bread and love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarjorie Maddox\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mia Schilling Grogan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798901468760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Mia Schilling Grogan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546570854655,"sku":"9798901468760","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eae570c9-b035-4b44-abca-ceed70dea36c.jpg?v=1790538055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mid-flight-birder-mia-schilling-grogan-9798901468760","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}