{"product_id":"on-wings-of-song-j-d-mcclatchy-9780375407499","title":"On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds","description":"From backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this delightful volume. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome of the winged treasures: Emily Dickinson on the jay; Gertrude Stein on pigeons; Seamus Heaney on turkeys; Tennyson on the eagle; Spenser on the merry cuckoo; Amy Clampitt on the whippoorwill; Po Ch -i on cranes; John Updike on seagulls; W.S. Merwin on the duck; Elizabeth Bishop on the sandpiper; Rilke on flamingoes; Margaret Atwood on vultures; the Bible on the ostrich; Sylvia Plath on the owl; Melville on the hawk; Yeats on wild swans; Virgil on the harpies; Thomas Hardy on the darkling thrush; and Wallace Stevens on thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. D. McClatchy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375407499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375407499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.52h x 4.44w x 0.77d","brand":"J. D. McClatchy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043910283519,"sku":"9780375407499","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9ac6171-4259-4a6f-b51e-fe2fef72712d.jpg?v=1684969831","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-wings-of-song-j-d-mcclatchy-9780375407499","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}