{"product_id":"ornithologies-of-desire-travis-v-mason-9781771123488","title":"Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eOrnithologies of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry invites a critical humility in the face of environmental crises and evolutionary history. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The poetry and poetics of Don McKay provide \u003ci\u003eOrnithologies of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e with its primary subject matter, which is predicated on attention to ornithological knowledge and avian metaphors. This focus on birds enables a consideration of more broadly ecological relations and concerns, since an awareness of birds in their habitats insists on awareness of plants, insects, mammals, rocks, and all else that constitutes place. The book's chapters are organized according to: apparatus (that is, science as ecocritical tool), flight, and song. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Reading McKay's work alongside ecology and ornithology, through flight and birdsong, both challenges assumptions regarding humans' place in the earth system and celebrates the sheer virtuosity of lyric poetry rich with associative as well as scientific details. The resulting chapters, interchapter, and concordance of birds that appear in McKay's poetry encourage amateurs and specialists, birdwatchers and poetry readers, to reconsider birds in English literature on the page and in the field. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Travis V. Mason\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771123486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771123488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilfrid Laurier University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Travis V. Mason","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519335706879,"sku":"9781771123488","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34a21fde-a246-4993-9d35-213122faa6bb.jpg?v=1778737287","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ornithologies-of-desire-travis-v-mason-9781771123488","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}