Ornithology - by M G Stephens (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

M. G. Stephens considers our physical world and its health as portrayed by our own relationship to birds and their well-being. Here the birds are bellwethers of the Earth's and our own human survival. But mostly these poems are about that most human of emotions-love-in all its permutations. This poet is not afraid to be lyrical and to love; in fact, he sees the lyrical impulse as poetry's most natural expression, just as love is the most creative and expressive part of our very humanness. Nowhere is this writer more in love with the music of our natural world than when he is observing the birds which inhabit and share that space with us.

Review Quotes

"...alive, greatly detailed, poignant..."

-Anne Waldman, author of Fast Speaking Woman

"Michael Gregory Stephens teaches us how to look at things we have never seen before-and to make them part of what we know about ourselves."

-Paul Auster, author of The New York Trilogy

"Crossed by light, wind, memory and love of things fragile, M. G. Stephens' little poetry boats carry forth the human burden. These are the words of one of America's best loved lit sailors."

-Andrei Codrescu, NPR commentator, poet and essayist

"M.G. Stephens' writing is the seasoned work of a pure poet, a marriage of the concise and lyrical, suffused with both moments of keenly observed humanity and flights of luminous rumination."

-Richard Price, author of The Wanderers and Lush Life

"Michael Gregory Stephens is a brilliant writer, with a great imagination and heart. And his words are downright gorgeous. I love the way his meditations veer with daring and grace between the poetry and the spoken, between art and life."

-Hilma Wolitzer, author of Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket