TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wrigley,Robert
TI  - The True Account of Myself as a Bird
SN  - 9780143137245
AV  - PS3573.R58 T78 2022
U1  - 811/.54 23
PY  - 0000///June 142022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - American poetry
KW  - Poetry
KW  - lcgft
N1  - New Book 2022 Fall
N2  - "From an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass along what the things of the earth are telling us Over the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. In his new collection, Wrigley means to use poetry to capture the primal conversation between human beings and the perilously threatened planet on which they love and live, proceeding from a line from Auden: "All we are not stares back at what we are." In language that is both elegiac and playful, declarative and yet ringingly musical; in traditional sonnets, quatrains, and free verse, Wrigley transcribes the consciousness and significance of every singing thing-in order to sing back"--
ER  -