This Nest, Swift Passerine

One of Americas most acclaimed younger poets entwines original and scavenged texts, lyric fragment and lyric song, to make a new formthis bookfrom wild metaphor. A passerine is a bird of the taxonomic order Passeriformes, often called songbirds or perching birds. The passerines are among the most diverse of terrestrial vertebrates, and in his book-length canticleboth aria and elegythe poet sings like a modern-day St. Francis to the wonder of creation in its splendor and peril.