Full name: The Cuckoo's Haiku: and Other Birding Poems

Author: Michael J. Rosen Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry, Children, Picture books, Animals Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780763630492 0763630497

A joyful primer on the pleasures of bird-watching merges haiku, notes for identifying species, and exquisite watercolor illustrations. In spare and graceful words, poet and birder Michael J. Rosen captures the forecasting call of the mysterious cuckoo as well as essential characteristics of more than twenty commonly seen North American birds. This artfully compiled fi eld notebook -- enriched by the evocative artwork of watercolorist Stan Fellows -- captures the excitement of recognizing a bird, whether a darting kingfi sher, a wandering wild turkey, or a chirpy house sparrow. Similar books: The Classic Tradition of Haiku by Faubion Bowers Haiku by Jackie Hardy Hummingbird Nest by Kristine O'Connell George Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku by Paul B. Janeczko On Love and Barley by Matsuo Basho An Introduction to Haiku by Harold Gould Henderson The Haiku Anthology by Cor Van Den Heuvel The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk by Deborah Ruddell Fold Me a Poem by Kristine O'Connell George Insectlopedia by Douglas Florian Dinothesaurus by Douglas Florian Ubiquitous by Joyce Sidman