{"product_id":"birds-of-san-pancho-and-other-poems-of-place-paperback","title":"Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucille Lang Day\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventy-four poems in Lucille Lang Day's \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e take the reader on a journey across continents, seas, and time itself. Charged with a lyricism that is at the same time tough and vulnerable, the poems recreate and preserve images of a beauty that is on the verge of disappearing or has already disappeared. Sometimes it is the beauty of the rain forests of Costa Rica or the birds of the Gal pagos or that of cities like Athens, San Miguel de Allende, or Venice in flood. Sometimes it is a beauty that exists only in a single word such as \"Oregon, ...from \u003cem\u003ewauregan\u003c\/em\u003e, an Algonquian word for 'beautiful river.'\" Yet for all the beauty she evokes, Day does not shy away from difficult topics like global warming, genocide, regret, loss, and death. The result is a remarkable collection of poems that are deeply layered, deeply felt, and deeply moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucille Lang Day has published six previous full-length poetry collections, including \u003cem\u003eBecoming an Ancestor\u003c\/em\u003e, and four chapbooks, including \u003cem\u003eDreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems. \u003c\/em\u003eShe is also a coeditor of two anthologies, \u003cem\u003eRed Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\u003c\/em\u003e, and the author of two children's books, \u003cem\u003eChain Letter \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Rainbow Zoo\u003c\/em\u003e, and a memoir, \u003cem\u003eMarried at Fourteen: A True Story\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her books have received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature, the Blue Light Poetry Prize, and two PEN Oakland\/ Josephine Miles Literary Awards; her poems, short stories, and essays have received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies. The founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books, she received her MA in English and MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her BA in biological sciences, MA in zoology, and PhD in science\/mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51790132052256,"sku":"9781421836645","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/47058cd1b1faff68181bad8c2cd3a205.webp?v=1780670687","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/birds-of-san-pancho-and-other-poems-of-place-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}