Broad Wings, Long Legs: A Rookery of Heron Poems - Paperback

by James Silas Rogers (Editor)

Engagingly designed and boasting a wide array of more than fifty Minnesota poets, including Robert Bly, Broad Wings, Long Legs contemplates the iconic birds of the Midwestern marshlands, paying homage to the herons and cranes that stalk, stand and fly into and out of the lakes, ponds, backwaters, and corn fields of the continent's midsection.

Author Biography

James Silas Rogers is the author of the chapbook Sundogs and the collection The Collector of Shadows, as well as a nonfiction book about cemeteries, Northern Orchards: Places Near the Dead. Four of his pieces have been selected as " notables" in the annual Best American Essay volumes. He has also published widely on Irish writing.