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in my dreams I am sometimes a bird
“A flicker of time, expanded into brilliance … Then wrapped up so beautifully that readers turns to look out their own windows.”“Pulls the reader in to the sights, sounds, textures of the outside world.”“Close observation and understanding of nature – especially birds – blends richly with a keen poetic sense.”
In my dreams I am sometimes a bird:one that does not exist on any earth,nor in any field guide to the birdsexcept that which is in my inmost heart.
In my dreams I am sometimes a bird presents more than one hundred poems by peregrine about birds, bringing together many poems from earlier collections (including twenty-five sonnets) and introducing twenty previously unpublished poems. About this new collection, peregrine says, “Over the course of my life, these two wondrous things have been constant: Birds and words. I cannot remember a time when I was not immersed in words and in the contemplation of their meanings, histories, and uses, just as I cannot remember a time when I was not keenly aware of the birds around me, and aware of the wonder and delight that they inspire in me. Most of these poems are, simply, about the birds: Their behavior, their coloration, their songs, their migrations, and my delight in the fact that birds exist. In many instances, a fact about a bird – the color of its plumage, or the nature of its song – becomes a metaphor for poetic contemplation. But many also reflect the important place that birds hold, whether metaphorically or in actuality, in my psyche, my memories, and my dreams.”
In my dreams I am sometimes a bird | poems by peregrinesoftcover, 6x9 (15x23 cm), 174 pages, September 2025ISBN 979-8-31-985205-2ISBN 9798319852052
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