Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

An award-winning nature writer weaves natural history and personal experience into the dramatic story of the last days of six North American bird species. With a compelling blend of science, history, politics, and memoir, Cokino draws on unpublished photographs and documents to make these long-vanished birds come alive.

Science & Math

Cokinos, Christopher

Nature & Ecology

Grand Central Publishing

Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

Diane Pub Co.

Killing seasons

Woodley Press

This literary collection of creative writing includes well-known poets and writers from across the country, including memoirist Dinty W. Moore, poets Katharine Coles and William Trowbridge, and novelist Jack Remick, as well as published and previously unpublished writers who have shared their work at Helicon West, Logan Utah's premier featured readers/open readings series, from 2006 to 2016.

The Helicon West Anthology: A Ten-Year Celebration of Featured Readers

Literature & Fiction

Carney, Rob

Coles, Katharine

Dethier, Brock

Keller, Tim

VanZanten, Chadd

Johnson, Kimberly

Coulbrooke, Star

Ballam, Shanan

Gunsberg, Ben

Literary

Helicon West Press

A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.

Biological Sciences

Tarcher

An award-winning founder of Isotope magazine chronicles how the study of meteorites became a modern science, in a natural history that documents the contributions of key individuals and traces landmark discoveries in Antarctica, Greenland, and other world regions.

The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars

Astronomy & Space Science

A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.

Penguin Publishing Group

In this acclaimed volume, prizewinning poet and nature writer Christopher Cokinos takes us on an epic journey from Antarctica to outer space, weaving together natural history, memoir, and in-depth profiles of amateur researchers, rogue scientists, and stargazing dreamers to tell the riveting tale of how the study of meteorites became a modern science.

History

World

Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Pegasus Books

"In Christopher Cokinos' deliciously horrifying new book, THE UNDERNEATH, an unnerving ventriloquism occurs--narratives of abuse, abandonment, and assault are tucked into the folds of seemingly mundane curtains, trapped beneath ceilings, behind doors. Conversing with, and ultimately reinventing the compulsions of Rene Magritte (The Treachery of Images, et. al.), these poems filter surrealistic concerns through neuroscience, dream through allusion. In Cokinos' bizarro world, fear and vacuum cleaners belong on the same insidious list, and our circulatory system is comprised of desert fauna. In this way, the monsters of mythologies both invented and invoked are saddled with the roles of unlikely avatars, finally forced to confront their experiences with bodily trespass. The result is a frightening, exhilarating, and oddly cleansing wild ride.
 -- MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK, author of The Mad Feast and Preparing the Ghost
"The presiding spirit in Christopher Cokinos' darkly wondrous THE UNDERNEATH is Magritte, which lends an air of insouciant mystery to this marvelous volume. Readers are invited to become 'hunters at the edge of night, ' to enter a world we cannot understand, but like Dickinson (the other presiding spirit of this collection) only witness. We find the young girl ('delicate monster') who eats birds; the merman who's eerily told, when he asks how many times he's been hung from a gibbet, that 'Counting is like crying . . . and let's begin with one'; and the lovers who, hiding from each other, cover their faces with cloth to kiss (wittily, Cokinos suggests, their 'tongues [must] taste like tulle'). I'm entranced by Cokinos' exquisite inquiry into the way metaphor layers the surface of language, and the delightful materiality of his method, 'So belly down. Scootch close to that thorn tipped with June'!
 -- CYNTHIA HOGUE, author of In June the Labyrinth

The Underneath

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

New American Press

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