<p>Crossing Streams On Rocks: Poems by David Davis consists of formal and free verse poems on a wide range of topics. A partial list includes: the nuptial flights of woodcocks, canine theology, the fate of fruit caught in a gunfight, the effect on a veteran of catching a trout, the benefits of color blindness, the deep meaning in chimpanzee sign language, and Wallace Stevens' techniques for naming poems. David Davis began writing poems in the late 1960s in Boulder, Colorado. He and his friends enjoyed reading poems on street corners in Denver, earning enough for a spaghetti dinner on a good day. Since then Davis has worked as a teacher, surveyor, philosophy professor, artificial intelligence researcher, and high-tech entrepreneur, but he has continued his interest in poetry. A story of his was published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and subsequently anthologized and translated, and he has published more than 40 papers and written or edited five books in his technical areas of expertise, but this is his first poetry volume. Lawrence David Davis lives in Newbury, Massachusetts, where he has been a member of the Powow River Poets workshop since 2005. Currently Mr. Davis is Poet in Residence at Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport, MA. Designed by Eileen Klockars, published by Bard Brook Press, of Belchertown, MA and printed by Levellers Press of Amherst, Massachusetts. - Description and images provided by booklars, for Bard Brook Press.</p>

Crossing Streams on Rocks

David Davis

Bard Brook Press

<p>"Reflections on a Golden-winged Warbler" was chosen by "BirdWatching" magazine as one of the Best New Bird Books of the Year (Dec. 2014). ☞ Contains a guide to birding Plum Island. ☞ ☞ Author, Doug Chickering, is one of the most popular contributors to the New England listserve "Massbird". He has been invited to publish his essays on birding in the publications Winging It, Bird Observer, and The Quail. Radio host Ray Brown has had Chickering as a guest reader six times on his program Talkin' Birds. And serious New England birders await each new Chickering Internet post with anticipation. The reasons for Chickering's popularity are twofold. In his essays, Chickering captures again and again those moments in the birding life when an experience in the field knocks your socks off; and Chickering has for nearly three decades been one of the most frequent and passionate birders and chroniclers of the Plum Island area, one of the most famous and historic birding locations in the world. Reflections on a Golden-winged Warbler is a collection of Chickering's best essays, rewritten for this volume. In reading them you will learn what the real first bird of spring is; the three ways that birders are introduced to the sport; the power of yellow on a Yellow-breasted Chat or a Prothonotary Warbler to raise our senses to a higher level; three types of close encounters with birds; and why the woodcock didn't cross the road (it has to do with beach weasels). Chickering's essays bring to life our own memories of our best moments in the field, by describing his favorite moments in his characteristic, magical prose. Cover illustration by Sarah Klockars-Clauser. Cover and book design by Eileen Klockars and published by Bard Brook Press, of Belchertown, MA. - Description &amp; images provided by Booklars of Bard Brook Press.</p>

Reflections on a Golden-winged Warbler; The Joys and Aesthetics of Birding

Douglas E. Chickering

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Crossing Streams on Rocks

Reflections on a Golden-winged Warbler; The Joys and Aesthetics of Birding