American birds: a literary companion

Foreword / by Terry Tempest Williams

Introduction / by Andrew Rubenfeld

Three American Indian songs about birds. Hawk chant of the Saginaws (Ojibwa) ; The mocking-birds song (Tigua) ; The road-runner (Pima)

On the humming bird (1782) / J. Hector St. John de Cr�evecoeur

from Journals, 1805-1806 / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

from Mississippi River journal, 1820-1821. Ivory-billed woodpecker (1838) / John James Audubon

To a waterfowl (1821) / William Cullen Bryant

from Journals, 1838-1862 / Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Journals, 1852-1858 / Henry David Thoreau

A bird came down the walk- (c. 1862). The way to know the bobolink (c. 1873) / Emily Dickinson

Birds migrating at midnight (1882). Bird-whistling (1882). Birds

and a caution (1882) / Walt Whitman

A white heron (1886) / Sarah Orne Jewett

The man-of-war hawk (1888). The blue-bird (late 1880s) / Herman Melville

Winter wren (1889) / Florence A. Merriam

The mocking bird (1891) / Sidney Lanier

A word to the beginner (1895). Goldfinch (1895) / Frank M. Chapman

Wild life about my cabin (1904) / John Burroughs

from An autobiography (1913) / Theodore Roosevelt

A new world (1913). North Fork of the Merced (1911) / John Muir

The oven bird (1916) / Robert Frost

Purple martins (1920) / Carl Sandburg

The fish-hawk (1922) / John Hall Wheelock

The frigate pelican (1935) / Marianne Moore

Flood tide (1941) / Rachel Carson

The heron (1941) / Theodore Roethke

April : sky dance (1949) / Aldo Leopold

Kites over the sawgrass (1956) / Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher

Swallow clouds (1956) / Edwin Way Teale

Up from the egg : the confessions of a nuthatch avoider (1957) / Ogden Nash

Vulture (1963) / Robinson Jeffers

Bird song (1963) / William Carlos Williams

Sandpiper (1965) / Elizabeth Bishop

The mockingbird (1965) / Randall Jarrell

If the owl calls again (1966) / John Haines

Swan and shadow (1968) / John Hollander

Juncos (1973) / William Stafford

Magpie's song (1974) / Gary Snyder

The raven (1976) / Barry Lopez

House sparrows (1979) / Anthony Hecht

Idyll (1980) / Sterling A. Brown

The ever hungry jay (1980) / Faith McNulty

Emplumada (1981) / Lorna Dee Cervantes

Redwing blackbirds (1981) / Robert Penn Warren

A listener's guide to the birds (1981) / E.B. White

The birds (1982) / Robert Creeley

The great horned owl (1982) / Charles Simic

Crows in a strong wind (1986) / Cornelius Eady

Kingfisher (1987) / David Wagoner

Waterbird (1987) / May Swenson

Snowy owl near ocean shores (1991) / Duane Niatum

Peregrine falcon (1991) / Terry Tempest Williams

Gannets (1992) / Mary Oliver

Crow law (1993) / Linda Hogan

Shorebird-watching (1994) / Amy Clampitt

Ravens at Deer Creek (1998) / Robert Wrigley

from Red-tails in love (1998) / Marie Winn

A barred owl (2000) / Richard Wilbur

I was sleeping where the black oaks move (2003) / Louise Erdrich

Cliff swallows (2003) / Debra Nystrom

A pair of tanagers (2004) / Mark Jarman

Screech owl (2004) / Ted Kooser

Snow goose migration at Tule Lake (2005) / Pamela Uschuk

Peregrine falcon, New York City (2006) / Robert Cording

The cactus wren (2006) / Ursula K. Le Guin

Black phoebe (2006) / Timothy Steele

from The echo maker (2006) / Richard Powers

from The life of the skies (2008) / Jonathan Rosen

Red-legged kittiwake (2009) / Emily Wilson

Blackbird (2010) / C.K. Williams

Ruddy duck (2012) / Jack Collom

Answering the call (2013) / Rick Bass

The Acadian flycatcher, not (2013) / Wendell Berry

Of mockingbirds (2014) / David Tomas Martinez

Indigo bunting (2017) / Sidney Wade

from Birding without borders (2017) / Noah Strycker

Unknown bird (2001) / W.S. Merwin.