Watching Birds - Taylor, Ann
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The author's experiences as reader, teacher, mother, traveler, and especially, amateur birdwatcher. She covers such subjects as raising children to appreciate the natural world, watching birds in Kenya, reading natural historian, John Burroughs, and mistaking a fake owl for a real one near her own school campus-- "a book that will appeal to bird watchers, watchers of nature in general, lovers of literature, and those who appreciate a well-crafted essay" (Booklist); "a refreshing book, a wonderful tonic..." (Birdwatcher's Digest); "a comfortable, refreshing approach to observing birds"…mehr

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The author's experiences as reader, teacher, mother, traveler, and especially, amateur birdwatcher. She covers such subjects as raising children to appreciate the natural world, watching birds in Kenya, reading natural historian, John Burroughs, and mistaking a fake owl for a real one near her own school campus-- "a book that will appeal to bird watchers, watchers of nature in general, lovers of literature, and those who appreciate a well-crafted essay" (Booklist); "a refreshing book, a wonderful tonic..." (Birdwatcher's Digest); "a comfortable, refreshing approach to observing birds" (Publishers's Weekly); "a wonderful collection...beautifully written" (Living Bird).
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Autorenporträt
A long-time Professor of English at Salem State University in Massachusetts, Ann Taylor has written two books on college composition, academic and free-lance essays, and a collection of personal essays, Watching Birds: Reflections on the Wing. Her first poetry book, The River Within, won first prize in the 2011 Cathlamet Poetry competition at Ravenna Press. A chapbook, Bound Each to Each, was published in 2013. Her collection, Héloïse and Abélard: the Exquisite Truth, published in 2018, is based on the twelfth-century story of their lives, and her most recent collection, Sortings, was published by Dos Madres Press, in 2020. She is currently at work on a collection of poems focusing on Horn Pond in Woburn, Massachusetts (Horn Pond: The Way I See It), near which she grew up and where she now lives again.