Walk Like the Bird Flies
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Publication Date
2023
Description
These poems transport us from Texas desert landscapes to New England mountains to Adriatic tavernas, festivals, and landmarks, and at the same time they offer vivid confrontations with the elements of the natural world—mud, fire, water, forests, the wind that possibly “[carries] messages from beyond”—treating both foreign cities and nature’s manifestations as phenomena to observe and honor through the eyes of an estranged but receptive traveler. Susan Ayres fuses images from inner and outer landscapes, raising questions that can’t be answered and perspectives that can’t be contained but nevertheless offer sparks of revelation in poem after poem.
Publisher
Finishing Line Press
Book Title
Walk Like the Bird Flies
ISBN
9798888384121
Recommended Citation
Ayres, Susan, "Walk Like the Bird Flies" (2023). National Poetry Month 2025 Display Works. 8.
https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/poetry-month-2025-works/8