Poetry. EXCHANGES OF EARTH & SKY, a collage-rich paean to birds in all their experimental flights, is poet Jack Collom's 21st book of poetry (all published by small presses). Collom lives in Boulder and teaches at Naropa University. He has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. "[Birds] foretell the future, their perspective/ is free and unique and quick./ Just like Jack Collom in this/ Field Guide to Birds for Poets"--Joanne Kyger. "Elegant and contrary. The ecology of a mind in flight"--Michael Rothenberg.

Author City: Boulder, CO USA

Jack Collom was born in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in nearby Western Springs, where he spent much of his boyhood walking in the woods and bird watching. He is the author of twenty-four books and chapbooks as well as editor (with commentaries) of three books of writings by children. Collom has twice been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

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