The True Account of Myself as a Bird

Penguin Poets

De: Robert Wrigley

Narrado por: Robert Wrigley

From an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass along what the things of the Earth are telling us.

Over the course of his career, Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. In his new collection, Wrigley means to use poetry to capture the primal conversation between human beings and the perilously threatened planet on which they love and live, proceeding from a line from Auden: “All we are not stares back at what we are.” In language that is both elegiac and playful, declarative and yet ringingly musical; in traditional sonnets, quatrains, and free verse, Wrigley transcribes the consciousness and significance of every singing thing—in order to sing back.

©2022 Robert Wrigley (P)2022 Penguin Audio

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“Worlds come together in Robert Wrigley’s new collection, The True Account of Myself as a Bird, taking surprising leaps of dare and faith inside every turn, and rituals of becoming traverse borders of mind and flesh, as each word grooves. And it is a felt, lived music that runs a binding seam through human lives so natural and true.” (Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Night Animals)