In There Are Birds, John Taggart explores the meaning of being singular though a range of American precursors: poets such as Marianne Moore and Louis Zukofsky, "nature boys" John and William Bartram, musicians, photographers, and private detectives. As Nathaniel Mackey writes, "Beautifully, indelibly, There Are Birds advances a notational method and measure all its own-part flight, part aesthetic tractatus, part lab report. More compunction...
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