With skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the symbolism of words. Like the hens of the title poem, Gary J. Whitehead’s lyrics root around in the earth searching for sustenance, cluck rather than crow, and possess a humble majesty.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2013
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Pages: 56
Language: EnglishISBN 13: 9780691157467
ISBN 10: 0691157464