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Engagingly designed and boasting a wide array of more than fifty Minnesota poets, including Robert Bly, Broad Wings, Long Legs contemplates the iconic birds of the Midwestern marshlands, paying homage to the herons and cranes that stalk, stand and fly into and out of the lakes, ponds, backwaters, and corn fields of the continent's midsection.
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"Herons are magical. They draw you into their world without moving, as they have done with these poets. Many of these poems catch a sense of something almost supernatural, a special intelligence, a prescience, perhaps in the way a heron can laser-focus on the water, while knowing exactly where you are, maybe a stone's throw, and exactly when it's time to lift off with immense wings. These poems pay attention, are astonished, and tell about it, as Mary Oliver admonished."
Chuck Dayton, environmental attorney and activist
"Broad Wings, Long Legs activates the literary and the scientific synapses in my brain at once. These insightful poets play with the realities of heron biology and natural history: the result can delight ornithological purists as well as those not as demanding of scientific accuracy. Like herons in a rookery, the poems stand both together and apart-disparate voices producing a rich and pleasing discord."
Laura Erickson, birding author and producer of the nationwide For the Birds radio program