64 pages, 5 1/2 x 9
ISBN
0-8071-2816-3
cloth $26.95
ISBN
0-8071-2817-1
paper $15.95
"This collection, with calm assurance, draws me skillfully and deeply into a series of intensely realized moments. It is a remarkable book."
-Henry Taylor
"Mysterious, haunting, and exact, J. L. Conrad's A Cartography of Birds is a cartography of our own fragile existence on - and departures from - 'this fragrant, indivisible / earth'."
-Jan Heller Levi
"Firmly founded in the imagistic mode, and even surrealist occasionally, these poems constitute an imaginative yet candid way of treating experience, by which the confessional element is draped in fancy, and common things and ordinary people assume unusual individuality. Conrad's work will strike readers with its range of forms - from loose to visually organized free verse to prose poems - and with its variety of tones and metaphors, inviting titles, and frank reliance on psychological theories."
- Catharine Savage Brosman
to Garrison Keillor read
"Stories my Grandmother Told"