Seven-Star Bird
David Daniel. Graywolf Press, $14 (72pp) ISBN 978-1-55597-388-9
In 48 short lyrics, Ploughshares poetry editor David Daniel offers paeans to a Seven-Star Bird, a heartlanded creature that looked on as the speaker's family ""rivered these lands with abandon,"" but can finally witness that they ""want no more than water does, low places/ To dwell and the gravity to change.""
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Reviewed on: 10/01/2003
Genre: Fiction