Dear Specimen: Poems (National Poetry Series)

These poems honor the life and death of "the least of us", inspiring awe and respect for wild places and the life forms that inhabit them. Herbert's poems are poignant, elegant pleas for the "almost gone" and for us to take responsibility for the perilous environments we have created.Highly recommended.

Herbert blends the ancient and immediate through her deft interweaving of apostrophe and precursory elegy. These poems are haunting and haunted by the many forms life has taken over the history of this planet.

I searched for "bird poems". I guess I should have read the descriptions closer, but it does say it's a book of nature poems. It's a collection of morose poems that I am not interested in.

The beautiful descriptions of creatures coupled with the intimate exchanges between a mother and daughter made this collection meaningful to me. The poems about climate change deepened their effect. I will enjoy rereading the book!