Exchanges of Earth & Sky

by Jack Collom

Poetry. EXCHANGES OF EARTH & SKY, a collage-rich paean to birds in all their experimental flights, is poet Jack Collom's 21st book of poetry (all published by small presses). Collom lives in Boulder and teaches at Naropa University. He has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

"Birds] foretell the future, their perspective/ is free and unique and quick./ Just like Jack Collom in this/ Field Guide to Birds for Poets"--Joanne Kyger.

"Elegant and contrary. The ecology of a mind in flight"--Michael Rothenberg.

Book design: Brad Miskell

Genres: Poetry

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Jack Collom was born in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in nearby Western Springs, where he spent much of his boyhood walking in the woods and bird watching. After graduating from the Forestry School at Colorado A&M College, Collom joined the US Air Force and wrote his first poems in Tripoli, Libya. He lived in Germany a Zeitlang, then returned stateside and worked in factories for twenty years. He was an adjunct professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and worked extensively with schoolchildren for thirty-five years. Collom was the author of twenty-four books and chapbooks as well as editor (with commentaries) of three books of writings by children. Collom was twice been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, in part for his experimental nature writings. He had four grown children and was married to the writer Jennifer Heath.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

Used the n-word to describe a bird. General poetry style wasn't for me. More vibes than story.

[Sarah]

By my step dad