Bird lovers, backyard

"Bird Lovers, Backyard continues Thalia Field's interrogation of the act of storytelling. Field's illuminating essays - or stories - in poetic forms place scientists, philosophers, animals, even the military, in real and imagined events. An assortment of indeterminate characters contemplates subjects as diverse as pigeons, chat rooms, nuclear testing, the Apollo missions, the development of seaside beaches, Konrad Lorenz, the American author and animal trainer Vicki Hearne, and the Swiss zoologist Heini Hediger. Easy categories of fact and fiction, human and animal, science and fantasy, are dislodged through questioning the ethics of what we are willing to do with words. Field spins a novelistic world where life is haunted by echoes - story and event survive through daring language and the elegies of history."--Jacket.