Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Aging "Wise and wildly entertaining

"Wise and wildly entertaining

bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth

through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple

from beginning to end

expanding their young minds

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Aging "Wise and wildly entertaining"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's