As Birds Face Extinction, These Poems Tell Their Stories

CAPE COD, Mass. - June 17, 2024 - PRLog -- Helen Ruggieri brings us Blue Elegies, a collection of poems about the birds. It is the eighth volume in the ongoing Sea Crow Press collection of eco-poetry. The poems witness and pay homage to the many bird species vanishing in a rapidly changing world. Her words place us amongst the birds, rendering their lives and the places they inhabit real to involve us on a personal level.

What They're Saying
"An avian ode that migrates and mitigates through a lifetime of experiences.  It is a moving tribute to a life well-lived, all its hopes and heartache.  The careful observation and attention of our winged neighbors provides a thought-provoking metaphor for the cycle of life giving the reader a personal bird's-eye view from the poet's perspective."
—TAK Erzinger, poet winner of the University of Indianapolis  2021Whirling Prize

"This investigation of beauty and truth revels in ambiguity with emotions rendered as delicately as falling snow."
—Carol Lynne Knight, author of Quantum Entanglement

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About the Author
Helen Ruggieri grew up in a series of small towns in New York and Pennsylvania, graduating from Penn State University and continuing her studies at St Bonaventure University. She published her first poem in the English Journal and since has had over 200 poems in magazines and anthologies. With her late husband Ford she edited a little magazine (Uroboros) for five years receiving grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

About the Press
Sea Crow Press is an award-winning woman-run independent book publisher based on Cape Cod in Massachusetts committed to amplifying voices that might otherwise go unheard and pioneering new forms of literature that highlight the environment.
Visit us at https://www.seacrowpress.com/

Details
Genre: Poetry
Perfect-bound paperback  5.5 x 8.5
130 pages
Publication Date June 4, 2024
ISBN: 978-1961864146
Distribution: Ingram Book Company or through the press at orders@seacrowpress.com, 45% discount, returns, 50% discount no returns