something flown : Concrete Wolf : 9780996475488 : 0996475486 : 15 Sep 2018 : '''Hope, ' said Dickinson, 'is the thing with feathers.' Patty Crane's sequence seeks to embody this assertion, and follows in the tradition of grandly inquisitive lyric explorations such as Ammons' 'Corson's Inlet' and Williams' Spring and All.' Crane fixes a steady gaze on the shifting and too-often inscrutable patterns of the natural world--and always with the goal of transforming description into revelation. This is lyric poetry of the highest order, work of inscape and insight, work that dazzles and instructs.'' --David Wojahn, author of For the Scribe "'The project, ' writes Patty Crane in something flown, 'is to look/ at the bird/ not there anymore: / the after-bird.' These spare, open lines crosshatch into a vision of bird, bird so wholly translated that it escapes its names, and revises us. Amazing! And all right there at the bird feeder! Such good humor and deep love and giving way. Everything abou