“With Audubon’s birds perched, like witnesses, in the corner of its and the readers’ imaginations, this intimate and moving collection sings a richly woven, whispery tale of their creation. At its center, Lucy Bakewell Audubon and her world of early America come to scrabbling, courageous life, one of sacrifice, mystery, and endurance—of love, in other words. What I find mysterious, to paraphrase a philosopher, is the background against which what I experience has its meaning. Juditha Dowd’s elegant and enchanting Audubon’s Sparrow provides a version of that background for these birds and these lives, against which they sing a newly meaningful song.”  —David Daniel, author of Ornaments

Our spring book, Audubon’s Sparrow: A Biography-in-Poems by Juditha Dowd, is now available! Nimbly written and sympathetically rendered, this verse biography is an enchanting blend of research and imagination—an indelible portrait of Lucy Bakewell Audubon, an American woman in need of rediscovery. Audubon’s Sparrow released on May 19: order your copy now!