In this Book
- Toucan Nest
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
What happens when we enter unfamiliar realms, when we open ourselves to the unknown? Sometimes that not-knowing makes art possible. In Toucan Nest, the eighth book by Alaska State Writer Laureate Peggy Shumaker, her first vivid encounters with the rainforests of Costa Rica--with its basilisk lizards, bats, and bromeliads, its crocodiles, sloths, and strangler figs--refresh and renew our world in a work of startlingly beautiful mindfulness and imagination
Table of Contents
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- In the Shadow of the Guanacaste Tree
- pp. 14-15
- Ride into Town
- pp. 16-17
- Losing the Pink Bananas
- pp. 18-19
- Blue-Gray Tanager, Here, Gone
- pp. 20-22
- El Laberinto
- p. 23
- Pájaro Sagrado
- pp. 24-26
- Genesis, Quetzal
- pp. 27-29
- Slaty Flowerpiercer
- pp. 30-32
- Rain at Trogon Lodge
- p. 33
- Ramón’s Eyes
- pp. 34-39
- Mottled Owls, Parque José Martí
- pp. 40-41
- Flamenco Macaws
- pp. 44-45
- Keeping Loud Ones Quiet
- pp. 46-48
- Calls of Birds We Cannot See
- pp. 49-53
- Toucan Nest
- pp. 54-55
- At Villa Lapas
- p. 57
- Leaf Cutter Ants
- pp. 58-59
- How the Motmot Got That Tail
- pp. 60-61
- Basilisk Lizard
- pp. 64-65
- Canopy Walk
- pp. 66-67
- Getting Away
- pp. 68-69
- Painted Cart with No Oxen
- pp. 70-72
- Rising Before Sun
- p. 73
- Slick Trail
- pp. 74-75
- Tent Revival
- pp. 76-77
- Dantica / Tapir
- pp. 80-81
- Burnt Fields
- pp. 82-83
- Cloud Forest Trail
- p. 84
- Strangler Fig
- pp. 85-87
- Lagoon Near La Selva
- p. 88
- Howler Monkeys
- p. 90
- Mangrove Swamp
- pp. 92-94
- Blue Morpho
- p. 97
- Murciélagos
- pp. 98-100
- Spirit of the Bat
- pp. 102-103
- Gallo Pinto
- pp. 104-106
- Passion Flower
- pp. 107-108
- About the Author
- p. 112
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597092807
Related ISBN(s)
9781597092630
MARC Record
OCLC
867740329
Pages
112
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
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