Scholia on vireos: a field guide to the family Vireonidae
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description: Using birds as image bearers, Scholia on Vireos: A Field Guide to the Family Vireonidae is a bird book of poems. The poems are foremost an experiment in the form and music of contemporary poetry. Each genus of the family has a particular form which was developed to represent it, and the syllable count of the lines was often inspired by the individual species's song. There is at least one poem for each species of bird. The poems also experiment with multiple languages (Ancient Greek, Latin, the Romance Languages, especially French and Italian) and with grammar and linguistics. Aside from the family of birds, the poems take inspiration from religion, philosophy, and mythology.
abstract: Using birds as image bearers, Scholia on Vireos: A Field Guide to the Family Vireonidae is a bird book of poems. The poems are foremost an experiment in the form and music of contemporary poetry. Each genus of the family has a particular form which was developed to represent it, and the syllable count of the lines was often inspired by the individual species's song. There is at least one poem for each species of bird. The poems also experiment with multiple languages (Ancient Greek, Latin, the Romance Languages, especially French and Italian) and with grammar and linguistics. Aside from the family of birds, the poems take inspiration from religion, philosophy, and mythology.
author: Helzer, Aiden Grant, author
author: Beachy-Quick, Dan, advisor
author: Cooperman, Matthew, advisor
author: Thomas, Adam, committee member
language: eng
language: English
keywords: mythology, poetry, theology, philosophy, birds, religion
date published: 2024
date modified: 2026-07-27T19:13:25Z
provider: Colorado State University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Colorado State University. Libraries

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property ID: Handle
value: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/238372

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property ID: DOI
value: 10.25675/3.02604