Travis V. Mason teaches English and Canadian studies at Dalhousie and Mount St. Vincent Universities. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, he studied ecopoetry in South Africa as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow before moving to Halifax to study Canadian literary responses to science with a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. His articles have appeared in books and journals, including Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature, The Dalhousie Review, Kunapipi, and Mosaic.

• Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. MasonList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsNote on the CoverBeginnings: An IntroductionPART ONEChapter One: NestingChapter Two: NamingEcotone One: Field MarksPART TWOChapter Three: HomologiesChapter Four: FlightChapter Five: GravityEcotone Two: Field GuidesPART THREEChapter Six: NotesChapter Seven: BirdsongChapter Eight: ListeningEcotone Three: Field NotesPART FOURChapter Nine: Birder-PoetChapter Ten: ScienceEcotone Four: Field TripsEnding: Ravens Appendix: Bird ConcordanceNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Psssssst. Literary critic Travis Mason has been outside watching birds and inside reading field guides, scientific articles, and biology textbooks. He approaches his subject of 'avian poetics' with a solid background in natural history and is therefore able to forge a scientifically grounded ecocriticism. 'Ornithologies of Desire' is an important new ecocritical study of birds, poetry, and Canadian literature. Most valuable of all, this book places contemporary Canadian poet Don McKay among the great North American nature writers. Mason's book will make you want to read McKay--and then go outside and watch birds." -- Cheryll Glotfelty, English Department, University of Nevada, Reno

Travis V. Mason teaches English and Canadian studies at Dalhousie and Mount St. Vincent Universities. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, he studied ecopoetry in South Africa as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow before moving to Halifax to study Canadian literary responses to science with a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. His articles have appeared in books and journals, including Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature, The Dalhousie Review, Kunapipi, and Mosaic.

• Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. MasonList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsNote on the CoverBeginnings: An IntroductionPART ONEChapter One: NestingChapter Two: NamingEcotone One: Field MarksPART TWOChapter Three: HomologiesChapter Four: FlightChapter Five: GravityEcotone Two: Field GuidesPART THREEChapter Six: NotesChapter Seven: BirdsongChapter Eight: ListeningEcotone Three: Field NotesPART FOURChapter Nine: Birder-PoetChapter Ten: ScienceEcotone Four: Field TripsEnding: Ravens Appendix: Bird ConcordanceNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Psssssst. Literary critic Travis Mason has been outside watching birds and inside reading field guides, scientific articles, and biology textbooks. He approaches his subject of 'avian poetics' with a solid background in natural history and is therefore able to forge a scientifically grounded ecocriticism. 'Ornithologies of Desire' is an important new ecocritical study of birds, poetry, and Canadian literature. Most valuable of all, this book places contemporary Canadian poet Don McKay among the great North American nature writers. Mason's book will make you want to read McKay--and then go outside and watch birds." -- Cheryll Glotfelty, English Department, University of Nevada, Reno

Travis V. Mason teaches English and Canadian studies at Dalhousie and Mount St. Vincent Universities. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, he studied ecopoetry in South Africa as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow before moving to Halifax to study Canadian literary responses to science with a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. His articles have appeared in books and journals, including Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature, The Dalhousie Review, Kunapipi, and Mosaic.

• Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. MasonList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsNote on the CoverBeginnings: An IntroductionPART ONEChapter One: NestingChapter Two: NamingEcotone One: Field MarksPART TWOChapter Three: HomologiesChapter Four: FlightChapter Five: GravityEcotone Two: Field GuidesPART THREEChapter Six: NotesChapter Seven: BirdsongChapter Eight: ListeningEcotone Three: Field NotesPART FOURChapter Nine: Birder-PoetChapter Ten: ScienceEcotone Four: Field TripsEnding: Ravens Appendix: Bird ConcordanceNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Psssssst. Literary critic Travis Mason has been outside watching birds and inside reading field guides, scientific articles, and biology textbooks. He approaches his subject of 'avian poetics' with a solid background in natural history and is therefore able to forge a scientifically grounded ecocriticism. 'Ornithologies of Desire' is an important new ecocritical study of birds, poetry, and Canadian literature. Most valuable of all, this book places contemporary Canadian poet Don McKay among the great North American nature writers. Mason's book will make you want to read McKay--and then go outside and watch birds." -- Cheryll Glotfelty, English Department, University of Nevada, Reno