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.
Table of Contents for
Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Note on the Cover
Beginnings: An Introduction
PART ONE
Chapter One: Nesting
Chapter Two: Naming
Ecotone One: Field Marks
PART TWO
Chapter Three: Homologies
Chapter Four: Flight
Chapter Five: Gravity
Ecotone Two: Field Guides
PART THREE
Chapter Six: Notes
Chapter Seven: Birdsong
Chapter Eight: Listening
Ecotone Three: Field Notes
PART FOUR
Chapter Nine: Birder-Poet
Chapter Ten: Science
Ecotone Four: Field Trips
Ending: Ravens
Appendix: Bird Concordance
Notes
Works Cited
Index