The Blind Loon - A Bestiary

<p>In his impressive bestiary <em>The Blind Loon</em> Ed Shacklee shows as keen an insight into the nature of the beast roaming free as into the beast within. This encyclopedic collection includes the commonplace python monkey crocodile tortoise camel; the mythical kraken lamia chimera wyvern; the prehistoric ankylosaurus; the fantastical logorrhea mope snub hipster. Shacklee doles out marvels mischief and hilarity in <em>The Blind Loon </em>and the breathtaking illustrations of Russ Spitkovsky provide an accompanying visual feast and are by themselves worth the price of admission.</p><P> </P><p><b><span style=font-variant: small-caps>A Fog of Blurbs</span></b></p><p>Their plumage is a sheen of words whose meanings are the same-<br> inveigling too often heard obnoxious birds but tame<br>their mewling call is pecks of praise without one speck of blame.</p><p>Indifferent if they foul their nests or poop rains on the rabble<br> garrulously gathered on the garret eaves of Babel<br> they preen as they pontificate on arts in which they dabble</p><p>for truth goes out the window when the Blurbs fly into town;<br> a mist of cloying tidings thought essential to renown<br> their beaks grow long and longer and are uniformly brown.<br></p><P> </P><p><b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</b></p><p>Ed Shacklee whose poetry has appeared in the <em>Able Muse Light</em> and <em>Rattle</em> among other journals is a public defender who represents young people. He lives on a boat in the Potomac River. <em>The Blind Loon</em> is his first full-length collection.</p>