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02815aam a22003738i 4500 001 B85815DED7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 003 SILO 005 20200806010102 008 200116s2020 mau b 000 0deng 010 $a 2020000064 020 $a 1941628214 020 $a 9781941628218 035 $a (OCoLC)1137743707 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3604 O93836 A93 2020 100 1 $a Dowd, Juditha, $e author. 245 10 $a Audubon's sparrow : $b a biography-in-poems / $c Juditha Dowd. 263 $a 2004 264 1 $a Brookline, MA : $b Rose Metal Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xvii, 125 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "What does it mean to sacrifice for someone else's art? Audubon's Sparrow answers this question by way of a verse biography of Lucy Bakewell, the intrepid and largely unsung wife of the artist and naturalist John James Audubon. Set in the early decades of the 19th century, an era of dramatic growth and expansion in America, the book follows Lucy and John James as they fall in love, marry, and set off to make a life on the western frontier. Juditha Dowd weaves together lyric poems, imagined letters, and diary entries in Lucy's voice with excerpts from Audubon's journals and published works (which many believe Lucy helped to write and edit) to offer an intimate exploration of the thoughts of a young wife and mother. Moving from port to port along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Lucy struggles to square the family's poverty with her husband's desire to abandon business and pursue his passion for nature. In a time when women are rarely permitted to work outside the home, Lucy draws on her education and musical talents to become a teacher, freeing Audubon to travel abroad seeking a publisher for The Birds of America. As she wards off financial ruin, Lucy's natural confidence and independence emerge, along with a very different life from the one she expected. Nimbly written and sympathetically rendered, Audubon's Sparrow is an enchanting blend of research and imagination-an indelible portrait of an American woman in need of rediscovery"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 600 10 $a Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell, $d 1787-1874 $v Poetry. 600 10 $a Audubon, John James, $d 1785-1851 $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Ornithologists $z United States $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Artists $z United States $v Poetry. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Dowd, Juditha. $t Audubon's sparrow $d Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, 2020 $z 9781941628225 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317025230.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103014149.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B85815DED7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search