"Work of imagination, work of art, and work of scholarship, all three! Most valuable for practicing poets, teachers, the general public with interest in poetry, bird lovers, environmentalists. It has wit, it has force—in a word, élan; it has the light and depth of 'our own scene so fair'—our landscape and the bird creatures there which subtly transfigure in our songs and poems our own thoughts and feelings." —Gemino H. Abad

Published in 2010. Winner, 2011 National Book Awards, for Poetry. Winner, 2012 Gintong Aklat Awards, for English Literature.