{"product_id":"audubons-sparrow-a-biography-in-poems","title":"Audubon's Sparrow: A Biography-In-Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAudubon's Sparrow: A Biography-In-Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJuditha Dowd\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781941628218\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRose Metal Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e144\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to sacrifice for someone else's art? \u003ci\u003eAudubon's Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Birds of America.\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAudubon's Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e is an enchanting blend of research and imagination--an indelible portrait of an American woman in need of rediscovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Rose Metal Press","offers":[{"title":"Audubon's Sparrow: A Biography-In-Poems | Juditha Dowd | Paperback | 9781941628218 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1739987 (temp: 17)","offer_id":48168824504472,"sku":"1739987","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71eQAt9WzWL.jpg?v=1771978643","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/audubons-sparrow-a-biography-in-poems","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}