Some Ducks: A Cycle of Poems for My Daughter

Poetry. In SOME DUCKS poet and nature writer Tim McNulty gathers together poems written to his daughter, Caitlin, on the occasion of her 21st birthday. Beginning with "First Song," written the night of her birth, McNulty celebrates his daughter's early encounters with the moon, bears, the ocean, ducks, and her first glimpse of death, "where all we know of love / and loss / spills past the words / we have to tell it."

Tim McNulty is a poet, essayist and nature writer. He is the author of two collections of poetry, In Blue Mountain Dusk (Broken Moon/Pleasure Boat Studio) and Pawtracks (Copper Canyon), and six chapbooks, including Last Year's Poverty (Brooding Heron) and Reflected Light (Tangram). His award-winning books on nature include The Art of Nature, Washington's Wild Rivers, Olympic National Park: A Natural History, Washington's Mt. Rainier National Park and Grand Canyon: Window on the River of Time. Tim has received the Washington Governor's Writers Award and the National Outdoor Book Award. He lives with his wife and daughter in the foothills for the Olympic Mountains.