Dickinson's Birds

A listening machine

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Note: For our Sources, please see Poem Archive Notes and Bird Archive Notes.

Abram, David. 1996. The Spell of the Sensuous. New York: Vintage Books.

Ackerman, Jennifer. 2017. The Genius of Birds. New York: Penguin.

Adams, John Luther and Alex Ross. 2009. The Place Where You Go to Listen: In Search of an Ecology of Music. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

Allen, Aaron S. and Kevin Dawe, eds. 2016. Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature. Abingdon: Routledge.

American Bird Conservancy @ https://abcbirds.org.

Aristotle. [c. 350 BC]. De Anima II.8 420b12.

Armbruster, Karla M. and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds. 2001. Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

Arons, Wendy and Theresa J. May, eds. 2012. Readings in Performance and Ecology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Arsić, Branka. 2016. Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Audubon, John James. 1999. John James Audubon: Writings and Drawings. Library of America.

Ayres, Edward L. 2010. “Turning toward Place, Space, and Time.” In The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship, edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Bagg, Aaron Clark and Samuel Atkins Eliot. 1937. Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts. Northampton, MA: The Hampshire Bookshop.

Bandt, Ros, Michelle Duffy, and Dolly MacKinnon, eds. 2007. Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

Barclay, Leah. 2012. “Shifting Paradigms: Towards an Auditory Culture.” Proceedings of ISEA 2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness. Albuquerque: ISEA. http://socialmedia.hpc.unm.edu/isea2012/sites/default/files/ISEA2012_confproceedings_WEB.pdf.

Barrow, Mark. 2009. Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bennett, Jane. 2010. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke University Press.

Bergland, Renee. 2008. “Urania’s Inversion: Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, and the Strange History of Women Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 34:1.

Bergland, Renee. “Dickinson Emergent: Natural Philosophy and the Postdisciplinary Manifold.” 2022. In The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller and Karen Sanchez-Eppler, 554–72. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Besel, Richard D. and Jnan A. Blau, eds. 2014. Performance on Behalf of the Environment. Plymouth: Lexington Books.

Bianchi, Frederick and V. J. Manzo, eds. 2016. Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words. New York: Oxford University Press.

Birds of the World: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology @ https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home.

Bladow, Kyle A., and Jennifer K. Ladino. 2018. “Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene.” In Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment, edited by Kyle A. Bladow and Jennifer K. Ladino, 1–22., Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Bodenhamer, David J., John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris. 2015. Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

British Library Sounds @ https://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/Weather. [See also: https://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/Water; https://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/Soundscapes; https://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/Listen-to-Nature; https://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/Early-wildlife-recordings; https://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/Interviews-with-wildlife-sound-recordists-]

Brown, Andrew. 2014. Art & Ecology Now. London: Thames and Hudson.

Bruinsman, Max. 1985. “Notes of a Listener.” In Sound by Artists, edited by Dan Lander and Micah Lexier, 88-96. Toronto: Art Metropole and Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery.

Burns, Thea. 2013. The Luminous Trace: Drawing and Writing in Metalpoint. London, Archetype Publications, 2013.

Caballero, Krista and Frank Ekberg. 2013–. Birding the Future @ http://www.birdingthefuture.net.

Caballero, Krista. 2016. Portable Field Desk @ http://kristacaballero.com/portable-field-desks.

Caballero, Krista. 2020-. Some Spells Are Bigger @ http://kristacaballero.com/some-spells-are-bigger.

Candland, Lara. 2018. The Lapidary’s Nosegay. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

Carlyle, Angus, ed. 2007. Autumn Leaves: Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice. Paris: Double Entendre.

Carson, Rachel. 1962. Silent Spring. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Chen, Mei-shu. 2019. “The Uncelebrated Nonhuman Citizens of Nature in Emily Dickinson’s Writings”.Exposition 42: 245–72.

Chow, Juliana. 2014. “‘Because I see – New Englandly – ’: Seeing Species in the Nineteenth-Century and Emily Dickinson’s Regional Specificity.” ESQ, 60.3, 2014: 413–49.

Clare, John. 2004. Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clark, Timothy. 2015. Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. 2013. Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Cole, Norma. 1991. My Bird Book. Portland, ME: Littoral Books.

Cook, Terry and Joan M. Schwartz. 2002. “Archives, Records, and Power: From (Postmodern) Theory to (Archival) Performance.” Archival Science, 2: 171–85.

Craig, Wallace. 1911. “The Expressions of Emotion in the Pigeons: III The Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius Linn.)”.  The Auk, 28.4: 408–27.

Cramerotti, Alfredo, ed. 2015. The Blind.  Bristol and Chicago: Intellect.

Cummings, Jim. 2010. About Environmental Soundscape Art. http://earthear.com/aboutesa.html.

Cusack, Peter. 2012. Sounds from Dangerous Places. Surrey: ReR Megacorp and Berliner Kunstlerprogramm des DAAD, 2012.

Darwin, Charles. 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray.

Das, Subhadra, and Miranda Lowe. 2018. “Nature Read in Black and White: Decolonial Approaches to Interpreting Natural History Collections”. Journal of Natural Science Collections, 6: 4–14.

“Dawn Chorus,” conceived and directed by Bernie Kraus and Michael John Gorman @ dawn-chorus.org, 2020.

Day, David. 2012. Nevermore: A Book of Hours. Toronto: Fourfront, 2012.

Day, David. 1989. Vanished Species. Bloomington, IN: Gallery Books, 1989.

Derrida, Jacques. 1993. Aporias, translated by Thomas Dutoit. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Digital Amherst @ http://www.digitalamherst.org/exhibits.

Dunn, David. 2021. The Sound of Light in Trees. https://daviddunn.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of-light-in-trees.

Ear to the Earth. 2011. @  http://twitter.com/ear2earth.

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Emmons, Ebenezer. 1833. The Birds of Massachusetts. In Dr. Edward Hitchcock’s “Report on the Geology, Minerology, Botany and Zoology of Massachusetts”: 528–51.

Farge, Arlette. 2013. The Allure of the Archives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Farr, Judith.. 2004.The Gardens of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Farrier, David. 2019. Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction.. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Foer, Jonathan Safran. 2001. A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell. D.A.P.

“For the Birds” by the Birdsong Project: https://open.spotify.com/album/6c8aHa89kWTsrcz0iw7fgS?si=YxOT7jT7S3W6imf0mKOHUw.

Fragments of Extinction. https://www.fragmentsofextinction.org/dusk-chorus-film/.

Fuller, Errol. 2013. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record. London: Bloomsbury.

Gander, Forrest and John Kinsella. 2012. Redstart: An Ecological Poetics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Gardner, Thomas and Salomé Voegelin, eds. 2016. Colloquium: Sound Art – Music. Winchester: ZeroBooks, John Hunt Publishing.

Garrard, Greg. 2012. Ecocriticism, 2nd edn. Abingdon: Routledge.

Gerhardt, Christine. “Dickinson’s Garden Ecologies.” 2022. In The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller and Karen Sanchez-Eppler, 518–36. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gilmurray, Jono. 2016. “Sounding the Alarm: An Introduction to Ecological Sound Art.” Muzikoloski Zbornik—Musicological Annual, 52.2: 71–84.

Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harrold Fromm, et. al., eds. 1996. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Gordon, Avery. 1997. Ghostly Matters. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Greenaway, Peter. 1994. Flying Out of This World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Grossman, Sara J. 2021. “Gendering Nineteenth-Century Data: The Women of the Smithsonian Meteorological Project.” Journal of Women’s History, 33.1: 85–109.

Guthrie, James R. 2007. “Darwinian Dickinson: The Scandalous Rise and Noble Fall of the Common Clover.” The Emily Dickinson Journal, 16.1: 73–91.

Hamilton, William J., III. 1962. “Evidence Concerning the Function of Nocturnal Call Notes of Migratory Birds.” California Academy of Sciences, 64.5: 390–401.

Henshaw, Frances. 1823. “Massachusetts.” The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection @ www.davidrumsey.com.

Hitchcock, Edward. 1836.  “The Sandstone Bird” @ https://www.palaeopoems.com/palaeopoems/the-sandstone-bird

Hitchcock, Orra White. Amherst College Digital Collections: Classroom drawings by Orra White Hitchcock @ https://acdc.amherst.edu/browse/partOf/Orra+White+Hitchcock+Classroom+Drawings?_ga=2.183907747.427271304.1613600253-1929252704.1612994588.

Holloway, Travis. 2022. How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene. Stanford: Stanford Briefs.

Humphreys, Helen. 2021. Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium. Toronto: ECW Press.

Ingold, Tim. 2010. “Bringing Things to Life: Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials.” ESRC National Centre for Research Methods @ http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/1306/.

Ingold, Tim. 2020. Correspondences. Cambridge: Polity Press.

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Jackson, Virginia. 2005. Dickinson’s Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Keith, David W. 2017. “The Earth Is Not Yet an Artifact.” In Environment and Society: A Reader, edited by Christopher Schlottmann et al., 373–79. New York: New York University Press..

Khalip, Jacques. 2018.  Last Things.. New York: Fordham University Press.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. 2014. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt.

Krause, Bernie L. 1987. “The Niche Hypothesis: How Animals Taught Us to Dance and Sing.” http://appohigh.org/ourpages/auto/2010/12/21/52074732/niche.pdf.

Kuhn, Mary. 2018. “Dickinson and the Politics of Plant Sensibility.”ELH, 85.1: 141–70.

Lane, Cathy. “On the Machair.” [2007] 2008. On Autumn Leaves, online audio compilation, http:www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=174.

Lane, Cathy and Angus Carlyle. 2013. In the Field: The Art of Field Recording. Axminster: Uniformbooks.

Lucier, Alvin. I am Sitting in a Room. [1970] 1993. United States: Lovely Music, Ltd., LCD 1013.

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Manning, Erin. 2016. The Minor Gesture. Durham: Duke University Press.

Marchand, Amanda and Leah Sobsey. 2021-present. This Earthen Door: Work In Progress. @ https://www.amandamarchand.com/this-earthen.

Marrs, Cody. 2017. “Dickinson in the Anthropocene.” ESQ, 63, 2: 201–25.

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Massachusetts Avian Records Committee. Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife @ https://maavianrecords.com/.

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McFarland, Sarah E. 2021. “Embracing Extinction.” Women’s Studies, 50:8: 837-842.

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Merely, Tobias and Jesse Oak Taylor, eds. 2017. Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Terms. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

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Morton,  Timothy. 2011. “The Mesh.” In Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century, edited and introduced by Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, and Ken Hiltner, 19–30. London and New York, Routledge..

Morton, Timothy. 2013. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Nathanson, Tenney. 2016. “The Birds Swim through the Air at Top Speed: Kinetic Identification in Keats, Whitman, Stevens, and Dickinson (Notes Toward a Poetics).” Critical Inquiry, 42.2: 395–410.

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Pettman, Dominic.  2017. Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World). Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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Sobsey, Leah. 2015. Collections. Bronx, NY: Daylight Community Arts Foundation..

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