Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2013
The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush. The magical happening opened up for her an inquiry into the natural, geological history of the city, and her essay becomes a meditation on natural change and human change, and finding one’s place between the two.
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