Excerpt from A Tree With a Bird in It: A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on Being Shown a Pear-Tree on Which Sat a GrackleA little while since, I had the fortune to live in a house, outside of whose windows there grew 3. Pear-tree. On the branches of this tree lived a green bird of indeterminate nature. I do not know what his real name was, but the name, to quote our great exemplar Lewis Carroll, by which his name was called was the Grackle. He seemed perfectly willing to be addressed thus, and ac cordingly was.Aside from watching the pear-tree and the Crackle, my other principal occupation that win ter was watching the Poetry Society of America now and then at its monthly meetings. It oc curred to me finally to invite such members of it as cared to come, following many good ex amples, to an outdoor symposium under the tree.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.