Songs of Exotic Birds

Songs of Exotic Birds contains poems written over a span of sixty years,forming an arc of life and capturing moments the writers memorystubbornly cannot lose. Merle Fischlowitz also writes in the voices ofothers that his psychologists ear has caught at special moments or ritesof passage, where irony imbues the experiences.From childhood memories to todays cyber-news, these poems inviteyou into a garden where the exotic and prosaic, domestic and feral, allshow the writers deep faith in humanity.