Songs of Exotic Birds contains poems written over a span of sixty years, forming an arc of life and capturing moments the writer s memory stubbornly cannot lose. Merle Fischlowitz also writes in the voices of others that his psychologist s ear has caught at special moments or rites of passage, where irony imbues the experiences. From childhood memories to today s cyber-news, these poems invite you into a garden where the exotic and prosaic, domestic and feral, all show the writer s deep faith in humanity.
