Swallow: Poems

Miranda Field. Mariner Books, $10.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-618-18930-4

Bird by Bird Writer-in-residence at the Teachers and Writers collaborative in New York City, North London-born-and-raised Miranda Field won the DiscoveryThe Nation award, and arrives here with the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Bakeless Prize-winning Swallow. Overflying the ""Subway,"" ""Crime Scenes,"" a D rer ""Field Hare,"" ""Tumultuous Stillness,"" the ""Museum of Natural History"" and many other sites and singularities, Field gets a bird's-eye panorama of the world, ""an always-climbing caller, always calling something far-off closer."" (Aug. 15)

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