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Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds |  | Creators: Billy Collins, David Allen Sibley Publisher: Columbia University Press Category: Book
List Price: $22.95 Buy New: $14.19 as of 9/3/2010 17:08 CDT details You Save: $8.76 (38%)
Seller: supermoviedeals Rating: 12 reviews
Media: Hardcover Pages: 288 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0231150849 Dewey Decimal Number: 821.008036 EAN: 9780231150842
Publication Date: October 5, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine expression. Here, in this substantial anthology, more than one hundred contemporary and classic poems are paired with close to sixty original, ornithologically precise illustrations. Part poetry collection, part field guide, part art book, Bright Wings presents verbal and visual interpretations of the natural world and reminds us of our intimate connection to the "bright wings" around us. Each in their own way, these poems and pictures honor the enchanting creatures that have been, and continue to be, longtime collaborators with the poet's and painter's art. Poet and bird pairings include: Wallace Stevens and the Blackbird; Emily Dickinson and the Robin; Marianne Moore and the Frigate Pelican; Thomas Hardy and the Goldfinch; Sylvia Plath and the Pheasant; John Updike and the Seagull; Walt Whitman and the Eagle; Billy Collins and the Sparrow.
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Beautiful book June 12, 2010 Connecticut bookworm (Connecticut) This beautiful anthology features poems from antiquity as well as contemporary pieces. There's a wonderful introduction by Billy Collins, and the illustrations are gorgeous! I don't know if it's out in paperback, but buy the hardcover edition: its weight FEELS good!
Lovely edition June 12, 2010 Linda J. Orkin (Ithaca, NY USA) I have this book on my wishlist but recently purchased it as a going away present for a friend and fellow bird lover. It is a beautiful book with many selections of bird poems and lovely, accurate bird illustrations by David Sibley. If you buy gifts for yourself, get this. Otherwise, put it on your wishlist too and hope that someone close to you fulfillls your desires very soon.
Baright Wings March 28, 2010 Nancy J. Sheridan (Meadville, PA 16335, USA) This is beautiful collection of delightful poems about birds of all kinds from all kinds of poets! I loved the intro by Billy Collins, one of my all time favorites, and also admired the beautiful photos of the birds being written about.
Rarely have poetry and art been so deftly partnered March 15, 2010 Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) Rarely have poetry and art been so deftly partnered as it is in "Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds ", a 288-page compendium of poetry knowledgeably compiled and deftly edited by Billy Collins, and superbly enhanced with the aviary painting of David Allen Sibley. The them of both the poetry and the imagery are an impressive variety of birdlife. The dozens and dozens of poems ranges from Robert Creeley's 'The Birds'; to Henry Carlile's 'The Cardinal'; to Wallace Stevens' 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird'; to Thomas Hardy's 'The Caged Goldfinch'. The art is museum quality, the poetry superbly memorable. A truly impressive anthology of word and art, "Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds" is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, family, academic, and community library poetry collections and supplemental reading lists.
You can't have it all . . . February 23, 2010 John N. Ruf (rockland, maine) ... but I found it odd that neither of the first two poems that leapt to mind, G.M. Hopkins 'The Windhover' and R. Jeffers 'Hurt Hawks,' is included. Birdwatching is qute a challenge. What a terrific book. Thanks to Sibley and Collins.
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