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Title:
Bright wings : an illustrated anthology of poems about birds / edited by Billy Collins ; paintings by David Allen Sibley.
Author:
Collins, Billy.

Sibley, David, 1961-
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.
Call Number:
PR1195 .B5 B75 2010
Abstract:
From the Publisher: 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.
ISBN:
9780231150873

9780231150842
Physical Description:
xiii, 268 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Contents:
John James Audubon / Loons mating / Drifting off / Mother Carey's hen / Birds / Pelican / Magnificent frigatebird / Blue booby / Heron / Hope and love / On the sight of swans in Kensington Gardens / On the marriage of friends / Swan and shadow / Wild geese / Teal / From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury / Still, citizen sparrow / To a farmer who hung five hawks on his barbed wire / Evening hawk / You and I saw hawks exchanging the prey / from The parliament of fowls / Peregrine falcon, New York City / Make-falcon / Dalliance of the eagles / Pheasant / Bird at the leather mill / Coot / Plover / Shorebird-watching / On a 3 1/2 oz. lesser yellowlegs, departed Boston August 28, shot Martinique September 3 / Sandpiper / Ballet of the fifth year / Seagulls / Kittiwake / After reading Peterson's guide / Lost parrot / Contrast; the parrot and the wren / Great horned owl / Barred owl / To a captive owl / Owl / Great gray owl / Owl / Owl / Chimney swifts / Swifts / Swifts / Humming-bird / Kingfisher / Kingfisher / Woodpecker keeps returning / Woodpecker / Arts of joy / Black Phoebe / Shrike / Still missing the jays / Magpie's song / Paired things / Calves not chosen / Crows start demanding royalties / Questions poems ask / Ravens at Deer Creek / Ravens of Denali / Ode to the swallow / Swallow / Emperor's bird's-nest / Watching the swallows / from The princess; O swallow / Home-thoughts, from Abroad / Cliff swallows / Blue swallows / December notes / In Walden wood the chickadee / Titmouse / Bluebirds / Darkling thrush / Thrushes / I have a bird in spring / I dreaded that first robin so / Love's good-morrow / To Robin Red-breast / Poor Cock Robin / Death of Lesbia's bird / Of the air / Cedar waxwings / Cedar waxwing on Scarlet Firethorn / Song / Warbler announcing spring at morning / Happy bird / Bird watching / Cardinal / Cardinals in a shower at Union Square / Pair of tanagers / Brave sparrow / Love song / Christmas sparrow / Sparrow trapped in the airport / Partita for sparrows / Visitation / Old acquaintance / Call of the junco bird / Redwing blackbirds / Red-winged blackbirds / Birds / Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Keeping track / Grackles / Rose-breasted grosbeak / Faithful friend / Caged goldfinch / For the birds: a charm of goldfinches / Rara avis
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