Friday, April 1, 2011

Poetry Friday




My selection is "Winds on the Wind: bird poems" collected and illustrated by Kate Kiesler, an artist living in Colorado, who shares her fascination with birds.


Kiesler has gathered over twenty poems by many well-known poets in this beautifully illustrated anthology. Verses by Carl Sandburg, Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Wise Brown grace pages illuminated with landscapes and close-ups of birds engaged in a variety of avian activities from flight to nesting. Red-winged blackbirds, wild geese, woodpeckers, barn swallows, a pet parakeet, even a pirate's parrot are sources of inspiration and delight.

2 comments:

Amy L V said...

This looks like a beautiful book, one my bird-loving hubby would really enjoy too! Thank you for sharing it! A.

Julie said...

Looks like one I'll definitely have to check out! Thanks for the heads-up about it.

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