Birds

By William Benton

Book Overview

As Ronald Johnson wrote, William Benton's witty and inventive Birds single-handedly resurrected the Concrete Poetry movement. First published in 1972 by the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Portland... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764920227
• ISBN13: 9780764920226
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Pomegranate
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

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"Bill Benton's quirky and comical birds are far more bird-like than most portraits rendered by heavier hands."--Peter Matthiessen "If Arisophanes' frogs had wings, this is the book they'd be."--James Salter.

Tweedy Birds

"Birds" is a playful and intriguing collection of the author's observations and take-offs on the names, habits, and environments of various birds. Each page is a visual pun, an arrangement of letters making a picture as inclusive as the proverbial thousand words. Birders, poets, artists, teachers, children, typesetters, take special note. This book is unique, and magical.