March 9th, 2010
In anticipation of tomorrow’s reading from Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds the American Museum of Natural History, the museum’s Web site has posted interviews with the book’s editor Billy Collins and illustrator David Allen Sibley.
Collins and Sibley will be joined by other poets to read from the collection and tickets are still available for the event. Want a signed copy of the book by Billy Collins? There is still time to enter our contest to win a Billy Collins-autographed copy of the book.
Here is an excerpt from the interview with Billy Collins:
Q: As a group, birds seem to inspire more poets than do mammals, say. Is there something particularly poetic about birds? Flight?
Billy Collins: I tried to simplify the appeal of birds to poets in the book’s introduction by saying that they do two things that poets long to do: sing and fly. And sometimes they perform these natural miracles simultaneously! Another reason might be the amazing variety of bird species, ranging from the hummingbird to the sand hill crane. Birds offer an immense spectrum of types, certainly compared to the wolf, say, or the rhino.
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