Beethoven and the Birds by Judith Skillman

Madeline DeFrees recommends
Beethoven and the Birds, poems by Judith Skillman: “Forty-five poems from the author whose first collection,
Worship of the Visible Spectrum, won the King County Arts Commission’s Book Award in 1988. The poems celebrate the author’s return to playing the violin after a lapse of nine years. Images drawn from music and ornithology dominate in these finely crafted poems. The book is beautifully produced with a cover painting of wisteria in sumi on rice paper. If sumi is the common medium of painter and writer, these poems are the common medium of violinist and poet.” (Blue Begonia)