In Wingbeat Atlas, award-winning poet Lucy Grith and wildlife photographer Kenneth Butler have created a stunning collaboration of avian poetry and photography which not only captures the incomparable splendor and behavior of an array of birds but, as all true art succeeds in doing, transports the reader/viewer to ever higher levels of consciousness. Wrens become religion, assuaging the deepest depths of human grief, and the Blue Grosbeak is living homage to a B. B. King whose thrill isn't gone but "is in the blue." - Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate Author, A Murder of Crows Lucy Grith's birds flit, flap, skid, hover, row, drift, and crash-land. Her poems expertly detail our ubiquitous companions of the air, calling attention to their structures and miraculous winged feats above us as we gladly renew our appreciation of them. Kenneth Butler's exquisite photo images accompany Grith's poems, forming a delightful partnership with her observations and narratives.

Sit with this small volume an hour and you will nd yourself refreshed in spirit, more knowledgeable about birds, and assuredly in awe of both the subject and the artists who fashioned this gem of a book. - Jan Seale, 2012 Texas Poet Laureate Author of Valley Ark: Life Along the Rio and Particulars: poems of smallness "Home," Lucy Grith writes, "is the place of attention," and under her careful gaze the birds and landscapes of central Texas reward her, and us, with hidden truths of what this place really is. So do Kenneth Butler's startling, immediate photographs, which capture not only the beauty but the lives of the birds whose world we share-inviting us to look closer, listen harder. is is not just a book about birds. - Jonathan Meiburg, author of A Most Remarkable Creature.