This book was first published in 1972 by the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Portland Museum of Art School in Oregon, as a limited edition of 200 copies. On the right-hand side pages Benton ingeniously portrays the essence of one type of bird, simply by arranging the letters of the bird's name. Its simplicity is breathtaking--and flocks of fun! 
William Benton received his early training in music and worked as a jazz musician before becoming a writer. His seven books of poetry include Marmalade, Normal Meanings, and The Bell Poems. His poetry has also been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.

Birds

Literature & Fiction

Benton, William

Poetry

Pomegranate

Here is a Sad but Ultimately Victorious story of deaf elephants. The plight of deaf elephants has been largely unrecognized by even the most caring pachydermatologists, but William Benton's goal is to change all that. These deaf heroes of the animal kingdom face constant danger and must endure the thoughtless prejudice of their cared counterparts. Even zoos shun them. Yet through it all they prevail: They fall in love, they dance to their own imagined music, and they face the world courageously. As you immerse yourself in this story, you will find yourself enthralled with the deaf elephants' huge, brave hearts.

Deaf Elephants

Literary

Re-examines the causes of the American Revolution, looking at those men in leadership positions who actively supported the pre-revolutionary movement, but who after 1776 changed their minds, and opposed the Revolution to such an extent that they became Loyalists.

Whig Loyalism: An Aspect of Political Ideology in the American Revolutionary Era

History

Americas

UNKNO

The Encyclopaedia Britannica's illustrated factual record of great events of the important year 1972, including five features written especially for this volume (Woman: A Technological Castaway by Clare Boothe Luce, Rose of the Knowledge Worker by Peter F. Drucker, more). Includes 12 special reports of international importance and significance.

Britannica Book of the Year 1973

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA,INC.

Mallarme "drifts, gists, versions, drafts & takes"

Marmalade: Drifts, Gists, Versions, Drafts, and Takes

McGarrell, James

George Adams Gallery Press; New York; 1997

"New and Selected poems from a lifetime of creative effort. William Benton received his early training in music and worked as a jazz piano player before becoming a writer. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and a number of other magazines. He has published several books of poetry, most recently Backlit, as well as Exchanging Hats, a book on the paintings of Elizabeth Bishop (FSG), and Madly, a novel (Counterpoint), blurbed by James Salter, Ann Beattie, Phillip Lopate"--

Light On Water: New and Selected Poems 1972-2022

Marsh Hawk Press

Love, with its fear, exhilaration and transcendence, is perhaps the most enduring subject in the literature of the world. About 11 o’clock on a late August night in Manhattan, Bill stops by his local Blockbuster, and in the nearly vacant shop meets an exotic stranger looking for advice on which movie to rent. In their fragmented and awkward first conversation, they exchange phone numbers and she rides away on her bicycle with a copy of Jules and Jim. At two that morning my phone rang. The machine answered; it was Irina saying how much she liked the movie.” Not long after, they meet and soon begin a love affair, filled with tension and tenderness, as they navigate through their separate pasts to find a road to travel together, for as long as their fates allow. Madly is a story of accident and inflected passion, of disruption, erotic and doomed. As Bill comes to realize Irina’s disturbed, tenuous hold on reality, his own hold on Irina turns relentless and obsessive.

Madly: A Novel

United States

Counterpoint

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 Museum Art School in Oregon, as a limited edition of 200 copies, this new edition includes an introduction by Benton as well as several new poems.

Nightboat Books

Nearly 1000 photos, illustrations, graphs, charts & maps More than 400 contributors from 26 countries Full report on the Apollo moon landing

Britannica Book of the Year 1970

Reference

Literary Nonfiction. Art. William Benton ran a Santa Fe art gallery in the 1970s where he showed the work of Bay Area figurative painter Joan Brown. In THE MARY JULIA PAINTINGS OF JOAN BROWN, poet and novelist Benton deftly weaves a tribute to Brown (seventeen of her paintings are reproduced) and a meditation on love and his late ex-wife. "Written with clarity and a deceptive, beguiling simplicity, Benton's text wanders into very personal terrain, something art writing usually avoids but perhaps shouldn't."—Lilly Wei, art critic and curator

The Mary Julia Paintings of Joan Brown

History & Criticism

Pressed Wafer

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Birds

Deaf Elephants

Whig Loyalism: An Aspect of Political Ideology in the American Revolutionary Era

Britannica Book of the Year 1973

Marmalade: Drifts, Gists, Versions, Drafts, and Takes

Light On Water: New and Selected Poems 1972-2022

Madly: A Novel

Birds

Britannica Book of the Year 1970

The Mary Julia Paintings of Joan Brown