[Art historian T. J.] Clark chose two paintings [by French 17th century painter Nicolas Poussin] and visited them daily for a year, seeing them in different light, seeing different aspects each time, recording his reactions and his changes in reactions. And this is what [Hennedy has] done with [his] loons, and it has the same fascination. It has the additional quality that [the speaker] is not the same person at the end of the book that [he was] at the beginning. --Barbara Solow
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Variations on a Natural Theme is bird-watching through the exquisite eye of a poet. This is a book for those who love loons and other birds of the ocean as well as for those who are fascinated by the power of poetry to illuminate the natural world. Each poem reminds us of the sudden appearance and disappearance of beauty-- and its endless variations.
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