Golden Wings by Pete Dunne, University of Texas Press, $15.95, ISBN 0292716230 Reviewed by Adrian Barnett
“SET like a black and-white cloud atop a pedestal nest, the bird was beautiful. I was prepared to assert (even to wife Linda burning film not far away) that the Wandering Albatross was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen”.
Golden Wings is as much about birdwatching as it is about birds. Acutely insightful and very funny, it reads like a joint project by an anthropologist, a poet and a stand-up comedian who, because of differences over the billing, settled on a single pseudonym.…
