![]() ![]() ![]() A nourishing and delicious feast for eyes and ears, this belongs on every bookshelf with this and Nikki Grimes’ One Last Word (BCCB 12/16, this is an excellent year for poetic legacies. Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, Marjory Wentworth: 9780763680947 : Books The 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree’s New York Times best-selling ode to poets who. The source poems are not included, but biographical notes for the referenced poets are, followed by information about their era and location. In fact, Holmes’ use of collage offers the perfect visual metaphor for the act of transforming borrowed forms and ideas into powerful original art. Accompanying each poem is a gorgeous collage in rich colors and textures that vibrate with the overall feeling of the poem while offering a sometimes literal, sometimes metaphoric, always atmospheric rendering of its subject matter. Out of gratitude for the poets art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors hearts sing and their minds wonder. ![]() ![]() The poems are divided into three sections that highlight a particular aspect of imitation and response, with brief introductions that encourage readers to similarly experiment with adopting a favorite poet’s style or taking up the same themes or feelings. Taking inspiration from twenty beloved poets-nineteenth-century poets Bashō, Rumi, and Emily Dickinson as well as twentieth-century and contemporary poets from Australia, Canada, Chile, Uganda, and the U.S.-Alexander, Colderley, and Wentworth offer their own tribute poems as models for young readers and writers. ![]()
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