A fresh twist on 24 classic poems, these visual interpretations by comic artist Julian Peters will change the way you see the world. This stunning antholo...
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ISBN-10:
087486318X
ISBN-13:
9780874863185
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Dimensions
9.60 X 7.50 X 0.70 inches
Language
English
A fresh twist on 24 classic poems, these visual interpretations by comic artist Julian Peters will change the way you see the world.
This stunning anthology of favorite poems visually interpreted by comic artist Julian Peters breathes new life into some of the greatest English-language poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These are poems that can change the way we see the world, and encountering them in graphic form promises to change the way we read the poems. In an age of increasingly visual communication, this format helps unlock the world of poetry and literature for a new generation of reluctant readers and visual learners. Grouping unexpected pairings of poems around themes such as family, identity, creativity, time, mortality, and nature, Poems to See By will also help young readers see themselves differently. A valuable teaching aid appropriate for middle school, high school, and college use, the collection includes favorites from the Western canon already taught in countless English classes. Includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Maya Angelou, Seamus Heaney, e. e. cummings, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Christina Rossetti, William Wordsworth, William Ernest Henley, Robert Hayden, Edgar Allan Poe, W. H. Auden, Thomas Hardy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Philip Johnson, W. B. Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tess Gallagher, Ezra Pound, and Siegfried Sassoon.ISBN-10
:087486318X
ISBN-13
:9780874863185
Publisher
:Plough Publishing House
Publication date
: 31 Mar, 2020
Category
Sub-Category
: Poetry
Format
:Hardcover
Language
:English
Reading Level
: All
No. of Units
:1
Dimension
: 9.60 X 7.50 X 0.70 inches
Weight
:659 g
"By creating interesting juxtapositions of text, imagery, and illustration style, cartoonist Peters elevates each of the 24 visualizations of classic poems here into something much more interesting than mere translation. He highlights the timelessness of regretful longing by rendering William Butler Yeats's 'When You Are Old' as a manga about an elderly woman reflecting on her youth. In 'Hope is the thing with feathers, ' he depicts a vibrantly colored bird watching over black-and-white depictions of a soldier huddled in a foxhole, an impoverished child in China, and an immigrant family entering a new land, lending a sense of universality to Emily Dickinson's text. At the beginning of Robert Hayden's 'Those Winter Sundays, ' dark watercolors evoke a dreary cold morning, as the speaker comes to recognizes his father's habit of waking early to stoke the furnace as an act of love, the palette warms considerably, provoking a visceral flair of emotion. Peters's virtuosity as an illustrator and keen understanding of the texts included here results in a beautiful, memorable volume." --Library Journal
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