Thunder Underground by Jane Yolen (illustrated by Josee Masse) Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something.”Įach of the following picture books all are a “making toward something” that’s remarkable thanks to their use of poetic forms and a keen sensibility for language. “A poem … can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the–not always greatly hopeful–belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. This is as true in well-written picture books as it is in the classic “adult” poems of Rumi, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, or Yusef Komunyakaa.Īs I think about which relatively-recent picture books most embrace the wonders that poetry offers, I recall what Romanian-born German poet Paul Celan once wrote: One of the pleasures of reading poetry is to witness the urgency, the intensity, and the sheer beauty of language.
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