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, Dylan Thomas, Christina Rossetti, William Wordsworth, William Ernest Henley, Robert Hayden, Edgar Allen Poe, W. H. Auden, Thomas Hardy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Philip Johnson, W. B. Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Tess Gallagher, Stevie Smith, and Siegfried Sassoon.
By:
Julian Peters
Imprint: Plough Publishing House
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 190mm,
ISBN: 9780874863185
ISBN 10: 087486318X
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 May 2020
Recommended Age: From 13 to 18 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
“Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers, by Emily Dickinson Invictus, by William Ernest Henley Caged Bird, by Maya Angelou may my heart always be open, by e. e. cummings Somewhere or Other, by Christina Rossetti Those Winter Sundays, by Robert Hayden In a Station of the Metro, by Ezra Pound When You Are Old, by W. B. Yeats Juke Box Love Song, by Langston Hughes Musée des Beaux Arts, by W. H. Auden The Given Note, by Seamus Heaney The Darkling Thrush, by Thomas Hardy Choices, by Tess Gallagher. The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, by Dylan Thomas Buffalo Dusk, by Carl Sandburg The World Is Too Much with Us, by William Wordsworth Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley There Have Come Soft Rains, by John Philip Johnson Birches, by Robert Frost Spring and Fall, by Gerard Manley Hopkins Before the Battle, by Siegfried Sassoon Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson Conscientious Objector, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Julian Peters is an illustrator and comic book artist living in Montreal, Canada, who focuses on adapting classical poems into graphic art. His work has been exhibited internationally and published in several poetry and graphic art collections. Peters holds a master's degree in Art History, and in 2015, served as Cartoonist in Residence at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
Reviews for Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry
The selections . . . encompass a range of moods and media, from a twinkly black-and-white manga version of W.B. Yeats' When You Are Old to poignant watercolor scenes illustrating Robert Hayden's Those Winter Sundays. . . . Fresh angles aplenty for poetic encounters.--Kirkus Review Poetry and comics. It sounds like an uncomfortable union of arts, joining the spiritual desolation of T.S. Eliot or the restlessness of Arthur Rimbaud with the text balloons and exclamation points that have traditionally filled a newspaper's fun pages. But the forms merge beautifully in the work of Julian Peters.... Peters's work is a great argument for the commonalities between poetry and comic books. The lines of poetry and his comic panels hang together with an unexpected ease, as if their forward rhythms are in synch. Both the words and the images unroll across the page, visually, with the panels sometimes matching the line breaks or stanza breaks. Poetry, unlike most prose, can involve leaps of thought from line to line, which jibes with the way comics leap from panel to panel. --Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe
