The poems are divided into three categories-"Got Style?," "In Your Shoes" and "Thank You"-and they salute the poets they honor by "adopting their style, extending their ideas and offering gratitude to their wisdom and inspiration," Alexander writes. If that weren't enough, the gorgeous cut-paper artwork by Caldecott Honor artist Ekua Holmes ( Voice of Fre e dom: Fannie Lou Hamer) takes the already exuberant book to an even higher plane. As Alexander writes in his preface, "first, they had to be interesting people, and second, we had to be passionately in love with their poetry."Įven readers who claim they don't enjoy poetry will be won over by these crystal-clear, mostly child-centric poems inspired by the likes of Naomi Shihab Nye, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Billy Collins, Rumi, William Carlos Williams, Maya Angelou, Mary Oliver, Sandra Cisneros and more. In Out of Wonder, poet and Newbery Medal-winning author Kwame Alexander ( The Crossover), Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth pay tribute to 20 of their favorite poets-ancient to contemporary-in their own original poems emulating their heroes.
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