![]() ![]() World Make Way consists of eighteen new poems, each accompanying a separate work of art chosen from the Metropolitan’s vast collections the artists span cultures and eras, ranging from Klimt in the early 1910s, to an anonymous fourteenth-century Egyptian plaster pavement fragment and Botero’s 1980 Dancing in Colombia. ![]() That is why this new collection from Lee Bennett Hopkins and Abrams Books is so effective: combining the visual pleasure of master works of art with poetry which is fresh, new, and uniquely tailored to the experiences of young readers, this volume brings both poetry and art to life. Poetry is an intensely visual art as many great poets have attested, it is a bodily as well as mental experience, which uses language to engage not just our emotions and intellect, but our senses as well. What to Expect: Poetry, Art, History, Emotions. The Children’s Book Review | OctoNew Poems Inspired by Art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art ![]()
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