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Poetry Illuminated

Celebrate Poetry month with illustrated poems and explorations of poetry in music at Brand Library & Art Center. Explore all the 811 section (Dewey call number) at your local branch!

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  • A children's anthology of 16 animal poems, illustrated by the graphic artist JooHee Yoon. The authors range from Lewis Carroll to D. H. Lawrence.
    BookNew York : Enchanted Lion Books, 2015. — jC 808.81 BEA
  • A children's book featuring Newbery-Honor winning poet, Joyce Sidman, and Caldecott winning illustrator, Beth Krommes. Celebrate the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear.
    BookBoston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. — jO SIDMAN,JOY
  • At the Height of the Moon

    a Book of Bedtime Poetry and Art

    A children's bedtime book that pairs works of art with poems and short works of fiction. Includes works by John Singer Sargent, Georgia O'Keeffe, Utagawa Hiroshige, Edgar Allen Poe, Jennifer Wong, Robert Frost, Valerie Bloom, and many more.
    BookMunich : Prestel, [2021] — j 808.81 ATT
  • The Breath of Japan

    Written and Painted Poetry : Japanese Contemporary Art = Der Atem Japans : Geschriebene Und Gemalte Poesie : Japanische Kunst Der Gegenwart

    This book presents some thirty large-format works by fourteen Japanese Sho artists that focus on the close relationship between image and writing, painting and poetry.
    BookMunich : Hirmer Verlag GmbH, [2022] — 709.52 BRE
  • Words With Wings

    a Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art

    A showcase of twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.
    Book[New York] : HarperCollins/Amistad, c2001. — j 811.08 WOR
  • Praise Songs for Dave the Potter

    Art and Poetry for David Drake

    David Drake is perhaps the only Black person in all of the free or slave states whose poetry was preserved in neither books nor pamphlets nor newspapers, but upon the surface of the ceramic vessels he created. This book examines how…
    BookAthens : The University of Georgia Press, [2023] — 700.451 Dave PRA
  • Artist and illustrator Allen Crawford illuminates Walt Whitman’s masterpiece and the core of his poetic vision, “Song of Myself.” Crawford turned the original sixty-page poem from Whitman’s 1855 edition into a sprawling 234-page work of…
    BookPortland, Oregon ; Brooklyn, New York : Tin House Books, 2014. — 811 Whitman,W WHI
  • World Make Way:

    New Poems Inspired by Art From The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." - Leonardo da Vinci Based on this simple statement by Leonardo, 18 poets wrote new poems inspired by some of the most popular works…
    BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2018. — j 811.08 WOR
  • Respect

    the Poetry of Detroit Music

    This book collects poems and lyrics by poets, lyricists, and songwriters who influenced by Detroit, such as Eminem, June Jordan, Rita Dove, Jack White, Robbie Robertson, Paul Simon, many others.
    BookEast Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2020] — 782.4216 RES
  • The Flame

    Poems, Notebooks, Lyrics, Drawings

    Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016,
    A collection of lyrics, poems, notebook sketches, and self-portraits maps the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's singular creative journey through the weeks just prior to his death.
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. — 811 Cohen,L COH
  • Reading Franz Liszt

    Revealing the Poetry Behind the Piano Music

    Roberts, Paul, 1949-
    Paul Roberts immerses readers in the world of Franz Liszt, through a vivid exploration of his most beloved pieces and literature that inspired them-from Petrarch's love poetry to the sensibilities of Byron, Sénancour, and others
    BookLanham, Maryland : Amadeus Press, [2022] — 780.92 Liszt,F ROB
  • The Collected Works of Jim Morrison

    Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics

    Morrison, Jim, 1943-1971,
    A landmark publication featuring both published and unpublished poems, prose, and lyrics and more than 200 personal colour and black-and-white photographs, drawings, journal excerpts, and notes.
    BookNew York : Harper Design, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
  • Black Robe, White Mist

    Art of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Rengetsu

    Rengetsu, 1791-1875
    An examination of the art and writings of Ōtagaki Rengetsu, a Buddhist nun who is widely regarded to have been one of the greatest Japanese poets of the 19th century.
    BookCanberra : National Gallery of Australia, c2007. — 738.092Rengetsu REN
  • In the back, you’ll find notes (botanical, historical, and personal) on each apple in alphabetical order and two stunning poems by the incredibly talented Makshya Tolbert.
    BookBerlin : Hatje Cantz, [2021] — 779.9634 Mullan,W ODD
  • Writers and artists pair up to reveal new ways of understanding key species through prose, poetry, and artwork. The addition of scientific descriptions provides a natural history frame, and Christiansen’s illustrations of ecologically…
    BookSan Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, [2021] — 978.752 ART
  • This reproduction of the full sized, bilingual publication of Poe's classic melancholy poem from 1875 features six commissioned illustrations by Edouard Manet.
    BookSeattle : Lucia Marquand, 2019. — 811 Poe,E POE
  • Combining the dramatic and meticulous work of printmaker Tom Killion--accented by quotes from John Muir--and the journal writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, The High Sierra of California is a tribute to the bold, jagged…
    BookBerkeley : Heyday Books, [2002] — 818 Snyder,G SNY
  • A remarkable collaboration between an artist and a poet, On We Go belongs to the emerging forms of ecological thinking that cross genres and scientific disciplines, speaking directly about global warming and the perils facing the natural…
    BookAuckland, New Zealand : Massey University Press, 2021. — 759.993 Bagnall,C BAG
  • Written to be read aloud, painted in brushstrokes that call to the forest, field, riverbank and also to the heart, The Lost Spells summons back what is often lost from sight and care, teaching the names of everyday species, and inspiring…
    BookToronto : House of Anansi Press Inc., 2020. — 821 Macfarlane,R MAC
  • California's Wild Coast

    Poetry, Prints, and History

    Killion, Tom,
    Woodcut artist Tom Killion’s prints combine exquisite color with dynamic composition to portray the coast’s ever-changing moods and diverse formations: storm tides crashing at Point Lobos, serene moonlit coves at Mendocino, fog encircling…
    BookBerkeley, California : Heyday, [2020] — 979.4 KIL