Children Of Grass: A Portrait Of American Poetry

With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise has given the reader a rare gift. Children of Grass: Portraits of American Poetry is an endlessly enriching and visually stimulating anthology that will enchant and beguile lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits— running adjacent to poems by each of its subjects that they've chosen themselves—comprise some of the most influential and inspirational poets of our time: this is both a celebration of free expression and creativity as only these poets in collaboration with Van Sise could convey, and moreover a virtual pulse-taking of our cultural moment. Children of Grass is also a timely homage to the quintessential American bard Walt Whitman—to whom Van Sise is a living relative—and his masterpiece, "Leaves of Grass," during this, the 200th anniversary of his birth. Children of Grass, will, like the work of its literary grandfather, stand as a lasting tribute to the vitality and creativity that flourishes in our country.