Land, sea & sky

Hazel Rochman

Paladino has paired color photographs of extraordinary depth and movement with 20 nature poems that express the physicalness of the world outdoors. Several views make you aware of the curve of earth and sky: an exquisite picture of a hill with long, waving blades of grass accompanies Walt Whitman's lines "Long and long has the grass been growing, /. . . . Long has the globe been rolling round." From sweeping views of purple mountains' majesty to a focus on a single rose or a lone gray wolf, words and pictures connect the child observer with rock, sea, and cloud. Without preaching, this anthology shows what a poem by Felice Holman tells--that each of us is a piece of it all.