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A review by faeriedrumsong
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
5.0
Beautiful!
One of my pet peeves about how nighttime is represented in art, is that it is always so DARK. I do understand that to the eye used to city lights the night is dark, but the moon and stars can be very bright, and the colors of day are still there.
The art in this book uses thick black outlines to give us shadow surrounding the core of color to beautiful effect.
The poems are intriguing, too. They are just short enough, and just long enough. They have just the right amount of big words. They are practically perfect in every way. Granted, I am not extremely knowledgeable about poetry, but I know I like this a lot. I know that reading the poems made me really interested in the nonfiction text on the opposite page. This is another surprising thing to me. I usually dont like it when people try to teach me something sneakily when they are supposed to be entertaining. Going just by a textbook description (one page of poetry with the facing page illustration and nonfiction information on the same topic) it sounds really sneaky and not good. But it IS good! The poems are so good at characterization, that reading the non fic almost felt like watching the special features of a movie you really like. More info for those who just dont want to let go yet. :~)
One of my pet peeves about how nighttime is represented in art, is that it is always so DARK. I do understand that to the eye used to city lights the night is dark, but the moon and stars can be very bright, and the colors of day are still there.
The art in this book uses thick black outlines to give us shadow surrounding the core of color to beautiful effect.
The poems are intriguing, too. They are just short enough, and just long enough. They have just the right amount of big words. They are practically perfect in every way. Granted, I am not extremely knowledgeable about poetry, but I know I like this a lot. I know that reading the poems made me really interested in the nonfiction text on the opposite page. This is another surprising thing to me. I usually dont like it when people try to teach me something sneakily when they are supposed to be entertaining. Going just by a textbook description (one page of poetry with the facing page illustration and nonfiction information on the same topic) it sounds really sneaky and not good. But it IS good! The poems are so good at characterization, that reading the non fic almost felt like watching the special features of a movie you really like. More info for those who just dont want to let go yet. :~)