Something Permanent
The photographs of Walker Evans tell stories of ordinary people living in America in the extraordinary time of the Great Depression. Cynthia Rylant’s poetry about the photographs offers a new voice in the telling, celebrating the beauty of life lived in extreme circumstances.
The photographs of Walker Evans tell stories of ordinary people living in America in the extraordinary time of the Great Depression. Cynthia Rylant’s poetry about the photographs offers a new voice in the telling, celebrating the beauty of life lived in extreme circumstances.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780152770907 (0152770909)
Publish date: May 13th 1994
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
I loved this book. Long before I had my son, I found this book in the poetry section of a very good children's book store. I'd always found Walker Evans's Depression-era photos haunting and I felt the poems made the photos even more personal. It reminded me in a way of Chris Van Allsburg's book "The...
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