Poetry Comics: An Animated Anthology

Dave Morice’s Poetry Comics offers literary mavens and schoolchildren alike a look at the canon in a new and hilarious light. This anthology brings together the best hits from Morice’s two previous cartoon compendiums with such recent animations as Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, John Ashbery’s "Some Trees," and Marianne Moore’s "Poetry." Other comics in the book include William Shakespeare’s The Tempest; Robert Browning’s "My Last Duchess"; Emily Dickinson’s "Poem 303"; Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass; Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred, Ezra Pound’s "In a Station at the Metro"; and Allen Ginsberg’s Howl.

In addition to Morice’s kaleidoscopic retinue of cartoons, the book features a brief history of poetry comics as well as a step-by-step guide to making poetry comics at home or in the classroom.