All That I Love -- DrawingPoems

"Yu Cao's drawings and poems are colorful, whimsical, and imaginative... It is a pleasure to browse through this delightful book!" "Yu's drawing poems remind me to enjoy life's precious moments and to see the world with child-like wonder. " "If you are looking for an inspirational book with imaginative art to go along with it, Yu Cao truly delivers this for you." -- Amazon review All That I Love / DrawingPoems has entered the collection of Center for Arts and Language at Rhode Island School of Design. This book collects 29 pairs of drawings and poems created by Yu Cao. Each DrawingPoem is a pair of drawing and poem to capture the ineffable beauty in daily life. Daily encounters with people, animals, watermelons, clouds, flowers, love, life and death are Yu's inspirations.Here's what Yu wrote at the beginning of the book: "We all experience these moments of ineffable beauty when we are present with what is and connect with other beings. I invite you to dwell in the unknown energy that has touched me deeply and quietly and experience the openness of the mind that DrawingPoems have transported me into."