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| from My Family Tree by Dusan Petricic |
For Poetry Friday, here's a little something I read over at the Art of the Picture Book blog. It's from an interview of the Serbian/Canadian illustrator and political cartoonist Dusan Petricic (author/illustrator of My Family Tree):
“I love poetry. I think it is the most important field in literature
for me. With poetry you have to be very precise, very focused and
explain simple things. There’s always something a little bit conceptual
in each poem. So I love to do that. It’s a lot to do with my opinion
about cartoons in general, not only political cartoons. The cartoon is a
way of thinking. So poetry and cartoons are similar to me. And that
similarity is very simplistic, with the concept of how to find the
right, the most precise way to explain yourself. With the least possible
words.”
Well said! So my poetry contribution this week is not only that quotation but one of Petricic's cartoons - a piece of social commentary that definitely explains itself with the least possible words. Think of it as a poem about America in the year 2016.
You'll find the Poetry Friday round-up (and a wonderful poem by Howard Nemerov titled "Summer's Elegy") over at Tara Smith's blog, A Teaching Life. And I have a post up this week at Books Around the Table, featuring a link to the blog mentioned above, Art of the Picture Book. Enjoy!
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| Dusan Petricic |
