Tai Chi Morning is simply, as the title implies, snapshots of China seen through the lens of a poets eye. It is a collection of moments, a personal record of an outsiders first experience of China." (From the introduction)In 1988, poet Nikki Grimes spent three weeks along the east coast of China. Like any curious tourist, she observed and touched, sniffed and tasted. But unlike most, she poured those sensations into poetry. Distilling the delight and confusion of an African American traveler thousands of miles from home, her poems take a thoughtful, sometimes playful, look at an outsiders sense of self.As it happened, around the same time, artist Ed Young was visiting his native China--as always, writing and sketching his impressions in a personal journal. Like Nikki, Ed witnessed signs of the old China alongside the new. Like the poet, the artist caught hold of them and set them down on paper.Through Nikkis wry but penetrating verse and Eds deft, revealing drawings, in Tai Chi Morning the journeys of a visiting American poet and an artist returning home unwind side by side in counterpoint.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 10-14 years.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published in 2004 by Open Court Publishing Co , U. S. .

Barbara DaCosta's first collaboration with Ed Young, Nighttime Ninja , won the Children's Choice Award. She makes her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nikki Grimes (nikkigrimes. com) received the Coretta Scott King Award for Bronx Masquerade , and has also received five Coretta Scott King Honors. She has written more than fifty books, including The Road to Paris , Jazmin's Notebook , the Dyamonde Daniel series, and the New York Times bestseller Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope . She lives in Corona, California.