{"id":4555,"date":"2018-02-01T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:35:07","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-nina-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4555","title":{"rendered":"My Kirkus<\/em> Q&A with Nina Crews"},"content":{"rendered":"

“<\/strong><\/font>I started thinking about illustrating [Richard Wright’s] haiku back in 2006 after I came across a few of them in a poetry anthology. I had read <\/em>Native Son and <\/em>The Outsider in my twenties and had more or less dismissed his work as too polemical for my tastes. I was surprised and delighted by the poems. A quick search online led me to a posthumously published collection of over 800 of his haiku, <\/em>Haiku: This Other World. <\/p>\n

In addition to hundreds of wonderful poems, this book included a terrific introduction that gave me a new perspective on Wright and backmatter that gave me a deeper understanding of this poetic form. Creating this book was an opportunity for me to reconsider my feelings about Wright\u2019s work. I am now a fan.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Over at Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with author-illustrator Nina Crews<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her new picture book, Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright<\/em> (Millbrook Press, February 2018), which features her photo-collage illustrations. <\/p>\n

The Q&A is here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week, I’ll follow up here at 7-Imp with some art from the book. <\/p>\n

Until tomorrow …<\/p>\n

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Photo of Nina Crews taken by Matthew Septimus.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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