Poetry Picture Book - This Big Sky by Pat Mora

Illustrated by  Steve Jenkins

1998, Scholaswtic Press

currently OOP, but used available cheaply

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating:  

My rating:  4

Endpapers:  Terracotta

Illustrations:    Cut-Paper Collage 

My comments:  14 poems about the southwestern desert!

This Big Sky

This sky is big enough

for all my dreams.

Two ravens burst black

from a pinon tree

into the blare

of blazing sun.

I follow their wide ebony flight

over copper hills,

down canyons shimmering gold

autumn leave.

Two ravens spread their wings, rise

into whispers

of giant pines, over mountains blue

with memories.

This sky is big enough

for all my dreams.

Goodreads Summary:  An evocative collection of fourteen poems that combines Pat Mora's simple, yet stunning words with Steve Jenkins' bright collage images to capture the beauty and mystery of the American Southwest.
          In fourteen lyrical, beautifully spare poems, renowned Latina poet Pat Mora brings the landscape, animals, and people of the Southwest into sharp focus. Steve Jenkins richly textured cut-paper illustrations work with the text to evoke the power of this vast place where every heart has a home, and every dream has a piece of sky.