These Are My Leaves Author:James Payne A brilliant philosopher, intellectual, and scholar of cognitive psychology, James E. Payne takes the reader on a long, strange, lyrical trip comprising an individual s entire life--from conception on. Each poem is illustrated with bold yet exquisite full-page black-and-white line drawings by the poet's late first wife. It is a rare example of a ... more »true collaboration in which the writer and artist worked together on each poem, one at a time, over a two-year period. The book is a stunning combination of literary and visual art. Although These Are My Leaves is Payne's first poetry book and is published in their New Poets Series - BrickHouse Book's prestigious imprint reserved for outstanding ''first books of poetry'' - the author of this beautiful, sensuous collection is 97 years old.« less