Country Sentiment – 2/5 Stars Here’s the poem that ends this collection: A FIRST REVIEW. Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys Are here discreetly blent; Admire, you ladies, read, you boys, My Country Sentiment. But Kate says, “Cut that anger and fear, True love’s the stuff we need! With laughing children and the running deer That makes a book indeed.” Then Tom, a hard and bloody chap, Though much beloved by me, “Robert, have done with nursery pap, Write like a man,” says he. […]
Sail Away on Poetry
I do wonder what Langston Hughes would have thought of Ashley Bryan illustrating his poems. I would assume that he would enjoy the art as much as I do. In the signature style of Bryan, he gives life to poems with vibrant, powerful colors. The lines flow and are complimentary to the text of Hughes. The two art forms are paired nicely. Bryan has both a modern and classic feel to his work. And the words of Hughes still speak to us all these years […]
Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up
Finally, a book that I can say, “DANG!” about and not have anything really negative to say about it. Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up by Sally M. Walker and illustrated by William Grill has everything in it I am looking for in a book: good text, good facts, a story within those facts and interesting artwork. It also is accessible to the reader. It might not become a classic, but it is modern and would be a great addition to a personal or […]
A Storytelling of Ravens
A Storytelling of Ravens seems like one thing by the cover, but here the old saying is true, “Do not judge a book by the cover.” The inside poem (for a lack of a better term) has a line about each animal and what their “group” is called in a clever sentence. There is a sloth of bears, a smack of jellyfish and (a term a dog lover perhaps would take glee in) a nuisance of cats. And for me, of course, a storytelling of […]
“I remind myself of the fundamental notion of what it means to be a writer. A writer is the one who controls the narrative.”
Reading this book, I was reminded of a moment near the end of season 3 of Top Chef, when Casey presents her dish to the judges as a coq au vin inspired by memories of her grandmother. Tom Colicchio scolds her for calling the dish coq au vin when it wasn’t, but he also tells her it was a good dish and probably would have won the challenge if she had just called it what it was: chicken braised in wine. The moral of the […]
The Horse’s Haiku
From the field to the stable and from riding to rest, Michael Rosen captures what it is to be a horse in the haiku poetry of The Horse’s haiku. There are three sections each marked by a heading or title to the following haikus. Each one talks about horses, what it does and the surrounding things and places. The way the poems are formatted makes the story flow. This prose poetry after a while stops being “poems” and becomes just another horse tale. Stan Fellows […]
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