A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
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Compiler: Paul B. JaneczkoIllustrator: Chris Raschka
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-03-10
ISBN: 0763641324
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Candlewick
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Book Review: Quirky and clever collection
Summary: 5 Stars
Poems in twenty-nine distinct forms fill the pages of this unusual collection. Apt examples bring each form to life, from the simple couplet ("In the world of mules / There are no rules." Ogden Nash) and classic sonnet to contemporary forms such as blues, concrete, and "found" poems. Anthologist Paul Janeczko has selected poems that rhyme and poems that don't; silly poems, serious poems, and story poems; poems to share aloud and poems to savor alone.
Why care about poetic forms? Imagine baseball without bases or football without yardage markers. Just as rules make sports more enjoyable, so form enriches poetry. The examples offered in this collection make poetry accessible--and pleasing--to readers from middle grade through adult.
Chris Raschka's quirky illusstrations in watercolor, ink, and torn paper invite readers to linger on each page of the oversize picture book. Clever icons in the top corners of the pages give clues to the forms: for example, three birds on a line represent the tercet.
As a bonus, brief notes at the end of the book further explain how each form works. These pithy paragraphs will be helpful to budding poets eager to experiment with their own verse voices.
Highly recommended for elementary and middle-school students, A Kick in the Head offers a treat for readers of any age.
Summary of A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
From the simplest couplet to the mind-boggling pantoum, the award-winning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.In this splendid and playful volume ? second of a trilogy ? an acclaimed creative team presents examples of twenty-nine poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes bendable) rules of poetry, but also the spirit that brings these forms to life. Featuring poems from the likes of Eleanor Farjeon (aubade), X. J. Kennedy (elegy), Ogden Nash (couplet), Liz Rosenberg (pantoum), and William Shakespeare, the sonnet king himself, A Kick in the Head perfectly illustrates Robert Frost?s maxim that poetry without rules is like a tennis match without a net.
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