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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 16:48:00 -600
We initially said we would spend a bit of time at the beginning of February discussing the poetry collections and anthologies being published lately for children and/or young adults. Many people acknowledge a general renaissance Poetry at this time: poetry readings, poetry slams, Bill Moyers' recent Language of Life television series (and book), Poetry USA last spring (an MTV style television presentation of poets and their works - and a book, and a video). Poetry is selling in bookstores, libraries are featuring poets. The February issue of American Libraries contains a handsome poster heralding National Poetry Month (April). Terrific! Which books of poetry have caught your eye during the past few years?
I've always admired Ruth Gordon's thematic anthologies, her global across-the?nturies understanding that poets from many nations and times are concerned about similar life experiences. Her splendid anthologies bring poems orginally written for adults to the attention of young adults and adults alike: they include Pierced by a Ray of the Sun: Poems about the Times We Feel Alone (HarperCollins, 1995); Time Is the Longest Distance (HarperCollins, 1991); and Under All Silences: Shades of Love (HarperCollins, 1987). Be sure to find them. I've given copies as gifts to adult and teenage friends.
Just published: Harlem written by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers (Scholastic Press, 1997). Harlem is a single poem in a handsome, full color 24-page book including these words: "Harlem was a promise / Of a better life, of a place where a man didn't / Have to know his place / Simply because he was / Black." An eloquent tribute to the complex history being celebrated during Black History Month. Be sure to see it. And now, which book of published for young readers has caught your attention? your heart?
..Ginny
**************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education, UW-Madison
Received on Fri 07 Feb 1997 04:48:00 PM CST
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 16:48:00 -600
We initially said we would spend a bit of time at the beginning of February discussing the poetry collections and anthologies being published lately for children and/or young adults. Many people acknowledge a general renaissance Poetry at this time: poetry readings, poetry slams, Bill Moyers' recent Language of Life television series (and book), Poetry USA last spring (an MTV style television presentation of poets and their works - and a book, and a video). Poetry is selling in bookstores, libraries are featuring poets. The February issue of American Libraries contains a handsome poster heralding National Poetry Month (April). Terrific! Which books of poetry have caught your eye during the past few years?
I've always admired Ruth Gordon's thematic anthologies, her global across-the?nturies understanding that poets from many nations and times are concerned about similar life experiences. Her splendid anthologies bring poems orginally written for adults to the attention of young adults and adults alike: they include Pierced by a Ray of the Sun: Poems about the Times We Feel Alone (HarperCollins, 1995); Time Is the Longest Distance (HarperCollins, 1991); and Under All Silences: Shades of Love (HarperCollins, 1987). Be sure to find them. I've given copies as gifts to adult and teenage friends.
Just published: Harlem written by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Christopher Myers (Scholastic Press, 1997). Harlem is a single poem in a handsome, full color 24-page book including these words: "Harlem was a promise / Of a better life, of a place where a man didn't / Have to know his place / Simply because he was / Black." An eloquent tribute to the complex history being celebrated during Black History Month. Be sure to see it. And now, which book of published for young readers has caught your attention? your heart?
..Ginny
**************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education, UW-Madison
Received on Fri 07 Feb 1997 04:48:00 PM CST
