From: Meg Rothstein <megrothstein>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:14:36 -0500

Thanks, Christine. You mentioned that poetry is what seems to get to the heart of the story. I wonder what it is about poetry that, in Hopkins' hands, makes the form so evocative. Do you think the form, paired with the story, helped to illuminate the story Hopkins tells in _Burned_? Could
_Burned_ have been told any other way?


>From: "Christine LeMieux" <clemieux at spokanelibrary.org>
>To: <CCBC-Net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu>
>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Ellen Hopkins/free verse poetry for teens
>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 18:04:27 -0700
>
>I read _Burned_, and I just loved it. For me, at least, the free verse
>made it a much higher impact story. I don't know whether I would have
>liked it as well in prose. Something about poetry seems to get right to
>the heart of the emotions involved, I think. I haven't read _Impulse_ or
>_Crank_ yet, but I can't wait!
>
>Chris LeMieux, Youth Services Librarian
>Hillyard, East Side, & Indian Trail Branches
>Spokane Public Library
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