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From: Lbhcove at aol.com <Lbhcove>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 18:19:39 EDT
I love this verse so much I included it in my collection DAYS TO CELEBRATE
(Greenwillow Books) to celebrate the birth date of Billy Collins (March 22, l941) America's llth Poet Laureate.
Of course this verse is from one of his adult collections, yet it is perfect share with children (and college professors) of all ages.
It says SO much.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
In a message dated 4/4/2008 5:52:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, msimpsonmls at comcast.net writes:
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 18:19:39 EDT
I love this verse so much I included it in my collection DAYS TO CELEBRATE
(Greenwillow Books) to celebrate the birth date of Billy Collins (March 22, l941) America's llth Poet Laureate.
Of course this verse is from one of his adult collections, yet it is perfect share with children (and college professors) of all ages.
It says SO much.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
In a message dated 4/4/2008 5:52:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, msimpsonmls at comcast.net writes:
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
-- Martha Simpson, Head of Children's Services Stratford Library Association 2203 Main Street Stratford, CT 06615 _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016)Received on Fri 04 Apr 2008 05:19:39 PM CDT
