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From: Healey, Amy <ahealey>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:14:01 -0500
I have really enjoyed the poetry thread. I'd like to recommend a novel in verse, the realm of possibility by David Levithan. (Random House/Knopf, 2004) This is an interwoven high school story, told by different people and in different voices and styles. As poetry, the quality of the individual poems and the number of styles used is remarkable. The stories and relationships are very true to life and capture the world of high school. These are characters that you know and like, even though each poem or series of poems is very brief. My adult book group read it, and we had a great time charting out the relationships between and among the characters. It's a book that I wanted not just to read, but to re-read, not just to borrow but to own.
I would recommend the anthology what have you lost? selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. (HarperCollins, 1999, pbk. 2001) You may want to read only a few poems at a time - there are many kinds of loss, and all of them are found here, in some truly remarkable poems.
Amy
Amy Healey, M.S.L.S. Teacher/Librarian New Holstein High School 1715 Plymouth Street New Holstein, WI 53061 ahealey at nhsd.k12.wi.us 920.898.3091
Received on Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:14:01 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:14:01 -0500
I have really enjoyed the poetry thread. I'd like to recommend a novel in verse, the realm of possibility by David Levithan. (Random House/Knopf, 2004) This is an interwoven high school story, told by different people and in different voices and styles. As poetry, the quality of the individual poems and the number of styles used is remarkable. The stories and relationships are very true to life and capture the world of high school. These are characters that you know and like, even though each poem or series of poems is very brief. My adult book group read it, and we had a great time charting out the relationships between and among the characters. It's a book that I wanted not just to read, but to re-read, not just to borrow but to own.
I would recommend the anthology what have you lost? selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. (HarperCollins, 1999, pbk. 2001) You may want to read only a few poems at a time - there are many kinds of loss, and all of them are found here, in some truly remarkable poems.
Amy
Amy Healey, M.S.L.S. Teacher/Librarian New Holstein High School 1715 Plymouth Street New Holstein, WI 53061 ahealey at nhsd.k12.wi.us 920.898.3091
Received on Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:14:01 PM CDT
