From: Lbhcove_at_aol.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:26:09 -0400 (EDT)

Sadly, I feel the genre hit hardest with out of print titles has been poetry.

Except for a few scattered titles, one cannot find works by David McCord,

Aileen Fisher, Eve Merriam, Myra Cohn Livingston, Lilian Moore - all NCTE

Poetry Award Winners - as well as other brilliant poets' words in print.

It is a sad commentary not to have a book like McCord's ONE AT A TIME, over 400 pages of classic poetry, Livingston's A SONG I SANG TO YOU, a rare book of her selected poems.

And gone are breakthrough books by Janet Wong such as GOOD LUCK GOLD AND

OTHER POEMS bringing us a look at the experiences of a multicultural Asian-American growing up in California.

No one has mentioned poetry thus far in this discussion. Has it become a

stepchild of literature again? Or must light verse be the only thing left to give our children? Can we not bring beauty back into children's lives

with real poetry? Poetry with a capital P?

Lee Bennett Hopkins

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Received on Sat 21 Jul 2012 01:26:09 PM CDT