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From: Merri Lindgren <mlindgren_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:59:01 -0500
Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on Crossing Stones and especially to Helen Frost for responding to questions and giving us a glimpse into her work as a writer and poet.
Today we turn to the second featured book in our month of discussing poetry: What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin, 2013). There is much that I love about this volume, from its tall and narrow size that invites readers in, to the arrangement of the poems into sections with names that are a pleasure to say aloud ("Spells & Invocations" or "Laments & Remembrances"). When I've shared this book in presentations, I often read aloud
"Invitation to Lost Things" and inevitably I see smiles and hear the listeners' rueful acknowledgement of the everyday reality of these words, beginning with:
Come out, come out from your hidden places, hair clips, homework, phones.
What do you appreciate about What the Heart Knows? Did you find elements of your life exposed on its pages?
Merri
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:59:01 -0500
Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on Crossing Stones and especially to Helen Frost for responding to questions and giving us a glimpse into her work as a writer and poet.
Today we turn to the second featured book in our month of discussing poetry: What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin, 2013). There is much that I love about this volume, from its tall and narrow size that invites readers in, to the arrangement of the poems into sections with names that are a pleasure to say aloud ("Spells & Invocations" or "Laments & Remembrances"). When I've shared this book in presentations, I often read aloud
"Invitation to Lost Things" and inevitably I see smiles and hear the listeners' rueful acknowledgement of the everyday reality of these words, beginning with:
Come out, come out from your hidden places, hair clips, homework, phones.
What do you appreciate about What the Heart Knows? Did you find elements of your life exposed on its pages?
Merri
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Merri Lindgren, Librarian
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
School of Education / UW-Madison
4290 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-3930
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