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From: Emily Townsend <etownsend_at_wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:17:30 -0500
I agree with completely with Megan and Merri. There is so much to appreciate in this book. For me, *What the Heart Knows* is also an active read with some welcome dichotomies. The chants and charms and lamentations and blessings are both performative and introspective, public and private, full of movement and stillness. I found I wanted to speak some of the poems, powerfully aloud while others urged me introspectively whisper them. Also, I imagined some of the poems to be very private experiences while others begged to be shared with others. The poems remind us of shared experiences and our own individuality. They are poems that call to be spoken to and with others, and to be savored alone. *What the Heart Knows*, to me, interestingly and successfully embraces the public and the private and the personal spheres and activities in one volume.
Emily Townsend, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706
608-890-0258 etownsend_at_wisc.edu
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Received on Wed 23 Apr 2014 10:19:59 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:17:30 -0500
I agree with completely with Megan and Merri. There is so much to appreciate in this book. For me, *What the Heart Knows* is also an active read with some welcome dichotomies. The chants and charms and lamentations and blessings are both performative and introspective, public and private, full of movement and stillness. I found I wanted to speak some of the poems, powerfully aloud while others urged me introspectively whisper them. Also, I imagined some of the poems to be very private experiences while others begged to be shared with others. The poems remind us of shared experiences and our own individuality. They are poems that call to be spoken to and with others, and to be savored alone. *What the Heart Knows*, to me, interestingly and successfully embraces the public and the private and the personal spheres and activities in one volume.
Emily Townsend, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706
608-890-0258 etownsend_at_wisc.edu
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