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A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
Contributor(s): Janeczko, Paul B. (Compiled by), Raschka, Chris (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0763606626     ISBN-13: 9780763606626
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
OUR PRICE:   $15.29  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2005
* Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Acclaimed poetry anthologist Janeczko and Caldecott Honor illustrator Raschka present lively examples of 29 poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes bendable) rules of poetry, but also the spirit that brings these forms so wonderfully to life.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry - General
Dewey: 811.008
LCCN: 2004048508
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 10.06" W x 9.98" (1.25 lbs) 64 pages
Themes:
- Catalog Heading - Poetry
- Curriculum Strand - Language Arts
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 86581
Reading Level: 6.0   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 1.0
 
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Publisher Description:
From the simplest couplet to the mind-boggling pantoum, the award-winning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.
Please
Open this book for something
Extraordinary.
Twenty-nine different poetic forms await you
Inside these pages. How many
Can you master?
From sonnets to double dactyls,
Odes to limericks--
Raschka and Janeczko (and a frisky mule)
Make learning the rules of poetry
So much fun
In this splendid and playful volume, acclaimed poetry anthologist Paul B. Janeczko and Caldecott Honor illustrator Chris Raschka present lively examples of twenty-nine poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes bendable) rules of poetry, but also the spirit that brings these forms so wonderfully to life. Featuring formal poems, some familiar and some never before published, from the likes of Eleanor Farjeon (aubade), X. J. Kennedy (elegy), Ogden Nash (couplet), Liz Rosenberg (pantoum), and William Shakespeare, the sonnet king himself, A KICK IN THE HEAD perfectly illustrates Robert Frost's maxim that poetry without rules is like a tennis match without a net.