( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 29 2008
I love this book, and it's a must if you are getting Wishes, Lies & Dreams. I wish that he had more poetry for younger children, with tips on how to help them understand it.
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Posted: Sep 27 2007
A follow-up to the author's equally wonderful "Wishes, Lies, and Dreams," this superb volume is one of the best sources for teaching poetry that I've ever read. How many of us found that school crushed any budding love of poetry we had, rather than nurturing it? Well, Kenneth Koch will bring that crushed bud back into full, glorious blossom! He has a rare gift -- he removes the barriers to poetry, the ones that say it's too deep, too different, too complex, for the likes of ordinary people; yet he never removes its mystery, its wonder, its beauty. If anything, he makes it available & familiar to all in a way that only enhances its rapturous qualities. He makes us realize that a poem is as obvious & rich, as subtle & tangible, as a flower. The poem is there for anyone, for everyone, to savor & enjoy. Most highly recommended!
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Posted: Sep 13 2007
. This is one of my favorite books: "I like to write about poems. I like poems. Some girls are like poems." -Eric Filisbret, 3rd or 4th grade "Dog where do you get that bark? Dragon where do you get that flame? Kitten where do you get that meow? Rose where do you get that red? Bird, where do you get those wings?" -Desiree Lynn Collier, 3rd or 4th grade "Come with me and I'll show you my heart. I know where it is and I know all about it... Come with me, I'll take you to a world, not a world that you know. Not a world that I know. But a world that nobody knows, not you or me... " It's ironic, the good kind, for me to learn so much from a book about ok, teaching children about poetry.
