Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey
A Poetry, Young Adult book. I never got a fair introduction to poetry when I was in school....
The poems in this collection come from Nancy Willard's cardboard boxes--she's collected them to accompany her on her journey through life, and she hopes young people will take them along on their own adventures. Works by well-known poets--Elizabeth Bishop, e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens--are gathered here, along with verse from lesser known writers from other countries and other times. All of the poems in Step Lightly share a common readability, and the spark of joy that...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 112 pages
- ISBN: 9780152020521 / 152020527
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I never got a fair introduction to poetry when I was in school. But I learned this is because you have to run into exactly the right poem at almost exactly the right time, which means the only way to get poems right in school is to be constantly setting some out. When someone whose poems you love shows you the ones she's collected for... Nice collection, but I was hoping for more poems that I hadn't read before.
