A Kick in the Head

Name: A Kick in the Head
Brand: Candlewick
SKU: 9780763641320-CWUSDTR
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An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms

Chris Raschka (Illustrator) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age 8 - 12

64 pages • 9.88 x 9.88 x 0.29 in

Approx. weight: 0.78 lb

Publication date: 10 Mar,2009

Barcode: 9780763641320 • Candlewick

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By: | Illustrator: Chris Raschka

"Readers will have the good fortune to experience poetry as art, game, joke, list, song, story, statement, question, memory. A primer like no other." — School Library Journal (starred review)

In this splendid and playful volume — second of a trilogy — an acclaimed creative team presents examples of twenty-nine poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes bendable) rules of poetry, but also the spirit that brings these forms to life. Featuring poems 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.
Back matter includes notes on poetic forms.