Recently I found out that the month of April is National Poetry Month. I had no idea.
Thanks to a Harper Collins Children's Publicist I was award the opportunity to review a few books!
So far, I have written about Fancy Nancy: Poet Extraordinaire, by Jane O'Connor, and The Wonder Book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
Today I have Time You Let Me In (25 Poets under 25) Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye
Reviewing a book of poems is like telling a mother about their child. Poems are written from the soul. I do not feel that you can review someone's poem. Everyone is coming from a different place. There are poems that resinate more with me than others but all of them are written from the soul of the writer and I wouldn't feel right actually disecting or interrupting someone's words, feelings or experiences.
What I Can Tell You: Is that the book is chock full of authors under 25. The last pages of the book gives a brief bio of each contributor. I loved reading the poems of each and then heading to their photo and bio to see if they had a website. Some of them do.
Each contributor has a page with their name and then a collection of 4 pieces.
I do have a few favorites such as Tala Abu Rahmeh, a Palestinian poet and writer who hopes to own her own art gallery by the time she is 27.
"I walk away into a world of concrete wilderness,
but even the matallic rectangles of barbed wire know a mama,
like mine, lived in all different directions."
Or Amal Khan
"A Song has murdered the moon
It hangs over my street tonight
With a texture like sponge."
To purchase this book You Let Me In Go here
Thanks to Harper Collins Children for the opportunity to read this book.
I love poetry. Enough so I write it often.
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I had no idea April was poetry month. Like they say, You learn something new everyday.
ReplyDeleteIt has been awhile since I put my feet up and just browsed through some blogs and just relaxed. This is nice. For instance, without you, I would not know that it will be poetry month in April. Thanks.
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