Reading and writing poetry as a class assignment can be a rewarding experience--especially when it's approached in a spirit of fun. This book explains how poets use words imaginatively in rhymed and metered verse as well as free verse. Poems can be humorous or serious, long or very short, joyful or sad--and this instructive, yet fun-to-read book points the way toward composing and reading poems of all kinds. It's filled with examples from Homer through today. All titles in Barron's Painless Series are written especially for classroom use for middle-school students.
I am an inventor who works mainly in words, but also in sound and images.
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Always trying to bring something new and unique to my work, I have made many different things, including 11 books, the libretto for the opera "Kiravanu" (music by James Humberstone) that premiered in Sydney in September, 2008; a setting of an excerpted version of W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio" for choir, soloists, brass quintet, and harp; the nearly 1700 international worksheets for the Sibelius Notation Software Worksheet Creator, based on the music curricula of the US, UK, AU, NZ, and Canada; and a collage interpretations of portions of Gabriela Mistral's "Decalogo del artista."
