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The Arrow Finds Its Mark: A Book of Found Poems [Hardcover]

Georgia Heard , Antoine Guillope

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March 27, 2012 8 and up
Twitter feeds, school notes, advertisements, street signs--find poetry in the unlikely places with thirty comtemporary poets.
 
Imagine picking up a scrap of paper off the floor or reading a sign at a gas station or looking at graffiti on the subway and finding poetry in these words. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poems take existing text, reorder and refashion it, and present it as a poem. Youthful, urban, and ironic, this energetic and surprising poetic form demonstrates the beauty of everyday words and will inspire young poets to find their own poetry.
 
Find your own poems with Georgia Heard's The Arrow Finds Its Mark as your guide.

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Found poems are sets of words written as prose for applications such as signs, ads, books, lists, letters, text messages, and tweets. “Found” by poets, the selections are minimally crafted (or left unchanged) and presented as poetry. This short, illustrated anthology opens with a useful introduction to the concept, the particular poems collected there, and the guidelines used in creating them. Varied and often vivid, the verse ranges from “How to Write a Poem on Your Computer,” mined from drop-down menus by Bob Raczka, to Juanita Havill’s “Hummingbird,” found in a gardening catalog. In “Marilynn’s Montessori Memo,” George Ella Lyon shares an oddly moving teacher’s note about a plastic model of the human body, while J. Patrick Lewis offers the entertaining “Nicknames in the NBA,” found in a basketball encyclopedia. As editor Heard notes, readers will find poetry everywhere if they “look at the world with poet’s eyes.” Illustrated with black-and-white drawings, this intriguing little book offers an appealingly down-to-earth entryway into poetry. Grades 3-6. --Carolyn Phelan

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"...will have readers seeing inspiration all around them..."-Publishers Weekly
 
“Aimed at young readers, with an eye to helping them learn to write their own found poems, the collection will be a handy guide to an accessible form.” -Kirkus
 
“…this intriguing little book offers an appealingly down-to-earth entryway into poetry.”--Booklist

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