A Poke in the I

By paul-b-janeczko

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439425298
• ISBN13: 9780439425292
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My daughter loved this

We borrowed this book from the library, and now I am purchasing it online. I found it interesting, but my daughter who is 8 is really captivated by it. I think it will help open the doors to the world of poetry for her.

Hold onto your imagination...it may just run away from you!

Concrete poems force you to dance, shimmy, and shake when read. These are not poems that tiptoe around a subject. They stomp! They laugh out loud...and this laughter is contagious! I find myself going back to the book time and time again...just one more peek, I tell myself for the 37th time. This collection of poems is a language lover's dream! It is a juggler throwing words up in the air just to see how they come down...

Buyers should beware of reader criticisms

Readers who state that concrete poetry is too advanced for children are unaware of how stilted that thinking is. If the children were writing the criticisms, you would surely get a different view. Poetry does not exist to be "gotten" (or understood) by it's readers, or pigeon-holed into one interpretation. Do not underestimate the capacity of a child to comprehend a poet's message. This book is a wonderful opportunity for...

playing with poetry and form!

Concrete poems are different from other poems, as the editor Mr. Janeczko notes at the beginning of "A Poke in the I". In many cases, the poems type font or the way it is laid out on the page determines the poem. Many of the poems take a specific shape in the way they're laid out on the page. For example, a beautiful poem called "Eskimo Pie" is in the shape of that frozen desert, with the words themselves forming the arched...

Stimulating and entertaining!

This poetry collection is tons of fun to read and a visual treat! The poems come alive with creative illustrations throughout the book. For example, in "Anyone Tennis?" the poem is arranged in 2 spread out pages so you read from the left page and bounce to the right one and then back to the left and so on---the way your eyes follow the ball in the tennis court! In "Merging Traffic" the letters merge into one lane---taking...