Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School

Book Overview

Learning by Heart brings together a unique and diverse collection of poems about the experience of school as seen through the eyes of America's best contemporary poets. These poets capture the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877456631
• ISBN13: 9780877456636
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

School.

School continues to be one of the most traumatizing/wonderful experiences of my life. This book talks about school from all angles .. highly recommended.

A must-read for everyone who's ever been to school

This collection includes some of the best poems of our time--all related to school. The pain and poignancy of school-age experiences in the classroom, on the playground, or on the athletic field, are captured in this volume with the resonance of shared life. The names of teachers--Mrs. Krikorian, Mrs. Smythe, and the rest--bring back our own teachers' faces and even their "sausage arms." Teachers themselves speak here as well, with humor, sadness, or a sense of loss about the classrooms of children they have known. This volume, with work by our best contemporary poets, is a must-read for anyone who teaches or learns or who has ever been in school.