Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey

By: Nancy Willard

Book Overview

A collection of poems celebrating the ordinary in an unordinary way, by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Theodore Roethke, and D. H. Lawrence This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152020527
• ISBN13: 9780152020521
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A sampling of poets

This is a collection of 56 poems by various poets. As indicated by Nancy Willard, the collection started in a shoebox, and it contains poems that are rhymed and unrhymed, traditional and experimental. The collection starts and ends with poems by Emily Dickinson. The longest is "The Witch of Coös" by Robert Frost which is 6 pages long. The shortest is "The White Horse" by D. H. Lawrence which is three lines. Some are well known, e.g., "The Tyger" by William Blake ("Tyger! Tyger! burning bright..."), while others were obscure before inclusion in the collection. The total collection is 88 pages. There is a short "Notes on the Poets" at the end of the volume.