Book Descriptions
for In Your Own Words by Sylvia Cassedy
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
After suggesting ways to "take notice" and commenting on using the five senses, the author suggests methods for writing in different forms: myths, tall tales, ghost stories, science fiction, editorials, school reports and poetry. A helpful revision of a substantial guide to writing prose and poetry was created by a writer who taught creative writing to children for 14 years and whose highly acclaimed published works demonstrate that she knows about her subject firsthand. Cassedy wrote LUCIE BABBIDGE'S HOUSE (Crowell, 1989), BEHIND THE ATTIC WALL (Crowell, 1983), M.E. AND MORTON (Crowell, 1987) and a collection of original poetry ROOMRIMES (Crowell, 1989). (Age 9 and older)
CCBC Choices 1990 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1990. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Adam Fell is a break-the-mold original, poet of the strip mall and the lakeshore, bard of Pabst and gas stations and gutted cigarette machines. His brave and quirky poems hum and crackle off the pa≥ they wrangle with the violence in contemporary American society without wavering. They leap and leap without falling, and their incantatory grace is poignant, funny, terrifying, and profound. Erika Meitner “I am the mash'd fireman with breast-bone broken,” wrote Walt Whitman from amid the unsolved arson case of the nineteenth century. Now, from under the charred rubble of a new millennium, Adam Fell calls out to search parties and marauding zombies alike: “I am not a pioneer.” Uncovering a negative poetics of identity – “not” is the operative word throughout this humble and humbling work – Fell alerts us to the fragility of inwardness itself. Through the smoldering embers of ruin, however, we glimpse new forms of ardor. Srikanth Reddy Adam Fell’s I Am Not a Pioneer whispers right up against you and riots in your ear, “Even killing machines have to lick their cubs clean./Even men have to be emptied of their stadiums.” This is the one book of poems you actually need in your backpack. Heartfelt— and breaking—it’s the blueprint for what happens next and forever: bomb shelter, survival manual, a way to stay attached to the people you love. Matt Hart
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