Review by Booklist Review
Few guides that offer teachers ways to get their pupils to write poetry are available--and none is as thorough as Carey's. His is a tried-and-true, daily lesson plan that covers a basic two-week course. Aimed at teachers of beginners, from the elementary level to perhaps high school, the text stresses the foundations--the sounds of words, line breaks, comparisons, concrete imagery, etc.--and suggests that formal techniques, such as rhyme and meter, be held off until students are more advanced. (The author does cover such techniques late in the book.) Numerous exercises are suggested, while student examples and occasionally a famous poem illustrate a specific point. A somewhat specialized but nonetheless well-written choice for the public library. --Jim Elledge
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