Showing posts with label jane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jane. Show all posts
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Look Jane look! Look at my book!
Look Jane look! Look at my book!
I have written a caption picture book (no illustrations) and was curious if I should use the word "caption" in my queries to identify it as such. Also, should I mention the word length (under 500 words)?As the term "caption book" is more common among educators than other people, I would only recommend using it only if you are submitting to an educational publisher. Otherwise, call it a leveled reader or a beginning reader.
There are very specific guidelines for vocabulary, line length, sentence length, etc. in leveled readers, so I hope you know what youre doing. Im sure beginning readers of every kind look very easy to people unfamiliar with them, but creating an honestly entertaining text for children who are still sounding out words is HARD. Current favorite: The Cat On the Mat Is Flat
Yes, do include the word count.
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
Lying Jane Hirshfield
Lying Jane Hirshfield
(Poem #1833) Lying He puts his brush to the canvas, with one quick stroke unfolds a bird from the sky. Steps back, considers. Takes pity. Unfolds another. |
(November 1994) Hirshfield's another new-to-me poet - I stumbled across this little gem while randomly surfing poetry sites and was instantly captivated. There is a wonderful balance between the static and the dynamic - the explicit description of painting leads me almost subconsciously to visualise the poem itself as a painting, beautiful and self-contained, and then a metaphorical step backwards reveals a temporal, almost balletic aspect that paradoxically enhances rather than shattering the impression of containedness. I was reminded strongly of Basho's famous haiku old pond..... a frog leaps in water's sound (Poem #23, and see also Poem #1455 and http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm) - there is the same impression of a sequence of events captured within a bounded whole, though Hirshfield's penultimate "Takes pity" adds a human element that takes it beyond the isolated beauty of the haiku. martin [Links] Biography: American Poet, 1953- http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/563 [broken link] http://www.sunyulster.edu/people/Hirshfield.asp Interesting articles: [broken link] http://www.poems.com/hirinter.htm http://www.salon.com/weekly/hirshfield.html
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