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Gr 3-8 This posthumously published collection of 23 poems is masterfully illustrated with colorful cut-paper collages. Worth's artistry lies in painting nuanced word pictures in a few spare lines of free verse. Her poems are often exquisite, always thoughtful, and apt to leave readers with an entirely new perspective. In "Bear," she focuses on the creature's cagy fierceness: "The bear's fur/Is gentle but/His eye is not: /It burns our/Way, while/He walks right/And left, back/And forth, before/Us]." "Jellyfish" crafts an aura of elegant mystery:...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Although young readers are likely to know all twenty-three animals showcased in this posthumous collection of newly published poems, they will greet each animal freshly through the inventiveness of Worth's free verse. The words she chooses do not, in themselves, astonish; rather, it is her remarkable ability to use common language uncommonly, and musically, rich with sound sameness and repetition. She startles us with the truth of her ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This posthumous collection features twenty-three animal poems in free verse. Worth uses common language uncommonly, rich with soun...Log In or Sign Up to Read More