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By: Kirsty,
on 11/14/2007
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By Kirsty OUP-UK
Today I’m bringing you an excerpt from our book The Art of Punctuation by Noah Lukeman. Here Lukeman talks about how a feast or famine of quotation marks can say a lot about the kind of writer (and even the kind of person you are). Who knew that a writer’s use of quotations marks could be so revealing?
In many cases a publishing professional need only flip through a manuscript to get an immediate idea of its worth: quotation marks tell the story. (more…)
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by Valerie Worth
pictures by Steve Jenkins
FSG 2007
Nearly two dozen poems about animals in this lovely collection that showcase the poet's sharp eye for the telling detail and the beauty of poetic brevity. It's so nice to pick up a book of poetry for young readers that doesn't condescend to the notion that young readers need poems that rhyme.
Snail
Only compare
Our kitchens
And bedrooms,
Our lamps and
Rugs and chairs,
To the bare
Stone spiral
Of his one
Unlighted
Stairwell
Sparse, evocative, and concrete enough for even younger readers to understand the power of good poetry. In these posthumously published poems Worth isn't afraid to make the experience personal, in this case concerning Cockroaches:
One that I can't
In the least abide
Is the cockroach: not
So much that it
Scuttles
And Bristles, and glues
Its slippery eggs in
The cracks of books, but
That it looks so clever:
As though it knows
My particular horror...
Jenkin's illustrations, in his usual torn and cut paper collages, seem almost sterile alongside the text. Not to take away from the artistry of what he does, but the mere portraits of the featured animals convey none of their spirit or expressive characteristics. It's a beautiful book, but sad when the words have to carry all the weight.
Ooh oooh! We're big Steve Jenkins fans in this home. Thanks. I'm going to look for this . . .
(obviously, I can get to your site now)...