It would be good for them to know that Kurt Cobain was not the first sensitive soul to turn his imagination to such subjects. Backstreet Boys material they ain't. While the great outdoors is often celebrated in poems for children, less attention is paid to nature's destructive capacity. Kurtz lost her home in Grand Forks, N.D., when the Red River broke through a dike and swallowed her neighborhood in April 1997. The poems she wrote in the weeks just after the flood form a moving chronological narrative of loss and recovery.
Every story is sad.
Smith, acclaimed for his poetry for adults as well as verse for youngsters, is clearly out to amuse in these 29 pieces. Erik Blegvad's illustrations are similarly witty and always appropriate. But increased the dimensions of Simpson. I touched the roughness of my wrinkled paper as I rumpled it in my hands. Since 1974, Nye has taught writing workshops in schools across the country.