Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize
Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize, ed. by Patrice Vecchione, offers up more than 50 poems for kids to commit to memory, from Gwendolyn Brooks's opening call to action, "Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward" to e.e. cummings's alliterative "maggie and milly and molly and may" to Langston Hughes and Shakespeare. The volume concludes with brief biographies and a suggested reading list for each poet.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.