Poetry
Subtitle: big thoughts in small packages
By: Lucy Calkins, Stephanie Parsons, and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater ; photography by Peter Cunningham
Contributors: Parsons, Stephanie, author; VanDerwater, Amy Ludwig, author
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780325047317
Subjects: Authorship; Poetry; Study and teaching (Elementary)
Table of contents: title: Seeing with poets' eyes; title: Listening for line breaks; title: Putting powerful thoughts in tiny packages; title: Poets make sure their poems grow from the strong feelings and concrete details of life; title: Editing poetry; title: Searching for honest, precise words: language matters; title: Patterning through repetition; title: Poems are moody; title: Using comparisons (metaphors) to clarify feelings and ideas; title: Stretching out a comparison; title: Revising stories into poems by bringing out the image and music; title: Studying structure; title: With poets' eyes, study a mentor text, ascertaining how it was made; title: Matching structures to feelings; title: Playing with point-of view; title: Revising poems: replacing feeling words with word pictures; title: Editing poems: reading aloud to find trouble spots; title: Presenting poems to the world: an author's celebration.