Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems
CCBC Review:
“I like to think of poems as word paintings. A poet uses words like colors to paint pictures inside your head. In concrete poems, or shape poems, the words also paint pictures on the page.” A concise definition of concrete poetry introduces a collection of 21 elegantly simple, clever concrete poems. Even the poem’s single-word titles are playfully apt in their arrangement of individual letters, while the poems themselves offer further visual delight in describing the concept or object of the title. If the first 20 poems don’t also inspire young readers to try writing poems of their own, the final poem, “PoeTRY,” is a direct invitation, and appears on the page as an inverted pyramid: “poetry is about taking away the words you don’t need / poetry is taking way words you don’t need / poetry is words you need / poetry is words / try.” ©2016 Cooperative Children's Book Center
CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 8 and older
Age Range:
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Grades 6-8 (Ages 11-13)
Grades 9-12 (Age 14 and older)
Format:
Poetry
Subjects:
Wordplay
Writers and Writing
Publisher:
Roaring Brook
Publish Year: 2016
Pages: 43
ISBN: 9781626722361
CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 811 Raczka