{"product_id":"a-kick-in-the-head-an-everyday-guide-to-poetic-forms-9780763641320","title":"A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Readers will have the good fortune to experience poetry as art, game, joke, list, song, story, statement, question, memory. A primer like no other.\" -- \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn this splendid and playful volume -- second of a trilogy -- an acclaimed creative team presents examples of twenty-nine poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes bendable) rules of poetry, but also the spirit that brings these forms to life. Featuring poems from the likes of Eleanor Farjeon (aubade), X. J. Kennedy (elegy), Ogden Nash (couplet), Liz Rosenberg (pantoum), and William Shakespeare, the sonnet king himself, \u003ci\u003eA Kick in the Head\u003c\/i\u003e perfectly illustrates Robert Frost's maxim that poetry without rules is like a tennis match without a net.\u003cbr\u003eBack matter includes notes on poetic forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul B. Janeczko\u003c\/b\u003e (1945-2019) was a poet and teacher who edited numerous award-winning poetry anthologies for young people, including \u003ci\u003eA Poke in the I, A Kick in the Head, A Foot in the Mouth, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Death of the Hat, \u003c\/i\u003e all of which were illustrated by Chris Raschka; \u003ci\u003eFirefly July, \u003c\/i\u003eillustrated by Melissa Sweet; and \u003ci\u003eThe Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e illustrated by Richard Jones. He also wrote \u003ci\u003eWorlds Afire; Requiem: Poems of the Terezín Ghetto; Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing; Double Cross: Deception Techniques in War; The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles, \u003c\/i\u003e a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults; and \u003ci\u003eSecret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Raschka\u003c\/b\u003e is the illustrator of more than twenty highly praised books for children, including \u003ci\u003eYo! Yes?\u003c\/i\u003e, a Caldecott Honor Book; \u003ci\u003eCharlie Parker Played Be Bop\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eI Pledge Allegiance\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Child's Christmas In Wales\u003c\/i\u003e; and, of course, \u003ci\u003e A Poke In The I\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBest Illustrated Book.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50566227886354,"sku":"9780763641320","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f272bfa-bbb9-4f5a-ab31-f9ba8d8630ca.jpg?v=1731892745","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-kick-in-the-head-an-everyday-guide-to-poetic-forms-9780763641320","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}