Alphabetricks - Couverture souple

Lydecker Crane, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0615837719 ISBN 13 : 9780615837710

Editeur : Daffydowndilly Press, 2013

Synopsis

In this original collection of poems for both children and adults, Barbara Lydecker Crane shapes each poem into a letter as well as a playful typographic picture of what the poem is about. On these pages the alphabet comes alive with humor and whimsy. “NO ONE ever writes from the bottom of a page to the top and then goes on a slant down…” begins the entry for “N” in this delightful collection— no one but Barb Crane, whose verses swing over the bars and slide down the curves of the letters like a tribe of madcap clowns and acrobats with high-wire wit.
–TOM DALEY
This funny, zany, visual approach to the alphabet will delight both adults and children of every age, and incidentally also introduce all the ingenious and timeless tricks of the poet's trade: rhyme, alliteration, dancing rhythm, fresh imagery and much more. What a treat for eye and ear!
–RHINA P. ESPAILLAT
Barbara Crane's Alphabetricks is a winning magician's-hatful of ingenious tricks with words–a book that grabs and surprises and delights. Kids will find both fun and instruction (school was never like this!) and big people reading along with them will be regaled.
–X.J. KENNEDY

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Lydecker Crane has been creatively amusing herself all her life. Growing up in Short Hills, N.J., she was equally drawn to writing and artmaking. Pursuing the latter, she majored in it at Skidmore College, worked as a graphic designer, and then for twenty years as a professional fabric artist, creating one-of-a-kind landscape quilts. Many of her quilts are now in corporate, museum and private collections.
In 2005 Barb’s fascination with wordcraft was rekindled by an evening poetry class. She now delights in writing poems in both humorous and serious veins, usually for adults and sometimes for children.
Barb founded “The Light Brigade,” a small troupe of light verse poets that has appeared at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and other venues since 2007. At the Concord Poetry Center she facilitates guest readings and open mikes. She is a also a member of the Powow River Poets in Newburyport, MA and a small work-shop group, Quartette.
Barb’s poems have been widely published in journals, magazines and anthologies. In 2011 she won the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest. In 2012 White Violet Press published her collection of humorous verse, Zero Gravitas. She lives in Somerville, MA with her husband; they have two grown daughters and two young granddaughters, who already love books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Daffydowndilly Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0615837719
• ISBN 13: 9780615837710
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 36
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg