How to Eat a Poem

Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth century through today, this anthology invites young readers to sample a taste of irresistible poems that will nourish their minds and spirits. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, seventy charming poems cover a wide range of subjects: poetry, books, words, and imagination; the beauty of the natural world; travel, adventure, sports, and play; love, friendship, sadness, hope, and other emotions. Included are:"e;Prickled Pickles Don't Smile,"e; Nikki Giovanni"e;W. D., Don't Fear that Animal,"e; W. D. Snodgrass"e;A Jelly-Fish,"e; Marianne Moore"e;The Porcupine,"e; Ogden Nash"e;Annabel Lee,"e; Edgar Allan Poe"e;The Falling Star,"e; Sara Teasdale"e;Sick,"e; Shel Silverstein"e;Casey at the Bat,"e; Ernest Lawrence Thayer"e;With Kitty, Age Seven, At the Beach,"e; William Stafford"e;Hope is the Thing with Feathers,"e; Emily Dickinson. . . . and sixty other notable works.Chosen by the American Poetry & Literacy Project and the Academy of American Poets, two of the nation's most respected nonprofit poetry organizations, these much-loved and highly readable poems promise young readers and poetry lovers of all ages hours of reading pleasure.