A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry Food & drink Marcie Gill hasn't had a

Marcie Gill hasn't had a great start to the Christmas holidays

and as Valkyrie is sucked into a desperate

people pack onto the big tourist boat

Create a tsunami in your bathtub (pg

creeps out from the shadows to climb up the tree

A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry Food & drink Marcie Gill hasn't had aA Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how poetry can function in his or her life, while also introducing the art in an exciting new way. Using such poems as Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" and Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," the Primer encourages young writers to approach their "thresholds" those places where disorder meets order, where shaping imagination can turn language into