Crossover
I am reading The Crossover for my verse book. This book is so interesting, I have never read a verse book before. It was a much easier read because it reads so quickly. The short lines and quick sentences are fun to read. Surprisingly you can get a lot of thought and emotion through writing like this, this was the most interesting part about the book to me. The way this book is written, not just in verse but also the style the author used was great. There were so many basketball terms, or just slang that I had never heard before. To help the readers understand, the author would put the word at the top of the page and define it as well as give examples of what it means. I would use this book in my class for older students. It is a great example of how its not boring to write poetry.
Cento:
Each evening we want for the first light of the last fireflies, catch them in jars.
I am so scared. My heart is beating like crazy and I am having trouble breathing.
I knew one day I’d need my own wings to fly.
One Reply to “Crossover”
It sounds like your verse book was layer out similarly to Love That Dog, which sounds enjoyable. I like the easy reading of things like that, but at the same time, poetry is so deep with just few amounts of words. From your description of the book, and from how people in class described it, it sounds super unique and definitely something I might look into to read in the future. It also sounds extremely different from my verse book, and I wish I would have chose something like that.
I like in your Cento that this first and last lines of it kind of mesh together since it is talking about fireflies and then about wings.