With poetry
becoming increasingly popular, this
collection by an award-winning poet offers
poems in many formats. This book is perfect
for sharing poetry with a significant other,
friends, or family. Students in English and
Language Arts classes from the middle school
level on up will find an entire chapter of
sonnets, poems that rhyme and have meter.
Poems in free verse are also included.
Author's Notes
in the book will assist students and will
add pleasure for the casual reader as well.
Poems that relate to the outdoors, to the
family, to love or loss, and to Southern
themes make up a collection that is being
praised by editors and other poets like Ann
Stanford prize winner Ruth Daigon who says
in her introduction, "Kay Day's poems
explore the full range of human
experience--the joys and sorrows, human
frailties and failures, with universal
courage."
A Poetry
Break makes a perfect gift or an
excellent addition to any reader's shelf.
The bonus with poetry comes from its long
shelf life; this is a book you'll read again
and again.
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REVIEWS
Poet
Kay Day also employs iambic pentameter, and she even
writes in the sonnet form. Day has a good sense of
humor as well as a poet's way of painting with words.
...Day turns her attention to such diverse subjects as a
cat jousting with mockingbirds in a suburban yard,
reading lessons, the cost of poverty, jelly making, Mary
Magdalen, the book Fahrenheit 451, a porch swing, Sunday
School lessons and much more. She's not afraid to
tackle any subject and not above taking a jab at
herself, as in "Practicing Poetics."
Florida Monthly/February, 2004
Composing the Italian sonnet form masterfully, Day's
poetry is a pleasant read. Refreshingly fresh and
smoothly written, Day has found her place in the
literary circle.
Greg Langley,
Books Editor, The Advocate Daily Newspaper, Baton Rouge,
LA
In this
collection of poems, Kay Day demonstrates her
versatility as a poet–from free verse to classical-style
sonnets. It is refreshing to find her writing to be
accessible on many levels, whilst not sacrificing
standards in prosody and style.
David
Cazden, editor, Miller's Pond (print edition)
Located
firmly in the observed and felt world, Kay Day’s poetry
is a delight to read. Written in a mature, compassionate
voice, each poem is both measured and effortless, with a
remarkable ability to deepen the reader’s heart. Highly
recommended.
David Taub, columnist, Poetry Now
Kay
Day's poems address a wide range of human experience -
from a child's first stumbling prayers to a mysterious
Deity who is still a mystery when that child is forty,
to teenage insecurities, to marriage and its
complexities, even wrapping up the collection with
'After Probate', having covered the gamut. Kay Day's
poems examine our lives and our innermost reactions to
them. That the final poem in the collection ends with
the word 'prayers' is appropriate, for Kay Day's poetic
offerings literally are 'prayers'.
D.H.
Eaton, author of The Osceola Community Club,
Cumberland House
Lots
of fine poems. I liked a great many—the sonnets at the
book's start, like "The Reading Lesson," and the other
poems afterwards, all of them well made, well crafted.
"Dear G.", which was I believe the first I read and that
remains on a second and third reading particularly
fine...."Genealogy" and " At Fifteen,"...just a few that
struck me. Day tells her stories well, vividly, always
coherently—and there is a lovely sanity and
goodheartedness that emerges in poem after poem.
Steve Kowit, author of In the Palm of Your Hand
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