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Poetry for Your Pleasure
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
Reviewed by Greg
Langley, Books Editor, The Advocate Daily Newspaper, Baton
Rouge, LA
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."
Reviewed by 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.
Reviewed by
David Taub,
columnist, Poetry Now
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.
Reviewed by 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.
Reviewed by
D.H. Eaton, author
The Osceola Community Club, Cumberland House
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'.
Reviewed by Steve
Kowit, author of In the Palm of Your Hand
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.
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