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Rip out and read

by Roger Sutton
Jan 24, 2011 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
Amulet/Abrams' Laura Mihalick gave me a neat book at Midwinter: Poem in Your Pocket for Young Poets: 100 Poems to Rip Out & Read, compiled by Bruno Navasky, and due out this March. While the book has a sturdy hardcover, its apparent aim is to gradually self-destruct, as the poems within are printed on a scratchpad glued along the top, each page/poem easily removed to "carry with you all day to read, be inspired by, share with others — or keep to yourself." The selections are mainly twentieth century American and free verse; for today, I almost went with Steve Crow's "Revival" ("...one wonders / if snow is a wing's / long memory across winter") but settled upon, and ripped out to put in my pocket, Naomi Shihab Nye's "Dog":

[...]
If there were people who loved him,
he remembers them equally,
the one who smelled like smoke,
the one who brought bones from the restaurant.
It is the long fence
of their hoping he would stay
that he has jumped.

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Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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