Frog Praises Night - Poems with Commentary (Electronic book text)

Through a fresh, imaginative format--prefaces and afterwords that sketch the character of the poet, that provide insight into how he writes and what inspires him--Richard Thomas has cap-tured in this book of his own poems the flavor and excitement of a poetry read-ing. The book's three sections (My Friends; My Loved Ones; My Self) not only showcase the poem but also ac-quaint the reader with the process of writing poetry. Defining his goal in this book, Thomas says, "I hope untrained readers may better understand the ingredients of poetry--metaphor, ambiguity, mys-tery. As for experienced readers, I hope they will find the comments as interest-ing as those they might hear at a read-ing." This is a nondidactic book for creative writing classes and a text for both English education courses and lan-guage arts methods courses in educa-tion. And of course a book for those who appreciate poetry.