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This is Just to Say. Poems of Apology and Forgiveness

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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Author: Joyce Sidman
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2007-04-09
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Pages: 48

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When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back.

In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes, Mrs. Merz's class writes of crushes, overbearing parents, loving and losing pets, and more. Some poets are deeply sorry; some not at all. Some are forgiven; some are not. In each pair of poems a relationship, a connection, is revealed.
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Customer Reviews

Wonderful book

2008-06-18
This book of poems written by school children is like any poetry book should be; funny, poignant, profound, and very enjoyable.

Fun and Funny

2008-03-23
After reading this book, it is no surprise that it was chosen as a Texas Bluebonnet Award recipient. Have you ever read that apologetic poem by William Carlos Williams called "This is Just to Say?" If not, let me paste it for you here:

"I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold."

Beautiful, no? Well, a school class, after studying this poem, decided to write their own versions, apologizing to someone and righting a wrong. Well, to their surprise, they got replies! Well-crafted, hilarious, beautiful replies! This poems and their replies are endearingly witty. Two examples- in one, a boy apologizes to the school secretary for sneaking a doughnut, and the secretary replies that his charm is endless, but she still has to call his parents. In another, a girl apologizes for hurting her little sister, and the sister replies, "Roses are red/ violets are blue/ I am still/ pissed off at you." A great read, and I would imagine a fun way to get kids interested in poetry.

Apologies and forgiveness

2007-09-03
This is such a delightful book to be enjoyed just as much by adults as children. And, perhaps if we were all inspired to write apologies, the world would be a happier place.

What a concept!

2007-04-19
This is a refreshing look at poetic form. Excellent choice to motivate reluctant writers to pen their own original verse. Immersed in Verse: An Informative, Slightly Irreverent & Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet's Life