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Category: X. J. Kennedy

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children’s literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

Children, Poetry, Literature

Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light. X. J. Kennedy, “Street Moths,” The Lords of Misrule

addiction, street-moths

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bearNever being done grasping for light and air

ambition, light, root

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes–this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

books, literature, reading

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bearNever being done grasping for light and air

ambition, light, root

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes–this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

books, literature, reading