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Title: Poetry Is. by Ted, Hughes ISBN: 0-385-07099-3 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: June, 1970 Format: Library Binding List Price(USD): $5.93

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Fun, personal and meet the thought-fox
Comment: The book is targeted at ages 10-14, but I had a blast with it also! There are many of his personal poems as well as some from Silvia Path. The chapters are loose and personal. He talks about the emotion of writing about people he knows; how easy it is to write about his brother, and difficult to write about his mother. This book is about inventing self to help us learn and be conscious of what we are. Along the way you are introduced to creatures such as Christopher Smart 's "My Cat Jeoffrey ", Hughes' Moon Creatures (Saddest of all things on the moon is the snail without a shell. / You locate him by his wail, a wail heart-rending and terrible) and also his Thought-Fox:
"Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed. "

The chapter on Wind and Weather is about mystery and metaphors as in Emily Dickenson's "It waked as wet as any wave/and swept as dry as sand". ". In the landscapes chapter the words of T.S. Elliot "Red river, red river, Slow flow heat is silence // ... Living, living, Never moving. Ever moving/ Iron thoughts came with me and go with me" convey a clear picture. Wallace Steven's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a blackbird" highlights the role of poetry in expanding vision.
This book is a delightful introduction to poetry, from a true individual in Ted Hughes