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Reviewed on October 1, 1996
Gr 1-4 With no more than a handful of words on a page--but with a vocabulary that includes gabardine, remorse, and gelatin--Wood has created a "Jabberwocky"-like poem. However, this verse is anything but whimsical, despite its "Oh, Susanna" contradictions. "Bright and early Thursday Evening,/I woke up and dreamed I was dead"; to this half of the opening quatrain, Don Wood adds an electronic collage of a young woman covered in flowers waking up on a skull-posted bed. This "t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More