Inventing new poetic forms isn’t for the faint of heart or the stupid. Fortunately, author Marilyn Singer is both brave and brilliant, as evidenced by both this enchanting book and her oeuvre. Noted for her collections of poetry for children on various themes such as water, the sky, and mythological creatures, this experienced writer created reversos: “When you read a reverso down, it is one poem. When you read it up, with changes allowed only in punctuation and capitalization it is a different poem.” This explanation, given by Singer at the end of the book, along with …

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