Linda Sue Park

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Born in Urbana, Illinois, children’s writer and poet Linda Sue Park grew up outside Chicago and earned a BA at Stanford University. She is the author of numerous novels, picture books, and poetry collections for children. Her work often uses historical settings and innovative forms to expand young readers’ sense of possibility; her poetry collection Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) (2007), illustrated by Istvan Banyai, utilizes a Korean syllabic verse form to bring surprise and humor to everyday moments and objects. Source

Wish

For someone to read a poem

again, and again, and then,

 

having lifted it from page

to brain—the easy part—

 

cradle it on the longer trek

from brain all the way to heart.

Published:

2007

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Children's

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

Ars Poetica

Literary Devices:

Bleeding Title

when the title of a poem acts as the first line

Interrupted Clause

a word group (a statement, question, or exclamation) that interrupts the flow of a sentence and is usually set off by commas, dashes, or parentheses

Metonymy

replacing the name of a thing with the name of something closely associated