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Teaching Guide for Paul Fleischman's Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Teaching Guide for Paul Fleischman's Joyful Noise Poems for Two Voices Author:Brian A. Haggerty "For me the initial delight in poetry is in the surprise of remembering something I had forgotten," wrote Robert Frost, "or remembering something I didn't know I knew." — In Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman evokes the taken-for-granted world of insects and, in the process, helps us rediscover a sense of wonder many of us surely... more » possessed before we became consumed with the mundane concerns of daily human existence.
In 14 poems, intended to be read aloud by two voices, Fleischman puts remarkable facility with language and fertile imagination at the service of careful entomological research to paint in words vivid and accurate pictures of his insect subjects...« less