This Is Just to Say
Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
By Joyce Sidman; Pamela Zagarenski
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), Hardcover, 9780618616800, 47pp.)
Publication Date: April 2007
Categories: Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings, Poetry - General
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Description
In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes, Mrs. Merz's sixth-grade class writes of apology. Some poets are deeply sorry; some not at all. Some are forgiven; some are not. In each pair of poems a relationship, a connection, is revealed. Full color.











