With a star in my hand : Rubén Darío, poetry hero / Margarita Engle.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bagley Public Library | Y ENG (Text) | 33500013214994 | New | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 9781534424937
- ISBN: 1534424938
- ISBN: 9781534424944
- ISBN: 1534424946
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary, etc.: | A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes. |
Reviews
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 January #1
*Starred Review* Engle's novel in verse tells the life story of Rubén DarÃo, the famed Niño Poeta (Boy Poet) of Nicaragua. Beginning with his sad and lonely childhood, Engle tells of DarÃo's status as an orphanâabandoned by his mother, with no father to speak of. Motivated by anger and emptiness, he poured himself into writing, and the book tells his intriguing rags-to-riches story, written from a believable child perspective. Engle explores DarÃo's relationship with words and the effects of abandonment, trauma, grief, and loss on his work. The cyclical nature of events described, as well as the seasons' change and the rollercoaster of emotionsâall based firmly in researchâreflect how the poet's past affected his identity and career. Engle also pays close attention to DarÃo's mestizo identity and the importance of utilizing Spanish language, and there is a wonderful section on linework and rhyming patterns and structures, an educational element for young poets trying their hands at redondillas, octavillas, espinelas, and seguidillas. Along his life's journey, DarÃo encountered violence, alcoholism, terrible family secrets, devastating natural disasters, and racismâbut, as Engle writes, he was a "hunter of daydreams," only content to share his explosive "verse hurricanes." DarÃo would go on to found the movement of Modernismo, and Engle details more historical information in the back matter. Exceptional. Grades 7-10. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews. - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 January #1
*Starred Review* Engle's novel in verse tells the life story of Rubén DarÃo, the famed Niño Poeta (Boy Poet) of Nicaragua. Beginning with his sad and lonely childhood, Engle tells of DarÃo's status as an orphanâabandoned by his mother, with no father to speak of. Motivated by anger and emptiness, he poured himself into writing, and the book tells his intriguing rags-to-riches story, written from a believable child perspective. Engle explores DarÃo's relationship with words and the effects of abandonment, trauma, grief, and loss on his work. The cyclical nature of events described, as well as the seasons' change and the rollercoaster of emotionsâall based firmly in researchâreflect how the poet's past affected his identity and career. Engle also pays close attention to DarÃo's mestizo identity and the importance of utilizing Spanish language, and there is a wonderful section on linework and rhyming patterns and structures, an educational element for young poets trying their hands at redondillas, octavillas, espinelas, and seguidillas. Along his life's journey, DarÃo encountered violence, alcoholism, terrible family secrets, devastating natural disasters, and racismâbut, as Engle writes, he was a "hunter of daydreams," only content to share his explosive "verse hurricanes." DarÃo would go on to found the movement of Modernismo, and Engle details more historical information in the back matter. Exceptional. Grades 7-10. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews.
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