Work 4 - Description
The poems’ themes are universal—love, death, spirituality, pets, farms, animals, teaching, aging….
Many have won prizes and been previously published, but this is the author’s first collection.
They’re often funny, but usually have something serious under the surface. Quite a few give tongue-in-cheek advice, like how to keep the deer from eating your tulips or how not to train your human.
Wording and imagery are widely accessible and would make good models for students (or adults) to imitate—or argue with. Some use traditional patterns, like the sonnet or villanelle, which the author handles with the skill of long practice, but others are monologues in more open forms, with a variety of voices, and often parody well known figures of literature, like Mark Twain or one of Ahab's officers in Moby Dick.
So, yes, it’s not hard to imagine the author using these to interest students.
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