![]() ![]() Yet the poems successfully navigate the complicated terrain for those who seek forgiveness. But for most entries, unfortunately, in order to read the call-and-response in succession, readers must awkwardly flip from the first half of the book ("Apologies") to the second ("Responses"). One pair of poems shares a spread and addresses a dodge ball exchange ("Sorry/ Reubs,/ for belting you/ as hard/ as I could/ in dodge ball/ I'd like/ to say/ I wouldn't/ do it again/ but I'd/ be lying"). Merz's class who introduces the book explains that some of the students received answers to their "sorry" poems. ) explains, via an introduction from one of the book's sixth-grade characters, that the poems contained in this often humorous and touching anthology were inspired by the title poem of apology, which was penned by William Carlos Williams. Sidman ( Song of the Waterboatman and Other Pond Poems ![]()
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