[treehead: Renaissance Man for the New Millenium] Review: "The Night Before T...

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The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing

My rating: 2 of 5 stars This homage to Clement Clarke Moore's classic Christmas poem, "Twas The Night Before Christmas," is told from a child's vantage. And while it is both humorous and playful, the rhyme and meter is consistently stilted throughout, with either missed or extra syllables. This make the reading quite uncomfortable, and I found myself correcting the versification to make it read properly. It's a shame, because one could hardly find a better example of iambic poetry than this poem's eponym. With some careful editorial supervision, this book could have been much better. View all my reviews >>

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Posted By treehead to treehead: Renaissance Man for the New Millenium at 11/07/2009 08:18:00 PM