Comments on: Billy Collins’ “First Reader”

By: mike

mike — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:38:19 +0000

My comment refers to Billy Collins poem about our iconic first reader.
He’s done it just right–as usual–with his tongue in cheek and his reverence for the actual world. What he doesn’t mention (and did not need to mention) is that Dick & Jane left their imprint on us in ways that went beyond the pointing and looking. They had the same shaping influence Barbie Dolls had a generation later. Most amusing is the idea that all kids do each day is name the world. Richard Louv (the last child in the woods) suggests that after we finished the book, we all went in the house and never came out. Our own kids just stayed in there with us.

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The Tao of Parenting « Daddy-to-Be — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:30:51 +0000

[...] Fourth Trimester Leave a Comment My previous post led me to reread Billy Collins’ poem First Reader, where I found new resonance in the line “we were forgetting how to look, learning how to [...]

By: l.

l. — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:20:15 +0000

an intriguing piece

By: loren

loren — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:32:19 +0000

Unfortunately I’m not familiar with him, troutbum, but I looked his poetry up in the web and the poems I found were quite interesting, though not enough to make a final judgment on.

I noticed that the book is supposed to be published in November. I’ll be on the lookout for it at my local bookstore.