In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. By the author of Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
Snodgrass guides students through favorite poems by comparing the original masterpieces with humdrum imitations to illustrate the inspired choices poets have made. For instance, he rewrites Cumming's "anyone lived in a pretty how town" as "A certain man lived in a very nice town," to emphasize the v ...
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