Music's Spell

Music's SpellBy: Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series Music may be the universal language that needs no wordsthe language where all language ends, as Rilke put itbut that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop and Billy Collins; the wild pipes of William Blake, the weeping guitars of Federico Garca Lorca, and the jazz rhythms of Langston Hughes; Wallace

Texas and dreamed of becoming an astronaut someday

On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on

a way to make phonics fun

and their personal belongings

she’s a Siren: a paranormal singer capable of singing men to sleep—or to their deaths

Lavinia’s Creole half sister

and the bold vision that will make her a legend

penniless and  alone

2 口碑盛讚推薦，深獲學界與教育界肯定，亦充滿閱讀樂趣的作品。杜明城（前國立台東大學兒童文學研究所教授）：《長生石的守護者》無疑超越了陳郁如之前所有的作品，在情節的構築上更為精巧自然。

take letters

and illustration

illuminating collection