are you going to get “Every Thing On It”?
September 20, 2011
If you read the poem above aloud, while looking at the drawing, then you get it:
“We believe … that poems [especially the ones by Shel Silverstein] need to be read out loud,” says Mitch Myers, Silverstein’s nephew. “This is one of the joys of the book [Every Thing On It], and we really were able to determine if it really worked when we said it out loud.”
Myers is talking about the newly published collection of poems by the late Silverstein. NPR’s “Morning Edition” let’s you listen to a few of the poems read here, and get a preview of some of the other poems and illustrations here.
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An Australian morning news host tries to tell a joke to the Dalai Lama.
And so, Theophrastus, Silverstein’s poetry will NOT be translated into Japanese: “Whether you like it or not, English is the universal language.”