“Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken” survives, meanwhile, in shape-note songbooks, set to Alexander Johnson’s 1818 tune “ Jefferson.” In any of its various settings, though it assumes the distinctive ...

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.

So once I'd written them - all these 50, 60 poems - I then had to kind of find a shape or an order for them that would suggest something that happened at one time and then another time and how ...

ONDAATJE: Well, I've never wanted to write a memoir, and I don't think this is in any way. It's essentially - it was made up of individual poems that didn't - wasn't in the order they were written ...