![]() They are all considerably longer than Singer's sample, and all of them are accompanied by outstanding illustrations by Josée Masse, a Canadian illustrator from Montreal, many of which tend to show the duality of the accompanying poems. ![]() What makes these poems brilliant is that they make perfect sense forwards and backwards - and they each tell two sides of the same story. Singer went on to write a whole bunch of brilliant reversos based on fairy tales. Here is Singer's first reverso, roughly as presented as in the author note: Within the book, the poems are all presented side by side, so I've done the best I can format-wise here. ![]() As she explains in her note about the form at the end of the book, the first reverso she created was inspired by her cat. Singer has invented a form she calls the "reverso". I had to buy it, you see, because I read the first three poems in the book ("In Reverse", "Cinderella's Double Life", and "The Sleeping Beauty and the Wide-Awake Prince"), plus at least one or two more from the middle, and I was so impressed by what Marilyn Singer pulled off that I simply had to shell out the $16.99 (plus tax) for the book in recognition of her accomplishment. Kellyrfineman Last week I purchased myself a copy of Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josée Masse. ![]()
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