To create reversos, I spend many hours at the computer (I write most poems with pen and paper, but not these!) playing with words and lines-shifting them around, seeing what makes sense and what doesn't. Read it back up, with changes just in punctuation and capitalization, and it's a different poem. Read the first down and it says one thing. I’m convinced that that doll influenced this book because for it, I came up with a new poetry form: the reverso.Ī reverso is two poems in one. Dancing slippers completed the transformation. You took off the shawl and pushed down her skirt (gathered with a drawstring) and, presto, it was a ball gown! Under the kerchief was a crown. Now, when I was little, I was not a big doll person, but my uncle gave me something called a “Rags-to-Riches doll.” She was dressed in a peasant costume with a patched dress, shawl, kerchief on her head, and no shoes. Therefore, it’s no big surprise that I ended about writing an entire book of poems based on these tales, MIRROR, MIRROR.
When I was a kid, my parents read me lots of fairy tales and poems, so I have both in my blood. Here's what Marilyn had to say about this title. But wait, there's a catch! The paired poems are inverses of one another, meaning the second poem is created by reading the first poem in reverse (hence reverso). Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse, written by Marilyn Singer and illustrated by Josee Massee, is a collection of poems based on fairy tales that tell two sides of the same story.
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