[Janice D. Soderling]

I cut my teeth on "A Child's Garden of Verses" I remember it as one of my very first books around the age of four. And apropos nothing, once when I was walking in Scotland I passed a cave wherein RLS was said to have sat composing Treasure Island (I think it was). It was an old path that ran alongside a river and was the by-road leading from village to village. There was a golf course nearby. It rained all day but it was a good walk.

This is not a crit but a celebration of how poems (literature) become part of our lives and memories and forms us. Yes, I do believe poetry can change the world, at least it can form us, and we can change the world.