![]() His poem, “CLOCK” rhymes and relates to a student’s day at school, “The clock on the wall says it’s five ’til three but the kids in my class say it’s five ’til free.” In the poem “LIGHTNING,” Raczka uses beautiful figurative language, combining personification and metaphor to write, “from a bad mood sky, tears, then a jagged slashing flash of anger, ear-splitting, obnoxious, a cloud tantrum.” Without a doubt, this book will appeal to younger readers, touching on a variety of topics of interests such as crosswords, school, animals, and space. ![]() While every poem is concrete, he offers a variety of rhyming and free verse poems with figurative language throughout. For example, in his poem titled “Balloon” he combines the “l” and the “o” to make a balloon, then uses his words in the poem to create the shape of a balloon, too. In his cleverly titled book, Raczka not only uses words to shape the poems, but also uses the letters in the title of the poems to create pictures. WET CEMENT is a collection of 21 concrete poems written by Bob Raczka. ![]()
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