Comments on: Books at Bedtime: Poetry Friday – Tap Dancing on the Roof

By: Books at Bedtime: Reading Challenge (Update 3!)

Books at Bedtime: Reading Challenge (Update 3!) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:15:17 +0000

[...] a very ordinary, every day event or taking off on a flight of whimsy and metaphor. I’ve already blogged about Tap Dancing on the Roof so I won’t say any more here, but pass on [...]

By: Marjorie

Marjorie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:34:09 +0000

Yes, do – it’s a delight!

By: philippine seo

philippine seo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:27:35 +0000

I’ll try to look for the book

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» Blog Archive » Books at Bedtime: Reading Challenge (Update 3!) — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:42:40 +0000

[...] a very ordinary, every day event or taking off on a flight of whimsy and metaphor. I’ve already blogged about Tap Dancing on the Roof so I won’t say any more here, but pass on [...]

By: Marjorie

Marjorie — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:18:18 +0000

Mary Lee, thank you for your comment – offering up a review is, as you say, a question of keeping the balance between informing and not overstepping the law. Of course, I would love to have proffered the whole poem here, but I simply can’t do that.

Susan, I sympathise with your frustration but because sijo consists of such short verses, I can do no more than quote very short extracts without infringing copyright law: and copyright is after all put in place in order to protect writers etc, whose livelihoods depend on the legitimate sale of their work. I would agree, of course, that writers want their work to be read and that is why I specifically mention libraries as a source for books. They are where books are available to all and in my experience anyway, librarians are keen to meet individuals’ requests if it is in their power to do so, whether through inter-library loans or acquisitions: especially when it comes to children’s books.

By: Mary Lee

Mary Lee — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:00:30 +0000

“What is the balance between bringing reader and writer together and protecting copyright?”

Well, I’m thinking that since copyright is the law after all, what Paper Tigers has done in this review (and what most Kidlitosphere blogs most often do) is kept the balance between enticing readers (and informing with other links — thank you PT!), and honoring copyright law.

By: susan

susan — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:56:34 +0000

I am familiar with the form sijo.

“Now you must all rush out and buy/ pester your libraries to get hold of a copy so you can find out the rest of it – and read the others – both for yourselves and with the young people in your lives.”

The excerpt is not enough to entice me but simply frustrate me. And given budgets, how many books can or will libraries buy based on a request from a patron who knows next to nothing about the book? (Yes, I have requested books be bought and they were).

I have read so many different views on what exactly is copyright infringment. Yes, I have seen the various links on copyright, but I’m talking about writers who want to be read. In an age where we readily can access so much material online and we have the opportunity to share so much, I am conflicted. What is the balance between bringing reader and writer together and protecting copyright? More often than not it is because someone shared a poem, not half a book, that I was introduced to poets and publications I would not have found otherwise.

I don’t mean to hijack your post but since I’ve been on the blogosphere, I’d really like to know from writers which they value more.