![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Myers, who died in 2014, advocated fiercely for more diversity in children’s literature (his final published piece was an op-ed in The New York Times asking where all the nonwhite characters in children’s literature were), and he also served as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature in 20. Jack’s favorite poet, Walter Dean Myers, is actually better known for his young adult novels than for his poetry. Particularly early on in his career, Williams was also very concerned with using distinctly American language (rather than copying what he saw as stuffy British poetry conventions), and it’s possible to see Jack’s clearly childish writing style doing much the same thing. Williams is most often associated with Imagist poets, whose poetry described everyday objects and happenings. ![]() Though Jack isn’t entirely sold on the merits of William Carlos Williams’s famous poem “The Red Wheelbarrow,” critics of Love That Dog have noted that Love That Dog itself is written in a style very reminiscent of Williams’s. Instead, Love That Dog serves as a primer on important 20th-century poets, with “The Tyger” by William Blake a notable exception (Blake is often grouped with Romantic poets and published “The Tyger” in his 1794 poetry collection, Songs of Innocence and Experience). Jack offers few clues as to when or where exactly he lives (and he shares nothing about what’s going on in his wider world), but the way he mentions learning to type and use the computer suggest the novel takes place about the time it was written, in 2000 or 2001. ![]()
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