![]() ![]() He was carjacking, unaware that Wren was hidden in the back of the car, frightened out of her mind. Years and years ago Darra’s father accidentally kidnapped a young girl by the name of Wren Abbot. Her problem is that she does know someone and, worse, that person knows her too. When you go to a new summer camp you usually have to deal with not knowing anyone. ![]() The result is that “Hidden” manages to be both a book of poetry and a wholly original story of two girls bound together by a singular, accidental crime. Hidden by Helen Frost requires relatively less work to read, but the reader willing to seek out the messages hidden (ho ho) in some of the poems will be amply rewarded. That’s what you do when you’re writing a poem, but can reading one be an act of puzzle-solving as well? Earlier this year I reviewed Bob Raczka’s Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word which required the reader’s eyes to leap around the page, piecing together the words. ![]() A poem is a kind of puzzle, isn’t it? Depending on the kind of poem you have to make the syllables and words conform to a preexisting format. If poems had been introduced to me as a child as puzzles, maybe I would have taken to them a little more. Frances Foster Books (Farrar Straus & Giroux) ![]()
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