Catch the Silent Silver

About the Book

In Catch the Silent Silver, Jim Wilsford offers a collection of poems organized around the themes Of Love, Of Life, and Of Youth. The poems, which may be loving or fun, realistic or painful, physical or metaphysical, each touch true moments and pure images of life.

Wilsford combines Beauty and Truth in extended metaphors. Symbol and image merge in lines such as those from the title poem: ". . . to catch/ The silent silver of the sun's walk/ And edge the gray of the white gull's Wing." Whether formal or informal, free or blank verse, form matches meaning.

Catch the Silent Silver includes several dramatic and narrative poems to portray and explore the meaning and beauty of life. The work also includes poems that are epigrammatic, reflective, and emotional.

In poetry as in life, Wilsford follows the conclusion of the last poem of Catch the Silent Silver:

If you wake to a zigzag day,
You must take the zigzag way.

About the Author

Jim Wilsford is an educator and writer. As an educator, he was a teacher, principal, and superin-tendent. As a writer, he is the author of Star Express, Literacy Trails, and Phonics Too®, all multimedia software for beginning readers and young children. He is also author of the book Reading, Writing, and Phonics Too: A Beginning Literacy Program.

Wilsford and his wife, Helen, live and work in South Carolina. They take interest in children everywhere and work to improve teaching and learning for young children through their company, Phonics Too®, LLC.

Wilsford's short story, "Twenty Minutes with Bennie G", won the National Education Association award for writing.

Newsweek, Parade, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Think, School and College, and Fortune are only a few of the publications to have covered his work.

The American Association of School Administrators named him the National School Superintendent of the Year. He also received the Computer-World/Smithsonian award for advancing information systems technology in education.

Wilsford's reading software and the book Reading, Writing, and Phonics Too are available at www.phonicstoo.com. Catch the Silent Silver and Reading, Writing, and Phonics Too are available at www.trafford.com.