Dance in the Rain: Haikus and Poetry


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Dance in the Rain A beautiful book filled with my personal experience and love affair with Japan. This book features places to eat, visit, and even events in Japan. If you are a lover of Japan and love everything related to Japan, then this book of poetry is for you. Haikus and Free Verse poems written from my own experiences. The beauty, the culture, traditions, food, events and places to visit. I went to Japan many years ago and wanted to share my experience in this book of poems. I hope this book resonates with those who love Japan or want to travel to Japan. Consider this a guide for you! Back Cover Poem Sakura Under the cherry blossom tree, pink petals gently fall like snowflakes in the springtime sky. The air is filled with a sweet, fragrant scent that lingers long after the blooms have faded. Sakura blossoms, delicate and fleeting, reminding us of the beauty in impermanence. They bloom for just a moment, a brief but magical time before they disappear. But in that moment, we are captivated by their grace, their softness, their tranquility. Sakura blossoms, a reminder of the cycles of life of growth, of renewal. And as they fall to the ground, we are reminded that even in endings, there is beauty.




Rain Mirror


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"Rain Mirror," writes Michael McClure, "stands as my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, 'Haiku Edge' and 'Crisis Blossom, ' which are quite disparate from one another." Together, the poems complement each other as do light and dark. "Haiku Edge" is a poem of linked haiku, often humorous, sometimes harsh, and always elegant. "Crisis Blossom," in contrast, is a long poem in three parts that records the author's "state of psyche, capillaries, muscles, fears, boldnesses, and hungers down where they exist without management," and the months of shock and recovery during a psychophysical meltdown.




Keep Me Wild


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Keep Me Wild is a collection of poetry and prose about being a woman, falling in love, being broken and finding healing. Being "Wild" is intended to convey a message of being true and being you. This book is meant to take you on an honest journey that will hopefully encourgage and enlighten you.




Favor of Crows


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A collection of original haiku from a preeminent Native American poet and novelist. Favor of Crows is a collection of new and previously published original haiku poems over the past forty years. Gerald Vizenor has earned a wide and devoted audience for his poetry. In the introductory essay the author compares the imagistic poise of haiku with the early dream songs of the Anishinaabe, or Chippewa. Vizenor concentrates on these two artistic traditions, and by intuition he creates a union of vision, perception, and natural motion in concise poems; he creates a sense of presence and at the same time a naturalistic trace of impermanence. The haiku scenes in Favor of Crows are presented in chapters of the four seasons, the natural metaphors of human experience in the tradition of haiku in Japan. Vizenor honors the traditional practice and clever tease of haiku, and conveys his appreciation of Matsuo Basho and Yosa Buson in these two haiku scenes, "calm in the storm / master basho soaks his feet /water striders," and "cold rain / field mice rattle the dishes / buson's koto." Vizenor is inspired by the sway of concise poetic images, natural motion, and by the transient nature of the seasons in native dream songs and haiku. "The heart of haiku is a tease of nature, a concise, intuitive, and an original moment of perception," he declares in the introduction to Favor of Crows. "Haiku is visionary, a timely meditation and an ironic manner of creation. That sense of natural motion in a haiku scene is a wonder, the catch of impermanence in the seasons." Check for the online reader's companion at favorofcrows.site.wesleyan.edu.




Dark of the Moon


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Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons (A Stillwater and Friends Book)


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Stillwater, the beloved Zen panda, now in his own Apple TV+ original series! Caldecott Honoree and New York Times bestselling author/artist Jon J Muth takes a fresh and exciting new look at the four seasons! Eating warm cookies on a cold day is easy water catchesevery thrown stone skip skip splash With a featherlight touch and disarming charm, Jon J Muth--and his delightful little panda bear, Koo--challenge readers to stretch their minds and imaginations with twenty-six haikus about the four seasons.




The Good Dog Book of Woof


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all dogs are good dogs! “WOOF, WOOF, WOOF. WOOF. WOOF. WOOF WOOF? WOOF!” Introducing Dina Ezzeddine’s debut novel: enter the world of DOUG the DOG. Written by DOUG, this book is decipherable only by dogs. A fun satire that squanders literary embellishment and language itself. Here, the critics weight in: “WOOF, WOOF, WOOF. WOOF. WOOF. WOOF WOOF? WOOF. WOOF, WOOF, WOOF? WOOF! AWOO!” -DR. BATES, GOLDEN RETRIEVER PHD. “WOOF, WOOF, WOOF. WOOF. WOOF. WOOF WOOF? WOOF. WOOF, WOOF, WOOF? WOOF! WOOF? WOOF.” -SIR SAMWISE, BORDERCOLLIE TREAT TESTER “WOOF, WOOF, WOOF. WOOF. WOOF. WOOF WOOF? WOOF. WOOF, WOOF, WOOF? “ -SALLY, THE SNIFFER. this book is a great gift idea, or gag joke to someone who loves dogs. LEAVE DOUG A REVIEW, OR TREATS, HE'D SURELY LOVE THAT!




Thanku


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This poetry anthology, edited by Miranda Paul, explores a wide range of ways to be grateful (from gratitude for a puppy to gratitude for family to gratitude for the sky) with poems by a diverse group of contributors, including Joseph Bruchac, Margarita Engle, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Waters, and Jane Yolen.




Interdisciplinary Learning Through Dance


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The lesson plans in Interdisciplinary Learning Through Dance: 101 MOVEntures are broad (covering six disciplines) and deep (101 plans in all). Each lesson is based on national standards and has been field tested with students in grades K-5 with positive results. In fact, both teachers and students enjoy the plans and the learning gained through Interdisciplinary Learning Through Dance: 101 MOVEntures. Teachers value the materials: a book, a music CD to be used with selected lessons, and a 60-minute DVD that demonstrates teaching methodologies and shows selected lesson plans in action. All are designed to be used in lessons that focus on science, social studies, language arts, math, physical education, and creative arts. Students respond with enthusiasm to the active learning of subjects through playful movement. The book's content inspires engaging and active learning with these features: - Basic language of dance - How-tos of lesson planning - Classroom-management techniques - Thinking tools for promoting conceptual understanding - Assessment choices and forms Each lesson plan addresses the national standards for dance and the core curriculum subject areas, as well as the grade level, length, student objectives, and materials needed. In addition, each plan contains these special features: - Introduction - Moving adventure - Assessment - Extensions The book explores the benefits of crossing curricular boundaries with dance and delves into the vocabulary of dance and the pedagogy for creating moving adventures, or MOVEntures. It lays out the 101 lesson plans in six disciplines, providing assessment tools, lesson schematics, and additional resources- including the national standards and thinking tools. Complete. Cross-disciplinary. Broad and deep. Instructive. And fun. Teachers can't go wrong with Interdisciplinary Learning Through Dance: 101 MOVEntures, because the students learn the subjects and come back wanting to learn more.




Summer Snow


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A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at Olema A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss, the serene and resonant beauty of nature, and the mutability of desire, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities, expansive intellect, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date.




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