Homage Rhyme


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Homage Rhyme is scenic memoir spanning seven decades as tag along lad of farming mom and dad at wilderness riverside during the American great depression, drought and dust bowl, as home-front kid hand during World War II, as high school scholar, athlete, actor, as casualty of disabling disease requiring alternate course, as college student, romantic, baseball coach, sports writer, as college union program director, as husband and father of two daughters and a son, as director of university centers, student activities and auxiliary services, as executive director of a bicentennial commission, as producer of world premiere stage dramas and arts expos based on rich heritage of Native American cultures, as director or residency and day camps, as executive director of an American Indian theatre company, as producer of a foundation for arts and humanities, as author of eight books, as grandfather of six children, as serene elder and kid at heart sharing my dawning, ascent, resurgence, plunges, rescues, and serendipity of memorable and sometimes incredible seventy years since 1931 emergence.




MARY TODD LINCOLN in RHYME


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Illustrated, First Edition of Mary Todd Lincoln In Rhyme, is Part I of a love story, beginning with the history of where she was born. This book takes the reader through her first thirty years; the death of her father, her grandmother, and her little son, Eddie, through to the birth of Tad.Part II continues on and into the ten years she spent in Springfield before Abraham Lincoln's election as President.




MARY TODD LINCOLN IN RHYME Part III


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Third in a continuing series by Poet Laureate, Jean Elizabeth Ward: a love story based on historical facts about Mary Todd Lincoln and her husband, Abraham Lincoln. Illustrations within, poetry, prose, and quotes.




Rhyme's Challenge


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Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry -- and everyday life.







Derek Walcott


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Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the Caribbean's most famous writers. His unique voice in poetry, drama and criticism is shaped by his position at the crossroads between Caribbean, British and American culture and by his interest in hybrid identities and diaspora. Edward Baugh's Derek Walcott analyses and evaluates Walcott's entire career over the last fifty years. Baugh guides the reader through the continuities and differences of theme and style in Walcott's poems and plays. Walcott is an avowedly Caribbean writer, acutely conscious of his culture and colonial heritage, but he has also made a lasting contribution to the way we read and value the western literary tradition. This comprehensive survey considers each of Walcott's published books, offering a guide for students, scholars and readers of Walcott. Students of Caribbean and postcolonial studies will find this a perfect introduction to this important writer.




Instant Poetry


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The cover is acrylic by Jean Elizabeth Ward, whose art is simular to that of Marc Chagall: back cover is suitable for framing. Within this First Edition, with illustrations, you will find...what the author calls "Lunch Hour Poetry: easy to read and understand poetry in various shapes and styles. The illustrations are somewhat like the old German Etchings, byMultimedia Artist, Jean Elizabeth Ward. A delight for the busy person who desires to read one short poem a day. "To demonstrate how easy it is to write your own poetry", and encourage you to do so.




River Raft Pack of Weeping Water Flat


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The River Raft Pack of Weeping Water Flat is adventure tale of rural American teenage kids—Hap, Patti, Sonny, Yee, Scoot, Breeze, Tubby, Misty, Juan, Melody, Dawn—of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era who rendezvoused at burrow of sunken barge along Quicksand Slough, endured raft launching fiasco on flooding Missouri River, survived devastating tornado at Willow Grove School, rescued desperate hobo Kermit Bucey at haunted Abandoned Shack, farced at summit of Jones Point, explored wilderness of ancient Aboriginal Village, viewed sinking and aided rescue of riverboat Windy Lee, befriended Austin ‘Scamp’ of Shallow Grave Hollow, fished with Enzo ‘Gig’em’ Durney, witnessed abduction of town gossip Gustavia Gusti, played in Big Game of Fame or Shame, mourned death of Pack buddy, persevered to produce the River Raft Race of Saving Grace, romanced the coming of age at Union Town High, disengaged to engage adult destinies. Growing up on farm fronting Civil Bend of same flow in southwest Iowa during Great Depression of long ago, I would gaze yonder so, wondering bestow of mystic haven Weeping Water Flat, unknown people on the go. Often perched on old stump chewing fox tail stem to console, imagined kids like myself over there amid dust bowl’s blow. Wished they would have appeared at river bank to yell hello. Six decades have passed by since I first heard rooster crow on yonder shore of estuary where Nebraska sky glows. Those kids I then envisioned are now elders like me, so from my mind and heart they have flowed to paper for now bestow to those who just might like to know tales from long ago.







Jean Elizabeth Ward Presents Kimo Poems


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KIMO POETRYis a post-Haiku poetic form, consisting of three lines of 10, 7, and 6 syllables. This form of poetry was developed in Israel. Kimo had evolved from the need for more than 5, 7, and 5 syllables in a Haiku in Hebrew. It usually describes one frozen scene that has no movement in it. Rhyme not necessary. An excellent book for the busy reader who would like to read one a day. Vintage Illustrations added. Bonus of an Elvis Presley Mandala.