Author : Bobbi Katz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101631643
This lively collection is packed with kid-friendly, "pocket-sized" poems of eight lines or less by such well-known poets as Eve Merriam, Karla Kuskin, and the anthologist herself, Bobbi Katz. The easy-to-memorize, pint-sized poems reflect many different facets of children's lives and are embellished with witty, winning art by the beloved Marylin Hafner, making a package that will be welcomed by children and their teachers.
Author : Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher : New York : Bradbury Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
A selection of 120 short modern poems by eighty American poets, including Angelou, Updike, Creeley, Williams, and Merwin, in pocket-sized format for travelers and others on the move.
Author : Robert Frost
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780312983321
Robert Frost is one of the foremost writers of American poetry. This is a thorough compilation of his seminal works.
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0375414584
Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power. The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden, to “Blues on Yellow” by Marilyn Chin and “Reservation Blues” by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues-inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics–poems in their own right–from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.
Author : Peter Washington
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 1993-11-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0679429069
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul. Includes poems by John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W. H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Graves, e. e. cummings, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, Sappho, Bhartrhari, Anna Akhmatova, and W. B. Yeats, among many others.
Author : Bobbi Katz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 110165774X
Here is a fresh new collection of ?pocket-size? poetry. This lively anthology is packed with kid-friendly poems, all eight lines or less, and features irresistibly playful artwork. Join the fun with such favorite poets as Eve Merriam, Jack Prelutsky, Langston Hughes, and Ogden Nash. Perfect to celebrate Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day. School Library Journal, starred review for Pocket Poems
Author : J. D. McClatchy
Publisher : Everyman Chess
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Sea poetry
ISBN : 9781841597461
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed. This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson's seductive sea-fairies next to Poe's beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge's darkly brooding "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare's "Full Fathom Five." And here is Masefield's "I must go down to the seas again" alongside Cavafy's "Ithaka" and Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West." In the wide variety of lyrics collected here-sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers-we feel the encompassing power of our planet's restless
Author : Morris Edmund Speare
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 1963
Category :
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Author : Margaret McNamara
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307979490
Usher in National Poetry Month with Mr. Tiffin and his students, stars of the hugely popular How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? and The Apple Orchard Riddle. Once again, Margaret McNamara sets her playful, child-friendly story in the classroom, and this time, poetry—from metaphors to acrostics to haiku—is the name of the game. The focus here is on Elinor, whose confidence falters as she tries to write something "perfect" for Poem in Your Pocket Day and impress a visiting poet. G. Brian Karas's accessible, adorable illustrations add to the fun. Includes a list of Mr. Tiffin's tips for celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day. "A nimble introduction to poetry as well as a sensitive look at the perils of perfectionism." —The New York Times "Pair this book with the works of Shel Silverstein, Paul B. Janeczko, Jack Prelutsky, Douglas Florian, or Robert Louis Stevenson." —School Library Journal, Starred
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
A vital and surprising hardcover collection of poems about, and inspired by, jazz music. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Selected and Edited by Kevin Young. Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force—one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange, Mark Doty, William Matthews, and C. D. Wright. Here are poems that pay tribute to jazz’s great voices, and poems that throb with the vivid rhythm and energy of the jazz tradition, ranging in tone from mournful elegy to sheer celebration. Includes: • “Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret” by Langston Hughes • “God Bless the Child” by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. • “Jazz Fantasia” by Carl Sandburg • “Ol’ Bunk’s Band” by William Carlos Williams • “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks • “Chasing the Bird” by Robert Creeley • “Victrola” by Robert Pinsky • “Pres Spoke in a Language” by Amiri Baraka • “The Day Lady Died” by Frank O’Hara • “Art Pepper” by Edward Hirsch • “Snow” by Billy Collins Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
