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Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Have you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents? Jack Prelutsky has written more than one thousand poems about all of these things -- and many others. In this book he gives you the inside scoop on writing poetry and shows you how you can turn your own experiences and stories about your family, your pets, and your friends...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"What do you get when you combine a poem and a joke? A limerick. These five-line rhyming poems are funny, silly, and sly. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how limericks work--and shows how these little poems can trigger big laughs"--Dust jacket flap.
4) A free life
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Nan Wu, who had studied in the U.S. in the mid-1980s, leaves China with his wife and son to seek the freedom of the West, embarking on a migration that takes them through the heart of contemporary America.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Presents an overview of concrete poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use concrete poems to express ideas. Conveying meaning with words through phrases, rhythm, and line structure--that's a poem. With a celebratory tone, young learners are introduced to different forms of poetry through the delightful Poetry Party series. Each book focuses on a specific type of poetry, describing its elements and traits in an engaging...
11) Poetry as spellcasting: poems, essays, and prompts for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Divided into four sections, Poetry as Spellcasting utilizes poetry as a tool for healing-justice transformation. The book guides readers to explore and deepen the creative and intuitive parts of themselves as catalysts for transformative healing and social change"--
Author
Series
Ellen Foster duology volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ellen Foster, fifteen years old, formidable, and back in North Carolina with a loving new foster mother, has written to the president of Harvard, asking for early admission. Having already crammed a lot of tragedy, adversity, and trauma into her young years, surely she's due something. In the meantime, she's got a lot on her plate: composing poetry and selling it to classmates; trying to tactfully back away from a marriage proposal from her best...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
"Long an anchor text for college and junior college writing classes, this illuminating and invaluable guide has become a favorite for beginning poets and an ever-valuable reference for more advanced students who want to sharpen their craft, expand their technical skills, and engage their deepest memories and concerns.This edition adds Steve Kowit's famous essay on poetics "The Mystique of the Difficult Poem," in which he argues stirringly and forcefully...
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture, captured here in Crediting Poetry, is a powerful defense of poetry as "the ship and the anchor" of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive politics and "world-sorrow." Beginning with the "creaturely existence" of his childhood in a thatched farmstead in rural County Derry, Heaney traces his path in "the wideness of language." It is a way forged by listening: to the "burbles and squeaks" of BBC and Radio Eireann...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Robert Hass--former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize--illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop,"--NoveList.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Forgotten Girl, a fifteen-year-old poet, is going through the most difficult time of her life--the breakup of her parents, and her mom's resulting depression--when she meets Random Boy, a hot guy who, like her, feels like an outcast and secretly writes poetry to deal with everything going on in his life. In The Lost Marble Notebook of Forgotten Girl & Random Boy, the couple's poems come together to tell their unique love story. The two nameless teenagers...
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Lawrence Norfolk's In the Shape of a Boar is a juggernaut of a novel, an epic tour de force of love and betrayal, ancient myths and modern horrors. The story begins in the ancient world of mythic Greece, where a dark tale of treachery and destructive love unfolds amid the hunt for the Boar of Kalydon-a tale that will reverberate in those same hills across the millennia in the final chaotic months of World War II, as a band of Greek partisans pursues...
Author
Series
American reader volume 4
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
New expanded edition.
Language
English
Description
Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W. W. Norton in 1993, now out of print. In Walking Light, Dunn discusses the relationship between art and sport, the role of imagination in writing poetry, and the necessity for surprise and discovery when writing a poem. Humorous, intelligent and accessible, Walking Light is a book that will appeal...
20) Jabberwalking
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A former United States Poet Laureate shares secrets about viewing the world from a poet's perspective, explaining how "jabberwalking" poets draw inspiration from everything they experience to express themselves in creative ways.
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