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63) Sky magic: poems
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of poems that celebrates the Sun, the Moon, and the stars by such poets as Ann Whitford Paul, Avis Harley, and Carl Sandburg.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Creative nonfiction poetry combines humor, creative imagery, and illustrations to explain topics in astronomy and other space sciences.
Hang on tight for a raucous bounce through the solar system and back -- propelled by funny, fanciful, factually sound poems and exuberant illustrations. The universe poured into me. My brain was overloaded. It smoked and glowed red-hot. And then it actually exploded. Ever wonder what the sun has to say about being...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Examines the events and people that have shaped America, providing portraits of figures such as Chief Tecumseh, President Abraham Lincoln, and musician Jimi Hendrix, and featuring lyrical, free-verse poetic text.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"A collection of poetry by one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas about the vanished world of his childhood -- that of the Maya K'iche'. Aqu̕ era el para̕so / Here Was Paradise is a selection of poems written by the great Maya poet Humberto Ak'abal. They evoke his childhood in and around the Maya K'iche' village of Momostenango, Guatemala, and also describe his own role as a poet of the place. Ak'abal writes about children, and grandfathers,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
Español
Description
"In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, antes que isla es volc̀n daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico. Salas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity: one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico's fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate...
71) The Roman poets
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The urban and pastoral poetry of the Roman republic, and of the empire that succeeded it, was both the culmination of the magnificent classical tradition of the Mediterranean and the seedbed for almost all the subsequent poetic traditions of Western and Central Europe. The stateliness of Virgil's Eclogues and the grandeur of his epic line, the unsurpassable lyricism-by turns tender, incisive, and scabrous-of Catullus's elegies and satires, the philosophical...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Overview: Another wonderful poetry anthology from Garrison Keillor-rooted in the American landscape. Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English. Third in Keillor's series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1953.
Language
English
Description
This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was quoted as saying, I just go for a walk and come back with a poem in my pocket.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition." --
78) Ramadan moon
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates Ramadan and Eid, marking the fasting, good deeds, prayer, and gatherings of the month-long holiday with the changing phases of the moon.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better...
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