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When The Frost Is On The Punkin And Other Poems
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Book Synopsis When the Frost is on the Punkin by : James Whitcomb Riley
Download or read book When the Frost is on the Punkin written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1993 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic poem of automn is accompanied by illustrations of a young girl's day on a farm.
Book Synopsis "The Old Swimmin'-hole" by : James Whitcomb Riley
Download or read book "The Old Swimmin'-hole" written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Best Remembered Poems by : Martin Gardner
Download or read book Best Remembered Poems written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost to less well-known poets. Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Book Synopsis The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley by : James Whitcomb Riley
Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-22 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If I knew what poets know. --James Whitcomb Riley
Book Synopsis James Whitcomb Riley by : Elizabeth J. Van Allen
Download or read book James Whitcomb Riley written by Elizabeth J. Van Allen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Van Allen sifts facts from fiction to construct as true a portrait of Riley as possible in the context of the society in which he lived."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Pumpkin Chucking: Poems by : Stephen Scaer
Download or read book Pumpkin Chucking: Poems written by Stephen Scaer and published by Able Muse Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Scaer’s Pumpkin Chucking is a harvest of wit and enlightenment, gleaned from everyday situations. Scaer shows impressive formal dexterity, and inventive use of nonce and received forms—sonnet, double-dactyl, Old-English-style alliterative meter; he turns the limerick on its head as it transforms into a humor-laden meditative tool in sequences such as “Mid-Life Limericks” and “Classical Limericks.” Scaer’s delivery is immediate, simple but never simplistic, laying bare the human condition to reveal that “The triumphs that [we] seek/ are held for their own sake,/ and shower us with grace/ like petals on the grass.” This finalist for the 2012 Able Muse Book Award is a rare achievement in its deft marriage of the lighthearted and sublime. It is a book to relish from start to finish. PRAISE FOR PUMPKIN CHUCKING: Right from the opening sonnet in Pumpkin Chucking, the poignant “Hannah at Ten,” you’ll recognize Scaer as an outstanding lyric poet. But the prevailing voice in this collection belongs to a hugely entertaining, middle-aged, middle-class Everyman writing about the everyday. Take the lifeguard, sung in Old-English-style alliterative meter—“whistle-whirler,” “Thane of the Poconos.” Or the Hercules who can divert rivers into Augean stables with no hassles from the EPA. (And both of these pale compared to Scaer’s “Classical Limericks.”) Some of the poems are exquisitely lyrical: “Light Box,” “Raspberry Patch,” “Long Trail.” Still, what you take away from the book is Scaer’s deadpan humor—a wit that’s wicked but not mean. Often as not, the speaker is himself the target. And the more the guy makes fun of himself, the more we love him. He speaks for us all. —Deborah Warren Stephen Scaer’s Pumpkin Chucking celebrates the New England landscape while still being universal . . . and it surprises us with wit in the winking way of Frost. —A.M. Juster (from the foreword) A collection with a range of forms as broad as Stephen Scaer’s Pumpkin Chucking can read like an exercise book—or like a tour of the expressive possibilities of all of English poetry. This book is decisively the latter. From the delightful “Mid-Life Limericks” to the modern idiom shaped to Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse in “Wendell,” each poem feels utterly natural, utterly native to the form. And don’t miss “Sarcasm,” a sonnet that deftly recasts Petrarch’s jewels of transcendent love as stones that wound both lover and beloved. —Richard Wakefield This is a wonderful and entertaining book of poetry. Stephen Scaer’s poems are full of wit, sarcasm and humor. His subjects are familiar to many of us: parenting, tedious jobs, home repair, dealing with middle age. But his well-crafted verse—the rhymes alone are worth the price of admission—is much more than that. Reading the poems, I was reminded of the voice of Screwtape dispensing advice to his devil-in-training nephew in C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters: the humor is aimed directly at that familiar reflection in the mirror. When I was done reading and admiring these poems, I was left feeling like the narrator standing by his grill smoking a rack of ribs in Scaer’s “The Sacrifice of Cain”: “I wish I were a better man.” —Robert Crawford
Book Synopsis Riley Child-rhymes by : James Whitcomb Riley
Download or read book Riley Child-rhymes written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetry's Afterlife written by Kevin Stein and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The great pleasure of this book is the writing itself. Not only is it free of academic and ‘lit-crit' jargon, it is lively prose, often deliciously witty or humorous, and utterly contemporary. Poetry's Afterlife has terrific classroom potential, from elementary school teachers seeking to inspire creativity in their students, to graduate students in MFA programs, to working poets who struggle with the aesthetic dilemmas Stein elucidates, and to teachers of poetry on any level." --- Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Arizona State University "Kevin Stein is the most astute poet-critic of his generation, and this is a crucial book, confronting the most vexing issues which poetry faces in a new century." ---David Wojahn, Virginia Commonwealth University At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed "death," Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, and universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It flourishes among the people in a lively if curious underground existence largely overlooked by national media. It's this second life, or better, Poetry's Afterlife, that his book examines and celebrates. Kevin Stein is Caterpillar Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Bradley University and has served as Illinois Poet Laureate since 2003, having assumed the position formerly held by Gwendolyn Brooks and Carl Sandburg. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and criticism. digitalculturebooksis an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.
Book Synopsis The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea by : Mark Haddon
Download or read book The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea written by Mark Haddon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems. That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will not. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here – the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism – but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power, and surreal invention. This book will consolidate his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers in contemporary literature.
Download or read book Killer Verse written by Harold Schechter and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping—and criminally entertaining—collection.
Book Synopsis Sing a Song of Seasons by : Nosy Crow
Download or read book Sing a Song of Seasons written by Nosy Crow and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sing a Song of Seasons is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems — one for every day of the year. Filled with familiar favorites and new discoveries written by a wide variety of poets, including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Updike, Langston Hughes, N. M. Bodecker, Okamoto Kanoko, and many more, this is the perfect book for children (and grown-ups!) to share at the beginning or the end of the day.
Book Synopsis The Raggedy Man by : James Whitcomb Riley
Download or read book The Raggedy Man written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Riley Farm-rhymes by : James Whitcomb Riley
Download or read book Riley Farm-rhymes written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diamond Willow written by Helen Frost and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to me than most people see. Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents' house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But sometimes when it's just you, one mistake can have frightening consequences . . . And when Willow stumbles, it takes a surprising group of friends to help her make things right again. Using diamond-shaped poems inspired by forms found in polished diamond willow sticks, Helen Frost tells the moving story of Willow and her family. Hidden messages within each diamond carry the reader further, into feelings Willow doesn't reveal even to herself. Diamond Willow is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Download or read book A World Full of Poems written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously illustrated introduction to poetry for children, featuring poems about everything from science, sports, and space, to friendship, family, and feelings. This thoughtfully crafted anthology is perfect for children new to verse and for young poetry fans seeking out new favorites. Explore poetry from a diverse selection of contemporary and historical poets, covering a broad range of topics—from personal subjects like emotions and family, to the wonders of the natural environment. Carefully selected works encourage children to see the poetry in everything and to embrace the beauty of their everyday lives. Prompts and activities inspire children to create their own poetry, and devices like rhyme, repetition, and alliteration are introduced and explained in a fun and accessible manner.
Book Synopsis Folly & Grief by : Jennifer Harrison
Download or read book Folly & Grief written by Jennifer Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poems of Mourning by : Peter Washington
Download or read book Poems of Mourning written by Peter Washington and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems over the ages lamenting the dead. In Elegy for Himself, written in the London Tower before his execution, Chidiock Tichborne wrote: "My tale was heard, and yet it was not told; / My fruit is fall'n, and yet my leaves are green; / My youth is spent, and yet I am not old; / I saw the world and yet I was not seen."
