| Description |
136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. + 1 audio disc (63 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Note |
"Hear the poets read their own work"--Cover. |
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"Poems of discovery, inspiration, independence, and everything else"--Cover. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works. |
| Contents |
Eternity / Jason Shinder -- Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- Cinderella's diary / Ron Koertge -- Vampire's serenade / Dana Gioia -- Alone / Edgar Allan Poe -- Alone / Siegfried Sassoon -- Caroline / Allison Joseph -- "What are friends for..." / Rosellen Brown -- I loved my friend / Langston Hughes -- In the fifth-grade locker room / Rebecca Lauren -- Bra shopping / Parneshia Jones -- Blood charm / Annie Finch -- Pause / Nikki Grimes -- The delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday -- Indian education / Sherman Alexie -- One art / Elizabeth Bishop -- Here / Arthur Sze -- Haiku / Sonia Sanchez -- Good girl / Molly Peacock -- Bad boats / Laura Jensen -- No images / Waring Cuney -- won't you celebrate with me / Lucille Clifton -- What I'm telling you / Elizabeth Alexander -- How I learned to sweep / Julia Alvarez -- Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare -- Litany / Billy Collins -- A teenage couple / Brad Leithauser -- Free period / David Yezzi -- Zodiac / Elizabeth Alexander -- The Skokie theater / Edward Hirsch -- Valentine / Wendy Cope -- An angry Valentine / Myra Cohn Livingston -- What great grief has made the empress mute / June Jordan -- Mad girl's love song / Sylvia Plath -- How we heard the name / Alan Dugan -- The gladiator / Kevin Prufer -- Worth / Marilyn Nelson -- I am a Black / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Lost sister / Cathy Song -- Flash cards / Rita Dove -- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg -- Dream variations / Langston Hughes -- Dreams / Langston Hughes -- Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney -- Manners / Elizabeth Bishop -- Mascara / Elizabeth Bishop -- from For a girl beginning / Joy Harjo -- Every day it is always there / Rainy Ortiz -- Dear Mama (4) / Wanda Coleman -- A boy in a bed in the dark / Brad Sachs -- The talk / Sharon Olds -- A small poem / Calvin Forbes -- Fears of the eighth grade / Toi Derricotte -- When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats -- Death of a snowman / Vernon Scannell -- Oatmeal / Galway Kinnell -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand -- The bagel / David Ignatow -- Hope is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson -- If I can stop one heart from breaking / Emily Dickinson -- The Duke's castle / John Fuller -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The sacred / Stephen Dunn -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Prowess / Samuel Menashe -- What we might be, what we are / X.J. Kennedy -- Sideman / Paul Muldoon -- XVIII. Oh, when I was in love with you / A.E. Housman -- Sometimes with one I love / Walt Whitman -- In the desert / Stephen Crane -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The summer of black widows / Sherman Alexie -- Permanently / Kenneth Koch -- A dog on his master / Billy Collins -- Mowing / Midge Goldberg -- Seal / William Jay Smith -- Seahorses / Brad Leithauser -- So far / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The germ / Ogden Nash -- Baseball / Bill Zavatsky -- Poetry slalom / Mary Jo Salter -- How I discovered poetry / Marilyn Nelson -- Used book shop / X.J. Kennedy -- The survivor / Marilyn Chin -- New clothes / Kay Ryan -- Mediation / Kim Stafford -- A fable / Louise Glück -- Houses / Nancy Willard -- Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali -- The floral apron / Marilyn Chin -- Abuelito who / Sandra Cisneros -- Legacies / Nikki Giovanni -- Instead of her own / Molly Peacock -- Tia Chucha / Luis J. Rodriguez -- The adversary / Phyllis McGinley -- What your mother tells you now / Mitsuye Yamada -- 33 / Philip Schultz -- 49 / Philip Schultz -- What are heavy? / Christina Rossetti -- The wind / Sara Teasdale -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- When you are old / W.B. Yeats -- "Nobody can counsel and help you" / Rainer Maria Rilke -- "Live a while in these books" / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Here yet be dragons / Lucille Clifton -- Sedna / Kimiko Hahn -- The writer / Richard Wilbur. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Collections.
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| Added Author |
Paschen, Elise.
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| ISBN |
9781402210747 hardback |
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1402210744 hardback |
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