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A quirky original entertaining collection by turns amusing then powerful - but always engaging. A roller coaster ride through new scenery. Poetry for poetry lovers and haters alike. Most importantly - you won't be bored. Alternative poetry in more than one sense of the word!
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Perhaps the focus and quality of Poetry 180 is best summed up in poet laureate Billy Collins' only poem in this anthology. In reference to poetry as taught in high school, he concludes, "I want them to waterski / across the surface of a poem / waving at the author's name on the shore. / But all they want to do / is tie the poem to a chair with rope / and torture a confession out of it. / They begin beating it with a hose / to find out what it means." In fact, Poetry 180 consciously avoids those pieces...
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A Book of Love Poetry (Reprint) (Paperback)
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With white-on-white pop-ups, this snowy book encourages readers to follow a silver glittery trail and guess just what is making those tracks. A spectacular pop-up on the last spread shows exactly whos responsible in a gorgeous, full-color scene complete with a mylar mirror. Full color.
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An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry by Elizabeth Bishop More New Books
Bishop compiled this important collection after she went to live in Brazil and became familiar with its literature, in the 1950s......
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Libros Poeticos: Poetry Books
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"Most cowboy poems speak of real events and people, from bucking horses and cagey cows to old Stetson hats and long winter travels. Although they focus on the ordinary stuff of life, their truths . . . seem no less eternal than those penned by William Shakespeare. Some cowboy poems are but-a-gut funny; a few are downright dirty . . . most carry an honest, primitive power."
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A number of editorial decisions prevent this collection from living up to its name. McClatchy, editor of The Yale Review, has decided to exclude "the extraordinary body of contemporary poetry in English," i.e., the work of poets from Britain, Ireland, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealandon the grounds that this work is "more readily available." The collection does embrace, however, poems written in English by such poets as Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka, for whom the language is, as McClatchy...
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Books. Life, Letters, and Poetry
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Features seventy-five activity types for classes of various sizes. This work helps learners sing, chant, beat time, write and perform jingles and short poems, and experiment with sounds of words, metaphors, and similes.
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This was a special request to cover 2 published poetry books for a gift to the author. The theme was love and hearts were desired into the design. The first book is covered in purple and blue suede leathers with copper wire and a copper heart. The book is bound with leather cord. A carved branch is bound into the spine with the initials to represent carving initials into a tree trunk. The second volume is adorned with a raised leather mosaic including a verdigris copper heart. Bookmarks are...
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Armitage is one of the U.K.�s most popular, important and prolific poets�as well as a writer for TV and radio, a translator, a teacher and a member of a rock band. Following his 2005 selected poems The Shout , as well as a recent translation of Sir Gawain and a dramatic version of The Odyssey, this is Armitage�s first individual collection to appear in the U.S., and it�s high time. The collection, Armitage�s 11th, amounts to an ambitious, personal meditation on the ugliness of life in...
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MAGNETIC POETRY-Magnifico Go Art Travel Kit. These fantastic little travel kits are perfect for the car; beach; park; bus; train; plane and much more! Each kit comes in a 5-1/4x5-1/4x 1-1/8in travel tin with a zipper closure and a lanyard carry handle. This package contain the Flipbook Kit: one black pen; four animation cycle stencils and two flip pads. Color: red and black. All contents conform to ASTM D4236. Recommended for ages 6 and up. WARNING: Choking Hazard-small parts and sharp points...
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If you buy both books, shipping and handling is only add $4.00(US dollars).
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Everyone at East High is freaking out. In one week, every student in Ms. Barrington's English class must recite an original poem in front of a special school assembly. Chad, Jason, and Zeke are afraid they'll be laughingstocks, but Troy is determined to help his friends succeed. Enlisting Gabriella's help, Troy helps his basketball buddies understand that there's more than one way to bust a rhyme!
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Make special homes for your poems with 8 projects: Color Poem Accordion Book, Acrostic Poem Slat Book, Diamante Accordion Book, Cinquain Step Book, Limerick Accordion Book, Haiku Book, Rhyme Sequence Slat Book, And Fan Book of Poetry Terms.
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A Book Of New England Legends And Folk Lore In Prose And Poetry (hardcover) - By Samuel Adams Drake
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The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Jahan Ramazani More New Books
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Celebrate poetry with these wonderful collections of rhyming fun. Set of 6 paperbacks.
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From Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman to Allen Ginsburg, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, from Adrienne Rich, Audre Lord, and Rita Dove to Sharon Olds, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Henri Cole, here are the iconic poets of the past half-century, men and women who have used and re-shaped the American language in all its vigorous, daring, tender, and intimate depth and breadth.
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April 20, 2008: War brings out the best in us?heroism, nobility, and sacrifice?and the worst in us?hatred, savagery, and vengefulness. From ancient times to the present, poets have explored the experience of war. War is a subject of most of the great western epics?the Iliad, Aeneid, Beowulf, Chanson de Roland, Paradise Lost, etc. War is the subject for modern day popular poet such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. To better understand the relationship between war and poetry, I read...
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Page after page of this tiny tome effuses thoughts of love from the minds of dozens of poetry's greatest scribes. What an ideal gift for the object of your affections! Paper, cardstock 151 pages Hachette Book Group
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* Promote active learning! Turn any book into an activity sheet. * Great for all subjects! Use with any worksheet or workbook. * Save paper! Students write on the SmartPAL®, not the worksheet. * Side-loading design! Worksheets slip in easily.
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Listening to Poetry not only introduces the finest work from some of the greatest poets who ever lived, it also resurrects the power of spoken poetry, bringing back to life the sheer pleasure of listening to verse.
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