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Author: Julie Paschkis
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 1250122295
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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See the colors of the rainbow in a whole new light!

Author: Countee Cullen
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Marge Piercy
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307517942
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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In Colors Passing Through Us, Marge Piercy is at the height of her powers, writing about what matters to her most: the lives of women, nature, Jewish ritual, love between men and women, and politics, sexual and otherwise. Feisty and funny as always, she turns a sharp eye on the world around her, bidding an exhausted farewell to the twentieth century and singing an "electronic breakdown blues" for the twenty-first. She memorializes movingly those who, like los desaparecidos and the victims of 9/11, disappear suddenly and without a trace. She writes an elegy for her mother, a woman who struggled with a deadening round o fhousework, washin gon Monday, ironing on Tuesday, and so on, "until stroke broke/her open." She remembers the scraps of lace, the touch of velvet, that were part of her maternal inheritance and fist aroused her sensual curiosity. Here are paeans to the pleasures of the natural world (rosy ripe tomatoes, a mating dance of hawks) as the poet confronts her own mortality in the cycle of seasons and the eternity of the cosmos: "iam hurrying, I am running hard / toward I don't know what, / but I mean to arrive before dark." Other poems--about her grandmother's passage from Russia to the New World, or the interrupting of a Passover seder to watch a comet pass--expand on Piercy's appreciation of Jewish life that won her so much acclaim in The Art of Blessing the Day. Colors Passing Through Us is a moving celebration of the endurance of love an dof the phenomenon of life itself--a book to treasure.

Author: Carl Phillips
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721424
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in Pale Colors in a Tall Field approach their points of view kaleidoscopically, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives, in turn, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender, dynamic, and startling books yet.

Author: Malathi Michelle Iyengar
Publisher: Children's Book Press
ISBN: 9780892392278
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Poems in celebration of brown skin color.

Author: Howard Ely
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795152399
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547562136
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Includes a reader's guide and an author's note.

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ISBN: 9781452158808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Nandita Das
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482849585
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Colors of Delight is a collection of poetry by Nandita Das. Her poetry is filled with rich humor, great imagery, beautiful seamless flow, and philosophical pondering. While at college, her poem Stalemate was published as an anthology by Poets International organization in 1991. This book is a beautiful tapestry woven by the author, at times its sheer fun and at times deeply moving and poignant.. The images are vivid and rich, capturing myriad emotions. This is a very fascinating book which truly paints the beautiful colors of delight.

Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780064433617
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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An introduction to colors and to poetry, for very young children.