Author: Robert PackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Eight-three poets forge a vision of nature for the post-industrial age.
Poems for a Small Planet
Author: Robert PackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Eight-three poets forge a vision of nature for the post-industrial age.
Little Glass Planet
Author: Dobby GibsonPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978894
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
The poems in Dobby Gibson’s new book transform the everyday into the revelatory Little Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic, allusive, and collaged, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers, as family, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcasts to foreshorten the perceived distances between us, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. “This is my love letter to the world,” Gibson writes, “someone call us a sitter. / We’re going to be here a while.” Elegiac, funny, and candid, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. It’s a book that points toward hope, offering the possibilities of a “we” that only the open frequency of poetry can create, possibilities that are indistinguishable from love.
Big World, Small Planet
Author: Johan RockstromPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300218362
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
We have entered the Anthropocene - the era of massive human impacts on the planet - and the actions of over seven billion residents threaten to destabilize Earth's natural systems, with consequences for human societies. The authors combine the latest science with storytelling and photography to create a new narrative for humanity's future and reject the notion that economic growth and human prosperity can only be achieved at the expense of the environment
Work and Days
Author: Tess TaylorPublisher:
ISBN: 9781597097321
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A poet hailed as "stunning" reveals a fierce and sensual intelligence in a meditation about farming, reproducing, and what it means to try to forge a relationship with the earth.
Earth Lines
Author: Pat MoonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780688118532
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The author's poems celebrate Earth and reflect a concern for its survival in an age of pollution.
And Then There Were Eight
Author: Laura Purdie SalasPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 142961207X
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: * Perpetual license * 24 hour, 7 days a week access * No limit to the number of students accessing one title at a time * Provides a School to Home connection wherever internet is available * Easy to use * Ability to turn audio on and off * Words highlighted to match audio A collection of original, outer space-themed poetry for children accompanied by striking photos. The book demonstrates a variety of common poetic forms and defines poetic devices.
Here
Author: Elizabeth J. ColemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556595417
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
HERE is fierce poetic imagination that faces indifference and cynicism with a rallying call for individual activism and collective action.
The Sun in Me
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781413134124
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of nature poems that celebrate the beauty and fragility of the earth, by poets representing various cultures and times.
Make the Earth Your Companion
Author: J. Patrick LewisPublisher: Creative Editions
ISBN: 9781568462691
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Make the Earth your companion. Walk lightly on it, as other creatures do." With this powerfully reverent refrain, readers are reminded to treat the world around us with the respect it deserves and the care it needs. Mountains, lakes, rivers, grasslands, forests, deserts—even the sky above—all of our natural environs have some message to impart, if we will but listen. Picturesque illustrations imbue the images with mysticism, making visual connections to not only the words themselves but to the feelings of wonder they evoke.
The Day the Universe Exploded My Head
Author: Allan WolfPublisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 0763680257
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
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 the closest star to Earth? Or what Pluto has gotten up to since being demoted to a dwarf planet? Or where rocket ships go when they retire? Listen closely, because maybe, just maybe, your head will explode, too. With poetry that is equal parts accurate and entertaining — and illustrations that are positively out of this world — this book will enthrall amateur stargazers and budding astrophysicists as it reveals many of the wonders our universe holds. Space travelers in search of more information will find notes about the poems, a glossary, and a list of resources at the end.