Author: Stephen DunningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A collection of poems expressing the feelings of America's young generation.
Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle
Author: Stephen DunningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A collection of poems expressing the feelings of America's young generation.
Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle and Another Complete Modern Poems
Author: Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle, and Other Complete Modern Poems. Compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders
Author: Stephen DunningResource Book for Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle
Author: Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle and Other Complete Modern Poems
Author: Stephen DunningPublisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard
ISBN: 9780688414450
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The work of artists such as Matisse, Klee, and Dali illustrates this diverse collection of poems by both famous and lesser known poets
Some Haystacks Don't Even Have My Needle
Author: Edward LuedersWeapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Author: James B. GarryPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806188006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
When Meriwether Lewis began shopping for supplies and firearms to take on the Corps of Discovery’s journey west, his first stop was a federal arsenal. For the following twenty-nine months, from the time the Lewis and Clark expedition left Camp Dubois with a cannon salute in 1804 until it announced its return from the West Coast to St. Louis with a volley in 1806, weapons were a crucial component of the participants’ tool kit. In Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, historian Jim Garry describes the arms and ammunition the expedition carried and the use and care those weapons received. The Corps of Discovery’s purposes were to explore the Missouri and Columbia river basins, to make scientific observations, and to contact the tribes along the way for both science and diplomacy. Throughout the trek, the travelers used their guns to procure food—they could consume around 350 pounds of meat a day—and to protect themselves from dangerous animals. Firearms were also invaluable in encounters with Indian groups, as guns were one of the most sought-after trade items in the West. As Garry notes, the explorers’ willingness to demonstrate their weapons’ firepower probably kept meetings with some tribes from becoming violent. The mix of arms carried by the expedition extended beyond rifles and muskets to include pistols, knives, espontoons, a cannon, and blunderbusses. Each chapter focuses on one of the major types of weapons and weaves accounts from the expedition journals with the author’s knowledge gained from field-testing the muskets and rifles he describes. Appendices tally the weapons carried and explain how the expedition’s flintlocks worked. Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition integrates original research with a lively narrative. This encyclopedic reference will be invaluable to historians and weaponry aficionados.
The Poetry Corner
Author: Arnold CheyneyPublisher: Good Year Books
ISBN: 1596473355
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The first half of this book glitters like a mine full of gems - that is, the author spins off in quick succession idea after idea about what poetry is and how writing poetry can be taught. Quoting countless poems to illustrate his points, he tosses out useful advice about evoking poetic writing, developing language precision, and sharing poetic writing. These discussions are annotated in the back of the book with references to 50 writing starters on reproducible handouts Grades 4-6. Bibliography. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 115 pages.
Below Freezing
Author: Donald AndersonPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826359841
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Climate change is here. This book moves beyond misery and misunderstanding, taking a literary approach to the debate. Below Freezing is a unique assemblage of scientific fact, newspaper reports, and excerpts from novels, short stories, nonfiction, history, creative nonfiction, and poetry—a commonplace book for our era of altering climate. This polyphony of voices functions as an oratorio, shifting from chorus to solo and back to chorus. An unconventional and brilliant book, Below Freezing is both timely and pertinent—an original gaze at this melting ball we call home.
Gathering Noise from My Life
Author: Donald AndersonPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382242
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The noise gathered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that Donald Anderson musters here, fragments of the humor and horror of life, the absurdities that mock reason and the despair that yields laughter. Gathering Noise from My Life offers sonic shards of a tune at once jaunty and pessimistic, hopeful and hopeless, and a model for how we can make sense of the scraps of our lives. “We are where we’ve been and what we’ve read,” the author says, and gives us his youth in Montana, the family tradition of boxing, careers in writing and fighting, the words of Mike Tyson, Frederick the Great, Fran Lebowitz, and Shakespeare. In his camouflaged memoir, the award-winning short-story writer cobbles together the sources of the vision of life he has accrued as a consequence of his six decades of living and reading.