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Author: Jack Prelutsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590053914
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Absurd poetry by Jack Prelutsky.

Author: Jack Prelutsky
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241020241
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Douglas Florian
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152046392
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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A collection of poems of zoologiacla delights, from lazy lizards to regal eagles.

Author: Joseph Arthur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985094638
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Susan Gubernat
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496202759
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Gubernat's The Zoo at Night reflects with subtle craft on the dark side of love, death, the family romance, carnality, and lofty aspirations. She thinks of her poems as "night thoughts" resembling nocturnes, in which "a bit of light leaks in." Both experimental and classic, Gubernat's poems combine formal and free verse elements. A (mostly) unrhymed sonnet sequence seeks to recall the world of a pre-digital childhood when physical objects--tactile, mechanical--took on totemic import and magical significance. Other poems echo the Rilkean principle that poetry can be empathetic by looking outward at the "thingness" of the world. In these works of love and longing, Gubernat enters through the doors of craft and exits with feeling.

Author: Freya And Emma Grundy
Publisher: Verse Shed
ISBN: 9781739451035
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Zillyzoo is definitely not your usual book of animal poems for children. The 'zoo' is divided into 3 'zones'. Each 'zone' begins with the image of a door on which is written an introduction to what lies beyond. Poems in Zone 3 offer different levels of complexity and challenge, and has been written for more able young readers to think about and explore. In the first zone, poems are mostly light-hearted and humorous, but even here there are those that ask the reader to think about what they've read. Not everything is always obvious. The very first poem (A day at the zoo #1) is obviously just about a visit to the zoo. That's all there is to it . . . or is it? This poem introduces the first of several mini-themes that pop up here and there throughout the whole book ... but I leave readers to make their own sense of them. The second zone continues these same themes, but now there is more to think about. What secrets or secret lives do a lot of the animals have? Even poems like 'A very modern cow' might seem to be too simple to even think about. Maybe it is just a little rhyme about a sad cow? Or maybe the little animal is hoping the reader will wonder why its parents and grandparents had names, but it only has a number. That is is the essence of ZillyZoo. Hidden amongst a lot of narrative or humorous verse, there are all sorts of ideas that will hopefully trigger readers' curiosity and imagination. Zone 3 takes this theme much further. As it says on the door at the start of the final set of poems, "There are shadows here." These are poems for more able readers who hopefully want more than just a light-hearted poem or a few minutes' amusement. These poems are written to stimulate responses, imagination, maybe discussion, and thought ... but they never go so far as to require personal interpretation to become full-on analysis. I've never felt happy assigning reading levels or abilities to specific ages as some sort of 'target' or as a threshold for levels of understanding. What is challenging for a child, of say, 8, can be easily understood by another of the same or a younger age. My bracketing of 'ages 6-13' is therefore only a very simple guide.

Author: Joanie Mackowski
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822979977
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Winner of the 2000 Associated Writing Programs' Award in PoetrySelected by Li-Young LeeJoanie Mackowski's debut collection of poetry is meditative, vivid, sometimes weird. Turning an idiosyncratic eye to the inhabitants of zoos and fish tanks, cafes and cemeteries, she illuminates details that make the familiar seem strange. An egret stands "still as a glass of milk"; iceberg lettuce is a "vegetable leviathan" that "extends beneath the dinner table / an unseen, monstrous green"; a bald eagle may "love a jet?— / or worship them all, or mock them, rigid / freaks that never linger."An insistent musicality fills these poems, whether asking, "Ailing, alien, alone, / are you ill in your ear or in error?" exhorting, "Remember the Alamo, remember Armageddon, / remember the mustard and chard in your garden," or reflecting, "one does wonder what one does wonder one does." Mackowski's practical metaphysics and desperate wit puzzle the boundary between essence and ornament, revelation and disguise, reason and the loss of it.

Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316372732
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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A collection of poems about animals at the zoo, by poets including Myra Cohn Livingston, Theodore Roethke, and Maxine Kumin.

Author: Bernard Clay
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 173522426X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Autobiographical poetry from one of Kentucky’s rising Affrilachian literary stars. Bernard Clay’s autobiographical poetry debut, English Lit, juxtaposes the roots of Black male identity against an urban and rural Kentucky landscape. Hailed as one of the most authentic voices of his generation, Clay artfully renders coming-of-age in the predominately Black West End of Louisville, Kentucky. Balancing the spirited grit of a farmer and the careful lyricism of a poet, English Lit is a triumph of new Affrilachian—African American and Appalachian—literature.

Author: Ralph R. Acampora
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739134566
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Metamorphoses of the Zoo marshals a unique compendium of critical interventions that envision novel modes of authentic encounter that cultivate humanity's biophilic tendencies without abusing or degrading other animals. These take the form of radical restructurings of what were formerly zoos or map out entirely new, post-zoo sites or experiences. The result is a volume that contributes to moral progress on the inter-species front and eco-psychological health for a humankind whose habitats are now mostly citified or urbanizing.