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A collection of poems celebrating the ordinary in an unordinary way, by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Theodore Roethke, and D. H. Lawrence. Limited preview - 1998 - 112 pages - Juvenile Nonfiction |
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ReviewsEditorial Review - Kirkus Reviews Copyright (c) VNU Business Media, Inc. According to the introduction, this gathering of poetry from Europe and the Americas began as clippings in a shoebox, collected over years by Willard (Magic Cornfield, 1997, etc). The selections are meaty, with D.H. Lawrence's three-line ""The White Horse"" and Robert Frost's deliciously eerie, six-page dialogue, ""The Witch of Co…s,"" at the extremes for length, and make an eclectic mix, leaning toward newer poets but including a Mother Goose rhyme, Christopher Smart's ""For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry,"" and ""Donal Og,"" a traditional lament for love betrayed. The arrangement is, broadly, by subject, beginning with Emily Dickinson's ""Will There Really Be a 'Morning'?"" and closing with poems featuring night, death, and dreams. Selections in between touch on wind and water, sensory epiphanies (Pablo Neruda sings an ""Ode to a Pair of Socks"" while Theodore Roethke's ""Slug"" is about stepping on one), animals, children, old folk, and even bodies, as in Lucille Clifton's ""Homage to My Hips."" Few of the poems were written specifically for an audience of the young, but those who aren't thrown by e.e. cummings's ""If there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have"" should comprehend the syntax and content of the rest. It's a highly personal collection, chosen with a fine ear for language and rightfully commended by Willard for ""celebrating the ordinary in an unordinary way. Common terms and phrasesAllie calls Allie sings almanac armadillo attic bird birdseed bones Book Award books for children books of poetry born burning came CAT JEOFFRY CATFISH cellar cha cha child Chile CHRISTOPHER SMART Chrysanthemums come Connecticut CONSIDER MY CAT D. H. LAWRENCE dark Denise Levertov don't DONALD HALL door dream Dudley Fitts e. e. cummings earth ELEANOR FARJEON Elizabeth Bishop Emily Dickinson EMILY HAHN England EPITAPH Etain eyes father fearful symmetry feet FILLED WITH LIGHT finger FRAU FULL FATHOM FIVE GABRIELA MISTRAL GALWAY KINNELL GARciA LORCA GERALD STERN Gibraltar grandmother grave greenhouse Hampshire hand headboard HEAVENS MY MOTHER hips horse Irish It's JAMES WRIGHT JOSEPH FELL A-DREAMING Judith Hemschemeyer KELLY WILLIAMS KENNETH PATCHEN Library of Congress LINDA PASTAN Liz Fischer llama looking Lucille Clifton MALTESE manure marigold MARILYN CHIN Marvel Stove Massachusetts MAXINE KUMIN Megan Gannon Michigan moon morning Mother Goose MOTHER WILL(ALL National Book Award night NIKKI GIOVANNI Nobel Prize nothing PABLO NERUDA pcheek pcheek pcheek Pennsylvania Philip Levine playwright poems poet poetry PRETTY HOW TOWN Pulitzer Prize purple REMEMBER THE ROOM ROBERT FROST Robert Graves ROOM WAS FILLED ROTELLA sleep snow socks song Spain stars rain Step Lightly summer sunflower tears tell tendrils Tennessee Theodore Roethke tic toe tic Toffile Translated tree Tropical Fish Tyger Valerie Linet W. S. Merwin Wallace Stevens WARM NIGHTS whaler WILLIAM BLAKE WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS William Carlos Williams WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Stafford Wind blowing winter winter spring won the Pulitzer World War II writing York City Other editions
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