Author: Mark Strand
Publisher: Waywiser Press
ISBN: 9781904130154
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Blizzard of One
Author: Mark Strand
Publisher: Waywiser Press
ISBN: 9781904130154
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Waywiser Press
ISBN: 9781904130154
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Blizzard of One
Author: Mark Strand
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0375701370
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking," but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Blizzard of One is an extraordinary book--the summation of the work of a lifetime by one of our very few true masters of the art of poetry.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0375701370
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience. It is a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The poems are filled with "the weather of leavetaking," but they are also unexpectedly funny. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Blizzard of One is an extraordinary book--the summation of the work of a lifetime by one of our very few true masters of the art of poetry.
Blizzard of One
Author: Mark Strand
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A collection of poems written by Mark Strand.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A collection of poems written by Mark Strand.
One to Remember
Author: Douglas Ramsey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963525314
Category : Blizzards
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963525314
Category : Blizzards
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived #16)
Author: Lauren Tarshis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545919797
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the Children's Blizzard of 1888 in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series. Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's midwest without warning. Within hours, America's prairie would be buried under ten feet of snow. Hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified and lost and freezing. John never wanted to move to the wide-open prairie. He's a city kid, not a tough pioneer! But his inner strength is seriously tested when he finds himself trapped in the blinding snow, the wind like a giant crushing hammer, pounding him over and over again. Will John ever find his way home?
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545919797
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the Children's Blizzard of 1888 in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series. Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's midwest without warning. Within hours, America's prairie would be buried under ten feet of snow. Hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified and lost and freezing. John never wanted to move to the wide-open prairie. He's a city kid, not a tough pioneer! But his inner strength is seriously tested when he finds himself trapped in the blinding snow, the wind like a giant crushing hammer, pounding him over and over again. Will John ever find his way home?
Blizzard of Glass
Author: Sally M. Walker
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466805102
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, dumping more than a foot of snow on the area and paralyzing much-needed relief efforts. Fascinating, edge-of-your-seat storytelling based on original source material conveys this harrowing account of tragedy and recovery. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466805102
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, dumping more than a foot of snow on the area and paralyzing much-needed relief efforts. Fascinating, edge-of-your-seat storytelling based on original source material conveys this harrowing account of tragedy and recovery. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.
Snowball in a Blizzard
Author: Steven Hatch
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465098576
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a tumor in a mammogram is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. A bit of medical gallows humor, this simile illustrates the difficulties of finding signals (the snowball) against a background of noise (the blizzard). Doctors are faced with similar difficulties every day when sifting through piles of data from blood tests to X-rays to endless lists of patient symptoms. Diagnoses are often just educated guesses, and prognoses less certain still. There is a significant amount of uncertainty in the daily practice of medicine, resulting in confusion and potentially deadly complications. Dr. Steven Hatch argues that instead of ignoring this uncertainty, we should embrace it. By digging deeply into a number of rancorous controversies, from breast cancer screening to blood pressure management, Hatch shows us how medicine can fail-sometimes spectacularly-when patients and doctors alike place too much faith in modern medical technology. The key to good health might lie in the ability to recognize the hype created by so many medical reports, sense when to push a physician for more testing, or resist a physician's enthusiasm when unnecessary tests or treatments are being offered. Both humbling and empowering, Snowball in a Blizzard lays bare the inescapable murkiness that permeates the theory and practice of modern medicine. Essential reading for physicians and patients alike, this book shows how, by recognizing rather than denying that uncertainty, we can all make better health decisions.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465098576
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a tumor in a mammogram is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. A bit of medical gallows humor, this simile illustrates the difficulties of finding signals (the snowball) against a background of noise (the blizzard). Doctors are faced with similar difficulties every day when sifting through piles of data from blood tests to X-rays to endless lists of patient symptoms. Diagnoses are often just educated guesses, and prognoses less certain still. There is a significant amount of uncertainty in the daily practice of medicine, resulting in confusion and potentially deadly complications. Dr. Steven Hatch argues that instead of ignoring this uncertainty, we should embrace it. By digging deeply into a number of rancorous controversies, from breast cancer screening to blood pressure management, Hatch shows us how medicine can fail-sometimes spectacularly-when patients and doctors alike place too much faith in modern medical technology. The key to good health might lie in the ability to recognize the hype created by so many medical reports, sense when to push a physician for more testing, or resist a physician's enthusiasm when unnecessary tests or treatments are being offered. Both humbling and empowering, Snowball in a Blizzard lays bare the inescapable murkiness that permeates the theory and practice of modern medicine. Essential reading for physicians and patients alike, this book shows how, by recognizing rather than denying that uncertainty, we can all make better health decisions.
Blizzard
Author: Henri Cole
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 0374603219
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this collection of sonnets and other poems, Cole explores the discordant nature of our condition on earth
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 0374603219
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this collection of sonnets and other poems, Cole explores the discordant nature of our condition on earth
The Blizzard
Author: Vladimir Sorokin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374114374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
"In this short, surreal twist on the classic Russian novel, a doctor travels to a distant village to save its citizens from an epidemic, but a metaphysical snowstorm gets in his way"--
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374114374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
"In this short, surreal twist on the classic Russian novel, a doctor travels to a distant village to save its citizens from an epidemic, but a metaphysical snowstorm gets in his way"--
Collected Poems
Author: Mark Strand
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385352514
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
"A collection of all of the poet Mark Strand's previously published poems"--
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385352514
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
"A collection of all of the poet Mark Strand's previously published poems"--