Dirt on My Shirt: Selected Poems

Dirt on My Shirt: Selected Poems PDF Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061765252
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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In this hilarious collection of poems, comedian Jeff Foxworthy creates a neighborhood filled with fun, family, friends, and more. Here you'll meet Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed and Aunt Foo Foo, cows with horns that don't go beep, dads in sweaters, also sheep. From the thrill of flying to the imaginary planet Woosocket to bonding with a friend over a shared hatred of spinach, these poems capture the very essence of being a kid. Filled with sly humor and always affectionate, "Dirt on My Shirt" is sure to delight kids, big and little, everywhere.

Dirt on My Shirt: Selected Poems

Dirt on My Shirt: Selected Poems PDF Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061765252
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Book Description
In this hilarious collection of poems, comedian Jeff Foxworthy creates a neighborhood filled with fun, family, friends, and more. Here you'll meet Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed and Aunt Foo Foo, cows with horns that don't go beep, dads in sweaters, also sheep. From the thrill of flying to the imaginary planet Woosocket to bonding with a friend over a shared hatred of spinach, these poems capture the very essence of being a kid. Filled with sly humor and always affectionate, "Dirt on My Shirt" is sure to delight kids, big and little, everywhere.

Silly Street: Selected Poems

Silly Street: Selected Poems PDF Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061765287
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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When you take a trip to Silly Street, don't forget to bring your sense of humor! From balloon rides to crows that chew bubble gum, you'll wish you could stay forever!

Hide!!!

Hide!!! PDF Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780825305542
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Children play a game of hide-and-seek. Illustrations contain hidden objects for which the reader may search.

Romey's Order

Romey's Order PDF Author: Atsuro Riley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226719456
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Romey's Order is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records--and tries to order--the objects, inscape, injuries, and idiom of his "blood-home" and childhood world. Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to transform "every burn-mark and blemish," to “bind our river-wrack and leavings," Romey seeks to forge finally (if even for a moment) a chord in which he might live. Intently visceral, aural, oral, Atsuro Riley's poems bristle with musical and imaginative pleasures, with story-telling and picture-making of a new and wholly unexpected kind.

Come, Take a Gentle Stab

Come, Take a Gentle Stab PDF Author: Salim Barakat
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781803091952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Introduces renowned Kurdish-Syrian writer Salim Barkat to an English audience for the first time, with translated selections from his most acclaimed works of poetry. Although Salim Barakat is one of the most renowned and respected contemporary writers in Arabic letters, he remains virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. This first collection of his poetry in English, representing every stage of his career, remedies that startling omission. Come, Take a Gentle Stab features selections from his most acclaimed works of poetry, including excerpts from his book-length poems, rendered into an English that captures the exultation of language for which he is famous. A Kurdish-Syrian man, Barakat chose to write in Arabic, the language of cultural and political hegemony that has marginalized his people. Like Paul Celan, he mastered the language of the oppressor to such an extent that the course of the language itself has been compelled to bend to his will. Barakat pushes Arabic to a point just beyond its linguistic limits, stretching those limits. He resists coherence, but never destroys it, pulling back before the final blow. What results is a figurative abstraction of struggle, as alive as the struggle itself. And always beneath the surface of this roiling water one can glimpse the deep currents of ancient Kurdish culture.

Collected Poems

Collected Poems PDF Author: Joseph Ceravolo
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN: 0819575267
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Like an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first full portrait of Ceravolo’s aesthetic trajectory, bringing to light the highly original voice that was operating at an increasing remove from the currents of the time. From a poetics associated with Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery to an ever more contemplative, deeply visionary poetics similar in sensibility to Zen and Dante, William Blake and St. John of the Cross, this collection shows how Ceravolo’s poetry takes on a direct, quiet lyricism: intensely dedicated to the natural and spiritual life of the individual. As Ron Silliman notes, Ceravolo’s later work reveals him to be “one of the most emotionally open, vulnerable and self-knowing poets of his generation.” Many new pieces, including the masterful long poem “The Hellgate,” are published here for the first time. This volume is a landmark edition for American poetry, and includes an introduction by David Lehman.

Howling on Red Dirt Roads

Howling on Red Dirt Roads PDF Author: Sara Claytor
Publisher: Main Street Rag
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Breakfast with Thom Gunn

Breakfast with Thom Gunn PDF Author: Randall Mann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226503453
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Aubade Those who lack a talent for love have come to walk the long Pier 7. Here at the end of the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow red of a pilot’s boat; the groan of a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poor translation that will not carry us across. What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feed only on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. Randall Mann’s Breakfast with Thom Gunn is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929–2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but the backdrop is “pitiless,” the trees “thin and bloodless,” the words “like the icy water” of the San Francisco Bay. Mann, fiercely intelligent, open yet elusive, draws on the “graceful erosion” of both landscape and the body, on the beauty that lies in unbeauty. With audacity, anxiety, and unbridled desire, this gifted lyric poet grapples with dilemmas of the gay self embroiled in—and aroused by—a glittering, unforgiving subculture. Breakfast with Thom Gunnis at once formal and free, forging a sublime integrity in the fire of wit, intensity, and betrayal. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “We have before us a skillful, witty, passionate young poet. . . . Randall Mann is both attuned to and at odds with the natural world; he articulates the passions and predicaments of a self inside a massive, arousing, but sometimes brutal culture. And he accomplishes these things with buoyant lyric sensibilities and rejuvenating skills.”—Kenyon Review

This Great Unknowing

This Great Unknowing PDF Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing.

Directed by Desire

Directed by Desire PDF Author: June Jordan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320800
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."