Author: Allen James
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300204796
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"From the Heart: prose and poetry from the depths of life" is a collection of writings from the author's 35 years of experience as a student of life, education and daily interaction with others as a psychotherapist and educator. Each selection in this paperback version is intended to spark in the reader a desire to look inward and reflect on their own journey through life and encourages placing their own thoughts to page by providing space at the back of the book to do so.
From the Heart: prose and poetry from the depths of life
Author: Allen James
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300204796
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"From the Heart: prose and poetry from the depths of life" is a collection of writings from the author's 35 years of experience as a student of life, education and daily interaction with others as a psychotherapist and educator. Each selection in this paperback version is intended to spark in the reader a desire to look inward and reflect on their own journey through life and encourages placing their own thoughts to page by providing space at the back of the book to do so.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300204796
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"From the Heart: prose and poetry from the depths of life" is a collection of writings from the author's 35 years of experience as a student of life, education and daily interaction with others as a psychotherapist and educator. Each selection in this paperback version is intended to spark in the reader a desire to look inward and reflect on their own journey through life and encourages placing their own thoughts to page by providing space at the back of the book to do so.
Heart Beats
Author: Catherine Robson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691163375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691163375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
From the Depths of the Soul
Author: Denis Plummer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936671700
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This volume of poetry consists of large variety of poems selected posthumously. The depth of human emotions, displayed in rich imagery taken from nature, leave the reader with a feeling of awe. One cannot help but ponder the deeper meanings in life. "A Straight and Narrow House" consists of 22 poems written in quatrains of four-stress lines. This form is appropriate to the "straight and narrow" path the father has chosen and the son attempts to follow. The speaker in the poem, the son, reflects on the image he has held of his father and the events that disturbed his image of the farm as a paradise. It is a powerful story with vivid natural imagery and a deeply engaging sense of the supernatural. "Unicorns in the Sun" is a sonnet sequence consisting of 46 Shakespearean sonnets. It is a story of love, joy, loss, suffering, and struggle with time, which is eventually conquered by art. The exquisite imagery of the seasons reflects the speaker's inner journey. "Metamorphosis" is a fairy-like, imaginative work of art that takes the reader into its world of magic. The remaining poems are grouped according to features that they share. Most are later poems, but some are from the poet's earliest writings. The poems included in this volume come from the depths of the poet's soul. They are memorable, reflective, and capture the reader's heart.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936671700
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This volume of poetry consists of large variety of poems selected posthumously. The depth of human emotions, displayed in rich imagery taken from nature, leave the reader with a feeling of awe. One cannot help but ponder the deeper meanings in life. "A Straight and Narrow House" consists of 22 poems written in quatrains of four-stress lines. This form is appropriate to the "straight and narrow" path the father has chosen and the son attempts to follow. The speaker in the poem, the son, reflects on the image he has held of his father and the events that disturbed his image of the farm as a paradise. It is a powerful story with vivid natural imagery and a deeply engaging sense of the supernatural. "Unicorns in the Sun" is a sonnet sequence consisting of 46 Shakespearean sonnets. It is a story of love, joy, loss, suffering, and struggle with time, which is eventually conquered by art. The exquisite imagery of the seasons reflects the speaker's inner journey. "Metamorphosis" is a fairy-like, imaginative work of art that takes the reader into its world of magic. The remaining poems are grouped according to features that they share. Most are later poems, but some are from the poet's earliest writings. The poems included in this volume come from the depths of the poet's soul. They are memorable, reflective, and capture the reader's heart.
A Counselor's Daily Guide to Success
Author: Allen James
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300320621
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
"A Counselor's Daily Guide to Success" is a daily desk calendar in book form which can be used year after year. Springing from the author's 30 years of experiences as a student of life, education and daily interactions with people as a high school English teacher, high school counselor and psychotherapist, each daily reading is intended to spark in the counselor a desire and motivation for a fulfilling and more successful career.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300320621
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
"A Counselor's Daily Guide to Success" is a daily desk calendar in book form which can be used year after year. Springing from the author's 30 years of experiences as a student of life, education and daily interactions with people as a high school English teacher, high school counselor and psychotherapist, each daily reading is intended to spark in the counselor a desire and motivation for a fulfilling and more successful career.
A Teacher's Daily Guide to Success
Author: Allen James
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300245042
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
"A Teacher's Daily Guide to Success" is a daily desk calendar in hardback book form which can be used year after year. Springing from the author's 30 years of experience as a high school English teacher, high school counselor, student of life and his daily interactions with people as a psychotherapist; each daily reading is intended to spark in the reader a desire and motivation for a successful teaching career.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300245042
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
"A Teacher's Daily Guide to Success" is a daily desk calendar in hardback book form which can be used year after year. Springing from the author's 30 years of experience as a high school English teacher, high school counselor, student of life and his daily interactions with people as a psychotherapist; each daily reading is intended to spark in the reader a desire and motivation for a successful teaching career.
My Heart
Author: Corinna Luyken
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735227934
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
From the author-illustrator of The Book of Mistakes comes a gorgeous picture book about caring for your own heart and living with kindness and empathy. My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide. Some days your heart is a puddle or a fence to keep the world out. But some days it is wide open to the love that surrounds you. With lyrical text and breathtaking art, My Heart empowers all readers to listen to the guide within in this ode to love and self-acceptance.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735227934
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
From the author-illustrator of The Book of Mistakes comes a gorgeous picture book about caring for your own heart and living with kindness and empathy. My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide. Some days your heart is a puddle or a fence to keep the world out. But some days it is wide open to the love that surrounds you. With lyrical text and breathtaking art, My Heart empowers all readers to listen to the guide within in this ode to love and self-acceptance.
A Graduate's Daily Guide to Success - Paperback
Author: Allen James
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130035447X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"A Graduate's Daily Guide to Success" is a daily desk calendar in book form which can be used year after year. Springing from the author's 30 years of experience as a high school English teacher, college English instructor, high school counselor and psychotherapist, each reading is intended to spark in the graduate a desire and motivation for success. Applying these readings to your day can aide in encouraging a life which is fulfilling and successful.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130035447X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"A Graduate's Daily Guide to Success" is a daily desk calendar in book form which can be used year after year. Springing from the author's 30 years of experience as a high school English teacher, college English instructor, high school counselor and psychotherapist, each reading is intended to spark in the graduate a desire and motivation for success. Applying these readings to your day can aide in encouraging a life which is fulfilling and successful.
Write a Poem, Save Your Life
Author: Meredith Heller
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 160868749X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
“Join Heller on her quest to help save the world, one poet at a time.” — from the foreword by Susan G. Wooldridge Write a Poem, Save Your Life helps writers of all ages and experience levels navigate their way through all aspects of life. With writing prompts, tools, encouragement, and moving student examples, Meredith Heller gently guides us in the art of using poetry to figure out who we are and what matters to us and to heal the deeper issues many of us face, such as depression, addiction, health and body image issues, low self-esteem, trauma, gender and sexual identity issues, and home and family problems. Along the way, we learn that writing poems helps us believe in ourselves, make positive life choices, and find direction, purpose, and meaning.
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 160868749X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
“Join Heller on her quest to help save the world, one poet at a time.” — from the foreword by Susan G. Wooldridge Write a Poem, Save Your Life helps writers of all ages and experience levels navigate their way through all aspects of life. With writing prompts, tools, encouragement, and moving student examples, Meredith Heller gently guides us in the art of using poetry to figure out who we are and what matters to us and to heal the deeper issues many of us face, such as depression, addiction, health and body image issues, low self-esteem, trauma, gender and sexual identity issues, and home and family problems. Along the way, we learn that writing poems helps us believe in ourselves, make positive life choices, and find direction, purpose, and meaning.
Poems to Learn by Heart
Author: Caroline Kennedy
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781423108054
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For this companion to her New York Times best-selling collection A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has hand-selected more than a hundred of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization. Some are joyful. Some are sad. Some are funny and lighthearted. Many offer layers of meaning that reveal themselves only after the poem has been studied so closely as to be learned by heart. In issuing the challenge to memorize great poetry, Caroline Kennedy invites us to a deeply enriching experience. For as she reminds us, “If we learn poems by heart, not only do we have their wisdom to draw on, we also gain confidence, knowledge and understanding that no one can take away.” Illustrated with gorgeous, original watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Jon J Muth , this is truly a book for all ages, and one that families will share again and again. Caroline’s thoughtful introductions shed light on the many ways we can appreciate poetry, and the special tradition of memorizing and reciting poetry that she celebrates within her own family.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781423108054
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For this companion to her New York Times best-selling collection A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has hand-selected more than a hundred of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization. Some are joyful. Some are sad. Some are funny and lighthearted. Many offer layers of meaning that reveal themselves only after the poem has been studied so closely as to be learned by heart. In issuing the challenge to memorize great poetry, Caroline Kennedy invites us to a deeply enriching experience. For as she reminds us, “If we learn poems by heart, not only do we have their wisdom to draw on, we also gain confidence, knowledge and understanding that no one can take away.” Illustrated with gorgeous, original watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Jon J Muth , this is truly a book for all ages, and one that families will share again and again. Caroline’s thoughtful introductions shed light on the many ways we can appreciate poetry, and the special tradition of memorizing and reciting poetry that she celebrates within her own family.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Author: Max Porter
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.