I Met a Man

I Met a Man PDF Author: John Ciardi
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ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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For beginning readers, these poems lead children to new words through rhyme, riddles, context, and word game.

John Ciardi

John Ciardi PDF Author: Vince Clemente
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9780938626800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Some men make so indelible a mark on the lives of others that a place in time is reserved for them. In this memorial volume, some whose lives have been touched by such a man share their thoughts and memories of the poet, translator, editor, teacher, student, father, son, and husband they knew as John Ciardi. X.J. Kennedy and Lewis Turco discuss Lives of X, a neglected American classic, which chronicles the years Ciardi spent growing up in Medford, Massachusetts, studying at Tufts, and serving as a gunner in World War II. Richard Eberhart remembers Ciardi's unforgettable presence, while John Holmes and Roy W. Cowden remember him as a brilliant student and poet at Tufts and at Michigan, where he won the Avery Hopwood Award. Others remember him as a teacher at Harvard and Rutgers. Dan Jaffe writes, "If John Ciardi held to any cause, it was the notion of precision, to an uncompromising excellence, to the notion that to strive was in itself not enough that one needed to judge honestly, to assess courageously, and to respond without flinching." William Heyden and Norbert Krapf tell how the books I Marry You and How Does a Poem Mean? influenced them as young men. In "john Ciardi: the Many Lives of Poetry," John Nims claims Ciardi as our Chaucer. John Williams, Maxine Kumin, Diane Wakoski, and John Stone write about the Ciardi they knew at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Gay Wilson Allen describes the list of contributors to Measure of the Man as a "Who's Who" in American literature. Certainly it is an impressive gathering of poets, critics, and friends who have been touched by John Ciardi. "We are all in his debt," Norman Cousins writes in his essay "Ciardi at The Saturday Review," "and it is important that we say so."

John Ciardi: a Biography (p)

John Ciardi: a Biography (p) PDF Author: Edward M. Cifelli
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610752169
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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In this study of Ciardi's life, Edward Cifelli has captured all the deep concern, passion, and thoughtfulness that marked Ciardi's long career in American letters. With care and penetrating detail, Cifelli evokes Ciardi's early childhood in Boston, his Italian heritage, his service as a gunner on a B-29 during World War II, and his years teaching at Harvard and Rutgers. Illuminated here are Ciardi's widely read contributions as an editor of Saturday Review and World magazines, as well as his tireless effort to bring an awareness and love of language and poetry to America through radio, television, the lecture circuit, and his twenty-six years on the staff of the famous Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a gathering he directed for seventeen years.

I Met a Man

I Met a Man PDF Author: John Ciardi
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Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Book Description
For beginning readers, these poems lead children to new words through rhyme, riddles, context, and word game.

Collected Poems of John Ciardi (p)

Collected Poems of John Ciardi (p) PDF Author: Edward M. Cifelli
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751032
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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From Twenty Books of Verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment; poems of the natural world that reveal humanity's kinship to spiders and nebulae, oceans and thickets; and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.

How Does a Poem Mean?

How Does a Poem Mean? PDF Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Book Description
Explains the basic elements of poetry and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences.

Lives of X.

Lives of X. PDF Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Book Description
16 poems - autobiographical, introspective, and occasionally ironic.

How Does a Poem Mean?

How Does a Poem Mean? PDF Author: John Ciardi
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Originally published as one section of a collaborative volume entitled introduction to literature.

Doodle Soup

Doodle Soup PDF Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780395616178
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Thirty-eight poems, mostly humorous, by the well-known poet. "Most children find Ciardi's tartness invigorating; most adults find his writing deceptively casual, intrinsically sophisticated." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Saipan

Saipan PDF Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557280183
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Book Description
Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.

Fast and Slow

Fast and Slow PDF Author: John Ciardi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Book Description
Thirty-four humorous and nonsense poems, including "A Fog Full of Apes, " "A Fine Fat Fireman, " and "I Should Never Have Trusted That Bird."