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Author : Edward M. Cifelli
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610752169
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Ciardi: a Biography (p) written by Edward M. Cifelli and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258347550
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Ciardi written by William White and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William White
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Ciardi, a Bibliography written by William White and published by Detroit : Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward M. Cifelli
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610751032
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems of John Ciardi (p) written by Edward M. Cifelli and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Vince Clemente
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780938626800
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Ciardi written by Vince Clemente and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Viscusi
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791466346
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing written by Robert Viscusi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viscusi also situates Italian American writing within the "eccentric design" of American literature, and uses a multidisciplinary approach to read not only novels and poems, but also houses, maps, processions, videos, and other artifacts as texts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Joseph T. Thomas
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814332962
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry's Playground written by Joseph T. Thomas and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the study of children's poetry has always had a place in the realm of children's literature, scholars have not typically considered it in relation to the larger scope of contemporary poetry. In this volume, Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., explores the "playground" of children's poetry within the world of contemporary adult poetic discourse, bringing the complex social relations of play and games, cliques and fashions, and drama and humor in children's poetry to light for the first time. Poetry's Playground considers children's poetry published in the United States from the mid-twentieth century onward, a time when many established adult poets began writing for young audiences. Through the work of major figures like Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Randall Jarrell, Theodore Roethke, Shel Silverstein, and Jack Prelutsky, Thomas explores children's poems within the critical and historical conversations surrounding adult texts, arguing at the same time that children's poetry is an oft-neglected but crucial part of the American poetic tradition. Canonical issues are central to Poetry's Playground. The volume begins by tracing Robert Frost's emergence as the United States' official school poet, exploring the political and aesthetic dimensions of his canonization and considering which other poets were pushed aside as a result. The study also includes a look at eight major anthologies of children's poems in the United States, offering a descriptive canon that will be invaluable to future scholarship. Additionally, Poetry's Playground addresses poetry actually written and performed by children, exploring the connections between folk poetry produced both on playgrounds and in the classroom. Poetry's Playground is a groundbreaking study that makes bold connections between children's and adult poetry. This book will be of interest to poets, scholars of poetry and children's literature, as well as students and teachers of literary history, cultural anthropology, and contemporary poetry.

Author : James M. Scott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003006
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb written by James M. Scott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Riveting.…This book is required reading for anyone with even a passing interest in World War II and the Pacific Theater." —Bob Carden, Boston Globe Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously remarked: “If we lose the war, we’ll be tried as war criminals.” James M. Scott reconstructs in granular detail that horrific night, and describes the development of the B-29, the capture of the Marianas for use as airfields, and the change in strategy from high-altitude daylight “precision” bombing to low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing. Most importantly, the raid represented a significant moral shift for America, marking the first time commanders deliberately targeted civilians which helped pave the way for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later. Drawing on first-person interviews with American pilots and bombardiers and Japanese survivors, air force archives, and oral histories never before published in English, Scott delivers a harrowing and gripping account, and his most important and compelling work to date.

Author : Barbara Allen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789141176
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pelican written by Barbara Allen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill, and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But as Barbara Allen reveals, this graceful skimmer of ocean waves has a checkered history. Originally classed as “unclean” in the King James Bible, the legend of the compassionate pelican was later appropriated by Christianity to symbolize Christ’s sacrifice. This majestic bird, gifted to British royalty in 1664, has been celebrated in art and literature, from Shakespeare’s King Lear to the writing of Edward Lear, and is the holder of three Guinness World Records. The pelican’s anatomy has been copied for paper plane construction, aircraft design, and in 3D imaging, and its resilience is as remarkable as its make-up: the pelican has rallied against threats of extinction, habitat destruction, and environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A must-read book for all bird enthusiasts, Barbara Allen’s Pelican weaves together wildlife trivia, historical tales, and the latest research to provide an engaging, many-feathered account of this emblematic bird.

Author : Jürgen E. Grandt
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209807
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinds of Blue written by Jürgen E. Grandt and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: