Poking Fun In A Poem

Author : Valerie Bodden
Publisher : Creative Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781628322545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poking Fun in a Poem written by Valerie Bodden and published by Creative Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventions of poetry may seem imposing, but a good poem can be enjoyed at any age. This new series, geared toward the early elementary learner who may be encountering literary forms and terms for the first time, teaches by example, showing how poets use language in playful and effective ways to create meaning. The friendly illustrations add another layer of approachability, and each book invites the reader to Write Me a Poem based on a key idea outlined earlier. An elementary exploration of word play and attitude in poetry, introducing puns, stanzas, and limericks as well as poets such as Edward Lear. Includes a writing exercise.

Author : Paul B. Janeczko
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 9780763606619
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Poke in the I written by Paul B. Janeczko and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a collection of poetry for young readers from numerous visual poets, including Maureen W. Armour and John Hollander.

Author : Bob Raczka
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1466887060
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presidential Misadventures written by Bob Raczka and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spoonful of poetry helps the mockery go down! This collection of presidential poems is historical and hysterical. The clerihew is a simple poetic form specifically invented to make fun of famous people—and who is more famous than the misbehaving presidents of the United States? Here are forty-three poems teasing the commander-in-chief that are fun to read aloud and even more fun to write yourself. From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word comes a new collection filled with zingers, humdingers, and Presidential Misadventures.

Author : Robert Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pot Shots at Poetry written by Robert Francis and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alicia Mountain
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609385454
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Ground Coward written by Alicia Mountain and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. High Ground Coward offers fists full of soil, leftovers for breakfast, road trip as ritual, twins of lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms with hunger-inducing detail, its speakers asking us to consider what it will take to satisfy our own appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish one another. “Ferocious, even the softest part,” Mountain shows us “a way to fall in love with wanting,” leaving us “ravenous, but gradually.” Bearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion, High Ground Coward is an almanac of emotional and relational seasons. Mountain’s speakers question the meaning of inheritance, illness, violence, mythology, and family architecture. Whether Mountain is at work revealing the divinity of doubt, the entanglement of devotion, or the dominion that place holds over us, High Ground Coward heralds a thrilling poetic debut. From “Scavenger” We three eat food and are in love. This is the easy way to say there are stores beneath the floor. Potatoes and shallots, hard-necked garlic streaked purple, jars beside jars, themselves each staving globes of suction. Preservation, a guardian hunger. In the evening I whisper to the boiled beet, like a naked organ in my flushed hand: You are ground blood, you are new born, you have never been nothing— thawfruit seedflower greenstart rootbulb handpull shedscrub mouthsweet and again.

Author : Daniel Kane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520233840
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Poets Welcome written by Daniel Kane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-03-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with its accompanying CD, this text captures the excitement of the vibrant, irreverent poetry scene of New York's Lower East Side in the 1960s. The text draws from personal interviews with many of the participants, from unpublished letters and from rare sound recordings.

Author : John Cusatis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496840682
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Billy Collins written by John Cusatis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Collins “puts the ‘fun’ back in profundity,” says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called “hospitable” poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly unprecedented popularity. His work is also critically esteemed and well represented in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. An English professor for five decades, Collins was fifty-seven when his poetry began gathering considerable international attention. Conversations with Billy Collins chronicles the poet’s career beginning with his 1998 interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, which exponentially expanded his readership, three years prior to his being named United States Poet Laureate. Other interviewers range from George Plimpton, founder of the Paris Review, to Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Henry Taylor to a Presbyterian pastor, a physics professor, and a class of AP English Literature students. Over the course of the twenty-one interviews included in the volume, Collins discusses such topics as discovering his persona, that consistently affable voice that narrates his often wildly imaginative poems; why poetry is so loved by children but often met with anxiety by high school students; and his experience composing a poem to be recited during a joint session of Congress on the first anniversary of 9/11, a tragedy that occurred during his tenure as poet laureate. He also explores his love of jazz, his distaste for gratuitously difficult poetry and autobiographical poems, and his beguiling invention of a mock poetic form: the paradelle. Irreverent, incisive, and deeply life-affirming—like his twelve volumes of poetry—these interviews, gathered for the first time in one volume, will edify and entertain readers in the way his sold-out readings have done for the past quarter century.

Author : James Haydock
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146786160X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On a Darkling Plain written by James Haydock and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking the deepest and truest thoughts of humankind in the language available only to the gifted, the Victorian poets elected to do more than merely sing as versifiers. By coming to grips with thorny contemporary issues and suggesting workable solutions, they struggled to lead their people out of the wilderness. Tennyson, who came to be known as the voice of Victorianism, is the poet most often credited with this ambition. But Matthew Arnold and the other major poets had a similar aim. Their poems, while not devoid of feeling, are charged with the main currents of social, scientific, religious, and philosophical thought. Interwoven and resonating in sensuous song is their own thought. The best of the poetry fits the word and thought to the troubling developments of the time and rises to a prophecy to predict the problems of our time.

Author : Keith E. Sheldon
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595236308
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems of Life written by Keith E. Sheldon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of Life, Vol. II is like Poems of Life, Vol. I and just continues to have been written for a person to feel situations in life can be overcome or laughed at.

Author : Richard Scott
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571338925
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soho written by Richard Scott and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'But tonight I am super-charged, alive, looking into the eyes of / men . . .' In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott looks into the places not everyone sees or chooses to see. Against the backdrop of London's Soho, he creates an uncompromising portrait of love and shame, questioning our sense of the permissible and the perverse. Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness, too, as in a sequence re-imagining the love poetry of Verlaine. The collection crescendos to the title-poem, 'Soho!', where a night stroll under the street lamps becomes a search for 'true lineage', a reclamation of stolen ancestors, hope for healing, and, above all, the finding of our truest selves.