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The List Poem

Author: Larry Fagin

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

Both a guide and an anthology, this book is for teachers (and self-teachers) who would like to explore the list poem, a flexible poetic form that can be used by beginning writers (from kindergarten to 12th grade) as well as by the most sophisticated. The book: offers practical advice on how to teach list poetry; describes how to work with students to inspire them to write interesting and imaginative list poems; offers specific writing ideas for list poems; defines and discusses the nature of list poetry; traces the historical lineage of list poetry from ancient times; and presents more than 200 examples by adults--from classical and modern literature--and today's children. Chapters in the book are: (1) Historical Background; (2) This Little Piggy (Lists and List Poems); (3) Memories; (4) Oxen Should Have Very Small Foreheads (Lists in Sei Shonagon's "Pillow Book"); (5) Parts of the Body; (6) Things to Do; (7) Lining Up My Toys (List Poems about Being Alone); (8) I Went Out with Vanessa del Rio (Using Kenneth Koch's Teaching Ideas); (9) How to Behave at a Fancy Party; (10) Menus, Haircuts, Fashion Notes, and Popular Dances; (11) Ingredients; (12) Rhymed Couplets (List Poems Inspired by Walt Whitman and Thanksgiving); and (13) Grab Bag. (RS)

Invent Story

Author: Eileen Tabios

Publisher: DOS Madres Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781939929365

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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "There are so many paths thru the enchanted forest that is Eileen Tabios' oeuvre that no one can possibly take them all in one lifetime. So it is with something approaching glee that I find here a completely unexpected one: a mid- career 'selected' constructed around her recurring use of the list / catalogue-form. Did I say the list-form? No, pluralize that, and prepare to encounter an entire ecosystem of catalogues and lists. And don't for a minute let this lead you to think that this is a book of 'weak conceptualism', not that there's anything wrong with weakness (in the sense of an antifoundationalism), nor with conceptualism, because there's not. Think rather that you are encountering poetry, sans qualifiers; prepare to read; and (quoting Perec quoting Verne) 'Look with all your eyes, look'. This is the real stuff." John Bloomberg- Rissman"

Poem Depot

Author: Douglas Florian

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-02-20

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1101620501

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In the vein of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky, this illustrated book of humorous poems will guarantee giggles Artist, poet, and award-winning author Douglas Florian successfully captures the comedy of kids’ everyday lives with this jam-packed volume of 170 nonsense poems. Meander through the different aisles—such as “Jests & Jives” or “Tons of Puns”—to find everything from laugh-out-loud limericks to frenetic free verse. With Florian’s eccentric wit and off-the-wall drawings, this one-stop funny poetry shop is perfect for fans of Where the Sidewalk Ends.

Poetry 180

Author: Billy Collins

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2003-03-25

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0812968875

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A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible not to love at first glance. Open the anthology to any page and discover a new poem to cherish, or savor all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of contemporary poetry’s vibrance and abundance. With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.

Solving the World's Problems

Author: Robert Lee Brewer

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781935708902

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The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer's Solving the World's Problems is a slippery world ... where chaos always hovers near, where we are (and should be) "splashing around in dark puddles." And one feels a bit dizzy reading these poems because (while always clear, always full of meaning) they come at reality slantwise so that nothing is quite the same and the reader comes away with a new way of looking at the ordinary objects and events of life. The poems are brim-full of surprises and delights, twists in the language, double-meanings of words, leaps of thought and imagination, interesting line-breaks. There are love and relationship poems, dream poems, poems of life in the modern world. And always the sense (as he writes) of "pulling the world closer to me/leaves falling to the ground/ birds flying south." I read these once, twice with great enjoyment. I will go back to them often. -Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Then, Something

Underneath My Bed

Author: Brian P. Cleary

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1512411124

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When is a list also a poem? When it's a list poem! List poems can be funny or serious, rhymed or unrhymed. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how these types of poems work—and shows some of the many ways they can be written. Underneath My Bed is packed with goofy poems on subjects ranging from summer camp to dinosaurs to messy bedrooms. And when you've finished reading, you can try writing your very own list poem!

Underneath My Bed

Author: Brian P. Cleary

Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1467793434

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Explains how to compose a list poem and presents a collection of fifteen list poems on a variety of topics, including summer camp, the bus stop, a wish list, and the lost and found.

A Poet's Glossary

Author: Edward Hirsch

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 683

ISBN-13: 0547737467

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A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over. Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America, from small formal elements to large mysteries, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. Knowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.

Good Books, Good Times!

Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2000-01-26

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0064462226

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Lee Bennet Hopkins, noted anthologist and educator, has collected a group of witty and whimsical poems that celebrate the joy of reading. Karla Kuskin, Jack Prelutsky, and Arnold Lobel are just a few of the acclaimed children's book authors whose poems are joined into this delightful ode to the world of words. Wonderfully wacky illustrations by Harvey Stevenson help make this a rollicking good book--and a rollicking good time.

Bookspeak!

Author: Laura Purdie Salas

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0547223005

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Presents a series of poems which pay tribute to the limitless worlds available through books, as characters plead for sequels, strut fancy jackets, and have a raucous party in the aisles after a bookstore closes for the night.