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The copper braid of Shannon O'Shea / by Esckelson, Laura; Newton, Pamela Montegomery,;
A party of sprites unbraids an Irish lass's long, long red hair and discovers wonders from rubies and diamonds to geese and sheep tangled within the unruly curls.
Subjects: Hair; Fairies; Narrative poetry; Humorous stories;
© c2003., Dutton Children's Books,
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Forest of Noise Poems [electronic resource] : by Abu Toha, Mosab.aut; CloudLibrary;
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an acclaimed Palestinian poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives.   Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are those poems. Uncannily clear, direct, and beautifully tuned, they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime. Here are directives for what to do in an air raid; here are lyrics about the poet’s wife, singing to his children to distract them. Huddled in the dark, Abu Toha remembers his grandfather’s oranges, his daughter’s joy in eating them.  Moving between glimpses of life in relative peacetime and absurdist poems about surviving in a barely livable occupation, Forest of Noise invites a wide audience into an experience that defies the imagination—even as it is watched live. Abu Toha's poems introduce readers to his extended family, some of them no longer with us. This is an urgent, extraordinary, and arrestingly whimsical book. Searing and beautiful, it brings us indelible art in a time of terrible suffering.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Middle Eastern; Death, Grief, Loss;
© 2024., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
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Little Miss Spider : a Christmas wish / by Kirk, David,1955-;
Subjects: Spiders; Insects; Christmas stories.; Narrative poetry;
© c2001., Scholastic Press/Callaway,
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Who took the cookies from the cookie jar? / by Lass, Bonnie; Sturges, Philemon; Wolff, Ashley;
A raccoon tries to find out which of his animal friends stole the cookies.
Subjects: Animals; Cookies; Food habits; Narrative poetry;
© c2000., Little, Brown,
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Gathered light : the poetry of Joni Mitchell's songs / by Sornberger, John.; Sornberger, Lisa.;
Subjects: Mitchell, Joni, 1943-; Creative ability.;
© c2013., Sumach Press,
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Round is a pancake / by Baranski, Joan Sullivan; Han, Yu-Mei;
All around are round things such as a doughnut, a button, a coin, cookies, and the spots on a wee ladybug as the townspeople prepare a feast for their king.
Subjects: Circle; Kings, queens, rulers, etc.; Narrative poetry;
© c2001., Dutton Children's Books,
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Mix a pancake / by Rossetti, Christina Georgina,1830-1894.; Félix, Monique.;
"An illustrated board book version of poet Christina Rossetti's simple classic rhyme encourages young learners to actively follow along as a pancake is made. Includes a basic recipe"--
Subjects: Poetry.; Board books.; Stories in ryhme.; Pancakes, waffles, etc.; Cats;
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Readings on Homer / by Nardo, Don,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Homer; Epic poetry, Greek;
© 1997., Greenhaven Press,
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Treasures of the heart / by Miller, Alice Ann,1958-; Darnell, Kathryn.;
A child tries to convince his mother that all the things under his bed are treasures, not a mess to clean up.
Subjects: Orderliness; Mother and child; Cleanliness; Narrative poetry;
© c2003., Gale Group,
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The battle of Maldon : together with The homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's son, and The tradition of versification in Old English / by Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973,author.; Grybauskas, Peter,editor.; container of (work):Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.; container of (work):Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Tradition of versification in Old English.; translation of:Tolkien, J. R. R.(John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973.Maldon (Anglo-Saxon poem).English.(Tolkien);
Includes bibliographical references."First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts. In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, due to it being immortalised in the poem, The Battle of Maldon. Written shortly after the battle, the poem now survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable, not just as an heroic tale but in vividly expressing the lost language of our ancestors and celebrating ideals of loyalty and friendship. J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Battle of Maldon 'the last surviving fragment of ancient English heroic minstrelsy'. It would inspire him to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, which imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth's retainers come to retrieve their duke's body. Leading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas, presents for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien's own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays; also included and never before published is Tolkien's bravura lecture, 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English', a wide-ranging essay on the nature of poetic tradition. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, he has produced a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been 'the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien's fiction', most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings."--
Subjects: English poetry;
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