Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.
Record details
ISBN:9781402210747
ISBN:1402210744
Physical Description:print sound disc 136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (63 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Publisher:Naperville, Ill. : Jabberwocky, 2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Eternity / Jason Shinder -- Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- Cinderella's diary / Ron Koertge -- Vampire's serenade / Dana Gioia -- Alone / Edgar Allan Poe -- Alone / Siegfried Sassoon -- Caroline / Allison Joseph -- "What are friends for..." / Rosellen Brown -- I loved my friend / Langston Hughes -- In the fifth-grade locker room / Rebecca Lauren -- Bra shopping / Parneshia Jones -- Blood charm / Annie Finch -- Pause / Nikki Grimes -- Delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday -- Indian education / Sherman Alexie -- One art / Elizabeth Bishop -- Here / Arthur Sze -- Haiku / Sonia Sanchez -- Good girl / Molly Peacock -- Bad boats / Laura Jensen -- No images / Waring Cuney -- won't you celebrate with me / Lucille Clifton -- What I'm telling you / Elizabeth Alexander -- How I learned to sweep / Julia Alvarez -- Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare -- Litany / Billy Collins -- A teenage couple / Brad Leithauser -- Free period / David Yezzi -- Zodiac / Elizabeth Alexander -- Skokie theater / Edward Hirsch -- Valentine / Wendy Cope -- An angry Valentine / Myra Cohn Livingston -- What great grief has made the empress mute / June Jordan -- Mad girl's love song / Sylvia Plath -- How we heard the name / Alan Dugan -- Gladiator / Kevin Prufer -- Worth / Marilyn Nelson -- I am a Black / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Lost sister / Cathy Song -- Flash cards / Rita Dove -- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg -- Dream variations / Langston Hughes -- Dreams / Langston Hughes -- Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney -- Manners / Elizabeth Bishop -- Mascara / Elizabeth Bishop -- from For a girl beginning / Joy Harjo -- Every day it is always there / Rainy Ortiz -- Dear Mama (4) / Wanda Coleman -- A boy in a bed in the dark / Brad Sachs -- Talk / Sharon Olds -- A small poem / Calvin Forbes -- Fears of the eighth grade / Toi Derricotte -- When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats -- Death of a snowman / Vernon Scannell -- Oatmeal / Galway Kinnell -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand -- Bagel / David Ignatow -- Hope is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson -- If I can stop one heart from breaking / Emily Dickinson -- Duke's castle / John Fuller -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Sacred / Stephen Dunn -- Road not taken / Robert Frost -- Prowess / Samuel Menashe -- What we might be, what we are / X.J. Kennedy -- Sideman / Paul Muldoon -- XVIII. Oh, when I was in love with you / A.E. Housman -- Sometimes with one I love / Walt Whitman -- In the desert / Stephen Crane -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Summer of black widows / Sherman Alexie -- Permanently / Kenneth Koch -- A dog on his master / Billy Collins -- Mowing / Midge Goldberg -- Seal / William Jay Smith -- Seahorses / Brad Leithauser -- So far / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Germ / Ogden Nash -- Baseball / Bill Zavatsky -- Poetry slalom / Mary Jo Salter -- How I discovered poetry / Marilyn Nelson -- Used book shop / X.J. Kennedy -- Survivor / Marilyn Chin -- New clothes / Kay Ryan -- Mediation / Kim Stafford -- A fable / Louise Glück -- Houses / Nancy Willard -- Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali -- Floral apron / Marilyn Chin -- Abuelito who / Sandra Cisneros -- Legacies / Nikki Giovanni -- Instead of her own / Molly Peacock -- Tia Chucha / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Adversary / Phyllis McGinley -- What your mother tells you now / Mitsuye Yamada -- 33 / Philip Schultz -- 49 / Philip Schultz -- What are heavy? / Christina Rossetti -- Wind / Sara Teasdale -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- When you are old / W.B. Yeats -- "Nobody can counsel and help you" / Rainer Maria Rilke -- "Live a while in these books" / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Here yet be dragons / Lucille Clifton -- Sedna / Kimiko Hahn -- Writer / Richard Wilbur.