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A collection of sixty poems from various Native American groups. Concise, eloquent phrases convey a respect for nature and for…
human qualities. Many reveal the spiritual aspects of tribal life. For grades 5-8 and older readersAn international selection of more than forty poets presented in chronological order. Includes Sappho of ancient Greece, Charles Baudelaire of…
France, Pablo Neruda of Chile, and J.E. Wei of Taiwan. Editor chose poems that "shook" her. For junior and senior high readersAn annual collection of short stories, essays, and poetry published in magazines and by small presses. In "Grounded," a mother…
joins her son, who is running away from home. In "Oxygen," a man recalls one summer he spent delivering oxygen tanks to dying people. Descriptions of sex and strong languageThis same sky: a collection of poems from around the world
Par Naomi Shihab Nye. 1992
Anthology of pieces by 129 poets from sixty-eight countries other than the U.S. The poems express a universal spirit through…
themes including dreams, families, nature, loss, and human mysteries. For grades 5-8Anthology of twenty-four poems about people who occupy your thoughts, especially friends but also enemies. Titles like "Another Poem to…
Send to Your Worst Enemy," and "If I Could Put a Curse on You," are balanced by "Friendship," "Summertime Sharing," and "To You." For grades 3-6What have you lost?
1999
Selections from 140 contemporary poets expressing their thoughts and observations in free verse on the theme of loss--of objects, people,…
places, or concepts. Many of the poems are first-time publications. Biographical notes on the contributors are included. For junior and senior high readers. 1999Collection of poems spanning the stages of emotional recovery from heartbreak. Selected mainly from the work of such twentieth-century poets…
as Margaret Atwood, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, and Robert Frost, the sequence of topics takes us through rage, sadness, self-hatred, false hope, resolve, relapse, real hope, and moving on. 2002Smoke from this altar
Par Louis L'Amour. 1990
In 1939, Louis L’Amour first gave public voice to his now-celebrated spirit of wanderlust in SMOKE FROM THIS ALTAR. Like…
many of his stories, the poems in this book are inspired by his experiences and memories of his journeys across oceans and continents. It is vintage L’Amour storytelling — in verse — about nature, the land, and the people who loved and braved it.Rising voices: writings of young Native Americans
Par Arlene Hirschfelder, Beverly Singer. 1992
A collection of poems and essays written by young Native Americans between the late 1800s and 1990. Included is a…
nineteenth-century piece by a Chippewa girl who describes the heartbreak of returning home a stranger from seven years of boarding school and a poem declaring "Indians are native people...Yet, we are treated as though we just got here." For grades 5-8 and older readersThe Night of the whippoorwill: poems
Par Nancy Larrick. 1992
The night has held a special, magical appeal to poets throughout the ages all over the world. This collection of…
more than thirty such poems includes the works of Carl Sandburg, Eve Merriam, Ted Hughes, Langston Hughes, and Jane Yolen. For grades 3-6 and older readersNever take a pig to lunch: and other poems about the fun of eating
Par Nadine Bernard Westcott. 1994
A collection of nearly sixty humorous poems about food and eating. There are poems about school lunches, picnics, and manners…
and about baloney, a sliver of liver, oodles of noodles, and fudge. For grades K-3 and older readersSixty-five selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial American presses and magazines. "My Father, Dancing" by…
Bliss Broyard is her first published work. "A Thousand Buddhas," an essay about giving and receiving a massage, is by Brenda Miller, who once worked as a massage therapist. "Night Singing" is by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.S. Merwin. Some strong languageLooking for your name: a collection of contemporary poems
Par Paul B. Janeczko. 1993
Anthology of poems by contemporary writers. Focusing on conflict in a range of situations, the poems are designed to evoke…
strong emotions. The opening poem recalls a first-grader's eagerness in raising his hand to be called on for the answer. Other poems deal with such topics as suicide, AIDS, nuclear accidents, and the swift passage of life. Some strong language. For high school and older readersHand in hand: an American history through poetry
Par Lee Bennett Hopkins. 1994
Seventy-eight poems written by poets including Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost tell of the history of…
the United States. The collection begins with pieces about the pilgrims in the 1600s, and one of the final entries is a poem about sending mail to relatives in space. For grades 4-7The Best American poetry, 1996
Par David Lehman. 1996
Seventy-five poems by American writers. Includes Sherman Alexie's thoughts on the death penalty in "Capital Punishment"; Margaret Atwood's reflections on…
her youth amidst the torched remains of a home in "Morning in the Burned House"; and Jane Kenyon's meditation on mortality in "Reading Aloud to My Father." Some strong languageExtensive collection of poetry featuring the work of fifteen poets, such as Annie Dillard and Daniel Berrigan. Poems are divided…
into the following sections: The Cross, Transformation, Death, Injustice, Presence, God's Body, Fools, Wayfarers, Love, The Dark, Grace, Praise, The Mystical Body, Sacrament, The Leap, and HolyEducation for extinction: American indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928
Par David Wallace Adams. 2024
The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only…
by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man." This fully revised edition of Education for Extinction offers the only comprehensive account of this dispiriting effort, and incorporates the last twenty-five years of scholarship. Much more than a study of federal Indian policy, this book vividly details the day-to-day experiences of Indian youth living in a "total institution" designed to reconstruct them both psychologically and culturally. Especially poignant is Adams's description of the ways in which students resisted or accommodated themselves to forced assimilation. Many converted to varying degrees, but others plotted escapes, committed arson, and devised ingenious strategies of passive resistance. He reveals the various ways in which graduates struggled to make sense of their lives and selectively drew upon their school experience in negotiating personal and tribal survival in a world increasingly dominated by white menIn this classic narrative poem, written in late-eighteenth-century Vietnam, six common domestic animals--the water buffalo, the dog, the horse, the…
goat, the rooster, and the pig-each brags of the service it performs for its master and is contemptuous of some other beast as useless or harmful. This edition includes the original poem in Vietnamese language with a translation, introduction, and notes in English. Bilingual title