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Smoky Night is a 1994 children's book by Eve Bunting.It tells the story of a Los Angeles riot and its aftermath through the eyes of a young boy named Daniel. The ongoing fires and looting force neighbors who previously disliked each other to work together to find their cats.
The rhyme scheme also changes throughout the poem as the bulk of the text appears in free verse while other lines do contain rhyming patterns. The poem is noted for its use of sound. [ 5 ] Bunting believed that the essential element of poetry is the sound, and that if the sound is right, the listener will hear, enjoy and be moved; and that ...
Kirkus Reviews called Bunting's work "child's brief sentences, but sprinkled with rhyming words and typographically arranged like a poem in short lines that slow the reading to a somber pace", while also applauding Bittinger's oil paintings. [1]
Susan Riley, of School Library Journal, reviewed the book saying, "Bunting, long a favorite of teen thrill seekers, has produced another winner in this well-written story of acute loneliness, alienation, romance, the occult, hope, and tragedy.
"The Hangman" is a poem written by Maurice Ogden in 1951 and first published in 1954. [1] The poem was originally published under the title "Ballad of the Hangman" in Masses and Mainstream magazine under the pseudonym "Jack Denoya", before later being "[r]evised and retitled".
"Danny Deever" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads. It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded as one of the most significant pieces of Kipling's early verse. The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder. His execution is viewed by his ...
Eavan Aisling Boland [1] (/ iː ˈ v æ n ˈ æ ʃ l ɪ ŋ ˈ b oʊ l ə n d / ee-VAN ASH-ling BOH-lənd; [2] 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.
Enid Dame (June 28, 1943, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania – December 25, 2003) was an American poet, fiction writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. [1] [2] [3] For many years, she and her husband, poet Donald Lev, lived in Brooklyn and in High Falls, New York, where they edited and published the literary tabloid Home Planet News.