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Mao Zedong (1893–1976), the first Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the People's Republic of China for nearly 30 years, wrote poetry, starting in the 1920s, during the Chinese Red Army's retreat during the Long March of 1934–1936, and after coming to power in 1949 following the Chinese Civil War.
Poems for Grandmothers, illustrated by Patricia Callen-Clark, Holiday House, 1990. Poems for Brothers, Poems for Sisters, illustrated by Jean Zallinger, Holiday House, 1991. Lots of Limericks, Macmillan, 1991. If You Ever Meet a Whale, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher, Holiday House, 1992. A Time to Talk: Poems of Friendship, McElderry, 1992.
Made for Weather: Poems by Kay McKenzie Cooke (2007, Otago University Press) Born to a Red-Headed Woman (2014, Otago University Press) "Upturned" (2020, The Cuba Press) Cooke has been published in the 2020 & 2014 Best New Zealand Poems series and her work was praised in the 2007 edition.
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...
In 2012, he joined forces with the Sydney-based poetry imprint Pitt Street Poetry who republished his first collection from 1983 Light Pressure in a pocket format, and followed up with his new book of poetry The Sunset Assumption written during his Australia Council residency in Paris.
Several of his poems were used as lyrics in songs, so this musical effect may have been carefully calculated from the start. Nakahara displayed different emotions in his poems, which according to Rachel Dumas was often “confusion, ennui, anger, gloom, and apathy”. In some of his poems he talks about being alone and how life is filled with ...
Any subversive ideas that the poem contained were therefore initially limited to an audience of educated people who could afford to purchase the book. [ 12 ] Because amateur botany was popular in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century, The Botanic Garden , despite its initial high cost, was a bestseller.
In writing this poem, Frost was inspired by his childhood experience with swinging on birches, which was a popular game for children in rural areas of New England during the time. Frost's own children were avid "birch swingers", as demonstrated by a selection from his daughter Lesley's journal: "On the way home, i climbed up a high birch and ...