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Life on Earth: Poems is a 2024 poetry collection by Dorianne Laux, published by W. W. Norton & Company. [1] Laux's seventh collection, it was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. [2]
While the first edition was not in verse, later editions were rewritten into the earliest American children's poetry. [1] Another notable work of early children's poetry is John Bunyan's A Book for Boys and Girls, first published in 1686, and later abridged and re-published as Divine Emblems. [1]
The Eye of the Earth is a collection of poems by Niyi Osundare, published in 1986 by Heinemann Educational Books. The work was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the African poetry book category, and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize in its year of publication. The collection comprises nineteen poems that explore nature ...
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; Who has left the world better than he found it, Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
The title poem was widely reprinted on postcards and plaques. In 1920, "Out Where the West Begins" was first set to music. The poem later achieved a separate life on the concert stage. In 1921, Chapman published the equally successful Cactus Center: Poems of an Arizona Town, containing 30 poems.
At the time of Nolte's death, the book had more than 3 million copies in print worldwide and had been translated into 18 languages, according to its publisher, Workman Publishing. Nolte and Harris also collaborated on Teenagers Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Integrity and Independence (Workman Publishing, 2002).
Editor’s Note: For his second inauguration, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asked state Poet Laureate Silas House to write a poem. House wrote “Those Who Carry Us” and read it at the inauguration ...
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...