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John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...
“Alfred Corn’s second book of poems goes well beyond fulfilling the authentic promise of his first. The title poem is an extraordinary and quite inevitable extension of the New York tradition of major visionary poems, which goes from Poe’s ‘City in the Sea’ and Whitman's ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ to Hart Crane's The Bridge and ...
The Corn Law Rhymes marked a shift away from the long narratives that had preceded them, towards verses for singing that would carry a wider message to the labouring class. Several of the poems indicate the tune for them (including the Marseillaise) and one late poem at least, "They say I'm old because I'm grey", was set to music by a local ...
Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1] "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. It has been suggested for the first four words of each line to be read ...
The Looking Book (1973) A Little Book of Little Beasts (1973) The Raucous Auk: A Menagerie of Poems (1973) Nuts to You & Nuts to Me: An Alphabet of Poems (1974) I Like Old Clothes (1976) Bugs (1976) A House is a House for Me (1978) Yellow Butter, Purple Jelly, Red Jam, Black Bread (1981) The Cozy Book (1982) Mr. and Mrs. Muddle (1988)
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The collection was shortlisted in 2007 for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the category of Best First Book (Canada or Caribbean). [7] His second collection of poetry, There Is an Anger That Moves, [8] was published in 2007 by Carcanet Press. [9] He is also the editor of Carcanet's 2007 New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology. [10]
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