Poems For My Dad

Author : Hope Anita Smith
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250171559

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My Daddy Rules the World by Hope Anita Smith Pdf

A picture book of poems that celebrate fathers from a two-time Coretta Scott King Honor--winning poet. Who is your hero? Who’s your best friend? Who says he loves you again and again? Daddy! Told through the voice of a child, Anita Hope Smith's My Daddy Rules the World collection of poems celebrates everyday displays of fatherly love, from guitar lessons and wrestling matches to bedtime stories, haircuts in the kitchen, and cuddling in bed. These heartwarming poems, together with bold folk-art-inspired images, capture the strength and beauty of the relationship between father and child. A Christy Ottaviano Book

Author : Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Motherhood
ISBN : 1841597651

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Motherhood by Carmela Ciuraru Pdf

From tenth-century Japan's Izumi Shikibu, colonial America's Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England's Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel's Yehuda Amichai, Ireland's Paul Muldoon, and Russia's Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have immortalized this elemental relationship. Among the more than seventy poets in this anthology, Audre Lorde recalls "How the days went / While you were blooming within me"; Jorie Graham muses on her mother's sewing box; Allen Ginsberg says goodbye in "Kaddish"; and Langston Hughes invokes a mother's empowering example- "Don't you fall now- / For I'se still goin', honey, / I'se still climbin', / And life for me ain't been no crystal stair." From Emily Bronte's "Upon Her Soothing Breast" and Seamus Heaney's "Mother of the Groom" to Sylvia Plath's "Morning Song" and Frank O'Hara's "Ave Maria," the more than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood and the richness of feeling and experience it inspires.

Author : Sarafina M. Youngblood,Raymond Youngblood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 195203910X

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The Poem Story by Sarafina M. Youngblood,Raymond Youngblood Pdf

To enjoy The Poem Story means to enjoy your Dad! All Dads have/need a story. The Poem Story has poem stories for all dads. You should express about your Dad the way I do my Dad. Be careful girls; these poem stories have a little swag to them.

Author : Lily Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798656466189

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My Father's Daughter by Lily Lawson Pdf

"An excerpt from Autopsy, by Lily Lawson -If, as time moves on, the words that I have sharedremain with you, and call you backto read them once againmy work is done. "My Father's Daughter, a collection of poems ranging from lighthearted to heart-rending. captures Lily Lawson's thoughtful observations about life and lov

Author : Lorraine Reguly
Publisher : Lorraine Reguly
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780993795305

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Risky Issues by Lorraine Reguly Pdf

The stories in Risky Issues bring to light many issues faced by children, teenagers, and even adults. The first story, The Secrets of the Study, is about a girl who enters her father’s study to get some blank printer paper but instead finds papers that reveal she is adopted. To compound things, her father catches her… The second story, Pamela in the Park, is about a teenage girl who is out past curfew and is supposed to meet a temperamental drug dealer in the park to give him back some drugs she was holding for him. He doesn’t show up, but a policeman does… The third story, The Day Adam Saw Red, is about sexual abuse. Adam, a victim, gives a speech to his class about this topic, and then goes outside to sit under an oak tree to ponder his dire situation, as his speech was a masked cry for help. He is befriended by the school custodian, who is thought to be “creepy” but who takes the time to speak to him to help solve his problem… In the final story, My Best Friend, a young girl finds out that her Grandma’s dog died. She thinks of Snoopy as her own, and is devastated…

Author : Sylvia Harries
Publisher : PublishAmerica LLLP
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781413799255

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Poems for My Dad by Sylvia Harries Pdf

I was always "Daddy's Girl," and I missed him so much when he went away on his many trips with the British Merchant Navy. As I grew up, our close bond continued. While he was away I started writing him wee poems, letting him know what was happening in my life. On a recent visit with him, almost 30 years later, he went upstairs and returned with a bundle of papers in his hands. When he handed it to me, I saw the poems I had sent to him all those years before. He said he would like me to have them. I know these poems aren't the workings of a great laureate. They are just a window into my life as it was nearly 30 years ago, a little effort to let my dad know that he was always in my thoughts even though he was so far away.

Author : Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307264589

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Fatherhood by Carmela Ciuraru Pdf

Presents an anthology of poetry that celebrates fathers and fatherhood from authors representing various cultures throughout history.

Author : Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627794954

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The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang Pdf

From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.

Author : Emiy Dickinson,Ngj Schlieve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1947032119

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There Is No Frigate Like a Book by Emiy Dickinson,Ngj Schlieve Pdf

Poetry by American Poet Emily Dickinson. This book contains 3 poems, the first and second poems are about the power of words and books and the final poem is about the journey of raindrops.

Author : Ollie Schminkey
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781638340225

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Dead Dad Jokes by Ollie Schminkey Pdf

2022 Midwest Book Awards- Debut Poetry Finalist 2022 Eric Hoffer Awards - Da Vinci Eye Finalist 2022 Eric Hoffer Awards - Grand Prize Short List 2022 Eric Hoffer Awards - Poetry Honorable Mention 2019 Button Poetry Video Contest Winner Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schminkey's debut. Every page is raw, honest and unforgettable. Dead Dad Jokes brings the impact of addiction into crisp focus while also shattering our simplistic TV preconceptions about it. Ollie never lets the reader slip into the easy sadness of cliche - instead they guide us through the realities and contradictions of losing someone you love and of death - reminding us that they need not be one and the same.

Author : Jason Shinder
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008562220

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More Light by Jason Shinder Pdf

Collected here for the first time is a wondrous array of over 80 contemporary American voices who all have something to say about the relationship between fathers and daughters. Contributors include Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wilbur, Bob Dylan, Raymond Carver, Sharon Olds, and others.

Author : Joshua Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781526665263

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Owed by Joshua Bennett Pdf

From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a 'rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the US' (New Yorker) Selected as a book of the year by the Telegraph _______________________________ Owed is a book with celebration at its centre. Its primary concern is how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant, as fundamentally unworthy of study, reflection, attention, or care. Spanning the spectrum of genre and form - from elegy and ode to origin myth--these poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. What's more, they ask that we turn to the songs and sites of the historically denigrated so that we might uncover a new way of being in the world together, one wherein we can truthfully reckon with the brutality of the past and thus imagine the possibilities of our shared, unpredictable present, anew.

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60139741

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The Hypnotiser by Michael Rosen Pdf

Author : Kristy Shaffer Zahn
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781493179961

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Poems from the Heart by Kristy Shaffer Zahn Pdf

The poems were written when I lost my Dad, my mother, and other people important to me. This is all about my life experiences and the people who mean a lot to me.

Author : Russ Roberts
Publisher : Portfolio
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781591847953

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How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life by Russ Roberts Pdf

"How the insights of an 18th century economist can help us live better in the 21st century. Adam Smith became famous for The Wealth of Nations, but the Scottish economist also cared deeply about our moral choices and behavior--the subjects of his other brilliant book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). Now, economist Russ Roberts shows why Smith's neglected work might be the greatest self-help book you've never read. Roberts explores Smith's unique and fascinating approach to fundamental questions such as: - What is the deepest source of human satisfaction? - Why do we sometimes swing between selfishness and altruism? - What's the connection between morality and happiness? Drawing on current events, literature, history, and pop culture, Roberts offers an accessible and thought-provoking view of human behavior through the lenses of behavioral economics and philosophy"--