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Silver seeds : a book of nature poems
Poems about the natural world that give young readers new ways to look at the natural world.
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Slant Light
In her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequioa trees. Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcott’s poems are drawn directly from the natural world, questioning ideas of the porosity of boundaries between the human and non-human and teeming with detail. A series of lyrical charms inspired by Anglo-Saxon texts draw on the specificity of the botanical and its spoken heritage, suggesting a relevance that resonates today. Westcott’s poems are alive to the beautiful in the commonplace and offer up a precise honouring of the wild, while retaining a deeply-felt sense of connection with a planet in peril.
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Dear world
This luminous collection of poems in the form of a child's letters to the earth and all its creatures is accompanied by exquisite cut-paper collages. It celebrates our world and inspires us to observe every detail with imagination and joy!
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To Taste the River
Baiba Bičole belongs to the postwar generation of Latvian poets living in exile who reached artistic maturity outside their native country and broke with the older exile generation's traditional, nationalistic poetry. In To Taste the River, Bičole's poems are lyrical and personal, often with intense emotion and startling imagery. This is Bičole's first collection of poems in English translation.
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A whiff of pine, a hint of skunk : a forest of poems
An illustrated collection of children's poetry which celebrates things found in the forest.
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Interval
Bishop's attentive poetic gaze unfailingly reveals the luminous. In Interval , her poems -- many addressed to a lover, or to children -- explore intimacy, solitude and the 'chemical mess' of human love. As Carl Phillips said of Event , 'These are splendid poems indeed, whose intelligence, vision, and sheer beauty at every turn persuade.'
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Color me a rhyme : nature poems for young people
Collection of short poems by Jane Yolen about colors in nature.
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I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman
In Return of the Heroes, Walt Whitman refers to the casualties of the American Civil War: the dead to me mar not. . . . / they fit very well in the landscape under the trees and grass. . . . In her new poetry collection, Jude Nutter challenges Whitman's statement by exploring her own responses to war and conflict and, in a voice by turns rueful, dolorous, and imagistic, reveals why she cannot agree. Nutter, who was born in England and grew up in Germany, has a visceral sense of history as a constant, violent companion. Drawing on a range of locales and historical moments—among them Rwanda, Sarajevo, Nagasaki, and both world wars—she replays the confrontation of personal history colliding with history as a social, political, and cultural force. In many of the poems, this confrontation is understood through the shift from childhood innocence and magical thinking to adult awareness and guilt. Nutter responds to Whitman from another perspective as well. It was Whitman who wrote that he could live with animals because, among other things, they are placid, self-contained, and guiltless. As counterpoint, Nutter weaves a series of animal poems—a kind of personal bestiary—throughout the collection that reveals the tragedy and violence also inherent in the lives of animals. Here, as in much of Nutter's previous work, the boundaries between the animal and human worlds are permeable; the urgent voice of the poet insists we recognize that Even from a distance, suffering / is suffering. Here is both acknowledgment and challenge: distance may be measured in terms of time, culture, or place, or it may be caused by the gap between animals and humans, but it is our responsibility to speak against atrocity and bloodshed, however voiceless we may feel.
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