Poetry speaks who I am
By: editor, Elise Paschen
Contributors: Raccah, Dominique
Publisher: Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Naperville, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781402210747
Subjects: English poetry; American poetry
Description: Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Eternity  -- Jason Shinder; title: Perhaps the world ends here  -- Joy Harjo; title: Still I rise  -- Maya Angelou; title: Cinderella's diary  -- Ron Koertge; title: Vampire's serenade  -- Dana Gioia; title: Alone  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: Alone  -- Siegfried Sassoon; title: Caroline  -- Allison Joseph; title: "What are friends for..."  -- Rosellen Brown; title: I loved my friend  -- Langston Hughes; title: In the fifth-grade locker room  -- Rebecca Lauren; title: Bra shopping  -- Parneshia Jones; title: Blood charm  -- Annie Finch; title: Pause  -- Nikki Grimes; title: The delight song of Tsoai-talee  -- N. Scott Momaday; title: Indian education  -- Sherman Alexie; title: One art  -- Elizabeth Bishop; title: Here  -- Arthur Sze; title: Haiku  -- Sonia Sanchez; title: Good girl  -- Molly Peacock; title: Bad boats  -- Laura Jensen; title: No images  -- Waring Cuney; title: won't you celebrate with me  -- Lucille Clifton; title: What I'm telling you  -- Elizabeth Alexander; title: How I learned to sweep  -- Julia Alvarez; title: Sonnet 130  -- William Shakespeare; title: Litany  -- Billy Collins; title: A teenage couple  -- Brad Leithauser; title: Free period  -- David Yezzi; title: Zodiac  -- Elizabeth Alexander; title: The Skokie theater  -- Edward Hirsch; title: Valentine  -- Wendy Cope; title: An angry Valentine  -- Myra Cohn Livingston; title: What great grief has made the empress mute  -- June Jordan; title: Mad girl's love song  -- Sylvia Plath; title: How we heard the name  -- Alan Dugan; title: The gladiator  -- Kevin Prufer; title: Worth  -- Marilyn Nelson; title: I am a Black  -- Gwendolyn Brooks; title: Lost sister  -- Cathy Song; title: Flash cards  -- Rita Dove; title: Arithmetic  -- Carl Sandburg; title: Dream variations  -- Langston Hughes; title: Dreams  -- Langston Hughes; title: Blackberry-picking  -- Seamus Heaney; title: Manners  -- Elizabeth Bishop; title: Mascara  -- Elizabeth Bishop; title: from For a girl beginning  -- Joy Harjo; title: Every day it is always there  -- Rainy Ortiz; title: Dear Mama (4)  -- Wanda Coleman; title: A boy in a bed in the dark  -- Brad Sachs; title: The talk  -- Sharon Olds; title: A small poem  -- Calvin Forbes; title: Fears of the eighth grade  -- Toi Derricotte; title: When I have fears that I may cease to be  -- John Keats; title: Death of a snowman  -- Vernon Scannell; title: Oatmeal  -- Galway Kinnell; title: Eating poetry  -- Mark Strand; title: The bagel  -- David Ignatow; title: Hope is the thing with feathers  -- Emily Dickinson; title: If I can stop one heart from breaking  -- Emily Dickinson; title: The Duke's castle  -- John Fuller; title: Ozymandias  -- Percy Bysshe Shelley; title: The sacred  -- Stephen Dunn; title: The road not taken  -- Robert Frost; title: Prowess  -- Samuel Menashe; title: What we might be, what we are  -- X.J. Kennedy; title: Sideman  -- Paul Muldoon; title: XVIII. Oh, when I was in love with you  -- A.E. Housman; title: Sometimes with one I love  -- Walt Whitman; title: In the desert  -- Stephen Crane; title: Annabel Lee  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: The summer of black widows  -- Sherman Alexie; title: Permanently  -- Kenneth Koch; title: A dog on his master  -- Billy Collins; title: Mowing  -- Midge Goldberg; title: Seal  -- William Jay Smith; title: Seahorses  -- Brad Leithauser; title: So far  -- Naomi Shihab Nye; title: The germ  -- Ogden Nash; title: Baseball  -- Bill Zavatsky; title: Poetry slalom  -- Mary Jo Salter; title: How I discovered poetry  -- Marilyn Nelson; title: Used book shop  -- X.J. Kennedy; title: The survivor  -- Marilyn Chin; title: New clothes  -- Kay Ryan; title: Mediation  -- Kim Stafford; title: A fable  -- Louise Glück; title: Houses  -- Nancy Willard; title: Snowmen  -- Agha Shahid Ali; title: The floral apron  -- Marilyn Chin; title: Abuelito who  -- Sandra Cisneros; title: Legacies  -- Nikki Giovanni; title: Instead of her own  -- Molly Peacock; title: Tia Chucha  -- Luis J. Rodriguez; title: The adversary  -- Phyllis McGinley; title: What your mother tells you now  -- Mitsuye Yamada; title: 33  -- Philip Schultz; title: 49  -- Philip Schultz; title: What are heavy?  -- Christina Rossetti; title: The wind  -- Sara Teasdale; title: Acquainted with the night  -- Robert Frost; title: When you are old  -- W.B. Yeats; title: "Nobody can counsel and help you"  -- Rainer Maria Rilke; title: "Live a while in these books"  -- Rainer Maria Rilke; title: Here yet be dragons  -- Lucille Clifton; title: Sedna  -- Kimiko Hahn; title: The writer -- Richard Wilbur.