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Mother earth, father sky : poems of our planet
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An anthology of 40 poems that celebrate the wonders of nature, chiefly from well-known English and American writers. This anthology of poems describes the beauty and destruction of our natural world.
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- Creator
- selected by Jane Yolen ; illustrations by Jennifer Hewitson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press, 1996
- [New York] : Distributed by St. Martin's Press
- Physical Details
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- 54 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1563974142, 9781563974144, 9780605342880, 0605342881
- OCLC
- ocm33963083
- An anthology of poems that describe the beauty and destruction of our natural world.
- Includes index.
- From Timesweep / Carl Sandburg -- Trying it all out / Joseph Langland -- Weeds / William Stafford -- The delight song of Tsoai-Talee / N. Scott Momaday -- On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats -- At the dark's edge (from Seeing) / Archibald MacLeish -- The breathing / Denise Levertov -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- By Frazier Creek Falls / Gary Snyder -- The words / David Wagoner -- This world / Orhan Veli Kanik (translated by Talat Sait Halman) -- The Earth / I sing for the animals / the Teton Sioux people, North America -- Buffalo dusk / God ate the buffalo / Barbara Ganzel -- A child is singing / Adrian Mitchell -- The bulldozer / Robert Francis -- Hard questions / Margaret Tsuda -- The future of forestry / C.S. Lewis -- Song of the open road / Ogden Nash -- The fish are all sick / Anne Stevenson -- Like ghosts of eagles / Requiem for a river / Kim Williams -- Okeechobee / John Allison -- Sea canary / Jane Yolen -- Nursery rhyme / Carol Ann Duffy -- For a coming extinction / W.S. Merwin -- Extinction day / Terry Jones -- To look at any thing / John Moffitt -- School system prayer / Anna Kirwan-Vogel -- The Samara / Catherine Signorelli -- Wanting one good organic line / Sam Hamill -- On world, I wish / The cave / Glenn W. Dresbach -- Untitled / Christina Rossetti -- Look below you / Yi Hyun-Bo (translated by Chung Seuk Park, adapted by Virginia Olsen Baron) -- In a bird sanctuary / Richard Wilbur -- A health to Earth / Song of the sky loom / the Tewa people (translated by Herbert J. Spinden) -- The land I walk on is an ocean of concrete / Nancy Wood
Subjects
- Earth (Planet) -- Juvenile poetry.
- Nature -- Juvenile poetry.
- Earth (Planet) -- Poetry.
- Nature -- Poetry.
- Poetry -- Collections.
- Earth (Planet) -- Poetry.
Children's Subject Heading
- Nature -- Poetry.
Children's Subject Heading
- Poetry -- Collections.
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