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The Place my words are looking for : what poets say about and through their work /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, �1990.Description: 150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0027476715 (lib. bdg.)
  • 9780027476712 (lib. bdg.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811
LOC classification:
  • PS586.3 .P5 1990
Contents:
New moon / Eve Merriam -- Part I: Esme on her brother's bicycle / Russell Hoban -- Rider / Naomi Shihab Nye --Sidewalk racer or on the skateboard / Lillian Morrison -- At the playground / William Stafford -- Mosquito / J. Patrick Lewis -- I can't go back to school / Michael Patrick Heam -- Underwater wibbles / Jack Prelutsky -- We heard Wally wail / Jack Prelutsky -- There was a man / Phyllis Janowitz -- When my friends all moved away / Steven Kroll -- 74th street / Myra Cohn Livingston -- We could be friends / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Paragon / Bobbi Katz -- Games of night / Nancy Willard -- Pet rock / Cynthia Rylant -- I have a friend / Karla Kuskin -- What we might be, what we are / X.J. Kennedy -- Panteater / William Cole -- Story that could be true / William Stafford -- Suppose / Siv Cedering -- Speech class / Jim Daniels -- What I remember about the 6th grade / Mark Vinz -- Part II: Puzzled / Margaret Hillert -- Hot property / Ronald Wallace -- Famous / Naomi Shihab Nye -- One time / William Stafford -- Little girl's poem / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Computer / Gwendolyn Brooks -- New love / Eve Merriam -- Late / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Circles / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Enchantment / Joanne Ryder -- Yellow Sonnet / Paul Zimmer -- Forgotten / Cynthia Rylant -- Carousel / Julia Cunningham -- Short long story / Julia Cunningham -- Humming bird / Felice Holman -- White on white / Christine E. Hemp -- Spring thaw / Mark Vinz -- Black hair / Gary Soto -- Baseball cards #1 / Jim Daniels -- October Saturday / Bobbi Katz -- Bingo / Paul B. Janeczko -- Part III: Horses / Maxine Kumin -- How birds should die / Paul Zimmer -- Sea gull's eye / Russell Hoban -- Passenger pigeon / Paul Fleischman -- Like magic / Joanne Ryder -- Spruce Woods / A.R. Ammons -- Mike and Major / Cynthia Rylant -- Dog / Valerie Worth -- Po's garden / Ree Young -- Merry-go-round / Patricia Hubbell -- When it is snowing / Siv Cedering -- Icebox / John Updike -- Haunted house / Valerie Worth -- Hardware store as proof of the existence of J God / Nancy Willard -- Watering Trough / Maxine Kumin -- Deserted farm / Mark Vinz -- Part IV: Poem that got away / Felice Holman -- Roses and a tulip / Charlotte Pomerantz -- Write about a radish / Karla Kuskin -- Poem / Robert Currie -- Thoughts that were put into words / Karla Kuskin -- Burning bright / Lillian Morrison -- Valentine for Ernest Mann / Naomi Shihab Nye.
Summary: Thirty-nine United States poets share their poems, inspirations, thoughts, anecdotes, and memories.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Barcode
JNF JNF Chamberlin Free Public Library Juvenile Nonfiction J 811.008 JAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PS586.3 Available 34517000176407

New moon / Eve Merriam -- Part I: Esme on her brother's bicycle / Russell Hoban -- Rider / Naomi Shihab Nye --Sidewalk racer or on the skateboard / Lillian Morrison -- At the playground / William Stafford -- Mosquito / J. Patrick Lewis -- I can't go back to school / Michael Patrick Heam -- Underwater wibbles / Jack Prelutsky -- We heard Wally wail / Jack Prelutsky -- There was a man / Phyllis Janowitz -- When my friends all moved away / Steven Kroll -- 74th street / Myra Cohn Livingston -- We could be friends / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Paragon / Bobbi Katz -- Games of night / Nancy Willard -- Pet rock / Cynthia Rylant -- I have a friend / Karla Kuskin -- What we might be, what we are / X.J. Kennedy -- Panteater / William Cole -- Story that could be true / William Stafford -- Suppose / Siv Cedering -- Speech class / Jim Daniels -- What I remember about the 6th grade / Mark Vinz -- Part II: Puzzled / Margaret Hillert -- Hot property / Ronald Wallace -- Famous / Naomi Shihab Nye -- One time / William Stafford -- Little girl's poem / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Computer / Gwendolyn Brooks -- New love / Eve Merriam -- Late / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Circles / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Enchantment / Joanne Ryder -- Yellow Sonnet / Paul Zimmer -- Forgotten / Cynthia Rylant -- Carousel / Julia Cunningham -- Short long story / Julia Cunningham -- Humming bird / Felice Holman -- White on white / Christine E. Hemp -- Spring thaw / Mark Vinz -- Black hair / Gary Soto -- Baseball cards #1 / Jim Daniels -- October Saturday / Bobbi Katz -- Bingo / Paul B. Janeczko -- Part III: Horses / Maxine Kumin -- How birds should die / Paul Zimmer -- Sea gull's eye / Russell Hoban -- Passenger pigeon / Paul Fleischman -- Like magic / Joanne Ryder -- Spruce Woods / A.R. Ammons -- Mike and Major / Cynthia Rylant -- Dog / Valerie Worth -- Po's garden / Ree Young -- Merry-go-round / Patricia Hubbell -- When it is snowing / Siv Cedering -- Icebox / John Updike -- Haunted house / Valerie Worth -- Hardware store as proof of the existence of J God / Nancy Willard -- Watering Trough / Maxine Kumin -- Deserted farm / Mark Vinz -- Part IV: Poem that got away / Felice Holman -- Roses and a tulip / Charlotte Pomerantz -- Write about a radish / Karla Kuskin -- Poem / Robert Currie -- Thoughts that were put into words / Karla Kuskin -- Burning bright / Lillian Morrison -- Valentine for Ernest Mann / Naomi Shihab Nye.

Thirty-nine United States poets share their poems, inspirations, thoughts, anecdotes, and memories.

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