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The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
by Dohra Ahmad Edwidge DanticatThe first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything Inside<P><P>A Penguin Classic<P><P>Every year, three to four million people move to a new country. From war refugees to corporate expats, migrants constantly reshape their places of origin and arrival. This selection of works collected together for the first time brings together the most compelling literary depictions of migration. <P><P>Organized in four parts (Departures, Arrivals, Generations, and Returns), The Penguin Book of Migration Literature conveys the intricacy of worldwide migration patterns, the diversity of immigrant experiences, and the commonalities among many of those diverse experiences. Ranging widely across the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, across every continent of the earth, and across multiple literary genres, the anthology gives readers an understanding of our rapidly changing world, through the eyes of those at the center of that change. With thirty carefully selected poems, short stories, and excerpts spanning three hundred years and twenty-five countries, the collection brings together luminaries, emerging writers, and others who have earned a wide following in their home countries but have been less recognized in the Anglophone world. <P><P>Editor of the volume Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction, notes, and suggestions for further exploration.
Each Peach Pear Plum
by Janet Ahlberg Allan AhlbergThis is a rhyming picture book for young children. The characters are familiar from nursery rhymes and other children's books. (Examples: Jack and Jill and The Three Bears.) A charming book. This file should make a fine embossed braille copy.
Collected Poems
by Allan AhlbergAllan Ahlberg's five poetry books, written over a period of twenty-five years – Please Mrs Butler, Heard it in the Playground, Friendly Matches, The Mighty Slide and The Mysteries of Zigomar – have delighted generations of children and received many accolades and prizes. Allan has sifted through them and chosen a collection to delight and entrance a new generation of readers and their parents. Here are all the trials and tribulations of childhood, embracing school, quarrels, friendships, football and storytelling from a much-loved author and poet.Charlotte Voake's black-and-white illustrations enchance the charm of this handsome and definitive collection.
Friendly Matches
by Allan AhlbergA superb collection of football poems covering many aspects of the game. Written in a variety of verse forms - sonnets, rhyming couplets and more. As good as previous collections!
Heard it in the Playground
by Allan Ahlberg'The teacher tapped his forehead. At last! the children cried!The answer, Sir's, in your head...What a perfect place to hide'Jump into Allan Ahlberg's playful world of poetry, perfect for primary school children.Shed a tear for The Boy Without A Name, discover the secrets to teachers (they NEVER leave the school!?) and try to solve the riddles of The Answer. Packed with rhythmic poetry and playful songs, this timeless collection has delighted children for generations.'Every desk should hide a copy; every staff room own one' - The ObserverDiscover more school stories from Alan Ahlberg:Starting SchoolPlease Mrs Butler
The Mighty Slide
by Allan Ahlberg‘This is the storyOf Alison Hubble,Who went to bed single,And woke up double.’Here, in verse, are the hilariously original stories of a mighty slide, a man who fought crocodiles, a girl who doubled, a couple of baby skinners and a thing that lived under a school. A wonderful collection from Allan Ahlberg, author of ‘Please Mrs Butler, Woof!’ and ‘Happy Families’, illustrated throughout with delightful drawings by Charlotte Voake.
Please Mrs Butler
by Allan AhlbergThe bestselling and much-loved children's poetry classic, Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg is celebrating its 30th anniversary! With a fresh new look for a brand new generation of school children to take to its heart, every teacher, parent and child should have a copy.Nobody leave the room.Everyone listen to me.We had ten pairs of scissorsAt half-past two, And now there's only three.This witty collection of school poems by Allan Ahlberg, re-jacketed for its 30th anniversary and for a whole new generation of school children to fall in love with, is full of typical classroom events that will be recognized and enjoyed by everyone. From never-ending projects, reading tests, quarrelling, making-up, excuses and 'Please, Sir, it isn't fair.' Fritz Wegner's line drawings beautifully complement the hilarious and poignant verses.Please Mrs Butler was voted the most important twentieth-century children's poetry book in a Books for Keeps poll.Praise for Please Mrs Butler:'Hilarious and poignant school verses about primary school life. A real winner' - Guardian'Clever, funny and nostalgic, the collection is a delight' - Sunday TimesPLEASE MRS BUTLER - The most important 20th-century children's poetry book' - Books for Keeps pollPraise for Allan Ahlberg:'By far our best writer for the young,' - Telegraph
Rimbaud: Visions and Habitations
by Edward AhearnThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.
Pound, Frost, Moore, and Poetic Precision: Science in Modernist American Poetry
by Barry AhearnPound, Frost, Moore and Poetic Precision: Science in American Modernist Poetry examines three major poets in light of the demand that poetry aspire to scientific precision. The critical insistence that poetry be precise affected every one of these poets, and looking at how they responded to this insistence offers a new perspective on their achievements and, by extension, twentieth-century poetry in general. Ezra Pound sought to associate poetry with the precision of modern science, technology and mathematics as a way to eliminate or reduce error. Robert Frost, however, welcomed imprecision as a fundamental aspect of existence that the poet could use. Marianne Moore appreciated the value of both precision and imprecision, especially with respect to her religious perspective on human and natural phenomena. By analyzing these particular poets’ reaction to the value placed on precision, Barry Ahearn explores how that emphasis influenced the broader culture, literary culture and twentieth-century Modernist American poetry.
Trío de Ventanas
by Adjei Agyei-Baah Maki Starfield Ikuyo YoshimuraEste trío de Adjei Agyei-Baah, Ikuyo Yoshimura y Maki Starfield ha producido un volumen de haiku profundamente perspicaz. Empleando las imágenes de las ventanas, cada poeta invita al lector a cruzar a un reino enigmático lleno de naturaleza, deleite y descubrimiento: una nueva forma de entender el haiku y una nueva comprensión del haiku del camino. (Citado de "Forward" por Maki Starfield)
This Ghostly Poetry: Reading Spanish Republican Exiles between Literary History and Poetic Memory (Toronto Iberic)
by Daniel Aguirre-OteziaThe Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity.
Poesías pedagógicas
by Ricardo Diéguez Aguilar¡Es por medio de las palabras maestras, como mejor nos podemos enriquecer y comunicar, ante el aprendizaje que debemos alcanzar en nuestro viaje temporal! <P><P>El motivo principal por el que ha sido creado este libro con tintes filosóficos y trazos poéticos, es para poder tener una herramienta educativa eficiente y eficaz, que nos sirva de libro de consulta. A la hora de definir las respuestas que surgen y emergen, cuando nos ponemos a debatir sobre lo que en realidad significa el fluir o en influir del pensar y del sentir en nuestro crecimiento personal. <P><P>Creando para ello una especie de ciencia de la comunicación, de los sentidos y de las razones, a la que podamos acceder a la hora de enseñar. De enseñar cómo se debe uno expresar, para poder su condición mejorar. Por medio de un aprendizaje, que si lo sabemos aplicar como corresponde, nos puede servir, para poder consolar con palabras comprensibles, sensibles y sabias, el sufrimiento que en ocasiones se genera en el latir, que hay tanto en mí como en los demás.
The Bosses
by Sebastian AgudeloAgudelo’s books have always been concerned with the relationship between worker and consumer, whether in the kitchens or in the neighborhood, but in The Bosses, his spectacular third outing, Agudelo’s sharp focus finally lands on the seen and unseen authority figures who dictate the boundaries of our lives, contemplating power structures from the current managerial culture to a historical exploration of the role that authority plays in our lives.
Each Chartered Street
by Sebastian AgudeloSebastian Agudelo's second book engages a documentary poetics to dissect an inner city neighborhood and explore the social, political, and economic tensions and affinities as well as search for the humanness of living together. The book is bracketed by an introductory section that looks to the past to contextualize and complicate the contemporary questions, and a closing section that looks to the future for a more global and environmental definition of what a neighbor might be. As Daisy Fried writes, "Each Chartered Street is a complicated, wonderful, humanist book about urban life and urban characters, novelistic in its reach, intricate in its lingo, literary in its references, and alive to the troubled streets of Philadelphia. Do put it on your list."
Darío Jaramillo Agudelo. Poesía selecta.
by Dario Jaramillo AgudeloUna selección de lo mejor de la obra de Darío Jaramillo Agudelo. Este libro comprende una selección de más de 150 poemas realizada por el propio autor que incluye lo mejor de su obra, desde Historias (1974), hasta El cuerpo y otra cosa (2017), libro que le hizo merecedor del Premio Nacional de Poesía 2017 que otorga el Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, así como algunos poemas inéditos. Una edición de lujo, en tapa dura con sobrecubierta que pretende celebrar el trabajo de uno de los poetas favoritos de los colombianos.
These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry By Latin American Women (Secret Weavers #7)
by Marjorie Agosín Isabel AllendeThis reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the century to the present. Despite cultural maxims encouraging them to be silent, women continue to speak, often through the language of poetry, where there is an abundance of intuition and the possibility of reclaiming power through language. In the work included here, we see how the common threads of courage and inventiveness can be woven into a bright tapestry of women’s voices that presents a true picture of a culture that must create its own history. Over fifty poets, including those well-known, such as Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, and Cristina Peri Rossi, and those just emerging are included. Marjorie Agos n, editor of the Secret Weavers series, is well-known as a poet, writer, and human rights activist. She is a professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
It's Only Stanley (Into Reading, Read Aloud Module #2)
by Jon AgeeNIMAC-sourced textbook <P><P>Fans of Jon Klassen and Oliver Jeffers will love this mischievously funny read-aloud from award-winning author/illustrator Jon Agee <P><P>Mysterious noises keep waking up the Wimbledon family. "That's very odd," says Mr. Wimbledon each time, but when he returns from checking on the sounds, he's always reassuring: "It's only Stanley; he's fixing the oil tank." "It's only Stanley; he's clearing the bathtub drain." <P><P>But what Stanley the dog is actually doing while his oblivious family goes back to bed is deliciously absurd: he's turning the house into a rocket ship to zoom himself and his family to another planet for an alien encounter. This is a perfect rhyming read-aloud for fans of irreverent tales like Click Clack Moo and I Want My Hat Back.
Orangutan Tongs: Poems to Tangle your Tongue
by Jon AgeeHave you ever gotten tripped up trying to say a silly succession of similar syllables? Of course-everyone has! It can be sometimes frustrating, but it's always funny! For example, you know New York's unique, but did you know that unique New York's also pretty chic? And if you switched your wristwatch with a new Swiss watch, could you tell which wristwatch was which? Wordplay master Jon Agee tackles these and other tricky tongue twisters in a funny new title featuring his equally hilarious artwork. The combination will leave you speechless.
Books Make Good Pets
by John AgardBooks make good pets and don't need going to the vet.You don't have to keep them on a lead or throw them a stick.They'll wag their words whenever you flick their dog-eared pages.Even howl an ancient tale for the inward-listening ear.Did you know that a book can take you anywhere? You only need to turn the pages of a story, and in a moment, you and your book could be crossing the waves in a pirate ship... or diving with mermaids... or even snoozing with a dragon.Books really DO make good pets! Why don't you peep inside this one, and take your mind on an adventure?This delightful original picture book poem is the perfect gift for anyone who delights in the magic of a good book. Agard's evocative, lyrical style is perfectly complemented with illustrations by Momoko Abe, whose colourful visuals add character, transporting the reader into an enchanting world of imagination.
Books Make Good Pets
by John AgardBooks make good pets and don't need going to the vet.You don't have to keep them on a lead or throw them a stick.They'll wag their words whenever you flick their dog-eared pages.Even howl an ancient tale for the inward-listening ear.Did you know that a book can take you anywhere? You only need to turn the pages of a story, and in a moment, you and your book could be crossing the waves in a pirate ship... or diving with mermaids... or even snoozing with a dragon.Books really DO make good pets! Why don't you peep inside this one, and take your mind on an adventure?This delightful original poem is the perfect listen for anyone who delights in the magic of a good book. Agard's evocative, lyrical style is perfectly performed by him in this audiobook, transporting the listener into an enchanting world of imagination.(P) 2022 The Watts Publishing Group Limited
Clever Backbone
by John AgardIn Clever Backbone, the Guyanese-born word magician plays havoc with biology and makes a monkey out of Darwinian evolution -- on the occasion of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his Origin of Species.
Follow that Word
by John AgardThe father of performance poetry, John Agard, brings you a collection of riotously funny poems. Follow that Word is a celebration of imagination and demonstrates the true diversity of language.A dazzling collection of over sixty poems, Follow That Word delivers John Agard's musings on people and places from the modern and historical world, this wonderful collection that can be rediscovered over and over again. With gorgeous black-and-white illustrations from Momoko Abe, these poems truly come to life for all children, and this collection belongs on every bookshelf.'It's been around from Creation dawn,And it only takes two to catch on, Try it people, and you'll soon see,This is a dance that can set you free,It's called the dance of diversity.'Reviews for Half-caste, and Other Poems: 'Rollicking Caribbean-flavored rhythms combined with serious matters such as racism define poet extraordinaire, Agard.' - VoyaA performance poet, Agard uses his rhyme, repetition and refrains that make his work sing...Skilful use of humour to get his serious points across. - The Book Horn Inc
Follow that Word
by John AgardThe father of performance poetry, John Agard, brings you a collection of riotously funny poems. Follow that Word is a celebration of imagination and demonstrates the true diversity of language.A dazzling collection of over sixty poems, Follow That Word delivers John Agard's musings on people and places from the modern and historical world, this wonderful collection that can be rediscovered over and over again. With gorgeous black-and-white illustrations from Momoko Abe, these poems truly come to life for all children, and this collection belongs on every bookshelf.'It's been around from Creation dawn,And it only takes two to catch on, Try it people, and you'll soon see,This is a dance that can set you free,It's called the dance of diversity.'Reviews for Half-caste, and Other Poems: 'Rollicking Caribbean-flavored rhythms combined with serious matters such as racism define poet extraordinaire, Agard.' - VoyaA performance poet, Agard uses his rhyme, repetition and refrains that make his work sing...Skilful use of humour to get his serious points across. - The Book Horn Inc
Half-Caste: And Other Poems
by John AgardHalf-Caste is a mixture of old and new poems that address core issues and experiences for young people. Race and cultural identity is a primary theme and shapes the book. There are poems about violence, the environment, relationships, politics, and grief, alongside poems full of fun, looking at everyday events from quirky, unexpected points of view. It's an accessible and inspiring book by a poet who knows and respects his audience.
The Young Inferno
by John AgardCan our hoodie hero make it through nine circles of Hell and back again? Will he find love with his soulmate, Beatrice? Discover the city of Dis where everybody disses everybody. Meet Frankenstein, the lovesick bouncer with the bling-bling. Come face to face with the Furies, a gang of snake-haired females in T-shirts. Prepare for a host of gluttons, bigots and plunderers from the world of history and politics. John Agard blasts Dante's Inferno into the 21st century in a red-hot retelling, with a little help from Satoshi Kitamura and his wicked artwork.