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Ellington Was Not a Street
by Ntozake Shange Kadir Nelson<p>In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in the majestic paintings of artist Kadir Nelson, lived at a time when the color of their skin dictated where they could live, what schools they could attend, and even where they could sit on a bus or in a movie theater. <p>Yet in the face of this tremendous adversity, these dedicated souls and others like them not only demonstrated the importance of Black culture in America, but also helped issue in a movement that "changed the world." Their lives and their works inspire us to this day, and serve as a guide to how we approach the challenges of tomorrow.</p>
Elmo Says Achoo! (Step into Reading)
by Sarah Albee Tom BrannonElmo's bringing a present to Oscar. But the mysterious wrapped gift has a curious effect--it's making Elmo sneeze! And every time Elmo sneezes, something funny happens. The youngest readers will love following along as Elmo's sneezes cause laundry to fall off a line and much more in this Early Step into ReadingTM story
Elmo's Tricky Tongue Twisters (Big Bird's Favorites Board Books)
by Sarah Albee Maggie SwansonPacked into the pages of this sturdy Sesame Street board book is a collection of tongue-tripping rhymes about everyone's favorite Sesame Street Muppets, including Elmo, Grover, Ernie, Bert, Betty Lou, Herry, Hoots the owl, and Oscar. The rhyming language and singsong rhythm of tongue twisters are key concepts in language development for babies and toddlers. The humor and playfulness of the tongue twisters in this collection will give toddlers a fun into into the world of wordplay, the foundation of a lifelong enjoyment of the written and spoken word. This book is ideal for use in pre-school classrooms as well as parent/child sharing.
Elocuencia de silencios: Eloquence of silence
by Francisco Muñoz SolerSus poemas intentan despertar la conciencia social de una sociedad plagada de apatía, crueldad, intolerancia y falta de humanidad. Francisco Muñoz Soler es un poeta inusualmente dotado de Málaga (España), que tiene el coraje de sus convicciones. Sus poemas intentan despertar la conciencia social de una sociedad plagada de apatía, crueldad, intolerancia y falta de humanidad. Los poemas profundizan en temas pertinentes como la tragedia del desplazamiento masivo, el terror institucionalizado y la violación de los derechos humanos. En muchos poemas lo vemos inspirándose en los pensamientos de almas valientes del pasado, cuya intrépida sabiduría formó la conciencia humana. Los lectores encontrarán sus reflexiones de búsqueda de alma muy convincentes y sus versos dejarán una marca indeleble en su psique.
Elogio del insomnio
by Alberto Ruy SánchezUna mezcla de autobiografía, crónica, poesía y relato del autor Alberto Ruy Sánchez. Por Alberto Ruy Sánchez, reconocido como Oficial de la Orden de las Artes y de las Letras por el gobierno de Francia y autor de La mano del fuego. El insomne, abandonándose a la deriva como un viejo y el mar de estos días, o estas noches, navega al azar las corrientes de la madrugada que más bien lo navegan a él. Cada oleada embravecida se convierte en una aventura, un relato, una imagen que viene de muy lejos en el tiempo o en la geografía. Y él lo atrapa y nos lo cuenta cada vez como si fuera el último trozo flotante que lo salva. Porque este insomne goza sus insomnios. En medio de la obscuridad, cada insomnio es felicidad luminosa, la luz que se vuelve el ámbito donde el inmenso placer de contar y escuchar historias toma existencia. Con cinco novelas sobre un mundo que celebra el erotismo, en cuyo centro se encuentra la ciudad de Mogador, Alberto Ruy Sánchez tiene tras de sí una trayectoria vital diversa y sorprendente, algunos de cuyos episodios cuenta en esta obra, compuesta de ingredientes como la autobiografía, la crónica, la poesía y el relato verdadero de las ficciones que se viven. Lo que ha dicho la crítica: "Todas las personas que han pasado la noche en vela por un dolor de muelas o una decepción amorosa tienen la obligación de incluir en su botiquín un libro: Elogio del insomnio." -Xavier Velasco. "Alberto Ruy Sánchez, valiéndose no sólo de un subgénero literario llámese ensayo, autobiografía, cuento, crónica, sino la mezcla de los anteriores, conpoemas que escucha, recuerda, fotografías de sus viajes y con una claridad en el lenguaje en Elogio del insomnio, nos transfiere su baraka, el conocimiento, sus historias, su infancia y sus momentos de insomnio". -Alan Saint Martin, Revista de la Universidad (UNAM).
Eloise Greenfield: Poetry to Grow On (Leveled Readers 4FOG)
by Laura JohnsonBrief biography of Eloise Greenfield, a poet who grew up during the Great Depression.
Eloise Greenfield: The Music of Poetry (Leveled Readers 4FOG)
by Laura JohnsonEloise Greenfield is a poet who writes for children. As you read about this poet, monitor your reading to check your understanding. Reread to clarify any difficult sections.
Els dies que m'habiten
by Gemma HumetLa cantant Gemma Humet recull en aquest llibre textos i poemes introspectius que parlen d'amor i de desamor, d'inquietuds vitals, d'empoderament femení i sobre la seva condició de dona i mare. «Des que era prou gran per saber escriure, però prou petita per no saber ben bé què volia dir "habitar-me", m'asseia, de nit, al balcó minúscul de la meva habitació, amb un coixí sobre la falda i, al damunt, una llibreta. Escrivia. Escrivia el que pensava, el que em passava, idees, possibles cançons, emocions, contradiccions... Escriure em feia lliure. Em feia volar. De mica en mica, em vaig adonar que tot allò que apuntava en aquells fulls, sovint de manera desordenada, em conformava i m'estructurava els pensaments. I mai no he deixat de fer-ho. Tinc caixes i calaixos i més caixes plens de llibretes que expliquen qui soc i com soc, i, sobretot, per què soc com soc.» A Els dies que m'habiten, Humet recull textos i poemes introspectius, il·lustrats per la Sara Serra, que ens mostren la seva faceta més íntima i propera.
Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender
by Elvis PresleyThe king of rock-and-roll's #1 hit song "Love Me Tender" is now an endearing picture bookAdapted from the unforgettable classic song, Elvis Presley's Love MeTender is a heartwarming ode to the special bond between children and the adults who love and care for them--be they parents, grandparents, adoptive parents, aunts, uncles, or guardians. With its simple, timeless message, Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender is destined to join Guess How Much I Love You as a baby shower staple. And the sweet, inclusive illustrations make it a book every family will treasure "all through the years, 'till the end of time."
Elvis Presley's Quiéreme con ternura
by Elvis PresleyQuiéreme con ternura. Quiéreme con dulzura. Nunca me dejes ir. Has llenado mi vida. Te quiero mucho, mi amor. Tomando como punto de partida la letra oficial de la conocida canción de Elvis Presley, este precioso y tierno álbum ilustrado es una oda al lazo de amor que existe entre padres e hijos.
Emblems of the Passing World
by Adam KirschAugust Sander's photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America's most celebrated writers and criticsThrough his portraits of ordinary people--soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers--August Sander, the German photographer whose work chronicled the extreme tensions and transitions of the twentieth century, captured a moment in history whose consequences he himself couldn't have predicted. Using these photographs as a lens, Adam Kirsch's poems connect the legacy of the First World War with the turmoil of the Weimar Republic with moving immediacy and meditative insight, and foreshadow the Nazi era. Kirsch writes both urgently and poignantly about these photographs, creating a unique dialogue of word and image that will speak to all readers interested in history, past and present.
An Embroidery of Old Maps and New
by Angela CostiI can see how I carry Yiayia's war in the ample dunes of my belly, the moment she smelt the guns, she pinched the candle's wick,gathered the startled shadows of her children,flung my baby-mother onto her backand sprinted towards the neutral moon—Migration and the memories of women's traditions are woven throughout these poems. Angela Costi brings the world of Cyprus to Australia. Her mother encounters animosity on Melbourne's trams as Angela learns to thread words in ways that echo her grandmother's embroidery. Here are poems that sing their way across the seas and map histories.
The Emergence of Arabic Poetry: From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization
by Nathaniel A. MillerA new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500–750 CE that includes hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into EnglishTo interpret the Quran’s Arabic, early medieval Muslims turned to pre-Islamic poetry, a corpus that the Prophet Muhammad’s cousin called “the archive of the Arabs.” While this principle seems straightforward, pre-Islamic Arabs did not, in fact, think of themselves as either pre-Islamic or Arab. The term Arab barely appears at all in pre-Islamic poetry.The Emergence of Arabic Poetry reexamines this early poetry to reconstruct what pre-Islamic culture actually entailed. Nathaniel A. Miller draws on a wide range of texts, including hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English—in addition to new inscriptional, archaeological, and non-Arabic sources—to explore the diverse world of pre- and early-Islamic Arabia in which Islam developed. Miller traces the emergence of two regional identities, and their distinctive poetic traditions, in the Arabian Peninsula of late antiquity: Najdi in the center and northeast and Hijazi in the southwest. The book shows how later efforts of Muslim scholars to use early poetry as an aesthetic, linguistic ideal to interpret the Quran resulted in an image of a unitary, exceptional, and isolated Arab identity and culture. These scholars drew on the Najdi tradition, canonizing its forms as classical Arabic poetry par excellence, and solidifying many tropes of Arabness that are still ubiquitous today: of nomadism, performative generosity, and martial equestrianism. However, Miller argues, it was the neglected Hijazi tradition that was actually more central to the emergence of early Islam.Early Arabic poetry has been largely overlooked in current scholarship in adjacent fields, largely due to twentieth-century controversies over whether this corpus is legitimate or was forged. In combining a reconstruction of pre-Islamic poetry’s social function with a consideration of the circumstances of its later canonization, The Emergence of Arabic Poetry offers an urgently needed reappraisal of a significant but underexamined poetic corpus, as well as a new literary history of the origins of Arabic poetry from 500 to 750 CE.
Emergency! (Awesome Engines #4)
by Margaret MayoIt's all go in this action-packed picture book. Discover a different emergency vehicle on each page, from fire engines and police cars to lifeboats, breakdown trucks, rescue helicopters and more. With bright, bold illustrations and fun, rhyming text, this is perfect for sharing with vehicle-mad little ones. Children will love spotting all the details on each page and joining in with all the different sounds; as speeding ambulances 'wheee-ow' and police cars 'vrooom'!Part of the best-selling Awesome Engines range.
Emergency Monster Squad
by Dave HorowitzA hilarious day in the life of two EMS workers who drive an "amboolance," rushing to the aid of injured monsters.Meet Sally and Gus--the crackerjack emergency medical services team who come to help when someone is sick or injured. But the someones in their world are a little unearthly--which means they're on the Emergency Monster Squad! Ride along with these everyday heroes as they drive their amboolance to answer the calls of a zombie with chest pains, a fractured skeleton, and a very pregnant kraken mama. It's a hair-raising job, but someone's gotta do it--and you never know what will happen when they crank up their siren and flash those lights!
Emergent Poetics: Ecological Sites in Contemporary Poetry (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)
by Travis W. MattesonThis book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange. Emergent poetics emphasizes the speculative, non-prosthetic quality of media: the anthrodecentric perspective that media do not simply extend human senses, but instead consist of properties that exceed human apprehension. This study builds on Eve Kosofky Sedgwick’s theory of reparative reading, contemporary media theory, and Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory, which are united in their skepticism regarding the paranoid “unveiling” gesture of institutional critique, their emphasis on methodology rather than theoretical ideology, and their insistence on assembling rather than deconstructing. In response to these three trends, this project begins by attending to what Jerome McGann calls the bibliographic code (material forms), while simultaneously expanding this medium specific perspective by situating written works within their broader media ecosystems, tracing interactions among media, humans, and nonhumans.
Emerson: Poems
by Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well.Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one's own experience. From the embattled farmers who "fired the shot heard round the world" in the stirring "Concord Hymn," to the flower in "The Rhodora," whose existence demonstrates "that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being," Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature. Combining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emerson's poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.
Emerson and Neo-Confucianism
by Yoshio TakanashiA comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both thinkers traced the human morality to the same source in the ultimately moral nature of the universe and developed theories of the interrelation of universal law and the human mind.
Emile and the Field
by Kevin YoungIn this lyrical picture book from an award-winning poet, a young boy cherishes a neighborhood field throughout the changing seasons. With stunning illustrations and a charming text, this beautiful story celebrates a child's relationship with nature. There was a boynamed Emilewho fellin love with a field.It was wideand blue--and if you could haveseen itso would've you.Emile loves the field close to his home--in spring, summer, and fall, when it gives him bees and flowers, blossoms and leaves. But not as much in winter, when he has to share his beautiful, changeable field with other children...and their sleds. This relatable and lyrical ode to one boy's love for his neighborhood field celebrates how spending time in nature allows children to dream, to imagine...and even to share.
Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters
by Emily Dickinson Thomas H. JohnsonThe text of these selections derives from 'The Letters of Emily Dickinson' and provides crucial texts for the appreciation of American literature, women's experience in the nineteenth century, and literature in general.
Emily Dickinson
by Linda Wagner-MartinNow published in paperback for the first time, this literary biography study offers a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's life, as a poet as well as a daughter of a prominent Amherst, Massachusetts, family. For many years accompanied by her large dog, she well knew the worlds of nature and natural beauties. For many more years, she chronicled her life - especially her life of the imagination - in hundreds of letters, as well as the nearly 1,800 poems that have been found. Such rich material informs this book's narrative, building a picture of a woman loyal to her parents and her myriad of friends, as well as siblings, niece and nephews, and her sister-in-law Susan Gilbert Dickinson, her constant muse. Never content with passive acceptance, or a life that conformed to the dutiful unmarried daughter's role, Dickinson the poet worked all her mature life to bring her art to its consistently firm - and always brilliant - greatness.
Emily Dickinson and Philosophy
by Jed Deppman Marianne Noble Gary Lee Stonum Jed Deppman Marianne NobleEmily Dickinson's poetry is deeply philosophical. Recognizing that conventional language limited her thought and writing, Dickinson created new poetic forms to pursue the moral and intellectual issues that mattered most to her. This collection situates Dickinson within the rapidly evolving intellectual culture of her time and explores the degree to which her groundbreaking poetry anticipated trends in twentieth-century thought. Essays aim to clarify the ideas at stake in Dickinson's poems by reading them in the context of one or more relevant philosophers, including near-contemporaries such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Hegel, and later philosophers whose methods are implied in her poetry, including Levinas, Sartre and Heidegger. The Dickinson who emerges is a curious, open-minded interpreter of how human beings make sense of the world – one for whom poetry is a component of a lifelong philosophical project.
Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination
by Linda FreedmanDickinson knew the Bible well. She was profoundly aware of Christian theology and she was writing at a time when comparative religion was extremely popular. This book is the first to consider Dickinson's religious imagery outside the dynamic of her personal faith and doubt. It argues that religious myths and symbols, from the sun-god to the open tomb, are essential to understanding the similetic movement of Dickinson's poetry - the reach for a comparable, though not identical, experience in the struggles and wrongs of Abraham, Jacob and Moses, and the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Linda Freedman situates the poet within the context of American typology, interprets her alongside contemporary and modern theology and makes important connections to Shakespeare and the British Romantics. Dickinson emerges as a deeply troubled thinker who needs to be understood within both religious and Romantic traditions.
Emily Dickinson in Context
by Eliza RichardsLong untouched by contemporary events, ideas, and environments, Emily Dickinson's writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson's writings. While providing an overview of their topic, the essays also present groundbreaking research and original arguments, treating the poet's local environments; literary influences; social, cultural, political, and intellectual contexts; and reception. A resource for scholars and students of American literature and poetry in English, the collection is an indispensable contribution to the study not only of Dickinson's writings but also of the contexts for poetic production and circulation more generally in the nineteenth-century United States.