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Hailstones and Halibut Bones
by Mary O'NeillThe Colors live Between black and white In a land that we Know best by sight. But knowing best Isn't everything, For colors dance And colors sing, And colors laugh And colors cry- Turn off the light And colors die, And they make you feel Every feeling there is From the grumpiest grump To the fizziest fizz. And you and you and I Know well Each has a taste And each has a smell And each has a wonderful Story to tell....
Hairy Maclary Scattercat
by Lynley DoddFeeling very frisky, a little black dog enjoys chasing all the cats he meets until he comes across Scarface Claw. In SCATTERCAT, Hairy encounters the ferocious Scarface Claw, who "bothered and bustled him, rustled and hustled him, raced him and chased him all the way home. "
Hairy Maclary, Sit
by Lynley DoddMischievous Hairy Maclary finds that he is not in the mood for the Kennel Club's obedience class. Lynley Dodd, winner of numerous awards for her hugely popular series featuring Hairy Maclary and his many canine and feline friends, continues to entertain us with delightful rhyming text. Enjoy the entire Hairy Maclary collection as he and his mischevious companions explore their neighborhood. Gold Star First Readers are for children learning basic reading skills. The simple text incorporates repetition and rhyme to encourage and build confident readers.
Half Promised Land
by Thomas LuxThe world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home,” where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."
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.
Half-Hazard: Poems
by Kristen TracyHalf-Hazard is the Winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation for a debut by an American poet over forty.Half-Hazard is a book of near misses, would-be tragedies, and luck. As Kristen Tracy writes in the title poem, “Dangers here. Perils there. It’ll go how it goes.” The collection follows her wide curiosity, from growing up in a small Mormon farming community to her exodus into the forbidden world, where she finds snakes, car accidents, adulterers, meteors, and death-marked mice. These wry, observant narratives are accompanied by a ringing lyricism, and Tracy’s knack for noticing what’s so funny about trouble and her natural impulse to want to put all the broken things back together. Full of wrong turns, false loves, quashed beliefs, and a menagerie of animals, Half-Hazard introduces a vibrant new voice in American poetry, one of resilience, faith, and joy.
Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
by Frank BidartGathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. <P><b>Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry</b>
Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965–2016
by Frank BidartThe collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voicesGathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience.Half-light encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a “Creature coterminous with thirst,” still longing, still searching in himself, one of the “queers of the universe.” Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart’s Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.
Half-Minute Horrors: Instant Frights from the World's Most Astonishing Authors and Artists
by Susan RichHow scared can you get in only 30 seconds? Dare to find out with Half-Minute Horrors, a collection of deliciously terrifying short short tales and creepy illustrations by an exceptional selection of writers and illustrators, including bestselling talents Lemony Snicket, James Patterson, Neil Gaiman, R.L.Stine, Faye Kellerman, Holly Black, Melissa Marr, Margaret Atwood, Jon Scieszka, Brett Helquist, and many more. With royalties benefiting First Book, a not-for-profit organization that brings books to children in need, this is an anthology worth devouring. So grab a flashlight, set the timer, and get ready for instant chills!
Halfway to Silence: Poems
by May SartonA striking collection of short poems from acclaimed writer May SartonAfter decades of writing flowing lyric verse, May Sarton&’s style turned to short bursts of poetry. Likening poetry to gardening, she writes, &“Muse, pour strength into my pruning wrist / That I may cut the way toward open space.&” These condensed poems are rife with exuberant impressions of nature and of love. Included are two of Sarton&’s most acclaimed poems, &“Old Lovers at the Ballet&” and &“Of the Muse.&”
Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr
by Husayn ibn Mansur al-HallajHallaj is the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, an early Sufi mystic. Despite his execution in Baghdad in 922 and the subsequent suppression of his work, Hallaj left an enduring literary and spiritual legacy that continues to inspire readers around the world. In Hallaj, Carl W. Ernst offers a definitive collection of 117 of Hallaj’s poems expertly translated for contemporary readers interested in Middle Eastern and Sufi poetry and spirituality. <P><p> Ernst’s fresh and direct translations reveal Hallaj’s wide range of themes and genres, from courtly love poems to metaphysical reflections on union with God. In a fascinating introduction, Ernst traces Hallaj’s dramatic story within classical Islamic civilization and early Arabic Sufi poetry. Setting himself apart by revealing Sufi secrets to the world, Hallaj was both celebrated and condemned for declaring: “I am the Truth.” Expressing lyrics and ideas still heard in popular songs, the works of Hallaj remain vital and fresh even a thousand years after their composition. They reveal him as a master of spiritual poetry centuries before Rumi, who regarded Hallaj as a model. This unique collection makes it possible to appreciate the poems on their own, as part of the tragic legend of Hallaj, and as a formidable legacy of Middle Eastern culture. <p> Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize
Halloween Friends (Brown Baby Parade)
by Nikki Shannon SmithIt&’s Halloween, and little friends are all dressed up! Follow along as they go from house to house, having fun and saying "Trick-or-treat!" in this second installment of the Brown Baby Parade series.It&’s Halloween!Time to go—off into the night.Little friends all dressed up.They are quite a sight.A group of friends in costumes have a blast trick-or-treating from house to house. Each friend is dressed up, so you'll see a ballerina, an astronaut, a pumpkin, and even a president! Nikki Shannon Smith's soothing, rhythmic text and DeAndra Hodge's warm, welcoming illustrations pair beautifully to create heartwarming scenes of brown babies in everyday life. The varied costumes on children of diverse skin tones allows these kids to envision themselves in any costume they like!
Halloween, Here I Come! (Here I Come!)
by D.J. SteinbergKick off your Halloween night with these festive poems from the author of Kindergarten, Here I Come!From choosing the best costume and going out trick-or-treating to sorting your candy and dealing with the results after you've eaten too much, author D. J. Steinberg captures the slightly shivery as well as festive moments of Halloween in this collection of playful poems.
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare'The Mona Lisa of literature' T. S. EliotIn Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience, madness and the nature of humanity, a young prince meets his father's ghost in the middle of the night, who accuses his own brother - now married to his widow - of murdering him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild insanity while plotting revenge. But his actions soon begin to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.Used and Recommended by the National TheatreGeneral Editor Stanley WellsEdited by T. J. B. SpencerIntroduction by Alan Sinfield
Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems
by Christian WimanA visionary selection from one of America's foremost poetsOne of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry, Christian Wiman has forged a singular style that fuses a vivid and propulsive music with clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary lament. In his "daring and urgent" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, My Bright Abyss, he asks, "What is poetry's role when the world is burning?" Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems might be read as an answer to that question. From the taut forms of his first book to the darker, more jagged fluencies of his second, into the bold and pathbreaking poems of his last two collections, Hammer Is the Prayer bears the reckless, restless interrogations and the slashing lyric intensity that distinguish Wiman's verse. But it also reveals the dramatic and narrative abilities for which he has been widely praised--the junkyard man in "Five Houses Down" with his "wonder-cluttered porch" and "the eyesore opulence / of his five partial cars," or the tragicomic character in "Being Serious" who suffers "the world's idiocy / like a saint its pains." Hammer Is the Prayer brings together three decades of Christian Wiman's acclaimed poetry. Selected by the author, these poems reveal the singular music and metaphysical urgency that have attracted so many readers to his work, and firmly assert his place as one of the most essential poets of our time.
Handbuch Idylle: Verfahren – Traditionen – Theorien
by Christian Schmitt Jan Gerstner Jakob C. HellerDas Handbuch dokumentiert den Stand der Idyllenforschung und zeigt neue Wege auf, um die ‚Idylle‘ und das ‚Idyllische‘ literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlich zu erfassen. Damit erfüllt es das Desiderat eines zeitgenössischen Konzepts der Gattung, das auch idyllische Phänomene im weiteren Sinne umfasst. Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen Philologien sowie aus Musik-, Theater-, Medien- und Kunstwissenschaften ergänzen den germanistischen Schwerpunkt des Handbuchs. Sie legen die transnationalen und transmedialen Traditionslinien der Gattung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart frei, erproben etablierte ebenso wie neue theoretische Ansätze und erläutern konstitutive Topoi. Das Handbuch begreift die Idylle als Effekt idyllisierender Verfahren und präsentiert sie so als in sich dynamische und widerspruchsvolle Form. Damit eröffnet es auch neue Wege, zeitgenössischen Transformationen des Idyllischen in Kultur und Politik analytisch zu begegnen.
Handbuch Versepik: Paradigmen – Poetiken – Geschichte
by Kai Bremer Stefan ElitDie klassische Gattung des Versepos von Milton bis Klopstock ist nach dem Ende ihrer letzten Hochphasen im europäischen Raum (je nach Sprachkultur zwischen 1750 und 1850) wenig beachtet, obschon weiterhin eine erstaunliche Breite an Formen und Inhalten zu finden ist. Das Handbuch will den bekannten klassischen und vor allem den modernen, vielsprachigen Bestand von Versepik interdisziplinär und systematisch beschreiben und dabei zugleich Wege für weitergehende Arbeiten weisen. Ein erster Teil des Handbuchs beleuchtet allgemeine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Aspekte. Ein weiterer Teil rekapituliert die ‚klassischen’ Epochen von der Antike bis ins 17. Jahrhundert. Der dritte Teil widmet sich dezidiert ausführlicher dem bis heute wohl größten offenen Feld, nämlich der Weiterentwicklung der europäischen Versepiken in den wichtigsten Sprachkulturen (v.a. Romania, anglo-amerikanischer, deutschsprachiger, slavischer Raum) seit der vorgeblichen Ablösung der alten Gattung durch die ‚modernere’ Prosa bzw. Romanliteratur.
Handful of Sun and Other Poems
by Padma Sachdev Karan Singh Shivanath Karan SinghAnthology of poems by Padma Sachdev, translated from Dogri and Hindi.
Hands Washing Water
by Chris Abani"Chris Abani's poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength."--Pride Hands Washing Water is Chris Abani's fourth poetry collection--a mischievous book of displacement, exile, ancestry, and subversive humor. The central section, "Buffalo Women," is a Civil War correspondence between lovers that plays on our assumptions about war, gender, morality, and politics. Sweetest Henri, I know we promised to be honest, one to the other, but your recent missive, though welcome as any epistle from you, filled me with a dread that clung like dampness to wet wood. I am terrified for your immortal soul, dear sweet Henri. This mad war of Lincoln is infecting you with a sickness too depraved to even address. . .Abani's writing is ruthless, at times traumatic, and consistently filled with surprising twists and turns.
Handsprings: Poems and Paintings
by Douglas FlorianAges 5 up WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT SPRING? Longer days? Blooming flowers? April Fools'? Cool spring showers? WHAT DO YOU NOT LIKE ABOUT SPRING? Spring-cleaning? Insect swarms? Mud, mud, mud? Thunderstorms? This collection of poems and paintings captures the freshness and promise of spring, whether it comes in like a lion or a lamb. A companion to the highly praised Winter Eyes, Summersaults, and Autumnblings, Handsprings completes Douglas Florian's season celebration.
Handwriting
by Michael Ondaatje"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --NewsdayHandwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates scents and gestures and evokes a time when "handwriting occurred on waves, / on leaves, the scripts of smoke" and remembers a woman's "laughter with its / intake of breath. Uhh huh."Crafted with lyrical delicacy and seductive power, Handwriting reminds us of Michael Ondaatje's stature as one of the finest poets writing today.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Handwriting
by Michael OndaatjeHandwriting is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems of delicacy and power - poems about love, landscape, and the sweep of history set in the poet's first home, Sri Lanka. The falling away of culture is juxtaposed with an individual's sense of loss, grief, and remembrance, as Ondaatje weaves a rich tapestry of images - the unburial of stone Buddhas, a family of stilt-walkers crossing a field, the pattern of teeth marks on skin drawn by a monk from memory.And, like the poets who "wrote their stories on rock and leaf/to celebrate the work of the day,/the shadow pleasures of the night," in these poems Ondaatje writes of desire and longing, the curve of a bridge against a woman's foot, the figure of a man walking through a rainstorm to a tryst. Handwriting is a poetic achievement by a writer at the height of his creative powers. In it, we are reminded once again of Michael Ondaatje's unique artistry with language and of his stature as one of the finest poets writing today.From the Hardcover edition.
Hank Williams: The Complete Lyrics
by Hank Williams Don CusicHank Williams was one of the greatest songwriters America has ever known. In the few years of fame before his tragic death in 1953, Williams gave us a songbook of classics--songs of misery and joy, of love won and love lost, of dancing and devotion--including "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Hey, Good Lookin'", and "Cold, Cold Heart". Now comes this collection of lyrics of all his songs--over 140 in all.
Hannah's Bad Hare Day
by Teresa BatemanFrom a hare to a moose, Hannah's curly hair provides her with quite the adventure.
Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door
by Cary FaganThe arrival of a mysterious new neighbor inspires a kid to write her own poetry in this humorous and unforgettable new middle-grade novel by award-winning author Cary Fagan.Andie Gladman is your typical kid — she lives in a small town, doesn't have many friends and quietly puts up with taunts from the school bully, Myrtle Klinghoffer. But one day, a new neighbor moves into the house next to Andie's family . . . and he looks awfully familiar. Could he be famous author Hans Christian Andersen? Andie sure thinks so, and the arrival of this well-known writer inspires Andie to write her own poems (with a feminist twist) based on his classic fairy tales. Her newfound hobby leads her to make a friend and finally feel some excitement about her previously quiet life . . . but will a shocking revelation change everything for Andie?