Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle

Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle
Author: Stephen Dunning
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1967-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0688412319

Here are modern poems chosen for their individual excellence and their special appeal to young people. Exciting photographs accent the contemporary tone of the collection. From lighthearted Phyllis Mc-Ginley to pessimistic Ezra Pound; from the lyricism of Edna St. Vincent Millay to the vigor of Lawrence Ferlinghette; from Carl Sandburg on loneliness to Paul Dehn on the bomb -- such is the range. The little known or unknown poet and the widely recognized appear side by siide. Whatever the subject matter -- pheasant or flying saucer; lapping lake water or sonic boom; a deer hunt, a basketball, or a bud -- it is all poetry reflecting today's images and today's moods. The editors spent several years bringing together 1200 poems they considered fine enough to include, then slowly and carefully sifted out of 114 which appear in the book. Readers of Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle . . . and Other Modern Verse may well be tempted by Eve Merriam's suggestion in "How to Eat a Poem" center Don't be polite Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick The juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.

Ants on the Melon

Ants on the Melon
Author: Virginia Adair
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2009-11-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0307554392

Already singled out by The New York Times and the subject of a feature in The New Yorker, Virginia Adair has, after decades of shunning book publication, decided to collect eighty of her best poems in a volume that will surely be hailed as among the most accomplished works of our time. Ants on the Melon includes poems that concern the author's childhood, that explore sensuality in candid terms, that starkly treat her husband's suicide and her own blindness, and that explore both her own emotional landscape and the universal mysteries of the human condition. Technically brilliant, using strict, classical prosody, yet entirely modern in sensibility, Virginia Adair's poetry will play a central role in the ongoing American poetry renaissance.

Red Sings from Treetops

Red Sings from Treetops
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2009-04-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547562136

Includes a reader's guide and an author's note.

The Contender

The Contender
Author: Robert Lipsyte
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0061995878

The breakthrough modern sports novel The Contender shows readers the true meaning of being a hero. This acclaimed novel by celebrated sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in YA fiction, is the story of a young boxer in Harlem who overcomes hardships and finds hope in the ring on his path to becoming a contender. Alfred Brooks is scared. He’s a high-school dropout, and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn’t even do. So Alfred begins going to Donatelli’s Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. There he learns it’s the effort, not the win, that makes the boxer—that before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children’s Book * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

From Blossoms

From Blossoms
Author: Li-Young Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Li-Young Lee is a leading American poet, born in Indonesia, whose poetry fuses memory, family, culture and history to explore love, exile, family and mortality. This selection, drawn from three collections and a memoir, shows Lee searching for understanding and for the right language to give form to what is invisible and evanescent.

Food in Jars

Food in Jars
Author: Marisa McClellan
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0762441437

A comprehensive guide to home preserving and canning in small batches provides seasonally arranged recipes for 100 jellies, spreads, salsas and more while explaining the benefits of minimizing dependence on processed, store-bought preserves.

Bright Poems for Dark Days

Bright Poems for Dark Days
Author: Julie Sutherland
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0711266816

An illustrated anthology of uplifting poetry.

Harvest to Heat

Harvest to Heat
Author: Darryl Estrine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781600852541

Celebrating the collaboration between farmer and chef--and the journey from land to table--"Harvest to Heat" explores this dynamic relationship and paints beautiful portraits of these often unheralded people, even while it offers up a bounty of 100 recipes.

Beastly Verse

Beastly Verse
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781592701667

"This is an anthology of 16 animal poems for children, illustrated by the graphic artist JooHee Yoon. The authors range from Lewis Carroll to D.H. Lawrence to Anonymous."--Publisher information.