Animal Poems of the Iguazu: Animalario Del Iguazu

Author: Francisco Alarcón
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9781531164560
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
let's listen to / the green voice / of the rainforest The animals of the Iguazú speak for themselves, creating a collection of poems that will resonate with readers of all ages. In the magical rainforest of the Iguazú National Park, butterflies are the multicolored flowers of the air. Great dusky swifts watch over the park, and the untamed spirits of jaguars roam the jungle. Spanning three countries--Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay--the thundering waterfalls and lush green rainforests of the Iguazú have dazzled visitors for centuries, and are now in danger of being lost. Following the Amerindian oral tradition, award-winning Chicano poet Francisco X. Alarcón lets the animals of the Iguazú speak for themselves in their own soaring, roaring, fluttering voices, and the resulting poems are as urgent as they are beautiful and humorous. Maya Christina Gonzalez's mixed media illustrations bring the colors and textures of the Iguazú rainforest to vibrant life.

Poetic Animals and Animal Souls

Author: R. Malamud
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137063491
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
This book offers a new paradigm for reading and appreciating animals in literature and addresses how human culture views animals in poetry. Part one sets up a theoretical overview and posits some aesthetic and ethical ideals for transposing animals into art, while part two presents a more focused practical application of these ideals in one strain of animal poetry (as seen in the works of Marianne Moore, José Emilio Pacheco, Gary Snyder, Pattiann Rogers and others). The poetry analyzed in the book is respectfully and non-invasively insightful into animals; it is tinged with a distancing, and a kind of spiritual awe, regarding their existence.

The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Author: Michael Malay
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319706667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
This book argues that there are deep connections between ‘poetic’ thinking and the sensitive recognition of creaturely others. It explores this proposition in relation to four poets: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, and Les Murray. Through a series of close readings, and by paying close attention to issues of sound, rhythm, simile, metaphor, and image, it explores how poetry cultivates a special openness towards animal others. The thinking behind this book is inspired by J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals. In particular, it takes up that book’s suggestion that poetry invites us to relate to animals in an open-ended and sympathetic manner. Poets, according to Elizabeth Costello, the book’s protagonist, ‘return the living, electric being to language’, and, doing so, compel us to open our hearts towards animals and the claims they make upon us. There are special affinities, for her, between the music of poetry and the recognition of others. But what might it mean to say that poets to return life to language? And why might this have any bearing on our relationship with animals? Beyond offering many suggestive starting points, Elizabeth Costello says very little about the nature of poetry’s special relationship with the animal; one aim of this study, then, is to ask of what this relationship consists, not least by examining the various ways poets have bodied forth animals in language.

Animal Magic

Author: Liz Brownlee
Publisher: Iron
ISBN: 9780956572530
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
'Animal Magic' features poems and artwork, both playful and serious, on the animal kingdom and the threats posed to it by mankind. There are poems on more than 40 animals, birds and insects: from the well-known and the little-known to the exotic.

Talking Animals

Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512809357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Apes to Zebras: an A-Z of Shape Poems

Author: Liz Brownlee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Education
ISBN: 1472929527
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
This gorgeous collection of animal poems from Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson will entrance and delight in equal measure. Featuring a full alphabet of animals, birds, and insects, with the odd extinct or imaginary creature thrown in, these beautiful shape poems are a perfect way to introduce children to poetry. Some funny, some serious, there is something here for everyone. Book band: Dark Blue

The A to Z of Animal Poetry

Author: Rob Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957565500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
A book of poems for children aged 6-12, all about various common and unusual animals from around the world. The font used is specially designed to make reading easier for those with Dyslexia.

T is for Tuatara

Author: Jo Van Dam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473580841
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
T is for Tuatara Amazing animals from A to Z is an alphabet book unlike any other.From the author of the popular Doggy Ditties from A to Z, inspiration for this new set of delightful silly ditties comes from weird and wonderful creatures from all over the globe. Beginning with aardvark and ending in zebu, with a selection of crazy birds, reptiles, mammals and fish in between the rhymes and limericks are bound to make kids giggle. Did you know dugongs only eat sea grass? And that yellow-eyed penguins are the rarest of the 18 species of penguin? Both children and adults can learn more about the unusual creatures in the book from the fun facts and questions section at the back of the book.

War of the Beasts and the Animals

Author: Maria Stepanova
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780375342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
First full English translation of the poetry of Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers.

An Emotional Menagerie

Author: The School of Life
Publisher: School of Life Press
ISBN: 9781912891245
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Emotions are like animals: No two are quite the same. Some are quiet; some are fierce; And all are hard to tame. An Emotional Menagerie is an emotional glossary for children. A book of 26 rhyming poems, arranged alphabetically, that bring our feelings to life – Anger, Boredom, Curiosity, Dreaminess, Embarrassment, Fear, Guilt, and more. The poems transform each emotion into a different animal to provide a clear and engaging illustration of its character: how it arises; how it makes us behave and how we can learn to manage its effects. Boasting a rich vocabulary, the poems also give children a wide variety of options for describing their feelings to others. Children experience all sorts of emotions: sometimes going through several very different ones before breakfast. Yet they can struggle to put these feelings into words. An inability to understand and communicate their moods can lead to bad behaviour, deep frustration and a whole host of difficulties further down the line. Like adults, they need help to recognise and verbalise their inner state. The greater their emotional vocabulary, the more likely they are to grow into happy, healthy and fulfilled adults. Filled with wise, therapeutic advice, brought to life through musical language and beautiful illustrations, An Emotional Menagerie is an imaginative and universally appealing way of increasing emotional literacy.