Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey - Softcover

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9780152020521: Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0152020527 ISBN 13: 9780152020521

Publisher: Harcourt Brace, 1998

The poems in this collection come from Nancy Willard's cardboard boxes--she's collected them to accompany her on her journey through life, and she hopes young people will take them along on their own adventures. Works by well-known poets--Elizabeth Bishop, e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens--are gathered here, along with verse from lesser known writers from other countries and other times.
All of the poems in Step Lightly share a common readability, and the spark of joy that caught a remarkable poet's eye.

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About the Author:

Nancy Willard (born June 26, 1936) is a novelist, a poet, and a children's writer and occasional illustrator. Her 1981 collection of poems, A Visit to William Blake's Inn, won the Newbery Medal as that year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature.

Willard was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she later received the B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and won five Hopwood Awards for creative writing. She also studied at Stanford University, where she received her M.A.

Review:

La Manca (the Little Girl That Lost A Finger) by Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
Manners by Elizabeth Bishop
Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop
The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
For Caitlin Lally by Michael Dennis Browne
The Wind Of The Marigold by Etain Mary Clarke
Homage To My Hips by Lucille Clifton
Miss Rosie by Lucille Clifton
50 Poems: 29 by Edward Estlin Cummings
W (viva): 43 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Morning by Emily Dickinson
Who Is The East? by Emily Dickinson
Joseph Fell A-dreaming by Eleanor Farjeon
Cover Catfish by Liz Fischer
Turning The Tide by Liz Fischer
Two Witches: 1. The Witch Of Coos by Robert Frost
Song by Megan Gannon
The Little Mute Boy by Federico Garcia Lorca
Ego-tripping (there May Be A Reason Why) by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Allie by Robert Ranke Graves
Wind Blowing by Emily Hahn
Names Of Horses by Donald Hall
I Remember The Room Was Filled With Light by Judith Hemschemeyer
The Avenue Bearing The Initial Of Chtist In The New World: 1 by Galway Kinnell
Credo by Maxine W. Kumin
The White Horse by David Herbert Lawrence
Come Into Animal Presence by Denise Levertov
Writing In The Dark by Denise Levertov
Making Light Of It by Philip Levine
Poetry Loaves (serves Those Who Are Hungry) by Valerie Linet
Epitaph Of A Pet Hare by Meleager
Dusk In Winter by William Stanley Merwin
Go To Bed First by Mother Goose
All The Warm Nights by Jacob Nibenegenesabe
Blizzard by Linda Pastan
Day Of Rabblement by Kenneth Patchen
Ode To A Pair Of Socks by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Child On Top Of A Greenhouse by Theodore Roethke
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, And Frau Schwartze by Theodore Roethke
Slug by Theodore Roethke
Purple by Alexis Rotella
Ariel's Song (1) [or, Dirge] [or, A Sea Dirge]. Fr. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Jubilate Agno: My Cat Jeoffrey [or, Lines 697-780.] by Christopher Smart
Snow by Radcliffe Squires
Fame by William Edgar Stafford
Santa's Workshop by William Edgar Stafford
Cow Worship by Gerald Stern
Disillusionment Of Ten O'clock by Wallace Stevens
Epitaph Of A Maltese Watch-dog by Tymnes
Donal Og by Anonymous
The Bluest Tattoo by Kelly Williams
The Descent Of Winter: 12/15 by William Carlos Williams
Smell! by William Carlos Williams
The Winds by William Carlos Williams
Mutterings Over The Crib Of A Deaf Child by James Wright
The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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