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Merrily Comes Our Harvest In: Poems for Thanksgiving
by Lee Bennett Hopkins[from inside flaps] "A noted poetry anthologist and a leading children's book illustrator have collaborated to create a Thanksgiving confection that evokes the crisp autumn air, the joy of the traditional family dinner, and the warm festive atmosphere that this special holiday brings to everyone. In Merrily Comes Our Harvest In: Poems for Thanksgiving, selections by such prominent poets as Robert Graves, Myra Cohn Livingston, Margaret Hillert, Aileen Fisher, Marchette Chute, and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins himself combine to generate the sights, the tastes, the aromas, and the feelings that this rich and joyous holiday elicit in the memories of young and old alike. Ben Shecter's warm, humorous holiday scenes give us a visual feast, starting with the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, continuing all the way through the actual preparation and the hearty eating, and ending with cleaning-up time. This is the fifth book in Hopkins's holiday series." Pictures are described.
Merry Christmas, Dear Mars: An Out-of-This-World Story About the Night Before Christmas
by Penny Parker KlostermannAn out-of-this-world remix of the classic poem “A Visit from Saint Nicholas”!It’s Christmas Eve. The Martians have hung their stockings and decorated their trees in hopes that Santa will finally visit the red planet. But what are the excited Martians to do when Santa’s sleigh shudders and shimmies and stops? Then teeters and totters and drops? It’ll take a dose of Christmas magic and some help from the Outer Space Rescue Division to get this holiday back on track. Humorous, rhyming text and vibrant illustrations combine to make a perfect winter read-a-loud, destined to become a classic.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Mouse
by Caralyn BuehnerFrom the creators of the New York Times bestseller Snowmen at Night comes a lively story about discovering the joy and meaning of ChristmasWhen Mr. Mouse and his family move into the warm spot beneath the kitchen stove in a big house, they discover something new and wonderful: an evergreen tree decorated with lights, ginger and peppermint smells in the air, and cookies baking in the oven. They hear about a child born long ago, and a jolly man named Santa who brings gifts to celebrate Jesus’s birth on a day called Christmas. And so Mr. and Mrs. Mouse decide that their family should celebrate Christmas too.With delightful rhyming verse, detailed illustrations (with hidden pictures to search for!), and a childlike sense of wonder, the story of the Mouse family’s first Christmas is sure to become a holiday tradition.
Merry Christmas, Santa Claus!
by J. L. CoppageIt's Christmas Eve, and Santa's team has been busy--but even the folks at the North Pole need to celebrate!While Santa is away, everyone around the workshop pitches in to bring together a holiday celebration just in time for Santa's return. This cute, fun board book features tabs so readers can flip right to their favorite character. With bright, fun illustrations and bouncy, rhyming text, Merry Christmas, Santa Claus! is the perfect way to introduce the younger readers to the holiday spirit of the season!
Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
by Jake KennedyIn 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later as an adult, he read a story about how Kurt Schwitters' "interior house-sculpture" ("Merz Structure No. 2") was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing with matches accidentally burnt the building down. This sad 'unmaking,' so similar in nature to his own haunting experience, became the inspiration for Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play, a collection of experimental poetry that explores the dynamic, if often unsettling, relationship between making and unmaking, bliss and pain, utterance and silence. As diverse in form as they are in artistic/cultural references, the poems of Merz Structure No. 2 invoke an endless bounty of characters: the poet remembers Harold Ramis; Kafka summons the courage to tell his dad where to go; another tornado razes another small town; Yorick returns to run balls-out into the sea; Louise Bourgeois smashes a tea cup against one of her sculptures.Readers who connect with Phil Hall’s artistic investigations in Killdeer and Lisa Robertson's clear-eyed take on humanity in Magenta Soul Whip will enjoy Kennedy's feeling examination of loss in Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play.
Mesopotopia (Penguin Poets)
by Anne Waldman&“To understand the radiance of the poetry world you have to look at Anne.&” —Eileen Myles, author of A Working Life From &“one of the most important and irreducible living American poets&” (Poetry Foundation) comes a powerful and prophetic collection of epic scope and visionMesopotopia explores the vast sweep of our accelerating, precipitous world. From the cradle to the grave, from the mysterious poetic origins of Mesopotamia to our own dystopias of the twenty-first century, Anne Waldman crafts a singular, radical investigation into the syncretic layers of quantum space and dreamtime. She invokes &“studying&” as the most compelling ritual and tool for evolution and travels to various fellaheen worlds, treading metabolic pathways and ancient &“antitheses realities,&” and gleans sacred texts that speak urgently through the transports and telepathies of poetry. Troubadour dawn songs, pyramid texts, Buddhist mantras, canonical hours of Judeo-Christian tradition, Persian prayers, Druid sorcery, and the wild, gnarly syntax and modal structure of Waldman&’s particular performative passion and wit are all conjured here.What emerges is a meditation on the salient words of the French poet Antonin Artaud contemplating the destruction and rubble post–World War II: &“We are not yet born, we are not yet in the world, there is not yet a world, things have not been made, the reason for being has not yet been found.&” Mesopotopia—mythic maelstrom, rhythmic rite of passage, protolanguage trance dance—moves toward release and gnosis.
Message d'un homme dans la quarantaine: RIYAD AL KADI
by Toufik ElmouatamidRIYAD AL KADI Romancier et poète, écrivain né en 1974 à Bagdad d'une grande famille bien connue en Irak. A commencé à écrire des nouvelles depuis l'âge de 15 ans. Il a également été impliqué dans de nombreuses pièces Il a travaillé dans un magazine politique appelé NATIONAL SECURITY de 1994 à 1997 Il est nominé pour INSTITUT OF HIGH OFFICER 1999 Il a quitté l'Irak en raison d'un problème politique et ils ont décidé de le destituer en 1999. Il est venu au Royaume-Uni pour une vie meilleure et maintenant il travaille comme enseignant Il a écrit 20 livres: POÈMES DE FEU ET DE CENDRES - EN ARABE - ILLUSION POEMS - EN ARABE - POÈMES KAHRAMMANA ET INVADERS: POÈMES POLITIQUES - EN ARABE - POÈMES LECTEUR DE COUPE - EN ARABE - JOURNAL D'UN HOMME TRISTE POEMES - EN ARABE - EVE POEMS - EN ARABE - POÈMES DE BAGDAD - EN ARABE - L'ÈRE DES FEMMES POEMS - EN ARABE - NISREEN POEMS - EN ARABE - HISTOIRES COURTES NISREEN - EN ARABE - POÈMES DE RÉFLEXION - EN ARABE - LES POÈMES DE MASSACRE - EN ARABE - POÈMES D'ISTANBUL - EN ARABE - Le destin Le destin PAR RIYAD AL KADI Histoire bossue de Bagdad RIYAD ALKADI
Messenger, Messenger
by Robert Burleigh Barry RootMorning's come around again, and Calvin Curbhopper, the messenger man, is on the go, zipping around from spot to spot, taking shortcuts through parking lots, steering through the midday blare of honking horns, his breath like a smokestack in the frosty air. Wind, snow, rain, sun, can't keep Calvin from making his run. And Robert Burleigh's rhythmic language keeps the groove right alongside him, further enlivened by Barry Root's energetic illustrations.
Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (Southern Messenger Poets Ser.)
by Ellen Bryant Voigt"Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world."--Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World To witness the maturation of a poet over time is one of the great pleasures of reading. Here Ellen Bryant Voigt gives us that narrative distilled and amplified, arranging selections from six previous volumes to culminate in transcendent recent poems.
Messy Bessey's Garden (Rookie Reader)
by Dana Regan Patricia C. McKissack Fredrick L. McKissackMessy Bessey discovers that with proper care her garden will flourish.
Metamorfosis (edició en català)
by OvidiLes Metamorfosis és una de les obres cabdals de la poesia universal; s’hi narren els canvis de déus, homes i dones en animals, plantes o minerals, des dels orígens del món fins a la transformació en estel de l’ànima de Juli Cèsar. Els relats, escrits de manera lleugera i molt sensual, són la mostra més evident del talent, de l’erudició i de la fantasia del poeta, que va aplegar tota la tradició mitològica anterior. Des de la seva aparició, el llibre va esdevenir un veritable vademècum i la font d’informació mitològica més important per a escriptors i artistes.
Metamorfosis: Bodegones y otras naturalezas vivas
by Elena Camacho RozasUn cuerpo es un bodegón lleno de frutas tentadoras. La voz poética aspira aquí a que lo quieran más mientras busca desasirse del encierro del propio cuerpo, desahogo que no tiene por qué llegar a buen puerto. <P><P>Portador de toda una historia de oquedades en las que encuentra su razón de ser, el hueco llena el interior de su cuerpo y rezuma vida y quiere llenarse, «Orificios», pero recuerda el paisaje de su infancia y la inminencia del paso del tiempo se cierne en un reloj de arena, «Cuerpo de bodegón»; sin embargo, la naturaleza brutal y ambivalente se erige frente al espacio artificial construido por el hombre, «Naturaleza viva», y el colofón pone a cada uno en su lugar con una vuelta de tuerca en un estilo muy actual, «Ella responde».
Metamorphoses
by Charles Martin OvidOvid's epic poem, whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages, has been the inspiration for authors from Dante to present day writers such as Rushdie and Calvino. Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
Metamorphoses
by Rolfe Humphries OvidStories of passion, death, and transformation. From the introduction: "the great collection, the definitive compendium of ancient mythology, which is known to us as the Metamorphoses, or the Stories of Changing Forms. The work on which Ovid's reputation was founded shows a great deal of the spirit of the Restoration; unhappily for this happy man, there was in Augustus a great deal of the spirit of Cromwell. And from the official point of view, Ovid must often have seemed mischievous, if not downright subversive." [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
Metamorphoses
by Ovid'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into extraordinary new beings. Including the well-known stories of Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This translation by David Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the energy and spontaneity of the original.Translated by DAVID RAEBURN with an Introduction by DENIS FEENEY
Metamorphoses
by Publius Ovidius NasoTo help the reader contend with Ovid's frequent leaps both ahead and back in time, the principle episodes are listed at the beginning of each book and the subsections and digressions marked with indentations.
Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
by Denis Feeney David Raeburn<P>Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings.<P> Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy.
Metamorphoses (The Norton Library #0)
by OvidAbout Charles Martin’s translation Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin’s blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a “smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear” (Richard Wilbur) version that “highlights [the poem’s] lightness and pervasive sense of universal mutability” (Michael Dirda).
Metamorphoses: A New Translation
by Charles Martin Ovid Bernard M. Knox"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Ovid's epic poem--whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages--is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. This volume also includes endnotes and a glossary of people, places, and personifications.
Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition
by Rolfe Humphries Ovid Joseph D. Reed"So easy to read that one may have to think twice to realize these tales are nearly 2,000 years old." –Washington Post "One of the most captivating books ever written" —The New York Times Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you’ve never read them before—sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious—from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis, the myths tell the story of the world from its creation up to the transformation of Julius Caesar from man into god. In the ten-beat, unrhymed lines of this now-legendary and widely praised translation, Rolfe Humphries captures the spirit of Ovid’s swift and conversational language, bringing the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet to modern readers. This special annotated edition includes new, comprehensive commentary and notes by Joseph D. Reed, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University.
Metamorphoses: Translated By Various Authors (classic Reprint) (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
by OvidThe first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid&’s classic. A Penguin Classic Hardcover Ovid&’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma. A beautiful virgin is caught in the gaze of someone more powerful who rapes or tries to rape them, and they ultimately are turned into a tree or a lake or a stone or a bird. The victim&’s objectification is clear: They are first a visual object, then a sexual object, and finally simply an object. Around 50 of the epic&’s tales involve rape or attempted rape of women. Past translations have obscured or mitigated Ovid&’s language so that rape appears to be consensual sex. Through her translation, McCarter considers the responsibility of handling sexual and social dynamics. Then why continue to read Ovid? McCarter proposes Ovid should be read because he gives us stories through which we can better explore ourselves and our world, and he illuminates problems that humans have been grappling with for millennia. Careful translation of rape and the body allows readers to see Ovid&’s nuances clearly and to better appreciate how ideas about sexuality, beauty, and gender are constructed over time. This is especially important since so many of our own ideas about these phenomena are themselves undergoing rapid metamorphosis, and Ovid can help us see and understand this progression. The Metamorphoses holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to the modern world, one that offers us the opportunity to reflect on contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, race, violence, art, and identity.
Metaphysical Dog: Poems
by Frank BidartNational Book Critics Circle Award WinnerA National Book Award FinalistMetaphysical Dog offers a vital, searching collection from one of finest American poets at work todayIn "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not." Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet's most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts, of his life, and ours.Near the end of the book, Bidart writes: In adolescence, you thought your work ancient work: to decipher at last human beings' relation to God. Decipher love. To make what was once whole whole again: or to see why it never should have been thought whole.This "ancient work" reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the "hunger for the Absolute"—a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it. The third section of the book is titled "History is a series of failed revelations."The result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Poetry BooksA New York Times Notable BookAn NPR Best Book of the Year
Metaphysical Licks
by Gregoire Pam DickMetaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick [a.k.a. Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al., author of Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009)]. With a mix of high and low, tragic and comic, abstract and concrete, artifice and confession, Dick's playful writing takes risks. It transposes Georg's Grete (musician, fellow addict and suicide) to current-day Greta, gives her Wittgenstein and Kafka as other brothers, and betroths her (unhappily) to Nietzsche. Crossing New York City with Vienna and Berlin, it composes dissonance from urban moments, narrative fragments, and philosophical remarks. The inventive, androgynous, sexually loose (and intermittently incestuous) persona of Greta expresses itself through the surreal and haunted imagery of Trakl's poems. Readers will be drawn to Dick's combination of girl/punk/genderqueer rebelliousness and intensely questioning thought, in a text where creativity alone offers escape and exultation, and subjectivity keeps changing its sounds.