| Description |
147 pages ; 15 cm. |
| Contents |
Daddy fell into the pond / Alfred Noyes -- The father / Elizabeth Holmes -- After making love we hear footsteps / Galway Kinnell -- Fault / Ron Koertge -- Mother doesn't want a dog / Judith Viorst -- Snow / David Berman -- Her latest flame / Lindsay Macrae -- The chatterbox / Ann Taylor -- In praise of zigzags / Jane O. Wayne -- Praise song / Lucille Clifton -- Dishwater / Ted Kooser -- Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Office friendships / Gavin Ewart -- I'm really very fond / Alice Walker -- How to change a frog into a prince / Anna Denise -- Green frog at Roadstead, Wisconsin / James Schevill -- True love / Judith Viorst -- Fight / Laurel Blossom -- Flowers in the kitchen / Lemn Sissay -- A piazza tragedy / Eugene Field -- 'Fair's fair now, Venus... Poem 3 from The Amores: book 1 / Ovid -- I love you sweatheart / Thomas Lux -- Valentine / Donald Hall -- Two lovers make love despite their sunburns / X. J. Kennedy -- "What do women want?" / Kim Addonizio -- Personal / Beth Gylys -- Be quiet, sir! / Anonymous -- One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker -- To my laundress / Ambrose Bierce -- Sorrows of Werther / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The ichthyosaurus / Isabel Frances Bellows -- The sloth / Theodore Roethke -- Upon a snail / John Bunyan -- Eine Kleine Snailmusik / May Sarton -- Heaven / Rupert Brooke -- The rabbit / Anonymous -- Alley cat love song / Dana Gioia -- 'She sights a bird--she chuckles-- / Emily Dickinson -- The chipmunk / Ogden Nash -- The voice of the lobster / Lewis Carroll -- Bees / Norman Rowland Gale -- Flames / Billy Collins -- The spangled pandemonium / Palmer Brown -- The great panjandrum / Samuel Foote -- Freedom quarter / Jacques Prévert (translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti) -- Haiku / Issa (translated by Robert Bly) -- Toast to appetite / Roy Blount, Jr. -- The embarrassing episode of Little Miss Muffet / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- The universal favorite / Carolyn Wells -- Recipe for a salad / Sydney Smith -- Beautiful soup / Lewis Carroll -- Rice pudding / A. A. Milne -- Bleezer's ice cream / Jack Prelutsky -- Song of the pancake man / John Edward Everett -- A drink with something in it / Ogden Nash -- Lines on the Mermaid Tavern / John Keats -- R-E-M-O-R-S-E / George Ade -- The Irish pig / Anonymous -- The objection to being stepped on / Robert Frost -- Pls, stop seng msgs2ths / Charlotte Fortune -- Twelve things I don't want to hear / Connie Bensley -- Ballade of indignation / Gail White -- To people I hear talking loudly on their cell phones / James Stevenson -- The perils of modern living / Harold P. Furth -- Endangered species / Jane O. Wayne -- Weather / Ambrose Bierce -- Spring, etc. / Reed Whittemore -- Either way / Anonymous -- No! / Thomas Hood -- English weather / Wendy Cope -- The devil in Texas / Anonymous -- Selecting a reader / Ted Kooser -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand -- I'm nobody! who are you? / Emily Dickinson -- 96 Vandam / Gerald Stern -- The bagel / David Ignatow -- Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) / Frank O'Hara -- Advice from the experts / Bill Knott -- Social security / Terence Winch -- Waving at trains / Roger McGough -- Delayed action / Christian Morgenstern -- The young Pobble's guide to his toes / Gavin Ewart -- The limitations of youth / Eugene Field -- Mind body problem / Katha Pollitt -- Peekaboo, I almost see you / Ogden Nash -- Warning / Jenny Joseph -- The little old lady in lavender silk / Dorothy Parker -- Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / E. E. Cummings -- Advice to young children / Stevie Smith -- Athena / Thomas Hood -- God says yes to me / Kaylin Haught -- I didn't go to church today / Ogden Nash -- Listening to jazz now / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Happiness is being Danish / Jennifer Maier -- Happiness / Carl Sandburg -- Summer haiku / Alicia Ostriker -- Astro-g |
| Subject |
English poetry.
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American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Wayne, Jane O., writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781846014727 |
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1846014727 |
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