Sentences with phrase «in poetry collections»

The excitement of the natural world, from a thrilling lightning storm to butterflies «untethered from earth,» is a child's joyful discovery in this poetry collection, which is filled with fun action rooted in physicality, whether it is shooting a cherry - pit missile or making frozen angels in the snow.

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I started with Anne of Green Gables, like most kids in Canada, but that initial sojourn turned into the entire series of eight (now nine, depending on who you ask) and then all of the Emily books, the one - offs and novels, the short - story collections and rare volume of poetry, the journals and the letters.

The Bible is, in reality, a complex collection of historical documents, written over the course of at least 1,500 years, which represents various literary genres (everything from history to parables, poetry to pastoral letters and legal code to visions of the future), worldviews, languages, cultures, agendas and opinions.

The collection contains courtly poetry from her early years, elegant verse addressed to patrons and even in some cases to portraits of patrons — proof that Sor Juana could play the witty court games as skillfully as anyone.

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Your statement that the bible is «an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own.»

Indeed, the whole thing seems to be a miscellaneous collection of poetry arranged in an artificial, rather than logical fashion.

The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own.

Not all Christians read the Bible literally but take much of it to be collections of folktales, poetry, and history that sometimes illustrate how difficult it can be to navigate through life and grapple with the questions of where we come from, where we're going, and how we are to live in the meantime.

The first, can appear the model of pure a priori thought, disengaged from the world of experience; the second, a massive collection of detailed descriptions and theories about the enormous variety of material phenomena, but with no intelligible unity; and the third an obscure and generally unrigorous rhapsody of affirmations and aspirations, at one end couched in the languages of politics and sentimentality, and at the other in the terms of a cosmic poetry unregulated by science or philosophy.

The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets edited by David Yezzi Swallow Press, 360 pages, $ 19.95 In his introduction, editor and contributor David Yezzi suggests that this collection reconciles the traditional division in the poetry world between those who prefer classical forms and those who..In his introduction, editor and contributor David Yezzi suggests that this collection reconciles the traditional division in the poetry world between those who prefer classical forms and those who..in the poetry world between those who prefer classical forms and those who....

No attentive reader of this collection of religious poetry can fail to notice how much of it is written in the first person singular.

She says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own.»

There is nothing in the New Testament, for example, to parallel the large collections of «observations on life and the world - order,» which we call the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Scriptures, or its extensive range of liturgical poetry, or the detailed corpus of its laws on what we would regard as secular matters.

In the collection there is found included a great variety of literary forms, prose narratives, fables, fairy tales, much poetry of various sorts, a good deal of ballad form, reported sayings on many subjects, and fragments of epics.

It brought together not only history, but law, poetry, legend, story, proverb, drama, a strange collection in some respects.

There is no doubt that he was fond of poetry, and that he referred to this particular collection many times in his reported sayings.

Treat your child to these stories in verse and poetry collections.

He added that the prestige associated with the prize saw the 184 entries of collections of poetry in various sizes and of diverse themes and set the stage for the stiff competition.

For their prizes, each was given a branded VFL Ghana bag containing; an android kiddy tablet, 10 exercise books, an Ewe — English Dictionary, Epistles to my Bubune (collections of letters), The Bloody Ingrate (story book), Nsempiisms (A collection of poetry, storytelling and satire), Love brewed in the African Pot (Africa's sensational film hit — Now a comic strip), This is Ghana (Tourism book), a food flask, a cutlery set, a portable radio set and a watch.

Founded in autumn 2009 by Victor David Giron, Curbside has produced a bevy of diverse and incredible books such as Franki Elliot's stirring poetry collection Piano Rats, Samantha Irby's hilarious essay... our inherent advantages, and...

A debut poetry collection from actor Nico Tortorella exploring «all of it,» from the smallest cells in our bodies to the outer limits of our universe.

And then there is the Exeter Book, a 10th - century tome hailed as «the largest extant collection of Old English poetry,» though it sneaks in a few riddles, too.

Also included in this Web site are pictures of several flags, including all 50 state flags and a collection of patriotic poetry, essays, and other writings.

African American History Through the Arts: In this collection from ArtsEdge, students can explore black history through the lens of a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, poetry, and dance.

The same lesson could easily be adapted to other poetry collections or be used for characters or themes / symbols in other texts.

The pack includes: A long colourful display banner A cute display border with pictures of frogs and lily pads A Power Point about the life cycle of the frog - there are two different versions of this for younger / SEN children and older children Display labels with sentences about the different stages of the life cycle 10 question cards to add to add to displays A game to collect the missing parts of the sequence of a frog growing Life cycle posters showing the full life cycle - these are in colour and back and white Picture dominoes game A collection of songs and rhymes about frogs Spinner game - spin the special spinner and collect the missing parts of the life cycle Topic word cards to add to your display Frog jigsaws to cut out and reassemble Large arrows to add to your display to show the life cycle Large display pictures of the different stages of the life cycle of a frog - these are in colour and also black and white Matching pairs game Large pictures of different plants to use when creating a pond display Question worksheet - answer the questions about the life cycle Sequence woksheets in black and white and colour Sequence cards showing the different stages of the life cycle Counting worksheet - count how many tadpoles there are in each pond Wordsearches - 2 different life cycle themed wordsearches Word border sheet in colour and black and white - great for poetry writing or adding to the writing area A life cycle of a frog book to make Fact posters showing pictures and information about the different stages Colour photographs of the frog life cycle and different frogs Frog counting cards up to 10 A fact writing woksheet about frogs Large cute frog pictures and lily pads - great to use for numeracy activities Odd and even frog number line Number maze worksheets - follow the numbers to lead the frog to the lily pad A day in the pond worksheet A number line on frogs Phonemes on tadpoles Size ordering worksheets Frog colour posters An A4 word mat with words and pictures - great to use when writing about the life cycle of a frog Number bingo with cute frog pictures

Decoding skills are emphasized in early grades, but as early as kindergarten, students are simultaneously exposed to lively collections of stories, poetry, and fables.

His essays on race and education regularly appear in The New Yorker and The Atlantic; he was the 2014 National Poetry Slam champion; and his debut collection of poetry, Counting Descent, won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

Including extracts from Dickens, Bronte and Shakespeare, but also more modern, accessible texts such as Willy Russell's Our Day Out, Harry Potter and Roald Dahl's Boy, this collection aims to provide a wide range of texts through which to study the range of skills vital in the new curriculum, such as pre-19th Century Literature, poetry, comparison of theme and time period, language and structural features.

The Slovenian book market Every year in Slovenia, some 4,000 books are published, including 300 collections of poetry, 500 novels and almost 900 children's books.

Books that are written in or include uses of uncommon formats (uses of letters, screenplay, photos, poetry, or collection of short stories or essays) is another unique quality she looks for.

In a career spanning three decades she published fifteen novels, three short story collections, prize - winning children's fiction and twelve collections of poetry.

A collection of eleven stories by a young writer evoke his hard - fought youth in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the bleak urban landscapes of New Jersey, combining a journalist's dispassionate eye with an ear for poetry.

And between the delightfully wide array of literary offerings - by 1956 they had printed over 1,000 titles - and the color - coded covers (scarlet = contemporary classics, mauve = ancient classics, sand = poetry, dark green = 18th century...), browsing their collection leaves you feeling a bit like a kid in a candy store.

Unconfessed is her first novel, following a collection of poetry, Castaway, published in 1999.

Her final novel, Birdcage Walk, was published in 2017, as was her last poetry collection, Inside the Wave.

In addition, I have self - published two memoirs, and publisher poetry collections for several authors who I met through the literary group.

So it happened today that I found myself reviewing both a YA (young adult) steampunk thriller (sent to me by the debut author) and a collection of Polish poetry in translation (received from Vine Leaves Literary Journal, for which I'm a staff reviewer).

So it happened today that I found myself reviewing both a YA (young adult) steampunk thriller (sent to me by the debut author) and a collection of Polish poetry in translation (received from

When I get this busy, my reading slacks off and so I tend to reach for short stuff — I'll pull a poetry collection from the shelf, or a short story anthology and dip in and out.

My experience with Self - Publishing Relief in publishing Night Travels, my collection of poetry, was satisfying from beginning to end.

Her first poetry collection was published when she was thirty and her poem «The Malarkey,» won the 2007 National Poetry Competition in Britain.

He completed 12 novels during his life, published various poetry collections and left behind an almost completed 1,000 page novel, 2666, about the unsolved murders of 300 women in Mexico over the past 10 years.

Share the challenges and celebrations of being a girl in today's world through this collection of artwork, stories, and poetry.

Money in the messages from the publicist instructing Less what questions were absolutely off the table for H. H. H. Mandern (his wife, his daughter, his poorly reviewed poetry collection).

In the following conversation, authors J. Patrick Lewis (JPL) and George Ella Lyon (GEL) and editor Rebecca Davis (RD) discuss the connections between social justice and poetry and how they created the poetry collection Voices from the March on Washington.

We encounter poetry every day, of course, in its most populist forms — song lyrics, advertising — but the meager sales of poetry collections would indicate that few of us are curling up by the fire with a volume of verse.

Amit Majmudar explores the ongoing issue of culture clash in the U.S. and his own outsider experience in his new poetry collection, Dothead.

Suzanne Matson is the author of four novels (Ultraviolet forthcoming in September 2018) and two collections of poetry.