Birthday Poems presents an array of more than 100 friendly, wise, affectionate voices including William Carlos Williams, Kay Boyle, Allen Ginsberg, and June Jordan on the subject of birthdays. The birth of a son or daughter, the passionate address to another on the occasion of their birth, memories of birthdays past, birthday parties and rituals, the blessings of being alive and the knowledge of time passing, literary tributes from one writer to another, are some of the catalysts for many of the poems. The ultimate birthday gift, Birthday Poems will include a subject index making it easy to find favorite poems for husbands, wives, sons, daughters, friends or the year being celebrated. It will also include a preface on the history of birthdays and a postscript about the most popular song in the world, "Happy Birthday To You," the everywhere-known lyrics written by two women in Lexington, Kentucky in the late nineteenth century.
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Everyone has a birthday which they meet with varying levels of joy and ambivalence each year. Birthday Poems, edited by Jason Shinder (Tales from the Couch: Writers on Therapy), underscores this fact with a century's worth of poems by a variety of prominent U.S. writers (from e.e. cummings to John Hollander to June Jordan to Denis Cooper), who celebrate, lament and mull over the meaning of a birthday. A subject index will help readers find poems specific to certain family members or to the age being celebrated.
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Happy Birthday to You may seem as if it belongs to everyone, but the song was actually authored by two sisters only a hundred or so years ago and is still under copyright. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Happy Birthday to You may seem as if it belongs to everyone, but the song was actually authored by two sisters only a hundred or so years ago and is still under copyright. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
birthday poem Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Mexico, Seventh Street New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Hugs Expressions: Happy Birthday! by Howard Books on 4 pages
- Happy Birthday by Storey Publishing on 4 pages
- Happy Birthday to You by Hill on page 3, page 4, and Back Matter
- Happy Birthday by Teacher Created Resources Staff in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Iain Crichton Smith: Collected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Descent: Poems by Sophie Cabot Black in Front Matter
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