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Publication Date: May 29, 1987

Over 100 poems reflect the rich and varied experiences of life, from music lessons and a circus parade to a first kiss and other affairs of the heart.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } Over 100 poems reflect the rich and varied experiences of life, from music lessons and a circus parade to a first kiss and other affairs of the heart.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 8 Up As in Strings (1984) and Don't Forget to Fly (1981, both Bradbury), Janeczko has compiled modern poems on the subtle connections between people. Each of the 132 poems in this four-part volume represents a strong, original glimpse into an emotional second of human existence. From Baron Wormser's child in ``For my brother who died before I was born'' (``Your absence was a game /which might at any move /Intrude upon my wanting life'') to George Roberts' adolescent in ``while dissecting frogs in biology class scrut discovers the intricacies of the scooped neckline in his lab partner's dress'' to Jim Wayne Miller's adult in ``Living with Children'' (``Sorcerers, they've turned /the house into a serialized fairy tale''). The clean type face and minimal decoration allow the strong poems to stand uncluttered. A book to read again and again to savor our human richness (``Yet, it's what we all want, in the end, /not to be worshipped, not to be admired, /not to be famous, not to be feared, /not even to be loved, but simply to be held'' from Aden Nowlan's ``He sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded''). The book contains notes on sources and an index of poets. Kathleen D. Whalin, Public Lib . of Columbus and Franklin County, Reynoldsburg, Ohio
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

Manners by Elizabeth Bishop
Back From Word-processing Course, I Say To My Old Typewriter by Michael Blumenthal
Abraham by George Bogin
The Lost Carnival by Fred Chappell
On Being Much Better Than Most And Not Quite Good Enough by John Ciardi
Nude Reclining At Word Processor, In Pastel by Carl Conover
Suburban by Herbert R. Coursen
The Amputee Soldier by Philip Dacey
The Poem In The Park by Peter Davison
The Anniversary by William Dickey
Arm Wrestling With My Father by Jack Driscoll
Poem For People Who Are Understandably Too Busy To Read ... by Stephen Elliott Dunn
Hardy Perennial by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
Reading Room, The New York Public Library by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
The Sound Of Rain by David Allan Evans
The Cats by Samuel Exler
Sketch by Robert Farnsworth
Empty Holds A Question by Pat Folk
The Man Who Owned Cats by Elliot Fried
Days Through Starch And Bluing by Alice Fulton
The Sunday News by Dana Gioia
Kidnap Poem by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Laughing Backwards by Jim Hall
Waking, The Love Poem Sighs by Jim Hall
What The Stone Dreams by James B. Hathaway
Between You And Me by Samuel Hazo
To A Blind Student Who Taught Me To See by Samuel Hazo
Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney
To Build A Poem by Christine E. Hemp
This Love by Judith Hemschemeyer
Old Clothes by Phillip Hey
Sweetheart by Phillip Hey
Driving Through Coal Country In Pennsylvania by Jonathan Holden
First Kiss by Jonathan Holden
Full Moon, Rising by Jonathan Holden
Shooting Crows by David Huddle
Stopping By Home by David Huddle
This Poem Is For Nadine by Paul B. Janeczko
On Certain Mornings Everything Is Sensual by David Russell Jauss
Ago by Elizabeth Jennings
Father To Son by Elizabeth Jennings
Song For A Departure by Elizabeth Jennings
Thinking Of Love by Elizabeth Jennings
For Wilma by Don Allen Johnson
Warning by Jennifer Joseph
Past Love by Anne Keiter
First Song by Galway Kinnell
Absence by Elizabeth Knies
At Midnight by Ted Kooser
A Child's Grave Marker by Ted Kooser
For A Friend by Ted Kooser
In The Basement Of The Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser
Myrtle by Ted Kooser
Incident by Karl Kopp
First Love by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
I Dreamed That I Was Old; In Stale Declension by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
To My Daughter Riding In The Circus Parade by Joan Labombard
You Came As A Thought by James Laughlin
The Poem You Asked For by Larry Levis
Winter Twilight by Lou Lipsitz
Since You Seem Intent by Gerald Locklin
My Grandfather In Search Of Moonshine by George Ella Lyon
A Testimony by George Ella Lyon
Everything We Do by Peter Meinke
The Heart's Location by Peter Meinke
For Richard Chase by Jim Wayne Miller
Living With Children by Jim Wayne Miller
Rechargeable Dry Cell Poem by Jim Wayne Miller
Spring Storm by Jim Wayne Miller
The Meeting by Howard Moss
Jane Seagrim's Party by Leonard Edward Nathan
Into Fish by Sheryl Lynne Nelms
Great Things Have Happened by Alden A. Nowlan
He Runs Into An Old Acquaintance by Alden A. Nowlan
He Sits Down On The Floor Of A School For The Retarded by Alden A. Nowlan
Beaver Moon - The Suicide Of A Friend by Mary Oliver
A Dog In San Francisco by Michael Ondaatje
To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje
The Biplane by Stephen Orlen
Departing Words To A Son by Robert Pack
Waiting by Robert Pack
Dido's Farewell by Linda Pastan
Call Them Back by Chris Petrakos
One-night Fair by Nancy Price
Storm Warnings by Adrienne Cecile Rich
A Daughter's House by Norma Hope Richman
Lament by George (1943-) Roberts
While Dissecting Frogs In Biology Class Scrut Discovers ... by George (1943-) Roberts
Passage by John M. Roderick
Grandma Chooses Her Plot At The County Cemetery by Paul Dean Ruffin
The New House by Vern Rutsala
Dancer by Roy Martin Scheele
Brief Encounter by Winfield Townley Scott
My Love by Richard Shelton
The Soldiers Returning by Richard Shelton
X, Oh X by Mark Simpson
The Goodbye by Myra Sklarew
First, Goodbye by John (uncertain Identity) Smith
Late, Passing Prairie Farm by William Edgar Stafford
Some Night Again by William Edgar Stafford
A Story That Could Be True by William Edgar Stafford
Walking With Your Eyes Shut by William Edgar Stafford
The Departure by Frank Pettus Steele
Markers by Frank Pettus Steele
Moving by Frank Pettus Steele
A Man Of Action by Charles B. Stetler
For Her by Mark Strand
Tomorrow by Mark Strand
Warmth by Barton Sutter
On Addy Road by May Swenson
Moonlight by Sara Teasdale
The One To Grieve by Rudy Thomas
September: Last Day At The Beach by Richard Tillinghast
Conquerors by Henry Treece
Note To The Previous Tenants by John Updike
A Field Poem by Laura Valaitis
Quilt Song by Mark Vinz
Return by Mark Vinz
At The St. Louis Institute Of Music by Ronald W. Wallace
The Belly Dancer In The Nursing Home by Ronald W. Wallace
Grandmother Grace by Ronald W. Wallace
Tunes For Bears To Dance To by Ronald W. Wallace
Looking Both Ways by Jane O. Wayne
Poet In Residence At A Country School by Don Welch
One Rose Of Stone by Keith Wilson
A Prayer For Rivers by Keith Wilson
Whitley At Three O'clock by Jeff Robert Worley
For My Brother Who Died Before I Was Born by Baron Wormser
Blue Springs, Georgia by Ree Young
Julian Barely Misses Zimmer's Brains by Paul Zimmer
Rollo's Miracle by Paul Zimmer
A Visit From Alphonse by Paul Zimmer
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®