Plastic Soup: Dream Poems [Hardcover]

Charles Ghigna (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1999

Well known for his highly successful children's books, Charles Ghigna also is a widely respected poet. Ghigna's poems are skillfully crafted and often startle the reader with their sly humor and perspective. He doesn't just crystallize his own dreams and nightmares, he imagines himself inside other people's.

Editorial Reviews

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Again The Hunch
Alley Cat
The Angel Dream
The Bag Lady's Beat
The Blue Haired Ladies
Brave New Whirl
Bull Rider
The Bureau Of Us
Comic Stripped
Conversation Peace
Cupid's Revenge
Day Dream
Dragon Death
Dream Girl
Dreamscape
The Electrocution Complex
Field Trip
The Forbidden Flying Fruit
Going All The Way
Gun Shy
I Am A Model
London's Foreign Language
Magazine
Making Love To The Statue Of Liberty
A Martian Hides In The Supermarket
My Ex-life
Night Mare
No Hunting Signs
Oak
Omnibus
Optical Allusion
Over Herd
Peace Talks
Pitcher Perfect
Plastic Soup
Range Of Emotions
Seminole Souvenir
Shotgun Wedding
Sunday
A Thank You Note From Shady Rest
Tom Tom
Washington Hides America
The Way
Xenophobia
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: River City Pub (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579660045
• ISBN-13: 978-1579660048
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,103,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Charles Ghigna (FATHER GOOSE) is the author of more than 50 award-winning books from Random House, Disney, Hyperion, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams and other publishers. His books have been featured on ABC's "Good Morning America," PBS and NPR. He is a poet, children's author, speaker, and nationally syndicated feature writer who promotes the love of poetry and children's literature throughout the world and the author of more than 5000 poems for children and adults. His poems have appeared in hundreds of textbooks, anthologies, magazines from The New Yorker and Harper's to Cricket and Highlights. His poems also appear in the national SAT and ACT tests. He has served as poetry editor of The English Journal for the National Council of Teachers of English and has presented poetry programs at the Library of Congress, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the American Library in Paris, the International Schools of South America and at hundreds of other schools, colleges, conferences, libraries, book fairs, and literary events throughout the world.

For more information, please visit the Father Goose web site at www.FatherGoose.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars JAMES DICKEY WAS RIGHT., October 29, 1999

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This review is from: Plastic Soup: Dream Poems (Hardcover)

Many years ago James Dickey called Charles Ghigna "the finest new poet that I or anybody else has read in a long time." PLASTIC SOUP: DREAM POEMS continues to establish Ghigna as one of the most original voices in contemporary poetry. His poems are full of passion, contempt, and vision. I'm sure Dickey is looking up from his grave right now and saying, "See, I told you!"