Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey

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Nancy Willard
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - 99 Seiten
The poems in this collection come from Nancy Willard's cardboard boxes--she's collected them to accompany her on her journey through life, and she hopes young people will take them along on their own adventures. Works by well-known poets--Elizabeth Bishop, e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens--are gathered here, along with verse from lesser known writers from other countries and other times.
All of the poems in "Step Lightly" share a common readability, and the spark of joy that caught a remarkable poet's eye.
 

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INTRODUCTION I
1
THE WIND OF THE MARIGOLD Etain Mary Clarke
12
WILL CONSIDER MY CAT JEOFFRY Christopher Smart
22
THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS William Butler Yeats
28
SMELL William Carlos Williams
37
ODE TO A PAIR OF SOCKS Pablo Neruda
43
EGOTRIPPING Nikki Giovanni
49
SESTINA Elizabeth Bishop
56
FULL FATHOM FIVE William Shakespeare
62
WRITE DO WRITE Marilyn Chin
68
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Nancy Willard was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 26, 1936. She received a bachelor's degree in 1958 and a Ph.D in 1963 from the University of Michigan and a master's degree from Stanford University. She taught at Vassar College in the English department from 1965 until 2012. She published more than 70 books during her lifetime including collections of poetry, children's books, collections of short stories, novels, essays, and criticism. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She died from natural causes on February 19, 2017 at the age of 80.

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