Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art - Hardcover

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9781562826642: Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1562826646 ISBN 13: 9781562826642

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion, 1994

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A collection of American poetry that celebrates over 200 years of American life and history as illustrated by fine art from the collection of the National Museum of American Art.

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Inaugural Poem: On The Pulse Of Morning by Maya Angelou
Raising My Hand by Antler [pseud.]
To Live In The Borderlands Means You by Gloria Anzaldua
America The Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates
Western Wagons by Stephen Vincent Benet
The Wheel by Wendell Berry
Building by Gwendolyn Brooks
Pomona by Carlo Cortez
Sonnet To Negro Soldiers by Joseph Seamon, Jr. Cotter
50 Poems: 29 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Santo Domingo Corn Dance; Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico by Robert Preston Dickey
To Make A Prairie by Emily Dickinson
A Lazy Day by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Concord Hymn; Sung At Completion Of Concord Monument, 1836 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Hardwood Groves by Robert Frost
Like Liquid God The Wheat-fields Lies by Hamlin Garland
Knoxville, Tennessee by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Remember by Joy Harjo
Dream Variations [or, Variation] by James Langston Hughes
I, Too, Sing America by James Langston Hughes
Juke Box Love Song by James Langston Hughes
Front Porch by Leslie Nelson Jennings
Lift Every Voice And Sing by James Weldon Johnson
Legacy by Maurice Kenny
We Gave Birth To A New Generation by Tato Laviera
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
I Ask My Mother To Sing by Li-young Lee
Fourth Of July Ode by James Russell Lowell
City Traffic by Eve Merriam
His Broad-brimmed Hat Pushed Back With Careless Air by Cincinnatus Heine Miller
The Monoliths by Navarre Scott Momaday
In The Beginning Was The by Lillian Morrison
Song Of The Builders by Jessie Wilmore Murton
In Response To Executive Order 9066; ... Report To Relocation Centers by Dwight Okita
Empty Kettle by Louis Oliver
Midwest Town by Ruth De Long Peterson
Day Of The Refugios by Alberto Alvaro Rios
The Road To Tres Piedras by Leo Romero
Niagara by Carl Sandburg
Coney by Virginia Schonborg
Drumbeat by Carol Snow
Assembly Line by Adrien Stoutenburg
Analysis Of Baseball by May Swenson
The Pinta, The Nina And The Santa Maria: And Many Other ... by John Tagliabue
At Sea by Jean Toomer
Food by Victor M. Valle
I Went Among The Mean Streets by Mark Van Doren
Lineage by Margaret Abigail Walker
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6 Up-This anthology of about 50 poems and reproductions of art works is a metaphor for the collective attributes that constitute this nation and demonstrates the constructive possibilities of pluralism. Short poems by both well-known poets like Langston Hughes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Eve Merriam as well as many less-familiar writers are grouped in five sections with rather poetic headings: "A Place of Eagles"; "Remember the Sky You Were Born Under"; "A Great Pulse Beating"; "Lift Every Voice"; and "Timeless Is the Wheel." They tell about the Japanese relocation of World War II; life on the Mexican border; a Mississippi African American. They also describe a baseball game, traffic in a city, a corn harvest, and assorted historical events. Each piece focuses on a quality of our lives in a positive, even celebratory fashion. The artwork is matched with the poems in ways that are mutually complementary rather than merely illustrative. Helen Lundeberg's painting of pioneer women adds solid substance to Margaret Walker's "Lineage" about her grandmothers. William Johnson's "Jitterbugs 1" gives visual vitality to Langston Hughes's "Juke Box Love Song." Not that poetry needs any visual analog, nor do pictures demand verbal amplification. But this collection offers ideas about our nation and its varied peoples in a tandem, collaborative fashion that honors both forms of communication. Browsing through this cleanly designed book can be both aesthetically rewarding and also thought-provoking. It surely lives up to its title.
Kenneth Marantz, Art Education Department, Ohio State University, Columbus
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