Rhythm Road: Poems to Move to - Hardcover

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9780688070984: Rhythm Road: Poems to Move to

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ISBN 10: 0688070981 ISBN 13: 9780688070984

Publisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1988

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A collection of poems expressing movement in theme, words, and rhythm by a variety of English and American poets

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Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc
Sometimes Running by John Ciardi
Kingfisher by Eleanor Farjeon
Sentences For Matthew Brady, Series Ii: 78 by Paul Goodman
Dream Boogie by James Langston Hughes
Driving by Myra Cohn Livingston
The Chestnuts Are Falling by Lilian Moore
Arthur Mitchell by Marianne Moore
Poem For Dr. Spock by Ed Ochester
Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
Night Journey by Theodore Roethke
Old Deep Sing-song by Carl Sandburg
Facade: 16. Two Waltzes: 2. Slyph's Song by Edith Sitwell
The Main-deep by James Stephens
In Memoriam John Coltrane by Michael Stillman
Overboard by May Swenson
Will You Come? by Philip Edward Thomas
Boogie Chant And Dance by Anonymous
Ten Tom-toms by Anonymous
Tinker Man by Anonymous
The Cars In Caracas Create A Ruckukus by John Updike
Player Piano by John Updike
Recital; Roger Bobo Gives Recital On Tuba by John Updike
Illegitimate Things by William Carlos Williams
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5 Up In her new anthology, Morrison demonstrates the same strong affinity for motion poems that she did in her two previous collections of her poetry of sports and motion ( The Sidewalk Racer 1977 and The Break Dance Kids 1985, both Lothrop). The 88 poems here move from traditional dance calls (``Swing her fast, swing her slow/ Swing her round till she yells `Whoa!' '') to classics (Poe's ``The Bells'') to modern authors (John Updike's ``The Recital '') . The book is divided into ten sections, ranging from dance to sports to technology to the mind. Whether it be James Laughlin's tribute to Martha Graham (``but only the pure/ elements moving as/ music moves moving/ from her into us'') or Martin Robbins' `` Winter Pause: Mt. Liberty, N.H.'' (``While sound/ Ticks snow/ Around/ You''), each poem sends out waves of sound and motion that echo in the mind. The clean typeface and crisp design of the book allow the poems to move off the page and into the readers' world. Kathleen Whalin, Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County, Reynoldsburg, Ohio
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