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The centaur / May Swenson ; illustrated by Sherry Meidell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swenson, May.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horses--Poetry.
- Horses.
- Imagination--Poetry.
- Imagination.
- Imaginary companions--Poetry.
- Imaginary companions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (35 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2007.
- Utah State University Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten?First published in 1956, May Swenson's ""The Centaur"" remains one of her most popular and most anthologized poems. This is its first appearance as a picture book for children. In images bright and brisk and tangible, the poet re-creates the joy of riding a stick horse through a small-town summer. We find ourselves, with her, straddling "a long limber horse with . . . a few leaves for a tail," and pounding through the lovely dust along the path by the old canal. As her shape shifts from child to horse and back, we know
- Contents:
- Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613250124
- 9781283250122
- 1283250128
- 9780874216721
- 0874216729
- OCLC:
- 743691765
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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