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A poke in the I : a collection of concrete poems / selected by Paul Janeczko, illustrated by Chris Raschka.
LIBRA - Rare PS593.C63 P65 2005 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Concrete poetry, American.
- Children's poetry, American.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Concrete poetry.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 35 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Presents thirty "concrete" poems, poems in which the arrangement of words and letters can add or alter meanings.
- Contents:
- A seeing poem / Robert Froman
- Visual soundpoem / Edwin Morgan
- A weak poem / Roger McGough
- A poem / Richard Meltzer
- Cat chair / Chris Raschka
- Easy diver / Robert Froman
- Snake date / Jean Balderston
- Stowaway / Robert Carola
- Eyelevel / Ronald Johnson
- I need contact lenses / John Hegley
- Skipping rope spell / John Agard
- Queue / Sylvia Cassedy
- Merging traffic / Allen Jones
- Eskimo pie / John Hollander
- Popsicle / Joan Bransfield Graham
- No pretending / Robert Froman
- She loves me / Emmett Williams
- Sky day dream / Robert Froman
- Crickets / Aram Saroyan
- The salmon ; The sawfish / Douglas Florian
- Swan and shadow / John Hollander
- Forsythia / Mary Ellen Solt
- Whee / Robert Froman
- Balloon / Colleen Thibaudeau
- Giraffe / Maureen W. Armour
- Acrobats / Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Tennis anyone? / Monica Kulling
- Pattern poem with an elusive intruder / Reinhard Döhl
- Joy sonnet in a random universe / Helen Chasin.
- Notes:
- "The illustrations were done in watercolor, ink, and torn paper."--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0763623768
- 1417689536
- 9781417689538
- OCLC:
- 312403702
- Publisher Number:
- 732483003765 50799
- 9780763623760 50799
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