Poets for Young Adults - Their Lives And Works

Informationen zum Autor Mary Loving Blanchard, Cara Falcetti Klappentext Spanning the time of colonial America through the present day, Poets for Young Adults examines the lives and works of seventy-five poets that are read and loved by teens. Readers will discover an eclectic mix of poets and their styles, from the modern songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Tupac Shakur, to the nineteen sixties icons Jack Kerouac and Sylvia Plath, to such traditional poets as Edgar Allan Poe and William Blake. Poets from all multicultural backgrounds are included, many of whom wrote about the immigration and/or protest experiences, from Colonial through contemporary times. Over half of the poets are women, and more than one third are women of color.Poets include: -Maya Angelou -Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua -Anne Bradstreet -Lewis Carroll -E.E. Cummings -Emily Dickinson -Bob Dylan -Ralph Waldo Emerson -Paul Fleischman -Robert Frost -Nikki Giovanni -Langston Hughes -Paul Janesczko -Myra Cohn Livingston -Ogden Nash -Naomi Shihab Nye -Joyce Carol Oates -Lydia Omolola Okutoro -Gary Soto -Phillis Wheatley -Ray Anthony Young Bear Zusammenfassung Spanning the time of colonial America through the present day! Poets for Young Adults examines the lives and works of seventy-five poets that are read and loved by teens.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Loving Blanchard, Mary Loving/ Falcetti Blanchard, Blanchard Mary Loving, Cara Falcetti, Falcetti Cara
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2006
• EAN: 9780313328848
• ISBN: 978-0-313-32884-8
• No. of pages: 287
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, The arts, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, Educational: English Literature, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies