Download or read book The Octopus Who Wanted to Juggle written by Robert Pack and published by Galileo PressLtd. This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though he begins badly, Sam learns to juggle after secret advice from a wise old crab.

Download or read book Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost written by Robert Pack and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading Frost critic guides the reader through some of the poet's most challenging verse.

Download or read book Rounding it Out written by Robert Pack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed by writers, critics, and readers from Robert Penn Warren to Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Pack is one of the most widely respected poets in America. Pack's newest collection, Rounding It Out, offers a lyric sequence exploring circularity as a musical principle and as a paradigm of the human experience. The imagistic content of the poems, as well as their structure in four sections--morning, midday, evening, night--recall nature's primary rhythm of departure and return, and the dust-to-dust cycle of a completed lifetime. Rounding It Out is not only about these themes, but also, through reflection, about its own chosen form. Each of the poems is a cross between a sonnet and a villanelle, a formal innovation Pack calls a sonnetelle. Employing meter and rhyme, assonance and alliteration, Pack takes delight and finds consolation in the sensuousness of the English language even in the face of mortality and ongoing personal loss.

Download or read book Minding the Sun written by Robert Pack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet concludes the volume with a sobering plea, "The Trees Will Die," to heed the sun's example, to cherish and protect our planet and all its living things.

Download or read book Still Here Still Now written by Robert Pack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Pack is one of America’s most eminent nature poets, and his virtuoso talents are on glorious display in Still Here, Still Now, his nineteenth volume of verse. With styles ranging from lyric to narrative, and themes stretching from biblical concerns to meditations on contemporary science, Pack’s poetry is composed in strongly rhythmic cadences and a diction that is direct and accessible. In four different sections of thematically and stylistically divergent verse, Still Here, Still Now delivers many of the elements of Pack’s poetry readers have come to admire and expect—both the humorous and the elegiac. The first section of the book contains traditional lyrics that celebrate family ties and seek consolations for the passing of personal and evolutionary time. The poems in this group address a named or unnamed auditor in a voice of intimate engagement. Featuring the most narrative selections in the book, the second section consists of fable-like stories, rich with innuendo and implication. The characters in these poems make choices that press against the events and circumstances that challenge and define them. Embodying what Harold Bloom has called Pack’s “courage to surmount suffering,” the poems of the third section are largely devoted to biblical themes and philosophical speculations on the meaning of happiness and the uses of suffering. Here, Pack’s empathy for the human condition as well as his forebodings about the prospect of human survival are on poignant display. The final section of the book turns to Pack's abiding interest in landscape and the ways in which the place one inhabits contains and animates our individual lives. Ripe with many years, Pack remains a vital presence in American letters. Still Here, Still Now is an affecting and graceful addition to the oeuvre of a poet whose compelling and distinct voice will continue to resonate among his loyal readers.

Download or read book Fathering the Map written by Robert Pack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetry," wrote Wordsworth, "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all Science." Robert Pack's new book is a heady mixture of the finer spirit. A selection from his last five books, along with a collection of new poems, Fathering the Map takes us from the personal reflections distilled in the lyrics of Waking to My Name (1980) to the worldly reckonings of Inheritance (1992) and back again. In the dramatic monologues of Faces in a Single Tree (1984), in the narrative of a wayward life from womb to double ending in Clayfield Rejoices, Clayfield Laments (1987), in a cosmic tour conducted by the physicist Heinz Pagels with Before It Vanishes (1990), Pack has fashioned poems of intimate experience, scientific meditations, philosophical wonder, poems that breathe the knowledge of man and woman, young and old, artist and human animal. Pack's work has won the acclaim of writers, critics, and readers from Robert Penn Warren to Cynthia Ozick to Stephen Jay Gould, who comments that the "precious contacts of science and poetry are now sadly rare, but Bob Pack revitalizes the ancient union with incisive poems that sing with lyricism or bite with insight—but always seem to add wisdom to the scientist's epigram." "The poet improves his style and spirit as he extends his reach," Howard Nemerov has written, and in his new work Pack reaches back to some of his earliest memories, and so forward to a personal mythology that circles from the primal instant to the present ecological crisis. "Robert Pack's poetry is deeply rooted in his won family life," Richard Wilbur has remarked, "and yet his imagination has always included us all." And Cynthia Ozick has said of Pack's poetry: "We rejoice as we read."

Download or read book Olive the Octopus s Day of Juggling written by Liza Charlesworth and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olive the Octopus wants to be a Juggler. But Olive may have to make other plans when an outrageous accident occurs.

Download or read book Elk in Winter written by Robert Pack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Pack is a narrative master blessed with a keen ear for everyday speech. In poems that recall Robert Frost's meditative regard of nature, Pack's newest collection, Elk in Winter, resolves universal questions in the particular, the personal, and the intimate. This rich and varied volume moves from comedy to elegy, from lyric to narrative, in which individual characters are revealed and rendered symbolic by the stories that enclose them. What finally unites the poems of Elk in Winter is Pack's desire to appeal to the ear as much as to the heart, and to discover and reveal the passionate music of ideas.

Download or read book Using Storytelling to Talk About Self Confidence and Self Awareness written by Alison Milford and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-confidence and self-awareness is a new resource part of the 'Using storytelling to talk about ' series, which gives teaching practitioners all the support they need to develop and use storytelling, poetry and song performance skills in the Early Years Foundation Stage. The book includes a variety of short and original interactive stories and poems, linked to three different learning and development areas: 'Personal, social and emotional development', 'Understanding the world' and 'Communication and language'. All the stories and poems/songs offer the children the opportunity to learn, develop and share their knowledge and skills in a fun and interactive environment, using the power of storytelling for building creativity, social skills and confidence.

Download or read book Alex and the Ironic Gentleman written by Adrienne Kress and published by Weinstein Books. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often mistaken for a boy because of her haircut and name, Alex Morningside is an inquisitive girl of ten-and-a-half who attends the prestigious Wigpowder-Steele Academy. Unfortunately, though she loves to learn, Alex just can’t bring herself to enjoy her classes. Her teachers are all old and smelly and don’t seem to know about anything that has happened in the world the past thirty years, and her peers…well they are quite simply ridiculous. Luckily for Alex, the new school year brings an exciting new teacher. Mr. Underwood makes lessons fun and teaches her how to fence. But Mr. Underwood has a mysterious family secret - the swashbuckling and buried treasure kind - and not everyone is glad he has come to Wigpowder-Steele. When the infamous pirates of a ship called the Ironic Gentleman kidnap Mr. Underwood, Alex sets off on a journey to rescue him, along the way encountering a cast of strange and magical characters, including the dashing and sometimes heroic Captain Magnanimous, Coriander the Conjurer, the Extremely Ginormous Octopus, and the wicked Daughters of the Founding Fathers’ Preservation Society.

Download or read book Using Storytelling to Talk About Managing Feelings and Behaviour written by Alison Milford and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing feelings and behaviour is a new resource part of the 'Using storytelling to talk about ’' series, which gives teaching practitioners all the support they need to develop and use storytelling, poetry and song performance skills in the Early Years Foundation Stage. The book includes a variety of short and original interactive stories and poems, linked to three different learning and development areas: 'Personal, social and emotional development', 'Understanding the world' and 'Communication and language'. All the stories and poems/songs offer the children the opportunity to learn, develop and share their knowledge and skills in a fun and interactive environment, using the power of storytelling for building creativity, social skills and confidence.

Download or read book Before it Vanishes written by Robert Pack and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Long View written by Robert Pack and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Pack is a poet, critic, and director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. In this volume he offers 20 essays on the craft of writing and the nature of lyric poetry. He pays homage to those master poets whose high achievements have inspired his own work, and he reflects on human mortality and the consolations that help us to survive - the related pleasures of poetry, laughter, and music.

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Download or read book Boxing the Octopus written by Tim Maleeny and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth book in the Cape Weather Mystery Series! If you're gonna box an octopus, best bring some extra arms... At the height of tourist season, an armored car drives off a crowded pier and sinks to the bottom of San Francisco Bay. By the time divers find the wreck, the cash is gone and the driver has vanished. The police are convinced it's an inside job, but local merchant Vera Young, whose boyfriend drove the armored car, claims it was much more than a simple heist. Vera swears the missing driver is innocent and wants him found before the police can throw him in jail. San Francisco detective Cape Weathers reluctantly takes the case but warns Vera that her boyfriend is likely guilty—or dead. What starts as a manhunt uncovers a criminal conspiracy of money laundering, illegal drug testing, and a network of corporations willing to do anything to protect their stock price. It's a case that Cape, the witty PI, can't get his arms around. And while his relationship with Vera is getting complicated, the list of people who want him dead is getting longer. Boxing the Octopus is a runaway tour of San Francisco's underworld which reminds us that when things get out of hand, having eight arms is always better than two. These quick-paced, often humorous San Francisco mysteries are: Perfect for fans of Laura Lippman and Thomas Perry For readers who enjoy private detective and California based mysteries

Download or read book Puzzling Through the News written by Pat Rushin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Starting with A collection of Stories and Poems written by Alison Milford and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and flexible series of five books, is specifically designed to support and develop a child's personal, social and emotional wellbeing through stories and poems with links to PSED in the EYFS, the Citizenship and PSHE curriculum in KS1 and the SEAL programme