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From twenty books of verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.

John Ciardi published his first poem in Poetry magazine in 1939. The forty year since have been fruitful ones. His translation ofThe Divine Comedy is the definitive American rendering. His How Does a Poem Mean?, now in a new edition with revisions by Miller Williams, has introduced hundreds of thousands of students to the liveliness of poetry. Above all, John Ciardi is a poet and one of the voices of our literature. This is his fourteenth volu...

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Thirty-five imaginative and humorous poems for an adult and a child to read aloud together. . . . The entertaining verses are varied as to length, rhythm, and subject and are illustrated with harmoniously amusing drawings".--Booklist.

Thirty-five imaginative and humorous poems for an adult and a child to read aloud together. . . . The entertaining verses are varied as to length, rhythm, and subject and are illustrated with harmoniously amusing drawings".--Booklist.

A boy who has longed for a puppy discovers the limitless nature of wishing and responsibility. Written by a noted teacher and poet, this fanciful tale features inventive, dreamlike drawings.

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Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.

Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.

Essays reveal the author's thoughts on the painstaking craftmanship involved in the art of writing poetry.

Sensitive and intelligent, the poems in this book are a fitting testament to an accomplished man of letters and a fine poet". -- Atlanta Constitution

These 45 poems by the late John Ciardi were unpublished and unknown until his papers were sorted following his death in 1986. As with all his poems, these are alive with Ciardi's precise observations, heightened command of language, and sure mastery of form.