New Releases by John Ciardi

John Ciardi is the author of How Much is True? (1981), A Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language (1980), Limericks, Too Gross (1978), The Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divine Comedy (1976), How Does a Poem Mean? (1975).

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A Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language

A Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language
"A compendium of curious expressions and intriguing facts"--Jacket subtitle.

Limericks, Too Gross

Limericks, Too Gross
The Renaissance man and the poet/ critic engage in a lighthearted literary duel utilizing the rigid verse tradition of the limerick and providing a humorous look at sex and the human condition

The Drawings by Sandro Botticelli for Dante's Divine Comedy

How Does a Poem Mean?

How Does a Poem Mean?
Explains the basic elements of poetry and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences.

Fast and Slow

Fast and Slow
Thirty-four humorous and nonsense poems, including "A Fog Full of Apes, " "A Fine Fat Fireman, " and "I Should Never Have Trusted That Bird."

The Little that is All

The Little that is All
Responsibility and reality are the author''s primary interests in this collection of works.

Someone Could Win a Polar Bear, and Other Poems

Manner of Speaking

Manner of Speaking
A collection of essays reprinted from the author''s column in the Saturday review.

On the Orthodoxy and Creed of My Power Mower

Lives of X.

Lives of X.
16 poems - autobiographical, introspective, and occasionally ironic.

Someone Could Win a Polar Bear

Someone Could Win a Polar Bear
Fancies, fantasies and fun verses about nature and the personal rules of life.

An alphabestiary

An alphabestiary
In these twenty-six poems, the author uses the alphabet as a net in which to catch the human spirit.

Dialogue with an Audience

Dialogue with an Audience
Selections of pieces by the poetry editor of the "Saturday review". Includes criticism of poets and poetry and letters sent to Ciardi from his readers.

In Fact

In Fact
New poems by the poetry editor of "The Saturday Review of literature".

I Met a Man

I Met a Man
For beginning readers, these poems lead children to new words through rhyme, riddles, context, and word game.

The Man who Sang the Sillies

The Man who Sang the Sillies
A collection of twenty-five humorous and nonsense poems.
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