Most Popular Books by John Ciardi

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

Poems consider the past, parenthood, mortality, success, misunderstanding, sleep, love, and travel

Thirty-eight poems, mostly humorous, by the well-known poet.

Presents a collection of 450 poems that originally appeared in twenty individual volumes published between 1940 and 1993

Poems deal with intimacy, memories, dreams, spring, mortality, jealousy, and shared lives

‘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.’ —BL.

Explains the basic elements of poetry and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences.

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.

16 poems - autobiographical, introspective, and occasionally ironic.

Responsibility and reality are the author''s primary interests in this collection of works.

A witty collection of more than 550 limericks from two world-famous writers, and all of them just ''naughty'' enough to make this ''literary form'' hilarious fun!

Examines the usage and origins of American language expressions.

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

Fancies, fantasies and fun verses about nature and the personal rules of life.

Tells the stories, legends, and facts behind the origins of common American expressions.

An illustrated edition of the Ciardi poem about the pelican and his splendid beak. On board pages.

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

Poems deal with a wide range of subjects including love, death, marriage, war, and nature

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.