Chinese and English nursery rhymes

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Jean Gallagher

"This Minute is a connected whole, in which the verse is driven by strong intellectual excitement, evident in the energetic movement of the lines and in a vocabulary that switches easily from the colloquial to the exact. There is an urgent voice, felt close at hand. And there is a skill in handling and matching the size of a poem to its subject that makes each invigorating to read - one arrives slightly out of breach. These poems are luminous, discovering rather than manufacturing their metaphors as the most exact way of speaking."--Jacket.

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selected and retold by Ann Pilling

Presents retellings of stories from the Old and New Testaments, accompanied by poems, prayers, and songs from around the world.

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Myra Cohn Livingston, poet

A collection of poems on the holidays of the year, from New Year's Day through Martin Luther King Day, Passover, Labor Day, Halloween, and others, to Christmas Eve.

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Jack Marshall

"[Marshall] understands that all worlds, the material and the spiritual, are one, and that the neighborhoods and cities that no longer exist can be conjured by memory and reanimated by art."—San Francisco Chronicle