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In this volume of her poetry, Elaine Carmichael Crump creates delicate word pictures in free verse. Her writing talent is gracefully demonstrated in her moving poem, “Whisper to Me.” Paperback.
Like Robert Frost before him, Jim Metcalf was a poet whose commentaries on everyday objects and encounters offer a keen insight into man and nature. Compiled by his wife Mary Ann after his death, these poems appear exactly as they were written for television and are intended to share with the reader a rich legacy of love, hope, and understanding.
With every passing age, young people discover what mankind has known for centuries: the beauty of life, the value of simplicity, and the sorrow of loss. Inspired by her role as a wife and mother, Betsy Barber Bancroft incorporates ideas of life and growth into this collection of original poems.
Jim Metcalf, like Robert Frost before him, was a poet whose commentaries on everyday objects and events offer a keen insight into man, nature, and ourselves. During his life, Metcalf was the fourth best-selling poet in the United States, with 52,000 copies of his books sold in only three years. A new generation of readers can now hear what thousands of New Orleanians heard on his television broadcasts of the 1970s. Audiocassette.
For the first time, Pelican combines Follow Another Star, Please to Begin, In Some Quiet Place, and Jim Metcalf’s Journal, four rare, out-of-print collections of the author’s poetry, in an exemplary anthology that serves as a brilliant reminder of the poet and his work.
The first collection of Pennsylvania Dutch scherenschnitte just for Halloween is accompanied by original poetry in the native dialect with an English translation. As old as the culture itself, this elaborate style of scissors cutting is a cherished tradition. The artful precision used in the cuttings lends a menacing air to dangling spiders and slinking black cats. The poems capture the feeling of the holiday, describing witches dancing with “mystic glee” and Hallow’s Eve spirits that “clamor and bump.”
Munching crisp, hot spring onions beside Highway 16 or picnicking on cornbread down in the pastures on a sultry summer afternoon—these were the typical joys of growing up in rural America during the first half of the twentieth century. Here, the author captures the essence of that existence and distills it in her poignant poems. Paperback.
This poem, originally written and published in 1955, and now in its seventh printing, tells the story of the Acadians who helped found the government and culture of Louisiana. It tells of the suffering the Acadians had to go through to forge an existence in Louisiana, and the unfailing courage and faith that helped them overcome their sufferings. Paperback.
The honeysuckle has been called “the wild wanderer of the South.” With its roots firmly in the ground, the honeysuckle’s vines travel with fragile blooms and sweet liquid. In much the same way, the verses in this collection of poetry offer a taste of Alabama. The beauty and meaning expressed in “Beachcombing,” “Spring Burning,” and “First Flowers” translates easily to those outside the state.