A paper zoo : a collection of animal poems by modern American poets / selected by Renée Karol Weiss ; pictures by Ellen Raskin.

Author/creator Weiss, Renée Karol compiler.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Macmillan Co., ©1968.
Description38 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorRaskin, Ellen, illustrator.
Other author/creatorCummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 author.
Other author/creatorRoethke, Theodore, 1908-1963 author.
Other author/creatorDickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 author.
Other author/creatorPatchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972, author.
Other author/creatorEliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 author.
Other author/creatorSmith, William Jay, 1918-2015 author.
Other author/creatorFinkel, Donald, author.
Other author/creatorJarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 author.
Other author/creatorMoore, Marianne, 1887-1972 author.
Other author/creatorWilliams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 author.
Other author/creatorWinters, Yvor, 1900-1968 author.
Other author/creatorWeiss, Theodore Russell, 1916-2003 author.
Other author/creatorKunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006 author.
Other author/creatorFrost, Robert, 1874-1963 author.
Other author/creatorRansom, John Crowe, 1888-1974 author.
Other author/creatorStevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 author.
Other author/creatorMacmillan Company, publisher.
Contents Now (more near ourselves than we) / E.E. Cummings -- The sloth / Theodore Roethke -- The snake / Emily Dickinson -- The magical mouse / Kenneth Patchen -- The naming of cats / T.S. Eliot -- Lion / William Jay Smith -- Hunting Song / Donald Finkel -- Bats / Randall Jarrell -- A jellyfish / Marianne Moore -- The horse / William Carlos Williams -- To be sung by a small boy who herds goats / Yvor Winters -- A magic carpet / Theodore Weiss -- The waltzer in the house / Stanley Kunitz -- Fireflies in the garden / Robert Frost -- Little boy blue / John Crowe Ransom -- Ploughing on Sunday / Wallace Stevens.
Abstract A collection of sophisticated animal poems by well known poets about such things as naming cats, a singing bird, and a slow-moving sloth.
Local noteIncludes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #132.11. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General note"Printed in the United States of America"--Title page verso.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011
Genre/formChildren's poetry 1968.
Genre/formDust jackets (Bindings) 1968.
Genre/formJuvenile works.
Genre/formPoetry.
Genre/formChildren's poetry.
LCCN 68010124

Availability

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Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PS595.A5 P3 1968 ✔ Available Request Material