This book offers elementary students of English a wide variety of authentic reading material, including poetry.
The texts are grouped together by theme. The exercises are task-based and develop skills in global and intensive reading, pre-reading and predicting, and vocabulary development. The book contains an Introduction to the teacher and a Key.
Originally created in 2007, this is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine. Anthony Phelan examines the complete range of Heine's work, from the early poetry and 'Pictures of Travel' to the last poems, including personal polemic and journalism. Phelan provides original and detailed readings of Heine's major poetry and throws fresh light on his virtuoso political performances that have too often been neglected by critics.
The prolific Pulitzer Prize winner Tate (Return to the City of White Donkeys) has been inching toward the invention of a new kind of American poem, a hybrid of prose poetry (though he's got loose, almost arbitrary line breaks), fable, surrealism and a sort of outsider folk poetry.
A to Z is a wonderful resource for anyone who teaches reading. The book is full of activities that give students the chance to explore their insights into literature in a variety of ways - through writing, poetry, art, research and making personal connections to characters, quotations and events.
Robert Bly's new collection of poetry is made of forty-eight poems written in the intricate form called the ghazal, which is the central poetic form in Islam. The influence of Hafez and Rumi is clear, and yet the poems descend into the wealth of Western history, referring at times to Monet, Giordano Bruno,Emerson, St. Francis, Newton, and Chekhov, as well as to events in Bly's own life.
