Cicely Mary Barker is an English artist and author best known for her beautiful "Flower Fairies" series of illustrated books. Barker, born in 1895, trained at the Croydon School of Art starting at age 13 and began her professional career drawing and painting for greeting cards and children's magazines. A gifted artist in watercolors, oils, pastels, as well as pen and ink, Barker was, inspired by the popularity of fairies in the early twentieth-century...

Contains 366 nature poems--one for every day of the year. Filled with familliar favorites and new discoveries by a vast array of poets, including Langston Hughes, Lilian Moore, Emily Dickinson, Jack Prelutsky, William Shakespeare, N.M. Bodecker, Kanoko Okamoto, and many more.

"Pancake ice, floebergs, glaciers, icicles . . . cold temperatures create an astonishing variety of ice forms! Welcome winter with a poetic exploration of ice on land and at sea in this evocative and atmospheric picture book"--

This book is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry, anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes...

Ours is a blue planet. The oceans cover more than two-thirds of its surface and constantly calls to us to play, explore, and dream. Our fascination with the sea is as endless as our means of enjoying it -- whether building sand castles, navigating by the stars, or observing strange and beautiful marine creatures. In a volume brimming with information, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton capture the magic and majesty of the ocean with stunning words and...

""I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology of the remarkable verse of the great "peasant poet" that makes available the full range of his accomplishments."--Jacket.

131 poems which were selected as examples of the poet's many moods and themes.

A selection of thirty-eight poems celebrating the natural and spiritual worlds by the well-loved poet of rural New England.

"BEAST FEAST offers opposition to the Emersonian mythology of peaceful Nature by suggesting the histories of cruelty and commodity that inhabit the forests of America. By supposing the 'weirdness' of nature--which includes the weirdness of humans and animals in their bodies--the poems in this collection evoke the sense of immediacy of being, accidentally, 'in the world' of history, capital, bodies, laws, desires, and phenomena"--

A collection of verses about the sea from Byron, Shakespeare, Whitman, Yeats, and other British and American writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, paired with paintings and engravings from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.