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Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art
A collection of American poetry that celebrates over 200 years of American life and history as illustrated by fine art from the collection of the National Museum of American Art.
- GenresPoetry
96 pages, Paperback
First published October 20, 1994
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February 21, 2022
Whether you're politically red, blue, or green, you'll find something that speaks to you here. Whether you're Native-, European-, African-, Asian-, or mixed-American, you'll be represented.
If you're a very young child or if you're inexperienced with art and poetry, you may feel challenged to appreciate all the works here. Heck, there's such diversity in them, I bet most people, myself included, feel challenged by at least a few.
But it's a wonderful work and I do recommend it.
Of course I loved the poems by Langston Hughes. But I also discovered Victor M. Valle from "Comida/Food" and R.P. Dickey from "Santo Domingo Corn Dance."
(I just wish the date that each work was created was noted on the same page as the work, so I didn't have to go to the biographies of the contributors so often to see what was the likely historical context of the creation of the work. And imo that context is much more important than a random name of an artist we may never have heard of.)
If you're a very young child or if you're inexperienced with art and poetry, you may feel challenged to appreciate all the works here. Heck, there's such diversity in them, I bet most people, myself included, feel challenged by at least a few.
But it's a wonderful work and I do recommend it.
Of course I loved the poems by Langston Hughes. But I also discovered Victor M. Valle from "Comida/Food" and R.P. Dickey from "Santo Domingo Corn Dance."
(I just wish the date that each work was created was noted on the same page as the work, so I didn't have to go to the biographies of the contributors so often to see what was the likely historical context of the creation of the work. And imo that context is much more important than a random name of an artist we may never have heard of.)
November 24, 2019
Genre: Poetry- Collection of Poetry
Awards: none
Audience: 10+ years
A. As this is a collection of poems about American life and land, it includes many unique poems. The overall type of poetry is personification because the American land is described with lifelike qualities. Some poems are lyrical, like "America the Beautiful". Others are in narrative form like "Day of the Refugios". The book offers a wide variety of poetry both in rhyming and free verse.
B. The author of "A Dakota Wheat Field" makes great use of figurative language. He often uses similes to describe the large wheat fields. He compares them to liquid gold, amber and a girl's hair.
C. Use Hyperbole to describe a piece of nature.
Answer: The forrest pines scraped the clouds.
Awards: none
Audience: 10+ years
A. As this is a collection of poems about American life and land, it includes many unique poems. The overall type of poetry is personification because the American land is described with lifelike qualities. Some poems are lyrical, like "America the Beautiful". Others are in narrative form like "Day of the Refugios". The book offers a wide variety of poetry both in rhyming and free verse.
B. The author of "A Dakota Wheat Field" makes great use of figurative language. He often uses similes to describe the large wheat fields. He compares them to liquid gold, amber and a girl's hair.
C. Use Hyperbole to describe a piece of nature.
Answer: The forrest pines scraped the clouds.
October 24, 2012
good selection of many different poems and many different pieces of art. This includes a painting of Ohio's very own football stadium at OSU by Hawkins
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