Originally published in 1958, this colorful reissue features 28 traditional stories and fairy tales from around the world, including "Puss In Boots, " "The Frog Princess" and more.
This volume includes new poems, work drawn from Ponsot's previous volumes, and unpublished poems spanning the years 1946 to 1971. A recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award when she was 80 years old, Ponsot has been an authoritative and imaginative presence in the poetry world for decades. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
The Common Sense is elemental and beautifully succinct. It focuses on the expository essay, which, despite its association with abominable teaching techniques and vapid results, is at its best the one form that reveals to students and teachers the power of writing.
A fourth collection of poems makes use of wordplay and modern versions of the villanelle and sestina forms. She writes about such subjects as domestic life, friendship, marriage and swimming. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Julie Sheehan's Thaw is the second winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in coordination with Fordham's Poets Out Loud program. Marie Ponsot, the judge for the 2000 Prize, chose Thaw from among nearly 500 manuscripts entered by poets from around the world. Her introduction is ...
A richly detailed account of the experiences of teachers, tutors, and students in a university writing center whose main mission was to enable basic and ESL writers to handle college writing demands.
This beautifully illustrated collection features some of the most beloved fairy tales from around the world, including E.T.A. Hoffman's "The Story of a Nutcracker, " the classic Russian tale of "Baba Yaga, " and Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen."
Universally admired for his fables and contes (tales), Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) epitomised France's Great Century with his elegant style, emotional profundity and ready wit. This selection by award-winning poet Marie Ponsot is arguably the finest translation ever achieved. La Fontaine's menagerie of foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys, rats and ...
Leave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her late eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear, "Between silence and sound / we are balancing darkness, / making light of it." In this celebratory collection, Ponsot makes light, in both senses, of all she touches, and her pleasure in offering ...
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