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For many years some of the finest craftsmen throughout North America laboured in factories large and small to produce carriages and sleighs. This book celebrates their skills and artistry.
This full-colour book presents the full range of vehicles they produced: carts, carriages, sleighs, buggies and slovens -- from the very grand opera bus to the functional ox wagon. The text looks at design developments, the variety of usage and technological details.
This book draws on one of the finest collections of horse-drawn vehicles in North America, at New Brunswick's Kings Landing Settlement near Fredericton, with photographs were taken on site with animators in period costume and horses harnessed. It shows how the carriage-making industry in New Brunswick developed over time, relative to the development of roads. ... Read more

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Stunning Photographs
(As this review is written, there is only one copy of this title available, and the asking price is astronomical. I suggest you keep checking back - it's a good book but not THAT good. I bought mine for under twenty bucks! Here's my review for a more reasonably priced edition):
It's the excellent color photographs in this little book that make it a worth while purchase. All of the photos were taken at Kings Landing Historical Settlement in New Brunswick where the docents dress in period appropriate clothing, which puts the carriages in their proper perspective. Each picture of the carriages and sleighs are accompanied by the type of buggy, as well the period it is from. Sometimes the info includes the original prices.
The last quarter of this 72 page book is dedicated to the carriage makers themselves, including original 19th and early 20th century pictures.
From what I understand, all of the carriages presented here (except for the carriage maker pics) belong to Kings Landing. If this is the case, they have quite a collection, which makes me want to head up to the historic village and check them all out in person.
This is a very easy and quick read for anyone who has an interest in horse-drawn vehicles. The pictures alone are worth the money. ... Read more

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A mouse with a big voice saves his family from a mouse trap and a cat and prevents the household valuables from being burgled. ... Read more

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Loudmouse is a delightful book!Great to be read aloud !
My first exposure to this book was a storyteller who kept her audience of school teachers totally enthralled.Later, I ordered a copy of the book and have read it numerous times to my fourth grade classes and otherteachers have borrowed it and read it to there classes!!Moreover, mygrandchildren love to read it along with me!The formatting of the bookhad nothing to do with my enthusiasm for it!

This book is fantastic!
I got this book when I was in elementary school (I'm now a senior in college) and I still love it. I plan on sharing it with the kindergarten class I'm working with.

New Edition of Loudmouse Very Disappointing
When I was growing up, my mother read us children a book called "Loudmouse" by Richard Wilbur, illustrated by Don Almquist.We enjoyed it thoroughly, and I still have the copy we read, albeit in somewhat shabby condition.It is the First Crowell-Collier Press Edition of 1963. The $13 copy of Loudmouse available from Amazon.com is extremely disappointing because: * It is extremely small--less than half the size of the original. * It is printed entirely in B/W--the original had black and brown illustrations. * All the illustrations have been completely redrawn (apparently by the same artist).They look very different, and nowhere near as good. * Positioning of text and illustrations from page to page is totally different, killing much of the punch and excitement of the original book. I recommend that potential buyers wait for the book as it was originally published to be re-issued, before wasting any money on this version. --Darel Finley, smokin@ghgcorp.com, dfinley@telescan.com ... Read more

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This handsome bilingual (French/English) gift edition pairs Charles Baudelaire's classic "Invitation to the Voyage"--the best-known poem from The Flowers of Evil--with a score of moody, atmospheric 19th-century photos. 20 duotone illustrations. ... Read more

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Invitation to the Voyage
The translation here strays a bit from the original for the sake of making it rhyme. Although this may raise the eyebrows of somepurists, I feel that the english version has charms of its own. The design of this book isreally outstanding, and the old duo-tone photographs used to illustrate itare quite poetic in their own right, and seem even more so as a result ofthe way they are combined with the text. The book as a whole evokes imagesof a lost paradise, which I have never seen expressed so well outside ofthe writings of Proust. I even like the way it smells! This would make anexcellent gift for any lover of poetry or photography.

Brilliant!
This book is not only gorgeous to browse through yet exceptionally poetic and useful at the same time. It is a bilingual book- french and english with absolutely fabulous illustrations to aid the imagination. Sucha lovely work and an intriguing way to involve both adults and children intoBaudelaire's complex poetry. Well done! ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur turns his sharp eye to the noble alphabet and imagines what life would be like without these twenty-six little--but powerful--letters. Packed with humor and subtle wit, the verse in this captivating picture book is splendidly matched by Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz’s hilariously clever illustrations.
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An imaginative ABC book for young and old
Richard Wilbur's The Disappearing Alphabet imagines what the world would be like if the letters of the alphabet vanished, in verses on subjects ranging from the ordinary to silly to sublime and existential.For instance, without "G," there would be no green and oak trees would be blue and pastures pink; without "N," birds would have wigs instead of wings; as for "O":

What if there were no letter O?
You couldn't COME, you couldn't GO,
You couldn't ROVE, you couldn't ROAM,
And yet you couldn't stay at HOME!
Where would you be, had heaven not sent you
The letter O to orient you?

Each letter is portrayed on a single page, with verses ranging from two to twelve lines.Each verse is beautifully illustrated by David Diaz's exquisite and unexpected designs, such as a lovely banana with a disgusting eel instead of a peel (illustrating the importance of the letter "P").Diaz's illustrations are stylized in intense, gradient, glowing colors.The illustrations each overlay a pale yellow version of the letter found somewhere in the background of the page.The type is treated with the same care as the illustrations, with the letter to which the verse is addressed set off in a bold, colorful, sans serif font.Younger children will enjoy the nonsense-like poetry and the playfulness of the language, while older children will discover new and unusual vocabulary words and find inspiration by the possibilities of language.The introduction exhorts children to protect the alphabet: "Be careful, then, my friends, and do not let / Anything happen to the alphabet."This book will offer children of all ages an appreciation of letters, words, and language.

Without F . . . I would be aith
What would you do if the first letter of your name would disappear? Richard Wilbur gives a comical way to view the disappearance of the alphabet. He makes his readers think about the importance of the alphabet. 'What if there were no letter A? Cows would eat HY instead of HAY' This would be an excellent book to read to elementary students. After reading this book, they could think of what other words would be or sound like with a letter missing. The illustrations by David Diaz are unique to say the least. He uses vibrant colors and illustraions to stress the importance of what Wilbur is trying to convey. This book made me think about the alphabet in a different way. It will do the same for young readers.

Excellent:for its humor, poetic quality, illustrations.
I highly recommend this book.The lines are easy to remember, and are very quotable.They provide an introduction to poetry and to the play with language.They introduce vocabulary with humor.The illustrations arequite extraordinary, the print of high quality. ... Read more

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Antiworlds & The Fifth Ace
Antiworlds & The Fifth Ace, in addition to being the most complete collection of Voznesensky's poems available and offering the reader the Russian originals on facing pages, gives us access to this remarkable poet through equally remarkable translations by well-known American poets.
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THE VOICE OF THE POET

A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliograohy, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review.

"To hear a poem spoken in the voice of the person who wrote it is not only to witness the rising of words off the page and into the air, but to experience an aural reenactment of exactly what the poet must have heard, if only internally, during the act of composition. THE VOICE OF THE POET recordings deliver these pleasures as they broadcast the pitch and timbre of many of the major voices in twentieth-century poetry."--Billy Collins, U.S,. Poet Lauerate.

Richard Wilbur is one of America's most remarkable and honored poets. His first book appeared in 1947, when he was 26, and announced an imagination of uncommon grace. In the nearly six decades since, he has continued to write poems of unmatched beauty. From the start of his prodigious career, Wilbur's technical master, as well as the clarity and compassion of his poems, has been acclaimed. He has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, won every other available honor and the astonished gratitude of critics and eraders across three generations. Images and ideas, the brimming natural world and the meditative enclosures of the mind are combined with an ironic wit and an intellectual poise. They are poems built to last, and meant to both startle and celebrate. Master of the tiny lyric and of the expansive discourse, Wilbur gives all his poems a luxuriant surface, the better to reveal their depths. He once called his poems "arguments against a thingless, an earthless kind of imagination, or spirituality." Indeed they are rooted in the rich soil of the common life and of nature's particularity, and reach towards a wondrous transcendence. This compilation includes previously unreleased archival readings of his early work, plus newly recorded versions of more recent poems--all of them in Wilbur's own resonant voice.


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"A Play Within A Play Within A play"
This enchanting theater piece from the French baroque period deserves to be better known to English audiences. It combines comedy, tragedy, and tragi-comedy as it plays with the ever fresh themes of reality vs. illusion and theater vs. actual life. Wilbur's translation, in rhymed couplets, is distinguished not surprisingly by shrewd word choice and wit throughout. If the play has a flaw, I would say it's in the character of Matamore, the cowardly braggart. His appearances, as Corneille conceived them, involve - unfortunately - a large amount of non-incremental repetition in character and dialogue. All in all, though, the play in this translation is fascinating and worthy of production. ... Read more

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A Classic
I absoultely loved it! It is a classic play by a classic author. ... Read more

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Two kinds of work of poetic genius
Coleridge is most known as a poet for the two great 'fantastic' works 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', and ' Kubla Khan'. But he is also the author of a different kind of poem entirely, what came to be calleed ' conversation poems'. These poems in a colloquial language usually as M.H.Abrams pointed out begin with the contemplation of a landscape, and involve a meditation upon a problem, a life - dilemna, a moral question and lead to some kind of resolution in greater understanding. Among the poems of this kind are
:The Eolian Harp (1795)
Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement (1795)
This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison (1797)
Frost at Midnight (1798)
Fears in Solitude (1798)
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem (1798)
Dejection: An Ode (1802)
To William Wordsworth (1807)
These poems and their method are considered too to have played a part in the practice of Wordsworth when the two great geniuses of Romantic Poetry were working together on 'The Lyrical Ballads'.
Perhaps none of the lines of the Conversation poems have the haunting,lyrical,memorable qualities of the great longer-poems but they are essential to understanding the complex - world of poetic feeling of one , who unlike his great friend Wordsworth never seemed to know real calm, but rather thrive primarily by struggling through confusions and contradictions.

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Wilbur scores again!
Wilbur faithfully reproduces some of Moliere's more experimental versification in this update of Plautus' Amphitruo, the story of Greek general who is impersonated by the god Jupiter-- so that Jupiter can share a bed with his wife!Moliere, a master of farce, plays this mistaken identity to its comic hilt.

Wilbur's translation here is peerless and his Afterword is wonderfully informative.This is not my favorite of his Moliere translations (I like The School for Wives and The Misanthrope) but I'd be hard-pressed to name a fault.Voltaire said of this play, "I laughed so hard that I fell over backwards."I didn't fall over backwards, but I got a good chuckle or two out if it.

Hilarious! Amazing translation
This is an extremely funny, well written (& translated) play; Wilbur does a terrific job with the English verse, which makes the play read like an original--rather than a translation. Finding a well translated version of non-english written plays can often be difficult (especially with so many translations available), but this one is truly terrific.

This was the first play I had read by Moliere, and it wasn't at all what I was expected.It is a very light, easy and hilarious read.I laugh out loud each time I read it. ... Read more