Inspirational Poems from America's Roads

Inspirational Poems from America's Roads

Author: Ferdinand Rodriguez Sr.

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2019-03-08

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1644620855

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As a semitractor trailer driver, he had the opportunity to see this great country driving throughout the United States and Canada for forty plus years. America is a beautiful land and blessed by God, that's for sure. Coming from New York City, born and raised as a poor boy, he had the opportunity given to him as a truck driver. He loved what he did and also became a trainer of new drivers, thereby giving them the opportunity to become good truckers and enjoy their job. America is truly grand and beautiful, seeing it from a trucker's point of view. You love the job you have and are thankful for your freedom of choice. Silver Eagle wishes you all a safe and great trip.


The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken

Author: David Orr

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-08-18

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 0698140893

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A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong. David Orr’s The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem’s enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature. “The Road Not Taken” seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking “the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering? What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, “The Road Not Taken” is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor. Published for the poem’s centennial—along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself—The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice.


Songs for the Open Road

Songs for the Open Road

Author: The American Poetry & Literacy Project

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-02-29

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 048611029X

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More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others.


Traveling the Blue Road

Traveling the Blue Road

Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins

Publisher: Seagrass Press

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1633222764

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Gorgeous illustrations surround a collection of poetry written for children about the magic, beauty, and promise of sea voyages.


An American Sunrise: Poems

An American Sunrise: Poems

Author: Joy Harjo

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1324003871

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A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings.


The Best Loved Poems of the American People

The Best Loved Poems of the American People

Author: Hazel Felleman

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 1936

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 0385000197

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Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.


Wings in Time

Wings in Time

Author: Callie Garnett

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781737277507

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Poetry. Callie Garnett's first full-length collection of poems, WINGS IN TIME, is a book one watches as much as reads. Whether it be her memories of browsing now-extinct video stores, the tender lessons learned from children's public television (Garnett's mother is a long-time writer for Sesame Street), a student job at a CD & record shop, or Zoom meetings during quarantine back in her parents' home, the four sections of this book nod toward media's shifting formats and mirror the coming of age of the poet herself. Garnett's experiences and evocations have here been transcribed, recorded, rewound, shared and edited over emails, and nearly float context-less, full of the desire to touch the immaterial and the dematerialized.


Great Short Poems and Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel Adventure

Great Short Poems and Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel Adventure

Author: Paul Negri

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2014-11-10

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0486801233

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Great Short PoemsThis outstanding 150-poem anthology spans over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others. Includes three selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Road Not Taken," "Loveliest of Trees," and "Ozymandias." Songs for the Open RoadCollection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, and many others. Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The New Colossus" and "The Railway Train."


The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway

Author: Amor Towles

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0735222355

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” – NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.