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Nature’s Olympics

Nature’s Olympics

Janet Ruth Heller

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Wipf and Stock Publishers
Año de edición:
2021
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9781666722598

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Nature’s Olympics offers concise poems about the natural world, including plants, animals, and birds. This book focuses on the flora and fauna of the Midwest. Nature’s Olympics has four sections dedicated to the different seasons: summer, autumn, winter, and spring. Poetic forms include haiku, tanka, sonnets, and free verse. The poems in Nature’s Olympics concern both wilderness areas and cities and show that the natural world inspires insight into human life. Readers will find the poems accessible.

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