A collection of poems brimming with whimsical wordplay, rollicking rhymes, and funny, profound, occasionally contrarian life lessons for children of all ages. Accompanied by vibrant an unique woodcuts by artist Alec Dempster.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- jC811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780889843998 9780889848368
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.L3395
- LCCN Item number
- H63 2016eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (91 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00237097 (OCoLC)960758514 (CaOOCEL)477327
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Ah sweet misunderstandings That allow us to embrace Incompatible truths 3
- Michael Joseph 3
- 1968 2015 7
- 1956 2015 7
- Hobos Crowbar 13
- Not Just Anybody Can Become a Somebody 14
- What Cant Be Learned from Experience 14
- Vigilantes with Good Intentions Perform Required Interventions 15
- Spunky Dunker 17
- Blast It Betty 19
- Its as bad as that 19
- Nicht sehr gut 19
- Under a Billboard at Bathurst and Eglinton 21
- Youll Learn Not to Mind 23
- How to Get to the Future 24
- How to Get to the Past 24
- Human Nature 25
- The Energy of Anarchy 25
- Youve Tried Too Hard to Love 27
- Exits Exist 27
- The Bald Mans Store 28
- Regal OReilly 28
- Seize Her Caesar 29
- How Long Will It Last 31
- The Big Guy Says Goodnight 33
- Theres Something Almost Real 34
- Some Hitches in the Expanding Sense of a Global Human Family 35
- Limber Climbers Clamber Up 36
- The Knife Again 37
- Part of the Funs Resisting 37
- Breeze May Moisten Wind May Whip 39
- The Wonder of the Chrysalis 40
- I Dont See Me 40
- The Puzzled Toddler 41
- Needs Unmet 42
- The Skeleton and the Princess 45
- In the Land of the Hooded Bubba 46
- Enders Luck 47
- Important News 49
- Sink 51
- On the Value of Examining All Viewpoints 53
- He Just Happened She Occurred 53
- Differences 55
- The Hat 55
- Dont Forget Yourself 56
- Found Wanting 56
- A Nanny in a Van 57
- Y Experiments 58
- The Few 59
- Bone-Idle Builders at a Barbecue 60
- Salt 61
- Bearded Bob and Betty-Boo 63
- Up in Smoke 65
- Study the Sturdy 66
- Two Vile Versifiers 67
- Is It 68
- Dmitri in the Yew Tree 69
- Annie Wong and Andy White 69
- Happy Customer Number One 70
- Either Way ... 72
- Up and Down 73
- Either Way Again 73
- Witness the Wetness 74
- What Lessons Have You Learned 75
- Philosophers Assist Her with the Loss of Her Lucifer 76
- Open Fire 76
- What the 76
- A Hand to Hold 77
- The Self I Couldnt Find 77
- Dropping a Knot 79
- The Matter of Facts 80
- Wolf Pack 81
- Lotta Things Gotta Go 82
- Humdrum Hubbub 84
- Your Livelihood 85
- Have Bits or All 85
- Do Do-Gooders Do 86
- What Awaits Us 87
- The Day Thats Ended 87
- Nine Extra Thoughts No Extra Cost 88
- 10 000 88
- How I Like Them 89
- At the End of the World 91
- Acknowledgements 93
- Love is an Observant Traveller Inklings Taddle Creek Bookbird Quadrant There Devil Eat That Mirror Mirror A Book of Reverso Poems Taddle Creek Quadrant Bookbird 93
- About the Author 95
- 2007 2009 2013 2014 2011 2015 95
- Black Stars in a White Night Sky A Vowellers Bestiary Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box Enjoy It While It Hurts Think Again Sidewalk Flowers 95
- About the Illustrator 95
- Loterıa Jarocha Loterıa Huasteca 95
- 2013 2015 95