The Truth About Trees - Charles Ghigna

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Résumé :
In a variety of verse forms ranging from free verse to rhymed verse, from serious to witty, Charles Ghigna creates a panorama of 43 poems about nature and The Truth About Trees. Trees become more than a mere metaphor to the poet. Their truth is the truth of man and nature. Their essence transcends our vision beyond the forest primeval into a world where imagination and dreams become the connecting roots of reality....

Biographie:
Charles Ghigna - Father Goose? lives in a treehouse in the middle of Alabama.He is a poet, children's author, nationally syndicated feature writer and theauthor of more than 5000 poems and one hundred books for children and adultsranging from the 1990 Pulitzer Prize nominee Returning to Earth to the popular children's book The Father Goose Treasury of Poetry for Children. His books have been published by Disney, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and others. His poems for adults have been published in Harper's, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Saturday Evening Post and The Wall Street Journal. His poems for children appear in Highlights for Children, Cricket, Ranger Rick, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Spider, Ladybug, Babybug, Caterpillar, Children's Digest and The School Magazine....

Sommaire:
Charles Ghigna--Father Goose?--lives in a treehouse in the middle of Alabama. He is the author of more than one hundred books from Random House, Simon & Schuster, Time Inc., Disney, Hyperion, Scholastic, and other publishers. He has written more than five thousand poems for children and adults. His work appears in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines ranging from The New Yorker and Harper's to Highlights and Cricket. He served as poet-in-residence and chair of creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, and as a nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media. Chip Ghigna lives in Birmingham, Alabama. His paintings appear in galleries, corporations, and private collections throughout the U.S. and France....