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Book

Earthshake : poems from the ground up

Call Number

  • J 811 PETE (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Greenwillow Books, ©2003.

Physical Description

32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Summary

Presents twenty-two poems about geology. End notes provide information about the earth's surface and interior, types of rocks, and how volcanoes, glaciers, and erosion modify the landscape.

Contents

  • Plain old rock
  • Instructions for the earth's dishwasher
  • Continental promises
  • Wyoming layer cake
  • Dizzy wind
  • Living with lava
  • Michigan sahara
  • Glacial pace
  • QuartzQuartzQuartz
  • Crumble!
  • Alaskan stream
  • Earthshake
  • River meets crack in the earth
  • Hill named Kao-ling
  • Obituary for a clam
  • "Earth charged in meteor's fiery death"
  • Recipe for granite
  • Pumice stone seeks work
  • Don't eat it
  • Polar confusion
  • Yellowstone whale
  • Ripples
  • Endnotes.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.

Added Authors

Cathie Felstead