Happy Birthday, Thomas! (Thomas & Friends)
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Happy Birthday, Thomas! (Thomas & Friends) by Random House
The ghazal is a challenging poetic form whose metrical couplets end with a single rhyme followed by a refrain. Rhyme & Refrain explores this form's potential in English: including complex internal rhymes; a libretto for an oratorio that demands couplets are read simultaneously; tercet ghazals in a form invented by Robert Bly; and asemic poems that render the ghazal's form into unreadable alien scripts. Love poems to a ghoul maiden echo the ghazal's origins in the Arabian love poem, but subvert this idea by making their object an un-lovely Arabian folk figure: an undead creature that eats human corpses. The collection is framed by poems about cultural appropriation. It opens with a humorous complaint by an Arab poetaster offended by the Persian ghazal's repeated refrain. The final poem, Volcan de Fuego, depicts the Western adoption of the ghazal as an exotic locale, distorted and exploited by people for their own expressive ends, showing the creative potential and inherent dangers of cultural borrowings.
Established in July 2013 in a merger between Penguin and Random House, Penguin Random House, with nearly 250 independent imprints and brands on five continents, more than 15,000 new titles published each year, and close to 800 million print, audio, and eBooks sold annually, is the world's leading trade book publisher. Like its predecessor companies, Penguin Random House is committed to publishing adult and children's fiction and nonfiction print editions and is a pioneer in digital publishing. Its publishing lists include more than 60 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world's most widely read authors. Jason Fruchter has been an animator and illustrator for children's media for decades. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in 1992, and later moved to New York City to work for MTV Animation. In 2001, he cofounded A&J Studios, and has worked with Cartoon Network, Disney, Nickelodeon, and Sanrio. His books include Callie's Cowgirl Twirl, Christmas Countdown, and Alphabet Magic. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679808091 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679808094 |
| Title | Happy Birthday, Thomas! (Thomas & Friends) |
| Author | Random House |
| Series | Step Into Reading |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1990-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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