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Among angels : poems
- Title
- Among angels : poems / by Nancy Willard and Jane Yolen ; illustrated by S. Saelig Gallagher.
- Author
- Willard, Nancy.
- Publication
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., [1995], ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3573.I444 A8 1995 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Yolen, Jane.
- Description
- vi, 55 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Angels from the Hebrew and Christian traditions crowd the pages of this collection from Nancy Willard and Jane Yolen, poets who have chosen to wrestle with angels. The poems, written back and forth to each other over a period of several years, reveal close acquaintance with wild-winged souls like Lucifer, who fell, "Feathers like fingers / Clutching the air," and Gabriel, returning from the Annunciation; with the angel who visited Jacob Boehme, asking for shoes; and with the nameless cherubs at the manger.
- Angels in winter, in summer; angels with Aunt Fanny and among the servants; and angels who lament "the inconvenience of wings." With the luminous assistance of S. Saelig Gallagher's illustrations, the reader is truly Among Angels.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Prayer / Nancy Willard -- Pistis Sophia: A Dispatch / Jane Yolen -- Angel among the Herbs / Nancy Willard -- An Angel Considers the Naming of Meat / Nancy Willard -- Every Visible Thing / Jane Yolen -- Angels in Winter / Nancy Willard -- Angel in Summer: West Virginia / Jane Yolen -- The Mission of the Puffball / Nancy Willard -- Names / Jane Yolen -- A Carol for the Shepherds / Nancy Willard -- An Angel Tells the Birds to Gather for the Great Supper of God / Nancy Willard -- Dancing with Angels / Jane Yolen -- Aunt Fanny / Jane Yolen -- Harpo and the Angel / Nancy Willard -- An Inconvenience of Wings / Nancy Willard -- Angels Fly / Jane Yolen -- The Winged Ones / Nancy Willard -- Metamorph / Jane Yolen -- Angel Feather / Jane Yolen -- Angel in a Window / Nancy Willard -- Lucifer / Jane Yolen -- Easter Sermon / Jane Yolen -- Harahel Writes on the Head of a Pin / Jane Yolen -- Gabriel Returns from the Annunciation / Nancy Willard --
- Angelic Script / Jane Yolen -- The Founding of Saint Andrews / Jane Yolen -- The Lesson on Guardian Angels at Star of the Sea Elementary / Nancy Willard -- The Twenty-eight Angels Ruling in the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon / Jane Yolen -- Angels among the Servants / Nancy Willard -- Photographing Angels / Nancy Willard -- Jacob Bochme and the Angel I / Nancy Willard -- Visitation in a Pewter Dish II / Nancy Willard -- Jacob and the Angel / Jane Yolen -- Rabbi Loew and the Angel of Death / Jane Yolen -- Tobias and the Fish / Nancy Willard -- The Archangel Michael Delivers a Sermon to the Stars / Jane Yolen.
- ISBN
- 015200033X
- LCCN
- 93042103
- OCLC
- 29429450
- ocm29429450
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries