1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796908303321

Autore

Sexton Tom <1940->

Titolo

A Ladder of Cranes / Tom Sexton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, AK : , [2015], : University of Alaska Press

ISBN

1-60223-258-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (70 p.)

Collana

University of Alaska Press - The Alaska Literary Series

Disciplina

811.54

Soggetti

Poetry

Poesie

Ressources Internet

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Reading Housman's "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now"A Needle's Eye; A Little Poem for the Stars; Alder Catkins; Alder Catkins after Rain; Poem Written on the Winter Solstice; On Being Asked to Write a Poem about the Moon; European Starling; American Dipper; Independence Mine, August; The Advent Bear.

To the Chinese PoetsBlack Spruce; Fall Migration; To the Poet John Haines on His Eighty-fifth Birthday; Resolution Park; The Man from Here; Galaxies; The Church at Ninilchik, Alaska; Swans on Cook Inlet; Solitude; After Walking in Rain on a Sunday Morning; Reading Li Bai While the Moon Rises; Magpie at Twilight; Looking at the Ferry Museum's Salish Baskets; Starring, Western Alaska; The Loon at Shackford Head; Cow Moose and Magpie; Cloudberry Wine; Our Hand-carved Ornament of a Great Blue Heron; President Harding's Pullman Car, Fairbanks, Alaska; Westchester Lagoon; The Mist Net.

The Bird Walkers of Roosevelt Park; Pied-billed Grebe on the Concord River; At the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts; Blueberry Barren at Dusk; Eastport, Maine; Star Marrow; First Anna's Hummingbird Sighted in Newfoundland; Statue of a Union Soldier; A Ladder of Cranes; White-tailed Buck in a Pasture; Winter Thaw; Glass Eels; Po Chü-I's Cook; Mozart's Starling; On the Death of Seamus Heaney; Innisfree, Western Alberta; Mundare, Alberta; The Wolf of Gubbio; Gray Wolf; Medieval Bestiary: The Wolf; Killing the Kenai Peninsula's Wolves; Fall Raspberries; Fireweed; Insomnia.



Sommario/riassunto

Whether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, Tom Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. The former Alaska poet laureate takes to the road in this new collection, wending a lyrical and at times mystical path between Alaska and New England. Travelers along the way include the fabled wolf of Gubbio, old and lame and long past his taming encounter with Saint Francis of Assisi, and Chinese poet Li Bai chanting to a Yangtze River dolphin. Yet, while Sexton's journey cro.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910983368203321

Autore

Fernau Henning

Titolo

Creative Mathematical Sciences Communication : 7th International Conference, CMSC 2024, Trier, Germany, October 7–10, 2024, Proceedings / / edited by Henning Fernau, Inge Schwank, Jacqueline Staub

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-73257-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 15229

Altri autori (Persone)

SchwankInge

StaubJacqueline

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Computer science

Computer science - Mathematics

Application software

Education - Data processing

Computer Science

Mathematics of Computing

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Computers and Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Invited Papers -- Tactile Learning: Unplugged Graphs, Trees, and Patterns -- Teaching Advanced Concepts Using Tangible Machines --



Curricular Desicion-Making -- Computational Thinking and Interdisciplinary Instruction -- Innovative Teaching Beyond the Classroom.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Mathematics , CMSC 2024, held in Trier, Germany, during October 7–10, 2024. The 17 full and short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Invited Papers; Tactile Learning: Unplugged Graphs, Trees, and Patterns; Teaching Advanced Concepts Using Tangible Machines; Curricular Desicion-Making; Computational Thinking and Interdisciplinary Instruction; Innovative Teaching Beyond the Classroom. .