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    Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences
    Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences
    Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences
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    Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences

    By Richard Wilbur

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    This collection includes the full text and drawings from Opposites and More Opposites, plus seven additional poems and drawings about differences. Readers of all ages will delight in this volume of witty wordplay and clever illustrations from two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and National Book Award winner Richard Wilbur.   
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 1, 2006
    ISBN9780547543147
    Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences
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    Richard Wilbur

    RICHARD WILBUR, one of America’s most beloved poets, has served as poet laureate of the United States. He has received the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, and a number of translation prizes, including two Bollingen Prizes and two awards from PEN.

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      Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences - Richard Wilbur

      Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences

      Richard Wilbur

      [Image]

      Poems and drawings

      by Richard Wilbur

      Harcourt, Inc.

      Orlando Austin New York

      San Diego Toronto London

      [Image]

      For Aaron

      Copyright © 2000 by Richard Wilbur

      All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in

      any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any

      information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be submitted

      online at www harcourt com/contact or mailed to the following address: Permissions

      Department, Harcourt, Inc, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777

      www HarcourtBooks com

      Opposites was first published in 1973 by Harcourt, Inc

      More Opposites was first published in 1991 by Harcourt, Inc. Poem numbers

      4, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18, 24, and 28 first appeared in Cricket magazine in 1990

      Poem numbers 5, 17, 19, and 23 first appeared in The Formalists 1990

      First Harcourt paperback edition 2000

      The Library of Congress has cataloged an earlier edition as follows:

      Wilbur, Richard, 1921–

      Opposites, more opposites, and a few differences/by Richard Wilbur,

      p cm

      Summary A collection of light-hearted poems

      centering around words and their opposites.

      1 English language—Synonyms and antonyms—Juvenile poetry.

      2 Children's poetry, American 3. Humorous poetry, American

      [1. English language—Synonyms and antonyms—Poetry.

      2. Humorous poetry 3 American poetry.] I. Title

      PS3545 I32165A6 2000

      811' 52—dc21 99-29053

      ISBN-13 978-0-15-205612-4 pb ISBN-10 0-15-205612-2 pb

      C E G H F D B

      Printed in the United States of America

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