Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

Joyce Sidman

juni 2014 · Recorded Books · Lest av Myra Lucretia Taylor

Om denne lydboken

Acclaimed author Joyce Sidman has received multiple awards for her books of poetry, including a Caldecott Honor for Red Sings from Treetops. Itself a Newbery Honor Book, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night features several spellbinding poems about "the feast of sound and spark" that awakens with the raccoons, snails, owls, and crickets each night after sunset. "In Sidman's delicious poems, darkness is the norm, and there's nothing to fear but the rising sun."-Publishers Weekly

Om forfatteren

Poet and author Joyce Sidman was born in Hartford, Connecticut on June 4, 1956. She received a B.A. in German from Wesleyan University and earned her teacher's certificate in 1983. Sidman teaches poetry and is a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She has published several children's books, including Red Sings from Treetops, and she won the New Women's Voices award for Like the Air.