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Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure
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Author/Editor: The American Poetry & Literacy Project
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Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dic...  read more
 


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Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Includes 4 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486406466
ISBN 13: 9780486406466
Author/Editor: The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Format: Book
Grade level: 9 and Up (ages 14 and up)
Page Count: 80
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
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Publication date: December 1998
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