Hoofprints
Horse Poems
Published on 2. September 2014
224 pages
978-1-4976-6260-5 (ISBN)
Description
A VOYA Poetry Pick: Award-winning author Jessie Haas takes readers on a ride back in time to celebrate the special bond between horses and humans
"We have all been changed by the horse, for better and worse." -Jessie Haas
Jessie Haas travels back sixty-five million years-from 5000 BCE to the present day-in 104 poems about our equine friends.
Horses have shared some of the most significant moments in human history. In these lyrical and poignant pieces-some written from the horse's point of view-readers will meet chariot racers, knights' steeds, horse whisperers, even Pegasus, the winged horse. In one moving poem, a compassionate colt befriends a lonely man; in another, a starving soldier shares a meal with his mount. Whether it's the thundering herd of Genghis Khan or a Dutch farmer shielding his horse from the Nazis, these transportive free-verse poems reveal how horses have influenced and enriched our lives. Hoofprints is an awe-inspiring journey through history as we gallop alongside horse and rider and experience "the mid-air moment" when "everything may yet / turn out all right."
This ebook includes a bibliography and a glossary of equine terminology.
"We have all been changed by the horse, for better and worse." -Jessie Haas
Jessie Haas travels back sixty-five million years-from 5000 BCE to the present day-in 104 poems about our equine friends.
Horses have shared some of the most significant moments in human history. In these lyrical and poignant pieces-some written from the horse's point of view-readers will meet chariot racers, knights' steeds, horse whisperers, even Pegasus, the winged horse. In one moving poem, a compassionate colt befriends a lonely man; in another, a starving soldier shares a meal with his mount. Whether it's the thundering herd of Genghis Khan or a Dutch farmer shielding his horse from the Nazis, these transportive free-verse poems reveal how horses have influenced and enriched our lives. Hoofprints is an awe-inspiring journey through history as we gallop alongside horse and rider and experience "the mid-air moment" when "everything may yet / turn out all right."
This ebook includes a bibliography and a glossary of equine terminology.
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Person
Jessie Haas is the author of numerous acclaimed books for young people, including
Unbroken, which was aPublishers WeeklyBest Book. She lives in Westminster, Vermont, with her husband, Michael J. Daley, a children's author. Haas began writing about horses from a young age and wrote a story during her junior year of college that became her first novel,
Keeping Barney.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Publisher's Note
- Introduction
- Ride Back with Me
- How the World Makes Horses
- The Grandmother
- I Just Wonder
- Evolution
- It's Alimentary: PowerPoint Presentation by Miohippus, late Oligocene Epoch
- Global Warming: What Survives Is Also Beautiful
- Przewalski's Horse
- Endless Grasses
- Two Legs
- The Great Hunt
- Rope Halter
- The Colonists
- First Rider
- She Said
- Moss
- New Words
- Loose
- Information Superhighway
- Song to My Horse
- Bone Story
- The Horse Camps Glitter
- Who Wears the Pants?
- The Bow-legged Girl
- Forever
- Revolution
- Horse and Ox
- Eagle Speaks
- The Hoofprint of Pegasus
- (No) Contest
- Messenger
- Hittite Chariot Horse
- Proof
- The Race before Troy
- The Knife Cuts Both Ways
- Hakma, Stigrup
- Afraid of His Shadow: King Philip First Sees Alexander's Greatness
- Winged Team
- A Legend of the Great Wall
- Pack Ponies
- Roman Riders
- Earnhardt, Adorandus
- Ways of Mounting
- Horse, Soldier, Arrow
- Is That So?
- Blessings
- Solomon's Horses in Mohammed's Army
- North Sea Farmers
- The Fearful Knight
- Muzzled
- Riding with the Horde
- Out of the East
- A Claim Not Made by UPS or FedEx
- During the Delhi Sultanate
- A Lady Laments the Changing Times
- The Black Mare's Milk
- Something to Remember When Aliens Land
- Jingle Bells in Tenochtitlan
- Bright with Bones
- Treasure
- The Spanish Armada Retreats
- On the Death of Major General Humphrey Atherton of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Author's First White American Ancestor
- Flare-up
- Gladdening
- Painted Horses
- Unnatural
- One Master
- The Gun
- To Water
- The Groom
- 1848
- Foxhunt
- Road Apples
- M.A.D.D. (Modernity Against Drunk Driving
- Clever Hans
- Foolish Creatures
- Abandoned, 1919
- Hands
- Big Top
- The Dutch Horse
- Triumph
- Company for Breakfast
- Means of Transport
- Epona Considers Her Current Position
- Advice to a Young Woman
- Horse Whisperer
- He Races
- He Organizes His Herd of Three
- This Rider
- West Palm
- Therapeutic
- Mangalarga Marchador
- Innocent Engines of War
- Behind the Supermarket
- Efficient
- Peasant Eyes
- Down the Side Street
- Dappled Things
- Race Riders
- Buzkazhi
- If Required
- The Mid-Air Moment
- The Color of Heaven
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Copyright Page
