This book is about which farm animal can best sing like the rooster. After all the participants try out without success, the chick thinks he can sing like the rooster, but he is afraid to try because of a lack of confidence. After listening to the words of encouragement from his mother, the chick decides to give it a try. As a result, he is the one who wins the singing contest at the farm. The Singing Contest at the Farm is a book about farm animals and also is a book that can teach children to be patient by learning to wait for their turn, to understand sequences by using first, next, and then; and to boost their self-esteem by believing in themselves. Most of all, this book teaches one moral lesson: never judge a book by its cover. Ce livre parle de quel animal de la ferme peut le mieux chanter comme le coq. Après que tous les participants aient essayé sans succès, le poussin pense pouvoir chanter comme le coq, mais il a peur d’essayer en raison d’un manque de confiance en soi. Après avoir écouté les mots d’encouragement de sa mère, le poussin décide d’essayer. En conséquence, il est celui qui gagne le concours de chant à la ferme. Le concours de chant à la ferme est un livre sur les animaux de la ferme et aussi un livre qui peut apprendre aux enfants à faire preuve de patience en apprenant à attendre leur tour, à comprendre les séquences en utilisant d’abord, ensuite, puis, après, augmenter l’estime de soi en croyant en eux-mêmes. Surtout, ce livre donne une leçon morale: Ne jamais juger un livre à sa couverture.

"Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement." --

A formal analysis A Singing Contest comprises close readings of Seamus Heaney's poetry. Tyler argues that in an era of fractured poetry and politics, Seamus Heaney stands out: his impulse is towards unity and regeneration. Her book considers the interplay between different kinds of literary tradition and community in his poetry. For Heaney, poetry represents a structure allowing imaginative mediation of conflicts that appear irreconcilable in the social, political and historical realms. By detailed structural analysis of diction, meter, imagery and generic form, Tyler illustrates how Heaney's poems create concords from discords, unities from fracture. From the preface by Rosanna Warren: A Singing Contest is written with imaginative and emotional urgency, and in some large sense, as it examines Heaney's spells, it seems itself to want to cast a spell against death. Hence Tyler's return, in various ways, to readings of elegy, whether the fictive elegies of classical pastoral poems, or Heaney's personal elegies. She pores in detail over Clearances, the sonnet sequence composed in memory of the poet's mother in The Haw Lantern, and she concludes her book with a chapter on literary elegies, Heaney's farewells to his friends and admired contemporaries Ted Hughes, Zbigniew Herbert, and Joseph Brodsky. In these analyses, one sees the wholeness of Tyler's project: her argument that for Heaney, literary tradition itself, rightly received and transformed, reaches into the voids made by death, and establishes connection across rupture. Her thesis is an ancient one, and she gives it particular shape and force in asking us to contemplate it at work in Heaney, where it binds individual to collective experience, and past to present.

What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.