Homage Rhyme

Homage Rhyme is scenic memoir spanning seven decades as tag along lad of farming mom and dad at wilderness riverside during the American great depression, drought and dust bowl, as home-front kid hand during World War II, as high school scholar, athlete, actor, as casualty of disabling disease requiring alternate course, as college student, romantic, baseball coach, sports writer, as college union program director, as husband and father of two daughters and a son, as director of university centers, student activities and auxiliary services, as executive director of a bicentennial commission, as producer of world premiere stage dramas and arts expos based on rich heritage of Native American cultures, as director or residency and day camps, as executive director of an American Indian theatre company, as producer of a foundation for arts and humanities, as author of eight books, as grandfather of six children, as serene elder and kid at heart sharing my dawning, ascent, resurgence, plunges, rescues, and serendipity of memorable and sometimes incredible seventy years since 1931 emergence.

The Saying of Confucius with 20 illustrations by Jean Elizabeth Ward added to make this a wonderful book for a gift, history, spirituality, or poetry,making it a First Edition as it is.

Jean E.Ward, Jean Ward, Jean Elizabeth Ward of Starward Studio presents: A Barbara Anne Bushytale , Book 2, for children of all ages, with poetry and prose. Quotes by President George Bush intermingled within this delightful illustrated second book in a series. Included are the tales of Little Wilma White and Little White Jimbo. Poems for animal lovers. Book 2.

Jean Elizabeth Ward proudly presents this book with the poetry of Wen Feiqing, the literary name of Wen Tingyun, Chinese Tang Poet famous for his Ci Poetry, included are the poems inspired by and written by Jean Elizabeth Ward,an American Poet Laureate. Concluding with an introduction to Wei Yingwu, another Chinese Poet.

The Beheaded Poetess is a book about the life of the T'ang Dynasty Nun and Poetess, Yu Xuanji. Two books in one: history and poetry. The work of Genevieve Wimsatt in her 1937 book: Selling Wilted Peonies is revised into Concrete Poetry throughout the book, with acknowledgements below each section and poem. Intermingled with the original translations of Yu Xuanji, with a modern day Poet Laureate Editing it, and including her own versions, homages to, and inspired by poems. She has combined her love of history with poetry to come up with a First Edition, winning combination. This book began as only an Homage to book, and somehow evolved into an accurate historical write, with many interesting facts worked in throughout the book. Included are a few illustrations. Truly a work of love by Jean Elizabeth Ward.

The Book of Odes, or Shi Jing, is a 2008 release, English Edition, Many of the 305 Poems in the book deal with the lives of the common people, their daily occupations, their Joys, and sorrows, their hard work and duties in war. Then in the Warring States Period the state of Chu in the South produced a great poet: Qu Yuan (340-278 A.D.). He was the first Chinese poet whose name we know. When he saw that his state was approaching ruin and he could do nothing to save it, he drowned himself in the Miluo River.

SAPPHO: FOR THE STUDENT, is two books in one: Part I is the poems, and fragments of poems by Sappho, with 68 poems by American Poet Laureate, Jean Elizabeth Ward, either paying an homage to Sappho with a Kimo Poem, or a poem inspired by Sappho. Part II is the 1907 book of 100 poems by Bliss Carman. The book ends with a compilation of references for the student in locating reference material and books for the serious student of Sappho. A few illustrations are within.