Hey, you! : poems to skyscrapers, mosquitoes, and other fun things / selected by Paul B. Janeczko ; Illustrated by Robert Rayevsky. - 1st ed. - New York : HarperCollins, c2007. - 40 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Invocation / George Ella Lyon -- Sneakers / Joan Bransfield Graham -- To an astronaut -- Lovely mosquito / Doug Macleod -- Mosquito mosquito / John Agard -- Little Blanco River / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Toad / Norman MacCaig -- Camel question / Bobbi Katz -- Old farm in Northern Michigan / Gary Gildner -- To a maggot in an apple / Richard Edwards -- Light / Joan Bransfield Graham -- Mote of dust / X. J. Kennedy -- Soft-boiled / Russell Hoban -- Warning to a Fork / Marjorie Maddox -- Buffalo / Penny Harter -- Bison / Kristine O'Connell George -- To a snowflake / X. J. Kennedy -- Hat hair / Joan Bransfield Graham -- Letter poem to a mailbox / Marjorie Maddox -- Bee, I'm expecting you! / Emily Dickinson -- Straight Talk / Nikki Grimes -- Conch Shell / Beverly McLoughland -- Dear shell: / Karla Kuskin -- The octopus / Ogden Nash -- The sea horse / Douglas Florian -- Skyscraper / Dennis Lee -- What are you Doing? / Charles Reznikoff -- Whispers to the wall / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Hello, moon! / Patricia Hubbell -- Hello, black hole / J. Patrick Lewis.

This collection of 25 poems includes imaginative odes to such unexpected items as mailboxes, snowflakes, and sea horses.

ISBN: 9780060523480 (lib. bdg.) 0060523484 (lib. bdg.) 0060523476 9780060523473

LCCN: 2006029465

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American poetry--20th century.
American poetry.

LC Class. No.: PS615 / .H49 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 811/.5408