John Ciardi (1916–1986)

Author of How Does a Poem Mean?

Includes the names: John Clardi, Jonh Ciardi, John Ciardi, John Ciardi et al., john commentary ciardi, Illus. by John Osborn John Ciardi, Illustrated by Gorey John Ciardi, Edward

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
A Browser's Dictionary	110	4	12	3.63	3.50	0.79
How Does a Poem Mean?	170		12	4.17	4.00	0.80
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You	129		8	3.94	4.00	0.81
THE INFERNO (Dante's immortal drama of a journey through hell, The fearful pit)	25		4	4.75	5.00	0.43
A Second Browser's Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language	46	1	4	4.50	4.50	0.35
I Met a Man	41		3	3.00	2.00	1.41
The Monster Den: Or Look What Happened at My House -- And to It	17		2	2.50	2.50	0.50
The Little That Is All	6	1	2	4.00	4.00	1.00
The Reason for the Pelican	19	1	2	4.00	4.00
Poems of Love & Marriage	7		2	5.00	5.00
For Instance: Poems	10		2	3.50	3.50	1.50
The Collected Poems of John Ciardi	14		2	5.00	5.00
Michael Delacroix	2		1	3.00	3.00
Man Who Sang the Sillies	17		1	3.00	3.00
Doodle Soup	17		1	2.00	2.00
Mid-Century American Poets	9		1	3.00	3.00
In Fact	2		1	4.00	4.00
Dialogue with an audience	8		1	4.00	4.00
Fast and Slow	8		1	0.50	0.50
The king who saved himself from being saved	5		1	4.00	4.00
Someone Could Win a Polar Bear	19		1	4.00	4.00
The Birds of Pompeii	6		1	4.00	4.00
Good Words to You: An All-New Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language	43		1	3.00	3.00
You Know Who	21		1	4.00	4.00
Echoes: Poems Left Behind	13	2	1	3.00	3.00
An Alphabestiary	9		1	4.50	4.50
The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks	56		1	5.00	5.00
Manner of speaking	8		1	5.00	5.00
Writer to Writer: Readings on the Craft of Writing	4
The Glass Canoe	1
Who Can It Be? (Selections From "I Met a Man")	3
The Light-House-Keeper's White-Mouse	1
Saipan: The War Diary of John Ciardi	5
The Poor Boy Was Wrong	1
Other skies: Poems	4
The River is a Piece of Sky	1
How Does a Poem Mean? Part Three of An Introduction To Literature	2
An Alphabestiary. Illustrations by Milton Hebald	1
From time to time / John Ciardi	2
Witches Three	1
Stations of the air : thirty-three poems	1
Selected Poems	6
The Purgatorio a New Translation (Dante's Timeless Drama of an Ascent Through Purgatory)	1
SELECTED POEMS OF JOHN CIARDI	2
In fact; [poems]	1
Dante's The Inferno	8
John Ciardi: Measure of the Man	1
This Strangest Everything	12
As if; poems new and selected	4
Homeward to America	4
DANTE. (3vols.)The Inferno; The Purgatorio; The Paradiso.	3
Person to Person: Poems	8
I Marry You: A Sheaf of Love Poems	9
Witches three: Conjure wife	2
Lives of X.	9
Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays in the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry	10
The wish-tree	7
A Modern masters book for children	1
39 poems	5
Mummy Took Cooking Lessons and Other Poems	8
The achievement of John Ciardi; a comprehensive selection of his poems with a critical introduction	4
In the Stoneworks	14
John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan;: A new fable of the grasshopper and the ant	6
A Third Browser's Dictionary (Common Reader Editions)	8	1
Scrappy the Pup	1