The Giant Book of Poetry
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“The Answering Machine” from THE HOLY WORM OF PRAISE, copyright © 2001 by Philip Schultz, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc. and the author.
“Country Fair” from HOTEL INSOMNIA, copyright © 1992 by Charles Simic, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc. and the author.
“The Old World” from HOTEL INSOMNIA, copyright © 1992 by Charles Simic, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc. and the author.
“Long Feud” from BURNING BUSH copyright 1928 by Harcourt, Inc., and renewed 1956 by Louis Untermeyer, reprinted by permission of the publisher.
“A Summer Morning” from ADVICE TO A PROPHET AND OTHER POEMS, copyright © 1960 and renewed 1988 by Richard Wilbur, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.
“The Swan at Edgewater Park,” Ruth L. Schwartz. Reprinted by permission of the author and Harper-Collins Publishers (Edgewater, 2002).
Jackleen Holton, “American History” and “Free” reprinted with permission of the author.
Robert Hedin, “The Old Liberators,” reprinted from THE OLD LIBERATORS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS, Holy Cow! Press, Ltd., reprinted by the permission of the author.
Louis Jenkins, “A Place for Everything” from JUST ABOVE WATER. Reprinted with permission of Holy Cow Press.
Joyce Sutphen, “Living in the Body” from STRAIGHT OUT OF VIEW. Reprinted with permission of Holy Cow Press and the author.
“Miss July Grows Older” and “Manet’s Olympia” from MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE by Margaret Atwood. Copyright © 1995 by Margaret Atwood. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“Variations on the Word Sleep,” from SELECTED POEMS II: Poems Selected and New, 1965-1975 by Margaret Atwood. Copyright © 1987 by Margaret Atwood. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“My Mother Said,” from THE OLD LIFE by Donald Hall. Copyright © 1996 by Donald Hall. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“Names of Horses” from OLD AND NEW POEMS by Donald Hall. Copyright © 1990 by Donald Hall. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“The Porcelain Couple” from WITHOUT: Poems by Donald Hall. Copyright © 1998 by Donald Hall. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“Saint Francis and the Sow” from MORTAL ACTS, MORTAL WORDS by Galway Kinnell. Copyright © 1980 by Galway Kinnell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“Ars Poetica” and “Not Marble nor the gilded Monuments,” from COLLECTED POEMS, 1917-1982 by Archibald Macleish. Copyright © 1985 by The Estate of Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted by Permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“A Poetry Reading at West Point,” from AFTER ALL: Last Poems by William Matthews. Copyright © 1998 by the Estate of William Matthews. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“Onions” from SEARCH PARTY: Collected Poems of William Matthews, edited by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly. Copyright © 2004 by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“Her Kind” from TO BEDLAM AND PART WAY BACK by Anne Sexton. Copyright © 1960 by Anne Sexton, renewed 1988 by Linda G. Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“How We Danced,” from THE BOOK OF FOLLY by Anne Sexton. Copyright © 1972 by Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“With Mercy for the Greedy” from ALL MY PRETTY ONES by Anne Sexton. Copyright © 1962 by Anne Sexton, © renewed 1990 by Linda G. Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“A Couple,” from THE COMPLETE LOVE POEMS OF MAY SWENSON. Copyright © 1991, 2003 by The Literary Estate of May Swenson. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Margaret Atwood, “You Fit Into Me,” from POWER POLITICS (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971, 1996). Reprinted with permission.
Alden Nowlan, “An Exchange of Gifts” and “It’s Good to Be Here” in ALDEN
NOWLAN: SELECTED POEMS (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1996). Reprinted with permission.
Robert Phillips, “Instrument of Choice” from SPINACH DAYS, pp. 81, copyright © 2000 Robert Phillips, reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Robert Kinsley, “A Walk Along the Old Tracks” used with permission of the author.
“Dream Deferred: Harlem,” “Evil,” “Maybe,” and “Suicide’s Note” are from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES by Langston Hughes, copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
“Belle Isle, 1949” and “Sweet Will” from NEW SELECTED POEMS by Philip Levine, copyright © 1991 by Philip Levine. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., and the author.
“I Go Back to May 1937” and “The Pope’s Penis” from THE GOLD CELL by Sharon Olds, copyright © 1987 by Sharon Olds. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and the author.
“Once” and “The Promise” from BLOOD, TIN, STRAW by Sharon Olds, copyright © 1999 by Sharon Olds. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., and the author.
Gerald Locklin, “Late Registration” used with permission of the author.
David Huddle, “Holes Commence Falling” from SUMMER LAKE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, used with permission of Louisiana State University Press and the author.
Lisel Mueller, “Reader,” “Widow,” “Silence and Dancing,” “Imaginary Paintings,” and “The Story” from ALIVE TOGETHER: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. Reprinted with permission of Louisiana University Press.
David Slavitt, “Titanic” from BIG NOSE. Reprinted by permission of Louisiana University Press and the author.
“Pulling a Pig’s Tail,” copyright Dave Smith, first appeared in THE WICK OF MEMORY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1970-2000 (Louisiana State University Press, 2000). Used with permission of the author.
Dave Smith, “Wreck in the Woods” copyright Dave Smith, first appeared in FATE’S KITE: POEMS 1991-1995 (Louisiana State University Press, 1996). Used here by permission of the author.
Howard Nemerov, “Snowflakes” and “Gyroscope” from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF HOWARD NEMEROV, used with permission of Margaret Nemerov.
“Heaven” by Robert Creeley, from ECHOES, copyright © 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 by Robert Creeley. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“I’ll Win,” “Old Days,” and “Thanksgiving’s Done,” by Robert Creeley, from MEMORY GARDENS, copyright © 1986 by Robert Creeley. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Place (there’s a way out)” by Robert Creeley, from WINDOWS, copyright © 1990 by Robert Creeley. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Daydreaming on the Trail,” translation by Gary Snyder, from THE BACK COUNTRY, copyright © 1968 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
“Consulting the Oracle” and “From a Plane” are by Denise Levertov, from THE FREEING OF THE DUST, copyright © 1975 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Not Waving but Drowning” and “Sunt Leones” by Stevie Smith, from COLLECTED POEMS OF STEVIE SMITH, copyright © 1972 by Stevie Smith, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“What You Should Know to Be A Poet” by Gary Snyder, from REGARDING WAVE, copyright © 1970 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and the author.
“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan thomas, from THE POEMS OF DYLAN THOMAS, copyright © 1952 by Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directons Publishing Corp.
“The Act” and �
�The Three Graces” by William Carlos Williams, from COLLECTED POEMS 1939-1962, VOLUME II, copyright © 1948 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Last Words of My English Grandmother,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “This is Just to Say,” “To Mark Anthony in Heaven” by William Carlos Williams, from COLLECTED POEMS: 1909-1939, VOLUME I, copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“In Simili Materia” from ADVERSARIA, copyright © 1993 by Timothy Russell. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Northwestern University Press
Bruce Weigl, “What Saves Us” from WHAT SAVES US, Northwestern University Press, by permission of the author.
“Weakness” by Alden Nowland is reprinted with the permission of Mrs. Claudine Nowlan.
“Instead of a Preface” from POEM WITH A HERO AND SELECTED POEMS by Anna Akhmatova, Translated by Leonore Mayhew and William McNaughton, FIELD translation Series #14, copyright © 1989 by Oberline Collecte. Reprinted by permission of Oberlin College Press.
Sean O’Brien, “Rain” used with permission of the author.
David Berman, “Snow” from ACTUAL AIR. Used with permission of Open City Books.
Stephen Dobyns, “Tomatoes” from CEMETERY NIGHTS, Penguin Group. Used with permission of the author.
Jokun, “Ah! I Intended,” Moritake, “One Fallen Flower,” Roka, “Winter Rain Deepens,” Ryusui, “A Lost Child Crying,” Shiki, “By That Fallen House” translated by Peter Beilenson. Used with permission of Peter Pauper Press.
Adrian Mitchell, “A Puppy Called Puberty” from HEART ON THE LEFT: Poems 1953-1984. Reprinted by permission of Peters, Fraser & Dunlop.
Robert Pinsky, “Shirt” from THE WANT BONE, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Dichtung and Wahrheit,” copyright © 1960 by W.H. Auden, “Marginalia,” copyright 1966 by W.H. Auden, “Shorts,” copyright © 1974 by The Estate of W.H. Auden, from COLLECTED POEMS by W.H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
William Roetzheim, “Opera Season,” “Shadow Friends,” “Fading into Background,” “Response to Emily Dickinson’s ’Wild Nights-Wild Nights!’,” and “Stretch Marks” used with permission of the author.
Beyond Recall is from FLYING BLIND by Sharon Bryan, published by Sarabande Books, Inc. ©1996 by Sharon Bryan. Used by permission of Sarabande Books and the author.
“Before Groundbreak,” “Don Fargo and Sons,” “Jobsite Wind,” “Pickwork,” “Poem,” and “Waiting for Lumber” are from HAMMER by Mark Turpin, published by Sarabande Books, Inc. © 2003 by Mark Turpin. Reprinted by permission of Sarabande Books and the author.
Irving Feldman, “The Dream” Schocken, used with permission of the author.
“How We Heard the Name” and “Love Song: I and Thou” copyright © 1961 by Alan Dugan. From POEMS SEVEN: NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS (Seven Stories Press, 2001). Reprinted by permission of Judith Shahn and Seven Stories Press.
from AXE HANDLES, copyright 193 by Gary Snyder. Published by Shoemaker and Hoard. Used with permission of the author.
“The Sheaves,” “Haunted House,” and “Karma” are reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from COLLECTED POEMS by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Copyright © 1925 by Edwin Arlington Robinson; copyright renewed (c) 1953 by Ruth Nivison and Barbara R. Holt.
“Fawn’s Foster Mother” by Robinson Jeffers from THE COLLECTED POETRY OF ROBINSON JEFFERS, Volume 1, 1920-1928, edited by Tim Hunt. Copyright © 1938 and renewed 1966 by Donnan and Garth Jeffers, copyright © Jeffers Literary Properties. All rights reserved. Used with the permission of Stanford University Press, www.sup.org.
Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry,” “Keeping Things Whole,” and “Reading in Place” used with permission of the author.
Charles Bernstein, “Of Time and the Line,” © 1991 Charles Bernstein, reprinted from Rough Trades (Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1991) with the permission of the author.
Carolyn Kizer, “The Ashes” and “Bitch” reprinted with permission of Texas Review Press.
Sharon Olds, “The Space Heater” first appeared in The New Yorker. Used by permission of the author.
David Budbill, “Dilemma,” and “The Three Goals” from MOMENT TO MOMENT: POEMS OF A MOUNTAIN RECLUSE. Copyright © 1999 by David Budbill. Reprinted with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, PO Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271 and the author.
Hayden Carruth, “Little Citizen, Little Survivor” from SCRAMBLED EGGS & WHISKEY: POEMS 1991-1995. Copyright © 1996 by Hayden Carruth. Reprinted with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, PO Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271.
Mark Irwin, “Woolworth’s” from QUICK, NOW, ALWAYS. Copyright © 1996 by Mark Irwin. Reprinted with the permission of BOA Editions, Ltd.
Wen I-to, “Dead Water,” translated by Arthur Sze, from THE SILK DRAGON: TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE. Copyright © 2001 by Arthur Sze. Reprinted with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, PO Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271.
Richard Jones, “Certain People,” “Leaving Town after the Funeral,” “The Bell,” and “Wan Chu’s Wife in Bed” from THE BLESSING: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. Copyright © 2000 by Richard Jones. Reprinted with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, PO Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271.
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetary” from SONG. Copyright © 1995 by Brigit Pegeen Kelly. Reprinted with the permission of BOA Editions, Ltd.
Li-Young Lee, “Eating Together” and “Persimmons” from ROSE. Copyright © 1986 by Li-Young Lee. Reprinted with the permission of BOA Editions, Ltd., www.BOAEditions.org
Kaylin Haught, “God Says Yes to Me” from THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, used with permission of the author and Tilbury House Publishers.
Miller Williams, “Listen” from SOME JAZZ A WHILE: COLLECTED POEMS. Copyright 1999 by Miller Williams. Used with Permission of the poet and the University of Illinois Press.
Reprinted with Permission of the University of Arkansas Press. Copyright 1988 by Billy Collins.
Robert Creeley, “I Know a Man” from COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT CREELEY, 1945-1975. Copyright © 1983 by The Regents of the University of California. Used by permission of the Regents of the University of California.
“Conversation” is reprinted from THE SELECTED POETRYOF DAN PAGIS, translated and edited by Stephen Mitchell, copyright © 1996 by The Regents of the University of California. Permission granted by the Regents of the University of California and the University of California Press.
Gail Mazur, “In Houston” from THE COMMON, University of Chicago Press. Used with permission of the author.
Howard Nemerov, “Money” from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF HOWARD NEMEROV, University of Chicago Press. Used by permission of Margaret Nemerov.
Tanikawa Shuntaro, extract from “My Father’s Death,” “A Rudimentary Explanation of an Ideal Poem,” “The Naif” from THE NAIF, University of Hawaii Press. Used with permission of the author and the translator.
Michael Pettit, “Driving Lesson” from CARDINAL POINTS, University of Iowa Press. Used with permission of the author.
Mark Halliday, “Get It Again” in LITTLE STAR (William Morrow, 1987), and “Population” in TASKER STREET (U. of Massachusetts Press, 1992). Used with permission of the author.
Archilochos, “Will, Lost in a Sea of Trouble” from POEMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY (copyright © 1962), used with permission of the University of Michigan Press.
“Everything the Power of the World Does is Done in a Circle” reprinted from Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 1932, 1959, 1972 by John G. Neihardt. © by the John G. Neihardt Trust. © 2000 by the University of Nebraska Press.
“Documentary” is from WOMAN OF THE RIVER, by Claribel Alegria
, © 1989 by Claribel Alegria. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“Budapest” and “Nightclub” from THE ART OF DROWNING, by Billy Collins, © 1995. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“Forgetfulness,” “Not Touching,” “Purity,” and “Questions about Angels” are from QUESTIONS ABOUT ANGELS, by Billy Collins, © 1991. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press and the author.
“Passengers” from PICNIC, LIGHTNING, by Billy Collins, © 1998. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“Living in the La Brea Tar Pits” is from THE FACE IN THE WATER, by Nancy Vieira Couto, © 1990 by Vieira Couto. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“Style” is from THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS FROM THE STONE, by Mark Cox. © 1998. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“The House that Fear Built: Warsaw, 1943” is from TIMEPIECE, by Jane Falnders, © 1988. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“What I Learned from My Mother” is from SLEEPING PREACHER, by Julia Kasdorf, © 1992. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“The Warden Said to Me the Other Day” and “The Idea of Ancestry” are from THE ESSENTIAL ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, by Etheridge Knight, © 1986. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“At the Office Early” and “Selecting a Reader” are from SURE SIGNS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, by Ted Kooser, © 1980. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“The Poem You Asked For” is from THE SELECTED LEVIS: SELECTED AND WITH AN AFTERWORD BY DAVID ST. JOHN., by Larry Levis, © 2000. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“Quake Theory” and “Satan Says” are from SATAN SAYS, by Sharon Olds, © 1980 by Sharon Olds. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“The Bus to Veracruz” and “The Stones” are from SELECTED POEMS, 1969-1981, by Richard Shelton, © 1982. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“Thirteen” is from PEOPLE AND DOG IN THE SUN by Ronald Wallace, © 1987. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press and the author.