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Trade Review
"A pretty dandy candy jar. The range of poets is wide, the tone is unpretentious, and the poems are all . . . good." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"These are poems to live in comfort with all one's life." (Booklist)

"[Keillor is] Will Rogers with grammar lessons, Aesop with no ax to grind, the common man's MoliFre." (The Houston Chronicle)

Table of Contents
Good Poems

Introduction

1. O Lord
Poem in Thanks—Thomas Lux
How Many Nights—Galway Kinnel
Welcome Morning—Anne Sexton
Psalm 23—from The Bay Psalm Book
At Least—Raymond Carver
Address to the Lord—John Berryman
O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie—Philip Appleman
Psalm—Reed Whittemore
Psalm 121—Michael Wigglesworth
When one has lived a long time alone—Galway Kinnell
Home on the Range—Anonymous
What I Want Is—C. G. Hanzlicek

2. A Day
Summer Morning—Charles Simic
Otherwise—Jane Kenyon
Poem About Morning—William Meredith
Living—Denise Levertov
Another Spring—Kenneth Rexroth
Morning Person—Vassar Miller
Routine—Arthur Guiterman
The Life of a Day—Tom Hennen
For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old—Robert Bly
I've known a Heaven, like a Tent—Emily Dickinson
Letter to N.Y.—Elizabeth Bishop
Dilemna—David Budbill
from Song of Myself—Walt Whitman
New Yorkers—Edward Field
Soaking Up Sun—Tom Hennen
Late Hours—Lisel Mueller

3. Music
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey—Hayden Carruth
Mehitabel's Song—Don Marquis
Nightclub—Billy Collins
Alley Violinist—Robert Lax
Cradle Song—Jim Schley
Her Door—Mary Leader
The Pupil—Donald Justice
Piano—D. H. Lawrence
Insrument of Choice—Robert Phillips
Homage: Doo-Wop—Joseph Stroud
The Persistence of Song—Howard Moss
Ooly Pop a Cow—David Huddle
Elevator Music—Henry Taylor
The Grain of Sound—Robert Morgan
I Will Make You Brooches—Robert Louis Stevenson
The Dance—C. K. Williams
The Investment—Robert Frost
The Dumka—B. H. Fairchild
The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band—Lawrence Ferlinghetti

4. Scenes
Poem to Be Read at 3 A.M.—Donald Justice
The Swimming Pool—Thomas Lux
Dostoevsky—Charles Bukowski
After a Movie—Henry Taylor
Summer Storm—Dana Gioia
Woolworth's—Mark Irwin
Worked Late on a Tuesday Night—Deborah Garrison
The Farmhouse—Reed Whittemore
wrist-wrestling father—Orval Lund
Yorkshiremen in Pub Gardens—Gavin Ewart
Noah—Roy Daniells

5. Lovers
A Red, Red Rose—Robert Burns
When I Heard at the Close of Day—Walt Whitman
First Love—John Clare
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven—W. B. Yeats
Sonnet—C. B. Trail
Politics—W. B. Yeats
Magellan Street, 1974—Maxine Kumin
Animals—Frank O'Hara
Lending Out Books—Hal Sirowitz
The Changed Man—Robert Phillips
The Constant North—J. F. Hendry
On the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love—Jennifer Michael Hecht
The Loft—Richard Jones
This Is Just to Say—William Carlos Williams
This Is Just to Say—Erica-Lynn Gambino
Venetian Air—Thomas Moore
Summer Morning—Louis Simpson
Comin thro' the Rye—Robert Burns
Topograhy—Sharon Olds
Saturday Morning—Hugo Williams
Flight—Louis Jenkins
At Twenty-Three Weeks She Can No Longer See Anything South of Her Belly—Thom Ward
For the Life of Him and Her—Reed Whittemore
Romantics—Lisel Mueller
Down in the Valley—Anonymous
The Middle Years—Walter McDonald
Winter Winds Cold and Blea...—John Clare
since feeling is first—e. e. cummings
Vergissmeinnicht—Keith Douglas
Sonnet XLIII What lips my lips have kissed—Edna St. Vincent Millay
After the Argument—Stephen Dunn
The Orange—Wendy Cope
Susquehanna—Liz Rosenberg
Farm Wife—R. S. Thomas
After Forty Years of Marriage, She Tries a New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish—Leo Dangel
Those Who Love—Sara Teasdale
Quietly—Kenneth Rexroth
For C.W.B.—Elizabeth Bishop
Shorelines—Howard Moss
Prayer for a Marriage—Steve Scafidi
The Master Speed—Robert Frost
Bonnard's Nudes—Raymond Carver

6. Day's Work
Happiness—Raymond Carver
Hoeing—John Updike
Some Details of Hebridean House Construction—Thomas A. Clark
Relations—Philip Booth
What I Learned from My Mother—Julia Kasdorf
To be of use—Marge Piercy
No Tool or Rope or Pail—Bob Arnold
Ox Cart Man—Donald Hall
Girl on a Tractor—Joyce Sutphen
Soybeans—Thomas Alan Orr
Landing Pattern—Philip Appleman
Mae West—Edward Field
Hay for the Horses—Gary Snyder

7. Sons and Daughters
Masterworks of Ming—Kay Ryan
Bess—Linda Pastan
A Little Tooth—Thomas Lux
Sonnet XXXVII—William Shakespeare
Egg—C. G. Hanzlicek
Rolls-Royce Dreams—Ginger Andrews
My Life Before I Knew It—Lawrence Raab
After Work—Richard Jones
I Stop Writing the Poem—Tess Gallagher
Franklin Hyde—Hilaire Belloc
Manners—Elizabeth Bishop
September, the First Day of School—Howard Nemerov
First Lesson—Philip Booth
Childhood—Barbara Ras
Waving Good-Bye—Gerald Stern
Family Reunion—Maxine Kumin

8. Language
A Primer of the Daily Round—Howard Nemerov
The Possessive Case—Lisel Mueller
The Icelandic Language—Bill Holm
The Fantastic Names of Jazz—Hayden Carruth
Ode to the Medieval Poets—W. H. Auden
Sweater Weather—Sharon Bryan

9. A Good Life
We grow accustomed to the Dark—Emily Dickinson
A Ritual to Read to Each Other—William Stafford
Courage—Anne Sexton
Sometimes—Sheenagh Pugh
Leisure—W. H. Davies
the way it is now—Charles Bukowski
A Secret Life—Stephen Dunn
Lost—David Wagoner
Sonnet XXV—William Shakespeare
The Eel in the Cave—Robert Bly
Wild Geese—Mary Oliver
From the Manifesto of the Selfish—Stephen Dunn
Hope—Lisel Mueller
The Three Goals—David Budbill
Vermeer—Howard Nemerov
Repression—C. K. Williams
Weather—Linda Pastan
Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony—John Tagliabue
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—Emily Dickinson
The Props assist the House...—Emily Dickinson

10. Beasts
Little Citizen, Little Survivor—Hayden Carruth
Her First Calf—Wendell Berry
Bats—Randall Jarrell
Riding Lesson—Henry Taylor
Walking the Dog—Howard Nemerov
The Excrement Poem—Maxine Kumin
Stanza IV from Coming of Age—Ursula Leguin
Destruction—Joanne Kyger
How to See Deer—Philip Booth
Dog's Death—John Updike
Names of Horses—Donald Hall
Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore—May Swenson

11. Failure
Success is counted sweetest...—Emily Dickinson
Solitude—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The first time I remember—Wendell Berry
Our Lady of the Snows—Robert Hass
The British Museum Reading Room—Louis MacNeice
The Bare Arms of Trees—John Tagliabue
The Sailor—Geof Hewitt
A Place for Everything—Louis Jenkins
The Feast—Robert Hass
Nobody Knows You—Jimmie Cox
the last song—Charles Bukowski

12. Complaint
The Forsaken Wife—Elizabeth Thomas
Confession—Stephen Dobyns
Living in the Body—Joyce Sutphen
Tired As I Can Be—Bessie Jackson
The Iceberg Theory—Gerald Locklin
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front—Wendell Berry
A Bookmark—Tom Disch
poetry readings—Charles Bukowski
Publication—is the Auction...—Emily Dickinson

13. Trips
Once in the 40s—William Stafford
lines from Moby Dick—Herman Melville
Rain Travel—W. S. Merwin
where we are—Gerald Locklin
Excelsior—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road—Robert Frost
A Walk Along the Old Tracks—Robert Kinsley
Passengers—Billy Collins
The Walloping Window-Blind—Charles Edward Carryl
The Vacation—Wendell Berry
Directions—Joseph Stroud
Postscript—Seamus Heaney
Night Journey—Theodore Roethke
Waiting—Raymond Carver

14. Snow
New Hampshire—Howard Moss
To fight aloud...—Emily Dickinson
December Moon—May Sarton
Year's End— Richard Wilbur
The Snow Man—Wallace Stevens
January—Baron Wormser
in celebration of surviving—Chuck Miller
Her Long Illness—Donal Hall
Requiescat—Oscar Wilde
The Sixth of January—David Budbill
Not Only the Eskimos—Lisel Mueller
Boy at the Window—Richard Wilbur
Winter Poem
—Frederick Morgan
Lester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow—Paul Zimmer
Old Boards—Robert Bly
March Blizzard—John Tagliabue

15. Yellow
Elvis Kissed Me—T. S. Kerrigan
Stepping Out of Poetry—Gerald Stern
I shall keep singing!—Emily Dickinson
Song to Onions—Roy Blount, Jr.
O Luxury—Guy W. Longchamps
Coming—Kenneth Rexroth
A Light Left On—May Sarton
The Yellow Slicker—Stuart Dischell
First Kiss—April Lindner
The Music One Looks Back On—Stephen Dobyns

16. Lives
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day—X. J. Kennedy
Who's Who—W. H. Auden
The Portrait—Stanley Kunitz
Parable of the Four-Poster—Erica Jong
Ed—Louis Simpson
Memory—Hayden Carruth
Lazy—David Lee
Testimonial—Harry Newman, Jr.
Cathedral Builders—John Ormond
The Village Burglar—Anonymous
The Scandal—Robert Bly
At Last the Secret Is Out—W. H. Auden
Night Light—Kate Barnes
Sir Patrick Spens—Anonymous

17. Elders
I Go Back to May 1937—Sharon Olds
Those Winter Sundays—Robert Hayden
The Old Liberators—Robert Hedin
To My Mother—Wendell Berry
Working in the Rain—Robert Morgan
Birthday Card to My Mother—Philip Appleman
Yesterday—W. S. Merwin
No Map—Stephen Dobyns
My Mother—Robert Mezey
When My Dead Father Called—Robert Bly
August Third—May Sarton
Terminus—Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. The End
Authorship—James B(al) Naylor
Young and Old—Charles Kingsley
Shifting the Sun—Diana Der-Hovanessian
My Dad's Wallet—Raymond Carver
When I Am Asked—Lisel Mueller
Dirge Without Music—Edna St. Vicent Millay
My mother said...—Donald Hall
Departures—Linda Pastan
As Befits a Man—Langston Hughes
Sunt Leones—Stevie Smith
Perfection Wasted—John Updike
Eleanor's Letters—Donald Hall
Death and the Turtle—May Sarton
Four Poems in One—Anne Porter
Titanic—David R. Slavitt
The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna—Charles Wolfe
Kaddish—David Ignatow
Twilight: After Haying—Jane Kenyon
For the Anniversary of My Death—W. S. Merwin
from The Old Italians Dying—Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Street Ballad—George Barker
Let Evening Come—Jane Kenyon

19. The Resurrection
Forty-Five—Hayden Carruth
A Blessing—James Wright
Holy Thursday—William Blake
lines from Walden—Henry David Thoreau
The Peace of Wild Things—Wendell Berry
From Blossoms—Li-Young Lee
The First Green of Spring—David Budhill
Here—Grace Paley
The Lives of the Heart—Jane Hirshfield
Spring—Gerard Manley Hopkins
Fishing in the Keep of Silence—Linda Gregg

Biographies
Name Index
Title Index

Good Poems

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      Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
      Publication Date: 26/08/2003
      ISBN13: 9780142003442, 978-0142003442
      ISBN10: 0142003441

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "A pretty dandy candy jar. The range of poets is wide, the tone is unpretentious, and the poems are all . . . good." (San Francisco Chronicle)

      "These are poems to live in comfort with all one's life." (Booklist)

      "[Keillor is] Will Rogers with grammar lessons, Aesop with no ax to grind, the common man's MoliFre." (The Houston Chronicle)

      Table of Contents
      Good Poems

      Introduction

      1. O Lord
      Poem in Thanks—Thomas Lux
      How Many Nights—Galway Kinnel
      Welcome Morning—Anne Sexton
      Psalm 23—from The Bay Psalm Book
      At Least—Raymond Carver
      Address to the Lord—John Berryman
      O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie—Philip Appleman
      Psalm—Reed Whittemore
      Psalm 121—Michael Wigglesworth
      When one has lived a long time alone—Galway Kinnell
      Home on the Range—Anonymous
      What I Want Is—C. G. Hanzlicek

      2. A Day
      Summer Morning—Charles Simic
      Otherwise—Jane Kenyon
      Poem About Morning—William Meredith
      Living—Denise Levertov
      Another Spring—Kenneth Rexroth
      Morning Person—Vassar Miller
      Routine—Arthur Guiterman
      The Life of a Day—Tom Hennen
      For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old—Robert Bly
      I've known a Heaven, like a Tent—Emily Dickinson
      Letter to N.Y.—Elizabeth Bishop
      Dilemna—David Budbill
      from Song of Myself—Walt Whitman
      New Yorkers—Edward Field
      Soaking Up Sun—Tom Hennen
      Late Hours—Lisel Mueller

      3. Music
      Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey—Hayden Carruth
      Mehitabel's Song—Don Marquis
      Nightclub—Billy Collins
      Alley Violinist—Robert Lax
      Cradle Song—Jim Schley
      Her Door—Mary Leader
      The Pupil—Donald Justice
      Piano—D. H. Lawrence
      Insrument of Choice—Robert Phillips
      Homage: Doo-Wop—Joseph Stroud
      The Persistence of Song—Howard Moss
      Ooly Pop a Cow—David Huddle
      Elevator Music—Henry Taylor
      The Grain of Sound—Robert Morgan
      I Will Make You Brooches—Robert Louis Stevenson
      The Dance—C. K. Williams
      The Investment—Robert Frost
      The Dumka—B. H. Fairchild
      The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band—Lawrence Ferlinghetti

      4. Scenes
      Poem to Be Read at 3 A.M.—Donald Justice
      The Swimming Pool—Thomas Lux
      Dostoevsky—Charles Bukowski
      After a Movie—Henry Taylor
      Summer Storm—Dana Gioia
      Woolworth's—Mark Irwin
      Worked Late on a Tuesday Night—Deborah Garrison
      The Farmhouse—Reed Whittemore
      wrist-wrestling father—Orval Lund
      Yorkshiremen in Pub Gardens—Gavin Ewart
      Noah—Roy Daniells

      5. Lovers
      A Red, Red Rose—Robert Burns
      When I Heard at the Close of Day—Walt Whitman
      First Love—John Clare
      He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven—W. B. Yeats
      Sonnet—C. B. Trail
      Politics—W. B. Yeats
      Magellan Street, 1974—Maxine Kumin
      Animals—Frank O'Hara
      Lending Out Books—Hal Sirowitz
      The Changed Man—Robert Phillips
      The Constant North—J. F. Hendry
      On the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love—Jennifer Michael Hecht
      The Loft—Richard Jones
      This Is Just to Say—William Carlos Williams
      This Is Just to Say—Erica-Lynn Gambino
      Venetian Air—Thomas Moore
      Summer Morning—Louis Simpson
      Comin thro' the Rye—Robert Burns
      Topograhy—Sharon Olds
      Saturday Morning—Hugo Williams
      Flight—Louis Jenkins
      At Twenty-Three Weeks She Can No Longer See Anything South of Her Belly—Thom Ward
      For the Life of Him and Her—Reed Whittemore
      Romantics—Lisel Mueller
      Down in the Valley—Anonymous
      The Middle Years—Walter McDonald
      Winter Winds Cold and Blea...—John Clare
      since feeling is first—e. e. cummings
      Vergissmeinnicht—Keith Douglas
      Sonnet XLIII What lips my lips have kissed—Edna St. Vincent Millay
      After the Argument—Stephen Dunn
      The Orange—Wendy Cope
      Susquehanna—Liz Rosenberg
      Farm Wife—R. S. Thomas
      After Forty Years of Marriage, She Tries a New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish—Leo Dangel
      Those Who Love—Sara Teasdale
      Quietly—Kenneth Rexroth
      For C.W.B.—Elizabeth Bishop
      Shorelines—Howard Moss
      Prayer for a Marriage—Steve Scafidi
      The Master Speed—Robert Frost
      Bonnard's Nudes—Raymond Carver

      6. Day's Work
      Happiness—Raymond Carver
      Hoeing—John Updike
      Some Details of Hebridean House Construction—Thomas A. Clark
      Relations—Philip Booth
      What I Learned from My Mother—Julia Kasdorf
      To be of use—Marge Piercy
      No Tool or Rope or Pail—Bob Arnold
      Ox Cart Man—Donald Hall
      Girl on a Tractor—Joyce Sutphen
      Soybeans—Thomas Alan Orr
      Landing Pattern—Philip Appleman
      Mae West—Edward Field
      Hay for the Horses—Gary Snyder

      7. Sons and Daughters
      Masterworks of Ming—Kay Ryan
      Bess—Linda Pastan
      A Little Tooth—Thomas Lux
      Sonnet XXXVII—William Shakespeare
      Egg—C. G. Hanzlicek
      Rolls-Royce Dreams—Ginger Andrews
      My Life Before I Knew It—Lawrence Raab
      After Work—Richard Jones
      I Stop Writing the Poem—Tess Gallagher
      Franklin Hyde—Hilaire Belloc
      Manners—Elizabeth Bishop
      September, the First Day of School—Howard Nemerov
      First Lesson—Philip Booth
      Childhood—Barbara Ras
      Waving Good-Bye—Gerald Stern
      Family Reunion—Maxine Kumin

      8. Language
      A Primer of the Daily Round—Howard Nemerov
      The Possessive Case—Lisel Mueller
      The Icelandic Language—Bill Holm
      The Fantastic Names of Jazz—Hayden Carruth
      Ode to the Medieval Poets—W. H. Auden
      Sweater Weather—Sharon Bryan

      9. A Good Life
      We grow accustomed to the Dark—Emily Dickinson
      A Ritual to Read to Each Other—William Stafford
      Courage—Anne Sexton
      Sometimes—Sheenagh Pugh
      Leisure—W. H. Davies
      the way it is now—Charles Bukowski
      A Secret Life—Stephen Dunn
      Lost—David Wagoner
      Sonnet XXV—William Shakespeare
      The Eel in the Cave—Robert Bly
      Wild Geese—Mary Oliver
      From the Manifesto of the Selfish—Stephen Dunn
      Hope—Lisel Mueller
      The Three Goals—David Budbill
      Vermeer—Howard Nemerov
      Repression—C. K. Williams
      Weather—Linda Pastan
      Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony—John Tagliabue
      Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—Emily Dickinson
      The Props assist the House...—Emily Dickinson

      10. Beasts
      Little Citizen, Little Survivor—Hayden Carruth
      Her First Calf—Wendell Berry
      Bats—Randall Jarrell
      Riding Lesson—Henry Taylor
      Walking the Dog—Howard Nemerov
      The Excrement Poem—Maxine Kumin
      Stanza IV from Coming of Age—Ursula Leguin
      Destruction—Joanne Kyger
      How to See Deer—Philip Booth
      Dog's Death—John Updike
      Names of Horses—Donald Hall
      Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore—May Swenson

      11. Failure
      Success is counted sweetest...—Emily Dickinson
      Solitude—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
      The first time I remember—Wendell Berry
      Our Lady of the Snows—Robert Hass
      The British Museum Reading Room—Louis MacNeice
      The Bare Arms of Trees—John Tagliabue
      The Sailor—Geof Hewitt
      A Place for Everything—Louis Jenkins
      The Feast—Robert Hass
      Nobody Knows You—Jimmie Cox
      the last song—Charles Bukowski

      12. Complaint
      The Forsaken Wife—Elizabeth Thomas
      Confession—Stephen Dobyns
      Living in the Body—Joyce Sutphen
      Tired As I Can Be—Bessie Jackson
      The Iceberg Theory—Gerald Locklin
      Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front—Wendell Berry
      A Bookmark—Tom Disch
      poetry readings—Charles Bukowski
      Publication—is the Auction...—Emily Dickinson

      13. Trips
      Once in the 40s—William Stafford
      lines from Moby Dick—Herman Melville
      Rain Travel—W. S. Merwin
      where we are—Gerald Locklin
      Excelsior—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
      On a Tree Fallen Across the Road—Robert Frost
      A Walk Along the Old Tracks—Robert Kinsley
      Passengers—Billy Collins
      The Walloping Window-Blind—Charles Edward Carryl
      The Vacation—Wendell Berry
      Directions—Joseph Stroud
      Postscript—Seamus Heaney
      Night Journey—Theodore Roethke
      Waiting—Raymond Carver

      14. Snow
      New Hampshire—Howard Moss
      To fight aloud...—Emily Dickinson
      December Moon—May Sarton
      Year's End— Richard Wilbur
      The Snow Man—Wallace Stevens
      January—Baron Wormser
      in celebration of surviving—Chuck Miller
      Her Long Illness—Donal Hall
      Requiescat—Oscar Wilde
      The Sixth of January—David Budbill
      Not Only the Eskimos—Lisel Mueller
      Boy at the Window—Richard Wilbur
      Winter Poem
      —Frederick Morgan
      Lester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow—Paul Zimmer
      Old Boards—Robert Bly
      March Blizzard—John Tagliabue

      15. Yellow
      Elvis Kissed Me—T. S. Kerrigan
      Stepping Out of Poetry—Gerald Stern
      I shall keep singing!—Emily Dickinson
      Song to Onions—Roy Blount, Jr.
      O Luxury—Guy W. Longchamps
      Coming—Kenneth Rexroth
      A Light Left On—May Sarton
      The Yellow Slicker—Stuart Dischell
      First Kiss—April Lindner
      The Music One Looks Back On—Stephen Dobyns

      16. Lives
      In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day—X. J. Kennedy
      Who's Who—W. H. Auden
      The Portrait—Stanley Kunitz
      Parable of the Four-Poster—Erica Jong
      Ed—Louis Simpson
      Memory—Hayden Carruth
      Lazy—David Lee
      Testimonial—Harry Newman, Jr.
      Cathedral Builders—John Ormond
      The Village Burglar—Anonymous
      The Scandal—Robert Bly
      At Last the Secret Is Out—W. H. Auden
      Night Light—Kate Barnes
      Sir Patrick Spens—Anonymous

      17. Elders
      I Go Back to May 1937—Sharon Olds
      Those Winter Sundays—Robert Hayden
      The Old Liberators—Robert Hedin
      To My Mother—Wendell Berry
      Working in the Rain—Robert Morgan
      Birthday Card to My Mother—Philip Appleman
      Yesterday—W. S. Merwin
      No Map—Stephen Dobyns
      My Mother—Robert Mezey
      When My Dead Father Called—Robert Bly
      August Third—May Sarton
      Terminus—Ralph Waldo Emerson

      18. The End
      Authorship—James B(al) Naylor
      Young and Old—Charles Kingsley
      Shifting the Sun—Diana Der-Hovanessian
      My Dad's Wallet—Raymond Carver
      When I Am Asked—Lisel Mueller
      Dirge Without Music—Edna St. Vicent Millay
      My mother said...—Donald Hall
      Departures—Linda Pastan
      As Befits a Man—Langston Hughes
      Sunt Leones—Stevie Smith
      Perfection Wasted—John Updike
      Eleanor's Letters—Donald Hall
      Death and the Turtle—May Sarton
      Four Poems in One—Anne Porter
      Titanic—David R. Slavitt
      The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna—Charles Wolfe
      Kaddish—David Ignatow
      Twilight: After Haying—Jane Kenyon
      For the Anniversary of My Death—W. S. Merwin
      from The Old Italians Dying—Lawrence Ferlinghetti
      Street Ballad—George Barker
      Let Evening Come—Jane Kenyon

      19. The Resurrection
      Forty-Five—Hayden Carruth
      A Blessing—James Wright
      Holy Thursday—William Blake
      lines from Walden—Henry David Thoreau
      The Peace of Wild Things—Wendell Berry
      From Blossoms—Li-Young Lee
      The First Green of Spring—David Budhill
      Here—Grace Paley
      The Lives of the Heart—Jane Hirshfield
      Spring—Gerard Manley Hopkins
      Fishing in the Keep of Silence—Linda Gregg

      Biographies
      Name Index
      Title Index

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