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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
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    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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