Good poems for hard times
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From the Book
1. Kindness to snails -- Break of day / Galway Kinnell -- Happiness / Raymond Carver -- This morning / Jane Kenyon -- The monks of St. John's file in the prayer / Kilian McDonnell -- Job / William Baer -- Or death and December / George Garrett -- Sonnet : "Rarely, rarely comest thou, spirit of delight" / Gavin Ewart -- the little horse is newlY / E.E. Cummings -- A poem for Emily / Miller Williams -- For a five-year-old / Fleur Adcock -- For my daughter in reply to a question / David Ignatow -- The goose / Muriel Spark -- Starting the Subaru at five below / Stuart Kestenbaum -- Day bath / Debra Spencer --
2. Such as it is more or less -- A dialogue of watching / Kenneth Rexroth -- A birthday / W.S. Merwin -- Thoughts in a garden / Andrew Marvell -- Spring / Mary Oliver -- Unharvested / Robert Frost -- The state of the economy / Louis Jenkins -- At the arraignment / Debra Spencer -- From "Song of myself" / Walt Whitman -- Ice storm / Jane Kenyon -- Passengers / Billy Collins -- The summer-camp bus pulls away from the curb / Sharon Olds -- you can take it with you / Josephine Jacobsen -- To David, about his education / Howard Nemerov -- Invitation / Carl Dennis -- Calling him back from layoff / Bob Hicok -- Working in the rain / Robert Morgan -- My father's lunch / Erica Funkhouser --
3. This lust of tenderness -- The happiest day / Linda Pastan -- 'After dark vapours have oppressed our plains' / John Keats -- Children's hospital, emergency room / Gregory Djanikian -- The lonely-weds know / Leah Furnas -- In answer to your query / Naomi Lazard -- Toast / Leonard Nathan -- Detail waiting for a train / Stanley Plumly -- September twelfth, 2001 / X.J. Kennedy -- The alter / Charles Simic -- Sonnet no. 6 : dearest, I never knew such loving / Hayden Carruth -- There comes the strangest moment / Kate Light -- Snowflake / William Baer -- Somewhere I'll find you / Phebe Hanson -- Feasting / Elizabeth W. Garber -- Song / W.H. Auden -- Yes / Catherine Doty -- The dalliance of the eagles / Walt Whitman -- After love / Maxine Kumin -- Sonnet CVI : when in the chronicle of wasted time / William Shakespeare --
4. Deliberate obfuscation -- A spiral notebook / Ted Kooser -- What's in my journal / William Stafford -- Why I take good care of my Macintosh / Gary Snyder -- Ode to my 1977 Toyota / Barbara Hamby -- Internal exile / Richard Cecil -- Burma-shave / Traditional -- Carnation milk / Anonymous -- A brief lecture on door closers / Clements Starck -- Sonnet Xll : why are we by all creatures waited on? / John Donne -- Angels / Maurya Simon -- Passing through a small town / David Shumate -- In Paris with you / James Fenton -- Wedding poem for Schele and Phi / Bill Holm --
5. The sound of a car -- Seven deadly sins / Virginia Hamilton Adair -- Teaching a child the art of confession / David Shumate -- A physics / Heather McHugh -- Things / Lisel Mueller -- Any prince to any princess / Adrian Henri -- The courage that my mother had / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Please Mrs Butler / Allan Ahlberg -- To a frustrated poet / R.J. Ellmann -- the lesson of the moth / Don Marquis -- Disappointment / Tony Hoagland -- The cure / Ginger Andrews -- Upon hearing about the suicide of the daughter of friends / Jo McDougall --
6. Here it comes -- the con job / Charles Bukowski -- Farewell to A' our Scottish fame / Robert Burns -- Easter morning / Jim Harrison -- A million young workmen, 1915 / Carl Sandburg -- The college colonel / Herman Melville -- Ordinary life / Barbara Crooker -- To fight aloud, is very brave / Emily Dickinson -- Analysis of baseball / May Swenson -- Ode to American English / Barbara Hamby -- High water mark / David Shumate -- After school on ordinary days / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Snow in the suburbs / Thomas Hardy -- Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion -- Happiness / Michael Van Walleghen -- From Tender buttons / Gertrude Stein -- Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic -- Theater / William Greenway -- Ode on the whole duty of parents / Frances Cornford --
7. Whatever happens -- The benefits of ignorance / Hal Sirowitz -- Bunthorne's song / W.S. Gilbert -- The rules of evidence / Lee Robinson -- Courtesy / Hilaire Belloc -- What the uneducated old woman told me / Christopher Reid -- Proverbs of hell / William Blake -- To a daughter leaving home / Linda Pastan -- No longer a teenager / Gerald Locklin -- Prayer / Galway Kinnell -- Minnesota Thanksgiving / John Berryman -- Berryman / W.S. Merwin -- Mother, in love at sixty / Susanna Styve -- My agent says / R.S. Gwynn -- Afraid so / Jeanne Marie Beaumont -- The yak / Hilaire Belloc -- High plains farming / William Notter -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- The future / Wesley McNair -- Riveted / Robyn Sarah -- All that time / May Swenson -- My husband discovers poetry / Diane Lockward -- The poet's occasional alternative / Grace Paley -- The unsaid / Stephen Dunn -- Snapshot of a lump / Kelli Russell Agodon -- Hymn to God, my God, in my sickness / John Donne -- Last days / Donald Hall --
8. Let it spill -- Thelonious Monk / Stephen Dobyns -- The discovery of sex / Debra Spencer -- The lawyer / Carl Sandburg -- Prodigal son's brother / Steve Kowit -- Calling your father / Robert Bly -- Al and Beth / Louis Simpson -- The meeting / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Nothing is lost / Noël Coward -- The planet on the table / Wallace Stevens -- It is raining on the house of Ann Frank / Linda Pastan -- The sunlight on the garden / Louis MacNeice -- too sweet / Charles Bukowski -- For my sister, emigrating / Wendy Cope -- The three Kings / Muriel Spark -- Not only the Eskimos / Lisel Mueller -- Where go the boats / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The parade / Billy Collins -- My cup / Robert Friend -- Affirmation / Donald Hall -- A singing voice / Kenneth Rexroth -- Since you asked / Lawrence Raab -- Inviting a friend to supper / Ben Johnson -- The love cook / Ron Padgett -- Soda crackers / Raymond Carver -- That silent evening / Galway Kinnell -- This is how memory works / Patricia Hampl -- "The purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once" / X.J. Kennedy --
9. I feel our kinship -- Death mask / Edward Field -- That's the sum of it / David Ignatow -- Suck it up / Paul Zimmer -- The day the tree fell down / Jack LaZebnik -- White autumn / Robert Morgan -- Naked / Jennifer Michael Hecht -- Slow children at play / Cecilia Woloch -- Driving to town late to mail a letter / Robert Bly -- [My brother's in Wyoming...] / Gary Young -- My brother / Denver Butson -- Still life / Carl Sandburg -- The changing light / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- At the fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop -- A man in Maine / Philip Booth -- The war in the air / Howard Nemerov -- In the middle / Barbara Crooker -- Are you tired of me, my darling? / Traditional -- On a night of snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Closing in on the harvest / Leo Dangel -- Reconciliation / Walt Whitman -- Tie the strings to my life, my Lord / Emily Dickinson -- The last waltz / Alden Nowlan -- Rye whiskey / Traditional -- Let old Nellie stay / Traditional -- In praise of my bed / Meredith Holmes -- Poem for the family / Susan Cataldo -- In bed with a book / Mona Van Duyn -- My father gets up in the middle of the night to watch an old movie / Dennis Trudell -- A prayer in the prospect of death / Robert Burns -- Diner / Louis Jenkins -- When death comes / Mary Oliver -- At my funeral / Willis Barnstone -- The wish to be generous / Wendell Berry -- Last poem / Ted Berrigan --
10. Simpler than I could find words for
Just now / W.S. Merwin
Psalm 51
Dawn revisited / Rita Dove
Crossing the bar / Alford, Lord Tennyson
Morning swim / Maxine Kumin
Biographies
Author Index
Title Index.
From the Book
Kindness to snails: Break of day / Galway Kinnell
Happiness / Raymond Carver
This morning / Jane Kenyon
Monks of St. John's file in the prayer / Kilian McDonnell
Job / William Baer
Or death and December / George Garrett
Sonnet: "Rarely, rarely comest thou, spirit of delight" / Gavin Ewart
Little horse is new / E. E. Cummings
Poem for Emily / Miller Williams
For a five-year-old / Fleur Adcock
For my daughter in reply to a question / David Ignatow
Goose / Muriel Spark
Starting the Subaru at five below / Stuart Kestenbaum
Day bath / Debra Spencer
Such as it is more or less: Dialogue of watching / Kenneth Rexroth
Birthday / W. S. Merwin
Thoughts in a garden / Andrew Marvell
Spring / Mary Oliver
Unharvested / Robert Frost
State of the economy / Louis Jenkins
Arraignment / Debra Spencer
From "song of myself" / Walt Whitman
Ice storm / Jane Kenyon
Passengers / Billy Collins
Summer-camp bus pulls away from the curb / Sharon Olds
You can take it with out / Josephine Jacobsen
To David, about his education / Howard Nemerov
Invitation / Carl Dennis
Calling him back from layoff / Bob Hicok
Working in the rain / Robert Morgan
My father's lunch / Erica Funkhouser
This lust of tenderness: Happiest day / Linda Pastan
'After dark vapours have oppressed our plains' / John Keats
Children's hospital, emergency room / Gregory Djanikian
Lonely-weds know / Leah Furnas
In answer to your query / Naomi Lazard
Toast / Leonard Nathan
Detail waiting for a train / Stanley Plumly
September twelfth, 2001 / X. J. Kennedy
Alter / Charles Simic
Sonnet no. 6 dearest, I never know such loving / Hayden Carruth
There comes the strangest moment / Kate Light
Snowflake / William Baer
Somewhere I'll find you / Phebe Hanson
Feasting / Elizabeth W. Garber
Song / W. H. Auden
Yes / Catherine Doty
Dalliance of the eagles / Walt whitman
After love / Maxine Kumin
Sonnet CVI: When in the chronicle of wasted time / William Shakespeare
Deliberate Obfuscation: Spiral notebook / Ted Kooser
What's in my journal / William Stafford
Why I took good care of my Macintosh / Gary Snyder
Ode to my 1977 Toyota / Barbara Hamby
Internal exile / Richard Cecil
Burma-Shave
Carnation milk / Anonymous
Brief lecture on door closers / Clements Starck
Sonnet Xll: Why are we by all creatures waited on? / John Donne
Angels / Maurva Simon
Passing through a small town / David Shumate
In Paris with you / James Fenton
Wedding poem for Schele and Phi / Bill Holm
Sound of a car: Seven deadly sins / Virginia Hamilton Adair
Teaching a child the art of confession / David Shumate
Physics / Heather McHugh
Things / Lisel Mueller
Any prince to any princess / Adrian Henri
Courage that my mother had / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Please Mrs Butler / Allan Ahlberg
To a frustrated poet / R. J. Ellmann / Lesson of the moth / Don Marquis
Disappointment / Tony Hoagland
Cure / Ginger Andrews
Upon hearing about the suicide of the daughter of friends / Jo McDougall
Here it comes: Con job / Charles Bukowski
Farewell to A' our Scottish fame / Robert Burns
Easter morning / Jim Harrison
Million young workmen, 1915 / Carl Sandburg
College colonel / Herman Melville
Ordinary life / Barbara Crooker
Fight aloud, is very brave / Emily Dickinson
Analysis of baseball / May Swenson
Ode to American English / Barbara Hamby
High water mark / David Shumate
After school on ordinary days / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Snow in the suburbs / Thomas Hardy
Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion
Happiness / Michael Van Walleghen
From tender buttons / Gertrude Stein
Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic
Theater / William Greenway
Ode on the whole duty of parents / Frances Cornford: Benefits of ignorance / Hal Sirowitz
Bunthiorne's song / W. S. Gilbert
Rules of evidence / Lee Robinson
Courtesy / Hilaire Belloc
What the uneducated old woman told me / Christopher Reid
Proverbs of hell / William Blake
To a daughter leaving home / Linda Pastan
No longer a teenager / Gerald Locklin
Prayer / Galway Kinnell
Minnesota Thanksgiving / John Berryman
Berryman / W. S. Merwin
Mother, in love at sixty / Susanna Styve
My agent says / R. S. Gwynn
Afraid so / Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Yak / Hilaire Belloc
High plains farming / William Notter
Fish / Elizabeth Bishop
Future / Wesley McNair
Riveted / Robyn Sarah
All that time / May Swenson
My husband discovers poetry / Diane Lockeward
Poet's occasional alternative / Grace Paley
Unsaid / Stephen Dunn
Snapshot of a lump / Kelli Russell Agodon
Hymn to God, my God, in my sickness / John Donne
Last days / Donald Hall
Let it spill: Thelonious Monk / Stephen Dobyns
Discovery of sex / Debra Spencer
Lawyer / Carl Sandburg
Prodigal son's brother / Steve Kowit
Calling your father / Robert Bly
Al and Beth / Louis Simpson
Meeting / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing is lost / Noel Coward
Planet on the table / Wallace Stevens
It is raining on the house of Ann Frank / Linda Pastan
Sunlight on the garden / Louis MacNeice
Too sweet / CharlesBukowski
For my sister, emigrating / Wendy Cope
Three Kings / Muriel Spark
Not only the Eskimos / Lisel Mueller
Where go the boats / Robert Louis Stevenson
Parade / Billy Collins
My cup / Robert Friend
Affirmation / Donald Hall
Singing Voice / Kenneth Rexroth
Since you asked / Lawrence Raab
Inviting a friend to supper / Ben Johnson
Love cook / Ron Padgett
Soda crackers / Raymond Carver
That silent evening / Galway Kinnell
This is how memory works / Patricia Hampl
"Purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once" / X. J. Kennedy
I feel our kinship: Death mask / Edward Field
That's the sum of it / David Ignatow
Suck it up / Paul Zimmer
Day the tree fell down / Jack LaZebnik
White autumn / Robert Morgan
Naked / Jennifer Michael Hecht
Slow children at play / Cecilia Woloch
Driving to town late to mail a letter / Robert Bly
My brother's in Wyoming.. / Gary Young
My brother / Denver Butson
Still life / Carl Sandburg
Changing light / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop
Man in Main / Philip Booth
War in the air / Howard Nemerov
In the middle / Barbara Crooker
Are you tired of me, my darling?/ On a night of snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth
Closing in on the harvest / Leo Dangel
Reconciliation / Walt Whitman
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord / Emily Dickinson
Last waltz / Alden Nowlan
Rye Whiskey / Let old Nellie stay / In praise of my bed / Meredith Holmes
Poem for the family / Susan Cataldo
In bed with a book / Mona Van Duyn
My father gets up in the middle of the night to watch an old movie / Dennis Trudell
Prayer in the prospect of death / Robert Burns
Diner / Louis Jenkins
When death comes /Mary Oliver
My funeral / Willis Barbstone
Wish to be generous / Wendell Berry
Last poem / Ted Berrigan
Simpler than I could find words for: Just now / W.S. Merwin
Psalm 51/ Dawn revisited / Rita Dove
Crossing the bar / Alford, Lord Tennyson
Morning swim / Maxine Kumin
Biographies
Author Index
Title Index.
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