The handbook of heartbreak : 101 poems of lost love and sorrow / collected by Robert Pinsky.
1998
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Title
The handbook of heartbreak : 101 poems of lost love and sorrow / collected by Robert Pinsky.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
068816286X (acid-free paper)
9780688162863 (acid-free paper)
9780688162863 (acid-free paper)
Published
New York : Rob Weisbach Books, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Language
English
Description
xvii, 158 pages ; 20 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)39347525
Summary
Collected by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, this unique volume brings together works from poets jilted in the sixteenth century to those struggling with heartache today -- including William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and Louise Gluck. The Handbook of Heartbreak is a must for anyone who has ever loved -- and lost.
Subject
Collected by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, this unique volume brings together works from poets jilted in the sixteenth century to those struggling with heartache today -- including William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and Louise Gluck. The Handbook of Heartbreak is a must for anyone who has ever loved -- and lost.
Formatted Contents Note
Western Wind / Anonymous
Love Song / William Carlos Williams
Never Again Would Birds' Song be the Same / Robert Frost
Roses Only / Marianne Moore
Privilege of Being / Robert Hass
Who's on First? / Lloyd Schwartz
They Flee from Me / Thomas Wyatt
And if I Did What Then? / George Gascoigne
One Art / Elizabeth Bishop
Adam's Curse / William Butler Yeats
Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom / Louise Bogan
Doing This / Tony Hoagland
My Picture Left in Scotland / Ben Jonson
My Life by Somebody Else / Mark Strand
Unfortunate Coincidence / Dorothy Parker
Love Song: I and Thou / Alan Dugan
Astrophel and Stella, 31 ("With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies") / Philip Sidney
Caelica, LXIX ("When all this All doth pass from age to age") / Fulke Greville
Sonnets, 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none") / William Shakespeare
Modern Love, 17 ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host") / George Meredith
Neutral Tones / Thomas Hardy
The Apparition / John Donne
Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field") / William Blake
Song ("Why so pale and wan, fond lover?") / John Suckling
Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Sonnet XIX ("Methought I saw my late espoused saint") / John Milton
Stella's Birth-Day: March 13, 1726/7 / Jonathan Swift
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal / William Wordsworth
Death of the Day / Walter Savage Landor
This Living Hand / John Keats
249 ("Wild Nights
Wild Nights!") / Emily Dickinson
305 ("The difference between Despair") / Emily Dickinson
The Voice / Thomas Hardy
Sonnet ("Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend") / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Helen / H.D.
The Brothers / Edwin Muir
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter / John Crowe Ransom
Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom
Simple Autumnal / Louise Bogan
Not Waving but Drowning / Stevie Smith
Lines Written During a Period of Insanity / William Cowper
The Poet's Task / Pablo Neruda and Alfred Corn
A Plague of Starlings / Robert Hayden
The Dream Songs, 14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") / John Berryman
The Dream Songs, 29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart") / John Berryman
The Inland Lighthouse / James McMichael
Kitchenette Building / Gwendolyn Brooks
Skunk Hour / Robert Lowell
My Mother Would be a Falconress / Robert Duncan
Get it Again / Mark Halliday
Brilliance / Mark Doty
That Evening at Dinner / David Ferry
Measuring the Tyger / Jack Gilbert
The Day Lady Died / Frank O'Hara
Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath
Spite
Homage to Sylvia Plath / Lynn Emanuel
Body / James Merrill
The Definition of Love / Andrew Marvell
Teachers / W.S. Merwin
Memory Unsettled / Thom Gunn
Fragment / C.K. Williams
In Houston / Gail Mazur
"Out, Out -" / Robert Frost
The Yoke / Frank Bidart
The Window / Lynda Hull
Round / Robert Pinsky
Mock Orange / Louise Gluck
Personals / C.D. Wright
How I Got this Way / Patricia Traxler
Friends Who have Failed / Alan Williamson
"Boy 'Carrying-in' Bottles in Glass Works" / Michael Ryan
Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America / Adam Zagajewski, Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry [and others]
Dolor / Theodore Roethke
Insomnia / Jane Kenyon
Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa
Old Joke / Alan Shapiro
Lamentation on Ur / Tom Sleigh
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
They Feed they Lion / Philip Levine
Memphis Blues / Sterling A. Brown
Night Wash / Anne Winters
My Grandmother's Love Letters / Hart Crane
The Weary Blues / Langston Hughes
Elegy on the Death of Sidney / Edward Dyer
Ralegh's History of the World, an Epitaph for Bent / Suzanne Qualls
Song on Porcelain / Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky
Mid-Term Break / Seamus Heaney
On My First Son / Ben Jonson
Waving Good-by / Gerald Stern
Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke
Last Hired / Mark Turpin
341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes -") / Emily Dickinson
English I / David Gewanter
Body, Remember ... / Constantine Cavafy, Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
Cortege / Carl Phillips
A Litany in Time of Plague / Thomas Nashe
The Business of Fancydancing / Sherman Alexie
Tichborne's Elegy / Chidiock Tichborne
Church Monuments / George Herbert
Madame La Fleurie / Wallace Stevens
What He Thought / Heather McHugh.
Love Song / William Carlos Williams
Never Again Would Birds' Song be the Same / Robert Frost
Roses Only / Marianne Moore
Privilege of Being / Robert Hass
Who's on First? / Lloyd Schwartz
They Flee from Me / Thomas Wyatt
And if I Did What Then? / George Gascoigne
One Art / Elizabeth Bishop
Adam's Curse / William Butler Yeats
Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom / Louise Bogan
Doing This / Tony Hoagland
My Picture Left in Scotland / Ben Jonson
My Life by Somebody Else / Mark Strand
Unfortunate Coincidence / Dorothy Parker
Love Song: I and Thou / Alan Dugan
Astrophel and Stella, 31 ("With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies") / Philip Sidney
Caelica, LXIX ("When all this All doth pass from age to age") / Fulke Greville
Sonnets, 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none") / William Shakespeare
Modern Love, 17 ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host") / George Meredith
Neutral Tones / Thomas Hardy
The Apparition / John Donne
Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field") / William Blake
Song ("Why so pale and wan, fond lover?") / John Suckling
Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Sonnet XIX ("Methought I saw my late espoused saint") / John Milton
Stella's Birth-Day: March 13, 1726/7 / Jonathan Swift
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal / William Wordsworth
Death of the Day / Walter Savage Landor
This Living Hand / John Keats
249 ("Wild Nights
Wild Nights!") / Emily Dickinson
305 ("The difference between Despair") / Emily Dickinson
The Voice / Thomas Hardy
Sonnet ("Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend") / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Helen / H.D.
The Brothers / Edwin Muir
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter / John Crowe Ransom
Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom
Simple Autumnal / Louise Bogan
Not Waving but Drowning / Stevie Smith
Lines Written During a Period of Insanity / William Cowper
The Poet's Task / Pablo Neruda and Alfred Corn
A Plague of Starlings / Robert Hayden
The Dream Songs, 14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") / John Berryman
The Dream Songs, 29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart") / John Berryman
The Inland Lighthouse / James McMichael
Kitchenette Building / Gwendolyn Brooks
Skunk Hour / Robert Lowell
My Mother Would be a Falconress / Robert Duncan
Get it Again / Mark Halliday
Brilliance / Mark Doty
That Evening at Dinner / David Ferry
Measuring the Tyger / Jack Gilbert
The Day Lady Died / Frank O'Hara
Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath
Spite
Homage to Sylvia Plath / Lynn Emanuel
Body / James Merrill
The Definition of Love / Andrew Marvell
Teachers / W.S. Merwin
Memory Unsettled / Thom Gunn
Fragment / C.K. Williams
In Houston / Gail Mazur
"Out, Out -" / Robert Frost
The Yoke / Frank Bidart
The Window / Lynda Hull
Round / Robert Pinsky
Mock Orange / Louise Gluck
Personals / C.D. Wright
How I Got this Way / Patricia Traxler
Friends Who have Failed / Alan Williamson
"Boy 'Carrying-in' Bottles in Glass Works" / Michael Ryan
Watching Shoah in a Hotel Room in America / Adam Zagajewski, Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry [and others]
Dolor / Theodore Roethke
Insomnia / Jane Kenyon
Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa
Old Joke / Alan Shapiro
Lamentation on Ur / Tom Sleigh
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
They Feed they Lion / Philip Levine
Memphis Blues / Sterling A. Brown
Night Wash / Anne Winters
My Grandmother's Love Letters / Hart Crane
The Weary Blues / Langston Hughes
Elegy on the Death of Sidney / Edward Dyer
Ralegh's History of the World, an Epitaph for Bent / Suzanne Qualls
Song on Porcelain / Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky
Mid-Term Break / Seamus Heaney
On My First Son / Ben Jonson
Waving Good-by / Gerald Stern
Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke
Last Hired / Mark Turpin
341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes -") / Emily Dickinson
English I / David Gewanter
Body, Remember ... / Constantine Cavafy, Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
Cortege / Carl Phillips
A Litany in Time of Plague / Thomas Nashe
The Business of Fancydancing / Sherman Alexie
Tichborne's Elegy / Chidiock Tichborne
Church Monuments / George Herbert
Madame La Fleurie / Wallace Stevens
What He Thought / Heather McHugh.
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