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Title
Poet's choice / Edward Hirsch.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
015101356X
9780151013562
9780151013562
Imprint
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2006.
Description
xv, 432 p. ; 24 cm.
Exhibited
2006 Poets House Showcase.
Call Number
PN1111 .H57 2006
Summary
A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry responds to world challenges and introduces the work of more than 130 writers.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Nightingales / Jorge Luis Borges
God's grandeur ; Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Caemon's hymn
Caedmon / Denise Levertov
Olympian odes: Pindar ; Bacchylides
The Greek anthology
Sappho (fragment 31)
The poet as maker / F.T. Prince
The Ars poetica / Blaga Dimitrova
The bardic order / Eavan Boland
Aztec poets: Nezahualcoyotl, Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin
Riddles / Daniel Hoffman, Ella Bat-Tzion, Eytan Eytan
Charms / Thomas Campion, Kathy Fagan
Lines: 'I am' / John Clare
Christmas poems / Thomas Hardy, Robert Fitzgerald
Rooms ; The call / Charlotte Mew
Cuchulain comforted / W.B. Yeats
Rabindranath Tagore, final poems
Night of terror ; The bosses of Rome / Giuseppe Belli
In memory of / Giuseppe Ungaretti
Sit the noon out ... ; The eel / Eugenio Montale
The panther ; The gazelle / Rainer Maria Rilke
Self-portraits: Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Bidart
The saying / Ernst Stadler
Butterfly / Nelly Sachs
Women and war: After every war
The beggar woman of Naples ; The yellow star again / Max Jacob
Insomnia / Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva
Opened my veins ... / Marina Tsvetaeva
Incantation by laughter ; Russia, I give you ... / Velimir Khlebnikov
May 24, 1980 / Joseph Brodsky
Gift / Czeslaw Milosz
A flame ; Fire ; A quick poem / Adam Zagajewski
Nothing is lost / Tomaz Salamun
A wake for the living / Radmila Lazic
Shema / Primo Levi
Blessed are they who sow and do not reap ... / Avraham Ben Yitzhak
Merciful God / Kadya Molodowsky
Letter of recommendation ; My father's Memorial Day / Yehuda Amichai
J'Accuse / Aharon Shabtai
Abd El-Hadi fights a superpower / Taha Muhammad Ali.
Here there was once a country / Venus Khoury-Ghata
Thomas Lux, Saadi Youssef / Protest poetry
Sad toys / Ishikawa Takuboku
Garden fragrance ; Night harvest ; Summer / Lam Thi My Da, Zuan Quynh
My heart can't go on any longer / Miguel Hernandez
The black heralds ; Mass / Cesar Vallejo
Suffering / Rudolph Muller, Cesar Vallejo
Self-naming / Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cesar Vallejo
Body of a woman / Pablo Neruda
Roller coaster ; I take back everything I've said / Nicanor Parra
To Eros ; To my lady of poetry / Alfonsina The enigmas / Jorge Luis Borges
Between going and staying / Octavio Paz
Seawall / Julia de Burgos
Contemporary Mexican poets (Reversible monuments)
Sleep and poetry / Mary Ruefle, Maria Negroni
Praise of a collie / Norman MacCaig
The disguises / P.K. Page
Spell of creation / Kathleeen Raine
Waste land limericks / Wendy Cope
Still life / Thom Gunn
To E.T. ; The owl / Robert Frost ; Edward Thomas
Arabic / Agha Shahid Ali
It's me, I'm not home ; Lullaby / Reetika Vazirani
Reading / C.K. Williams, Wallace Stevens
Birth poems / John Berryman, Lee Upton
The poet as mother / Kate Daniels, Kathleen Ossip
The runner / Allen Grossman
The portrait / Stanley Kunitz
Childhood / Robert Hayden
The flag of childhood / Naomi Nye
Grandparents: Lorine Niedecker, Li-Young Lee
Ichabod! / John Greenleaf Whittier
Baseball / Richard Hugo
The American prose poem / Russell Edson
The banner bearer / William Carlos Williams
The taxi / Amy Lowell
Psalm / George Oppen
Yom Kippur: Jacqueline Osherow
Psalms / Brooks Haxton.
God's grandeur ; Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Caemon's hymn
Caedmon / Denise Levertov
Olympian odes: Pindar ; Bacchylides
The Greek anthology
Sappho (fragment 31)
The poet as maker / F.T. Prince
The Ars poetica / Blaga Dimitrova
The bardic order / Eavan Boland
Aztec poets: Nezahualcoyotl, Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin
Riddles / Daniel Hoffman, Ella Bat-Tzion, Eytan Eytan
Charms / Thomas Campion, Kathy Fagan
Lines: 'I am' / John Clare
Christmas poems / Thomas Hardy, Robert Fitzgerald
Rooms ; The call / Charlotte Mew
Cuchulain comforted / W.B. Yeats
Rabindranath Tagore, final poems
Night of terror ; The bosses of Rome / Giuseppe Belli
In memory of / Giuseppe Ungaretti
Sit the noon out ... ; The eel / Eugenio Montale
The panther ; The gazelle / Rainer Maria Rilke
Self-portraits: Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Bidart
The saying / Ernst Stadler
Butterfly / Nelly Sachs
Women and war: After every war
The beggar woman of Naples ; The yellow star again / Max Jacob
Insomnia / Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva
Opened my veins ... / Marina Tsvetaeva
Incantation by laughter ; Russia, I give you ... / Velimir Khlebnikov
May 24, 1980 / Joseph Brodsky
Gift / Czeslaw Milosz
A flame ; Fire ; A quick poem / Adam Zagajewski
Nothing is lost / Tomaz Salamun
A wake for the living / Radmila Lazic
Shema / Primo Levi
Blessed are they who sow and do not reap ... / Avraham Ben Yitzhak
Merciful God / Kadya Molodowsky
Letter of recommendation ; My father's Memorial Day / Yehuda Amichai
J'Accuse / Aharon Shabtai
Abd El-Hadi fights a superpower / Taha Muhammad Ali.
Here there was once a country / Venus Khoury-Ghata
Thomas Lux, Saadi Youssef / Protest poetry
Sad toys / Ishikawa Takuboku
Garden fragrance ; Night harvest ; Summer / Lam Thi My Da, Zuan Quynh
My heart can't go on any longer / Miguel Hernandez
The black heralds ; Mass / Cesar Vallejo
Suffering / Rudolph Muller, Cesar Vallejo
Self-naming / Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cesar Vallejo
Body of a woman / Pablo Neruda
Roller coaster ; I take back everything I've said / Nicanor Parra
To Eros ; To my lady of poetry / Alfonsina The enigmas / Jorge Luis Borges
Between going and staying / Octavio Paz
Seawall / Julia de Burgos
Contemporary Mexican poets (Reversible monuments)
Sleep and poetry / Mary Ruefle, Maria Negroni
Praise of a collie / Norman MacCaig
The disguises / P.K. Page
Spell of creation / Kathleeen Raine
Waste land limericks / Wendy Cope
Still life / Thom Gunn
To E.T. ; The owl / Robert Frost ; Edward Thomas
Arabic / Agha Shahid Ali
It's me, I'm not home ; Lullaby / Reetika Vazirani
Reading / C.K. Williams, Wallace Stevens
Birth poems / John Berryman, Lee Upton
The poet as mother / Kate Daniels, Kathleen Ossip
The runner / Allen Grossman
The portrait / Stanley Kunitz
Childhood / Robert Hayden
The flag of childhood / Naomi Nye
Grandparents: Lorine Niedecker, Li-Young Lee
Ichabod! / John Greenleaf Whittier
Baseball / Richard Hugo
The American prose poem / Russell Edson
The banner bearer / William Carlos Williams
The taxi / Amy Lowell
Psalm / George Oppen
Yom Kippur: Jacqueline Osherow
Psalms / Brooks Haxton.
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