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xviii, 198 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
I.How lovely the ruins -- Try to praise the mutilated world / Adam Zagajewski (translated by Clare Cavanagh) -- There are birds here / Jamaal May -- The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (excerpt) / Omar Khayyam -- Poem / Muriel Rukeyser -- Haiku / Clark Strand -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- The place where we are right / Yehuda Amichai (translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell) -- All you who sleep tonight / Vikram Seth -- The guest house / Rumi (translated by Colman Barks) -- The sentence (excerpt) / Anna Akhmatova (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer) -- A green crab's shell / Mark Doty -- Dover beach / Matthew Arnold -- Out beyond ideas / Rumi (translated by Colman Barks) -- Haiku / Masahide -- What kind of times are these / Adrienne Rich -- Musee des beaux arts / W.H. Auden -- Sci-fi / Tracy K. Smith -- II.Against Tyranny -- Quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt -- Nineteen hundred and nineteen (excerpt) / W.B. Yeats -- I hear America signing / Walt Whitman -- Difference of opinion / Wendy Cope -- Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman -- Quotation from Robert F. Kennedy -- Protest / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Excerpt from parable of the talents by Octavia E. Butler -- What it look like / Terrance Hayes -- Election / John Holmes -- Quotation from Vaclav Havel -- Viewers may think that they can process it all / Stephanie Gray -- Experience / Carl Sandburg -- Global warming / Jane Hirshfield -- September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden -- Evil / Langston Hughes -- American Pharoah / Ada Limon -- Quotation from Clares Simic -- To a friend whose work has come to nothing (excerpt) / W.B. Yeats -- Toward nightfall (excerpt) / Charles Simic -- Quotation from Karen Armstrong -- I work all day ... / Pier Paolo Pasolini (translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Francesca Valente) -- Preparation / Effie Walker Smith -- III.The Aching -- Excerpt from the fault in our stars by John Green -- America / Claude McKay -- Remember / Christina Rossetti -- Good bones / Maggie Smith -- Dirge without music / Wislawa Szymborska (translated by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire) -- Excerpt from Invisible man by Ralph Ellison -- Credo / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Hours / Hazel Hall -- The thing is / Ellen Bass -- If I can stop one heart from breaking / Emily Dickinson -- A display of mackerel / Mark Doty -- Excerpt from the world as I see it by Albert Einstein -- Q & A / Kenneth Fearing -- Hands / Safrya Sinclair -- Some years there exists a wanting to escape / Claudia Rankine -- Quotation from Carl Sagan -- It comes in every storm / Olga Orozco (translated by Mary Crow) -- At a window (excerpt) / Carl Sandburg -- God speaks to each of us as he makes us / Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy) -- IV.The new patriots -- Quotation from Anais Nin -- Praise song for the day / Elizabeth Alexander -- Excerpt from between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates -- I, too / Langston Hughes -- Someday I'll love Ocean Vuong / Ocean Vuong -- Quotation from Karel Capek -- Second attempt crossing / Javier Zamora -- Now that we have tasted hope / Khaled Mattawa -- Abeyance / Rebecca Foust -- Excerpt from "summer, somewhere" by Danez Smith -- What changes / Naomi Shihab Nye -- To be a woman / Alice Walker -- Dear white America / Danez Smith -- Daily bread (excerpt) / Ocean Vuong -- Refugees / Brian Bilston -- @ the crossroads--a sudden Amerian poem / Juan Felipe Herrera -- A queerification / Regie Cabico -- Quotation from Gloria Steinem -- The border: a double sonnet / Alberto Rios -- You're dead, America / Danez Smith -- Quotation from Dinos Christianopoulos -- America, America (excerpt) / Saadi Youssef -- Kindness / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Moon for our daughters / Annie Finch -- Langston Hughes / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- V.Gathering strength -- Quotation from Ovid -- When I rise up / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- I have no quarrel with you / Flor |
| Summary |
"In our tumultuous cultural and political climate, many Americans are finding hope and meaning in poetry and inspirational quotes, as noted by numerous media outlets such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, and NPR, and as evidenced by the frequent posting of poetry online. Like many of us, the editors at Spiegel & Grau were inspired by the shared poems, and put together this collection of poems and words for difficult times. Contributors include Maya Angelou ("Still I Rise"), W.H. Auden, Danez Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, Maggie Smith, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Alexander, and many others. This is an uplifting volume that will be read for years to come by anyone facing challenging circumstances"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Inspiration -- Literary collections.
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Inspiration -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780399592836 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
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