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xxxvii, 188 pages ; 22 cm |
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Still wilderness / Christina Wiman -- A note on the selections -- First song / Galway Kinnell -- From the Precision of Pain and the Blurriness of Joy: The Touch of Longing is Everywhere / Yehuda Amichai (translated from the Hebrew b Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld) -- Canal bank walk / Patrick Kavanagh -- This is us Saint's Day / Jen Hadfield -- Travelin' shoes / Cornelius Eady -- The blessing of the old woman, the tulip, and the dog / Alicia Suskin Ostriker -- Hamlen brook / Richard Wilbur -- Hag riding / Lucille Clifton -- Small moth / Sarah Lindsay -- And we lofe life / Mahmoud Darwish (translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah) -- To make a Summer / Josephine Miles -- The crowd / Charles Baudelaire (translated from the French by Keith Waldrop) -- The dancing / Gerald Stern -- With wine and being lost, with / Paul Celan (translated from the German by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh) -- Out at Lanesville / David Ferry -- The bluet / James Schuyler -- Hip-hop Ghazal / Patricia Smith -- Temptation / Nina Cassian (translated from the Romanian by Brenda Walker and Andrea Deletant) -- Loony-bin basketball / Mary Karr -- Pastoral / Rita Dove -- Walking with Russell / Don Paterson -- You're / Sylvia Plath -- Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams -- Summer kitchen / Donald Hall -- The second madrigal / Anna Swir (translated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan) -- A brief for the defense / Jack Gilbert -- Tea at the Palaz of Hoon / Wallace Stevens -- Susuie Asado / Gertrude Stein -- Joy / Lisel Mueller -- The rites for cousin vit / Gwendolyn Brooks -- One of the many days / Norman Maccaig -- The moose / Elizabeth Bishop -- Best laid / Maureen N. McLane -- Deaf muth in the pear tree / P. K. Page -- From blossoms / Li-Young Lee -- "Who never wanted--maddest joy" / Emily Dickinson -- Hurrahing in harvest / Gerard Manley Hopkins --Laundromat / Lorine Niedecker -- Late Beethoven / Adam Zagajewski (translated from the Polish by Renata Gorczynska) -- The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven understood at last as a sexual message / Adrienne Rich -- Big finish / Kimberly Johnson -- Unrelenting flood / William Matthews -- Meditation on a grapefruit / Craig Arnold -- Blackbird etude / A. E. Stallings -- Slim in Atlanta / Sterling A. Brown -- Station / Maria Hummel -- A poem for the Epiphany / Pablo Medina (translated from the Spanish by the author) -- Often I am permitted to return to a meadow / Robert Duncan -- Wedding poem / Ross Gay -- Once in a lifetime, snow / Les Murray -- Pentecost / Michael Donaghy -- C major / Tomas Transtromer (translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton) -- To the sea / Aracelis Girmay -- Plumbing / Ruth Stone -- The joy of writing / Wislawa Szymborska (translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak) -- Meeting point / Louis Macneice -- Coming / Heather McHugh -- True love / Sharon Olds -- Once, I / Jane Hirshfield -- Tractor / Ted Hughes -- Yoko / Thom Gunn -- From Vacillation / W. B. Yates -- Memoir / Vijay Seshadri -- The rapture of dry ice burning off skin as the moment of the soul's apothesis / Thylias Moss -- And I was alive / Osip Mandelstam (translated from the Russian by Christian Wilman) -- Little clown, my heart / Sandra Cisneros -- Land's end / August Kleinzahler -- Procedure / Jo Shapcott -- Ode to the urge / Ricardo Castillo (translated from the Spanish by Robert L. Jones) -- Lore / R. S. Thomas -- From Poems for Moscow / Marina Tsvetaeva (translated from the Russian by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine) -- The season of phantasmal peace / Derek Walcott -- But I, too, want to be a poet / Fanny Howe -- Dawn outside the city walls / Juan Ramon Jimenez (translated from the Spanish by Robert Bly) -- The ache of marriage / Denise Levertov -- Happiness / Paisley Rekdal -- Accidents of birth / William Meredith -- Far from kingdoms / Patrizia Cavalli (translated from the Italian by Judith Baumel -- I'd rather go with y |
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Joy in literature.
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Joy -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Wiman, Christian, 1966- editor.
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| ISBN |
030022608X |
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9780300226089 |
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