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Title:
100 poems to break your heart
Author:
Hirsch, Edward, editor.
ISBN:
9780544931886
Physical Description:
xviii, 492 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Surprised by joy... impatient as the Wind / This living hand / I am / In Memoriam, VII / Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / The God Abandons Antony / The Voice / The Owl / The Pretty Redhead / What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Song for a Dark Girl / Rooms / Black Stone Lying on a White Stone / I'm Going to Sleep / To Julia de Burgos / In Memory of M. B. / The Fifth Eclogue / Café / Merciful God / Shemà / On Living / Aspects of Robinson / The rites for Cousin Vit / Not Waving but Drowning / In the Midst of Life / On the road at night there stands the man / Poem of the Gifts / In the Park / The Whipping / Night Sweat / Wanting to Die / My Nightingale / Next Day / Montana Fifty Years Ago / For the Anniversary of My Death / Poem / The Idea of Ancestry / Henry's Understanding / A Deathplace / They Feed They Lion / The Small Square / Under One Small Star / Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg / On This Side of the River / Aubade / Parents / Essay / Arches / Kindness / The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River / The Book of Yolek / Mr Cogito and the Imagination / From My Window / Night Song / The Race / In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn / The Dancing / For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live) / Mendocino Rose / (Dedications) / The Gas-poker / What He Thought / It Allows a Portrait in Line-Scan at Fifteen / The People of the Other Village / For the Taking / Terminus / What the Living Do / The War Works Hard / Halley's Comet / Song / Simile / In Memory of Joe Brainard / jasper texas 1998 / The Rapture / Elementary Principles at Seventy-Two / Quarantine / Woman Martyr / We Are Not Responsible / Shelley / Aphasia / On Wanting to Tell [ ] About a Girl Eating Fish Eyes / Lead / Persimmon / Ethel's Sestina / Woman, Mined / Graveyard Blues / Requiem / Aubade in Autumn / Barton Springs / Failure / An Individual History / The Second Slaughter / Old School / Infinite Riches in the Smallest Room / The African Burial Ground / The Addict's Mother: Birth Story / Spirit Boxing / Obit [The Blue Dress] / Pantoum for the Broken / Krishna, 3:29 A.M.
Abstract:
"100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"-- Provided by publisher.
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