A celebration in verse of the silent poetry of dance and the dancer, this anthology features a dizzying range of subjects: Chinese dagger dances and Hindu festival dances, belly dancers and whirling dervishes, high school proms and wedding waltzes, tango, tarantella, flamenco, modern dance, reels and jigs, disco, and ballet. Some of the world's most famous choreographers and dancers move through the poems gathered here: from Nijinsky and Pavlova to Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, from Isadora Duncan to George Balanchine and Martha Graham, from Bojangles to Baryshnikov. The work of more than 150 poetsincluding Shakespeare, Milton, Hafiz, Rumi, Li Po, Rilke, Rimbaud, Lorca, Akhmatova, Whitman, Dickinson, Cummings, Eliot, and Merrillreflects the grace, the drama, the expressive power, and the sheer joy to be found in dance around the world and through the ages.

Emily Fragos is a poet who lives in New York City. Her first book of poems, Little Savage, won the David Craig Austin Prize from Columbia University. She edited the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthology The Great Cat: Poems About Cats.

Foreword	p. 15
Nymphes & Graces Dauncing
From The Theogony	p. 21
From L'Allegro	p. 22
From The Cities of the Plain	p. 23
"For you, Aphrodite, I'll compose a dance"	p. 24
31:4 From The Old Testament	p. 25
From The Shepheardes Calender: April	p. 26
A Song to the Maskers	p. 27
From Endymion	p. 28
From The Iliad	p. 30
From The Odyssey	p. 32
Gratiana Dauncing & Singing	p. 33
From The Faerie Queene	p. 34
From The Pythian Odes	p. 37
Let Joy Be Unconfined
The Dance	p. 41
Dream Variation	p. 42
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	p. 43
Life Is Motion	p. 44
3:1-4 From The Old Testament	p. 45
Native Moments	p. 46
From Prometheus Unbound	p. 47
Spring	p. 48
Tam O'Shanter	p. 49
On Maria Dancing	p. 49
From The Illuminations	p. 50
From The Lords' Masque	p. 51
The Night Dance	p. 52
From Edward the Second	p. 53
"Dance, when you're broken open"	p. 54
"Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely"	p. 54
From The Shepherd's Calendar	p. 55
Dance, My Heart!	p. 56
From Don Juan	p. 57
From The Secular Masque	p. 58
From The Village Coquettes	p. 59
Imitated from the Japanese	p. 60
Love's Proper Exercise
From The Winter's Tale	p. 63
Give Me Your Hand	p. 64
"Chanting old poems"	p. 65
Little Viennese Waltz	p. 66
From Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing	p. 68
Dance of the Girls' Chemises	p. 69
The Dance	p. 71
From Love Restored	p. 72
Song	p. 73
From The Lay of the Last Minstrel	p. 74
From Chastelard, a Tragedy	p. 75
From The Tempest	p. 76
Seeing Her Dancing	p. 77
From Maud	p. 78
From The Odes	p. 80
Reciprocal Invitation to the Dance	p. 81
The Belle of the Ball	p. 83
Streets	p. 84
Dancer	p. 85
From Four Quartets: East Coker	p. 86
From The Lords' Masque	p. 87
From Evangeline	p. 88
A Ballad Upon a Wedding	p. 89
Dance Figure	p. 90
Dance Me to the End of Love	p. 92
May I Have This Dance?
From The Waltz	p. 97
Tango	p. 98
Tarantella	p. 100
The Lobster Quadrille	p. 101
From The Death of the Minuet	p. 103
The Waltz	p. 104
From Watching the Dance	p. 105
From Breakdancing	p. 106
Jazz Dancer	p. 107
Fox Trot Fridays	p. 110
Nostalgia	p. 111
First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels	p. 114
The Best Slow Dancer	p. 115
Children Making Merry
"The line of dancing children on the shore"	p. 119
The Little Dancers	p. 120
From The Pied Piper of Hamelin	p. 121
"Rainy afternoon..."	p. 122
The Baby's Dance	p. 122
"Dancing on the hill-tops"	p. 123
How a Little Girl Danced	p. 124
The Urchins' Dance	p. 126
To a Child Dancing in the Wind	p. 126
The God Who Only Knows Four Words	p. 127
Bring on the Dancing Girls!
Spanish Dancer	p. 131
Salome's Dancing-Lesson	p. 132
Belly Dancer	p. 133
Javanese Dancers	p. 135
Dance	p. 136
Egyptian Dancer at Shubra	p. 137
From A Song of Dagger-Dancing	p. 138
Dance of a Nautch Girl	p. 139
The Dancing Girl	p. 140
Folk & Ethnic
News of the Gold World of May	p. 143
From New Mexican Mountain	p. 145
Butterfly Dance-Song	p. 146
The Dance at the Little Gila Ranch	p. 147
From Living in the Past - Part III	p. 149
From The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo	p. 150
Danse Africaine	p. 153
From Stravinsky's Three Pieces, "Grotesques," for String Quartet	p. 154
The Fiddler of Dooney	p. 156
The World of Ballet
Dance Memories	p. 159
The Ballet	p. 160
The Girl Dreams that She Is Giselle	p. 161
Les Sylphides	p. 162
From The Bayaderes	p. 164
The Swan	p. 165
Dialogue at the Ballet	p. 166
"I cannot dance upon my Toes"	p. 167
Boy and Mom at the Nutcracker Ballet	p. 168
Ballet School	p. 170
Modern Dance
From Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen	p. 173
Isadora Duncan Dancing	p. 174
The Kingdom Within	p. 175
Martha Graham	p. 176
Pearl Primus	p. 177
From For the Dancer, Fred Herko	p. 178
For David Mercer	p. 179
From Merce of Egypt	p. 180
From Choreography	p. 181
Homage
At Kamin's Dance Bookshop	p. 185
Dance Piece	p. 186
Suzanne Farrell, Davidsbundlertanze	p. 188
Arthur Mitchell	p. 189
Tallchief in Orpheus	p. 190
To New York City Ballet	p. 192
From Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance to	p. 193
From The War of Vaslav Nijinsky	p. 194
From Pavlova in London	p. 196
Bojangles and Jo	p. 197
Nureyev's Feet	p. 198
From Nijinski	p. 199
From Owl Dancing with Fred Astaire	p. 201
The Elusive Dance
From The Bacchae	p. 205
From An Essay on Criticism	p. 206
Farewell Performance	p. 207
The English Dancers - II	p. 209
"Six"	p. 211
From The Divine Comedy: Paradise	p. 213
The Secret Sits	p. 214
Buckdancer's Choice	p. 215
The Lost Dancer	p. 217
Once More, the Round	p. 218
To One in Paradise	p. 219
From Memorial to D.C.	p. 221
The Harlot's House	p. 222
Upon a Company of Bad Dancers to Good Musick	p. 224
From Four Quartets: Burnt Norton	p. 225
"At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well"	p. 226
The Harlem Dancer	p. 227
From The Ballad of Reading Gaol	p. 228
Dervish	p. 229
Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz	p. 231
From The Sonnets to Orpheus: XV	p. 233
From The Sonnets to Orpheus: XVIII	p. 234
From Death's Echo	p. 235
Index of Authors	p. 237
Acknowledgments	p. 246
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