Poetry To Heal Your Blues

by Hacker, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9781840726688
• ISBN10: 1840726687
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Spruce

Summary

When you're deep into the blues, and your world feels dark, find a quiet place, open the pages of this beautiful book and let the healing power of poetry pour into your soul. Marilyn Hacker has composed a wonderful anthology-a many-voiced concert of poetry from North America, Britain, and all over the world. Favorite poets from the past such as William Blake, John Keats, and Emily Dickinson stand alongside the newer voices of Lucille Clifton, Rafael Campo, and others. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Renowned American poet Marilyn Hacker is the author of many poetry books and has won a number of awards including Winter Numbers (1994)-the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award and Selected Poems-1965-1990 (1994)-Poets' Prize. A former editor of the Kenyon Review, she has received numerous honors and fellowships, including the Bernard F. Conners Prize from the Paris Review, and the John Masefield Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America. Marilyn teaches creative writing at New York University, and lives in New York and Paris.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Problem of Gratified Desire	10	(1)
Marie Ponsot
```Heaven' - is what I cannot reach''	11	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow	12	(2)
John Keats
Crossroads	14	(2)
Forrest Hamer
The Song of Wandering Aengus	16	(1)
William Butler Yeats
e. e. cummings i thank You God	17	(1)
Warning to Children	18	(2)
Robert Graves
What the Body Told	20	(1)
Rafael Campo
In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself	21	(1)
Wislawa Szymborska
Nocturne	22	(1)
Eavan Boland
Where Blind Sorrow is Taught to See	23	(1)
Suzanne Gardinier
Try to Praise the Mutilated World	24	(1)
Adam Zagajewski
Sonnet	25	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	26	(1)
William Wordsworth
Shu swamp, Spring	27	(1)
May Swenson
e. e. cummings in Just-	28	(2)
Hourglass	30	(2)
Josephine Jacobsen
The Voice of Summer	32	(1)
Philippe Delaveau
Poppies on the Wheat	33	(1)
Helen Hunt Jackson
Oppositions	34	(2)
Judith Wright
Autumn	36	(2)
Linda Pastan
`O wild West Wind...	38	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wind's Split Octaves	39	(1)
Beatrix Gates
The Egg	40	(1)
Jean Follain
Snow	41	(1)
Louis Macneice
Listen	42	(1)
Miller Williams
Why they Love us	43	(1)
R. S. Gwynn
Dharma	44	(2)
Billy Collins
Cat & the Weather	46	(2)
May Swenson
The Tyger	48	(2)
William Blake
Four a.m. in the Woods	50	(1)
Marilyn Nelson
Modern Nature	51	(1)
Elizabeth Grainger
The Blues Don't Change	52	(2)
Al Young
Alba	54	(1)
Claire Malroux
I Try to Waken and Greet the World Once Again	55	(1)
James Wright
Ukranian	56	(1)
Gerald Stern
Weather Central	57	(1)
Ted Kooser
The Pictures of my New Day	58	(1)
Lorna Goodison
Gift	59	(1)
Czeslaw Milosz
Easter-wings	60	(1)
George Herbert
Nasturtium	61	(1)
Thom Gunn
Various Protestations from Various People	62	(1)
Etheridge Knight
To Play Pianissimo	63	(1)
Lola Haskins
Twelve Bar Bessie	64	(2)
Jackie Kay
Magic Flute	66	(1)
Kate Foley
Cello	67	(1)
Adam Zagajewski
Perhaps I asked too Large	68	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Londoner	69	(1)
Fleur Adcock
Cathedral Builders	70	(1)
John Ormond
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	71	(1)
Langston Hughes
Recuerdo	72	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	73	(1)
William Wordsworth
A Map of the City	74	(1)
Thom Gunn
A Description of the Morning	75	(1)
Jonathan Swift
When all my Five and Country Senses See	76	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Rent	77	(1)
Jane Cooper
The Zydeco Tablet	78	(1)
Alison Pelegrin
Oh, Oh, You will be Sorry	79	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Reception	80	(2)
June Jordan
Canal Bank Walk	82	(1)
Patrick Kavanagh
Stanzas for a New Start	83	(1)
Carol Rumens
At Navaho Monument Valley Tribal School	84	(2)
Sherman Alexie
Of Green Steps and Laundry	86	(1)
Ralph Gustafson
Gentle Reader	87	(1)
Josephine Jacobsen
As For Me, I Love an Older Man	88	(1)
Marie-Claire Bancquart
Words, She Says, Used to be Wolves	89	(1)
Venus Khoury-Ghata
Eve's Unnaming	90	(2)
Grace Schulman
The Moon	92	(1)
Jaime Sabines
And No Death	93	(1)
David Ignatow
Connections	94	(1)
Judith Wright
Roundstone Cove	95	(1)
Marie Ponsot
The Cambridge Afternoon Was Gray	96	(2)
Alicia Ostriker
Night Feeding	98	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
The Childhood of Language	99	(1)
Tom Disch
Lullaby of a Single Mother	100	(2)
Jenny Factor
Child on Top of a Greenhouse	102	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Mother to Son	103	(1)
Langston Hughes
Top of the Stove	104	(1)
David Baker
The Hammock	105	(1)
Li-Young Lee
Big Bessie Throws her Son into the Street	106	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Grandmother Gesture	107	(1)
Paula Meehan
Rubaiyat	108	(2)
Mimi Khalvati
Cutting Greens	110	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Pineapples and Pomegranates	111	(1)
Paul Muldoon
Arabic Coffee	112	(2)
Naomi Shihab Nye
O Taste and See	114	(1)
Denise Levertov
Pied Beauty	115	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Hymn to God the Father	116	(1)
John Donne
Ecstatic	117	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
To Make a Prairie	118	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Bees	119	(1)
Nazim Hikmet
Song	120	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Brahma	122	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tree at My Window	123	(1)
Robert Frost
The Wild Iris	124	(2)
Louise Gluck
Wild Geese	126	(1)
Mary Oliver
`I believe with perfect faith...'	127	(1)
Yehuda Amichai
Any Woman's Blues	128	(2)
Sherley Anne Williams
Moon-set	130	(2)
Hayden Carruth
Duchess of Newcastle Of Many Worlds in This World	132	(1)
Margaret Cavendish
Index of first lines	133	(3)
Biographical notes	136