The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart

by Robert, Bly

• ISBN13: 9780060924201
• ISBN10: 0060924209
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-26
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Three central leaders of the men's movement present a rich and insightful collection of poems that will appeal to both men and women--more than 300 powerful and profound works from Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, Wadsworth, Blake, and many others.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xix
ONE APPROACH TO WILDNESS	1	(30)
Danse Russe	6	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Smell!	7	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Crazy Dog Events	8	(1)
Jerome Rothenberg
Four Quatrains	9	(1)
Rumi
Much Madness is divinest Sense	10	(1)
Emily Dickinson
from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land	11	(1)
Aime Cesaire
Bread and Wine	12	(1)
Friedrich Holderlin
Has Anyone Seen the Boy?	13	(1)
Rumi
from The Will to Believe	14	(1)
William James
from Proverbs from Hell	15	(2)
William Blake
from Middle of the Way	17	(1)
Galway Kinnell
The Wild Mallard Thought	18	(1)
Henry David Threau
The Wild Man Comes to the Monastery	19	(1)
Anonymous
from Song of a Man Who Has Come Through	20	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Knowing Nothing Shuts the Iron Gates	21	(1)
Kabir
from In a Dark Time	22	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Little Infinite Poem	23	(2)
Federico Garcia Lorca
The Wild Old Wicked Man	25	(2)
William Butler Yeats
Mad as the Mist and Snow	27	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Song of the Cuban Blacks	28	(2)
Federico Garcia Lorca
Advice	30	(1)
Bill Holm
TWO FATHERS' PRAYERS FOR SONS AND DAUGHTERS	31	(32)
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach	37	(1)
William Stafford
A Story	38	(1)
Li-Young Lee
A Prayer for My Son	39	(2)
William Butler Yeats
On the Beach at Fontana	41	(1)
James Joyce
In the Third Month	42	(1)
David Ray
On My First Son	43	(1)
Ben Jonson
The Idea of Ancestry	44	(2)
Etheridge Knight
Men and Birth: The Unexplainable	46	(1)
Haki R. Madhubuti
Lastness	47	(2)
Galway Kinnell
Changing Diapers	49	(1)
Gary Snyder
At the Washing of My Son	50	(1)
David Ray
from a Prayer for My Daughter	51	(2)
William Butler Yeats
A Flower Given to My Daughter	53	(1)
James Joyce
An Ark for Lawrence Durrell	54	(1)
Robert Duncan
The Turtle	55	(2)
William Carlos Williams
Boy at the Window	57	(1)
Richard Wilbur
For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old	58	(1)
Robert Bly
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	59	(1)
Galway Kinnell
Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper	60	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
A Story That Could Be True	61	(2)
William Stafford
THREE WAR	63	(30)
War	68	(1)
Miguel Hernandez
The Man From Washington	69	(1)
James Welch
Rundown Church	70	(2)
Federico Garcia Lorca
Dulce et Decorum Est	72	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Postcard	73	(1)
Miklos Radnoti
Dry Loaf	74	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Ode for the American Dead in Asia	75	(2)
Thomas McGrath
Words for My Daughter	77	(3)
John Balaban
To President Bush at the Start of the Gulf War	80	(1)
Robert Bly
Becoming Milton	81	(2)
Coleman Barks
from The Homeric Hymn to Ares	83	(1)
The Secret of Victory	84	(1)
George Patton
from Lessons of the War	85	(2)
Henry Reed
Big Dream, Little Dream	87	(1)
Louis Simpson
Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind	88	(1)
Stephen Crane
The Colonel	89	(1)
Carolyn Forche
``Keeping Their World Large''	90	(2)
Marianne Moore
Passing an Orchard by Train	92	(1)
Robert Bly
FOUR I KNOW THE EARTH, AND I AM SAD	93	(24)
The Wind, One Brilliant Day	99	(1)
Antonio Machado
Sonnets to Orpheus IV	100	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	101	(1)
Langston Hughes
Rain	102	(1)
Vachel Lindsay
Melancholy Inside Families	103	(2)
Pablo Neruda
Walking Around	105	(2)
Pablo Neruda
No More Auction Block	107	(1)
Spiritual
I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain	108	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Day Lady Died	109	(1)
Frank O'Hara
Sonnets to Orpheus VIII	110	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Sunflower	111	(1)
Rolf Jacobsen
Snowbanks North of the House	112	(1)
Roberty Bly
Healing	113	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Come In	114	(1)
Robert Frost
I Am Going to Speak of Hope	115	(1)
Cesar Vallejo
And What If After so Many Words	116	(1)
Cesar Vallejo
FIVE THE HOUSE OF FATHERS AND TITANS	117	(36)
For, Brother, What Are We?	123	(1)
Thomas Wolfe
from Democracy in America	124	(1)
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Bones of My Father	125	(2)
Etheridge Knight
from Theogony	127	(1)
Hesiod
Saturn	128	(1)
Sharon Olds
The Guild	129	(1)
Sharon Olds
My Papa's Waltz	130	(1)
Theodore Roethke
American Primitive	131	(1)
William Jay Smith
My Father's Wedding	132	(2)
Robert Bly
The Portrait	134	(1)
Stanley Kunitz
The Core of Masculinity	135	(1)
Rumi
The Gift	136	(2)
Li-Young Lee
The Weight of Sweetness	138	(1)
Li-Young Lee
Only When My Heart Freezes	139	(2)
Alden Nowlan
Those Winter Sundays	141	(1)
Robert Hayden
My Father Went to Funerals	142	(1)
Howard Nelson
Offering	143	(2)
Thomas McGrath
The Distant Footsteps	145	(1)
Cesar Vallejo
Yesterday	146	(2)
W. S. Merwin
from Memories of My Father	148	(1)
Galway Kinnell
The Race	149	(2)
Sharon Olds
The Irish Cliffs of Mother	151	(2)
Wallace Stevens
SIX LANGUAGE: SPEAKING WELL AND SPEAKING OUT	153	(40)
Magic Words	160	(1)
Eskimo
The Mind	161	(1)
Trobriands
Songs Are Thoughts	162	(1)
Orpingalik
On Being Extravagant	163	(1)
Henry David Thoreau
from Gargantua	164	(1)
Francois Rabelais
from The Havana Lectures	165	(1)
Federico Garcia Lorca
Poetry Is a Destructive Force	166	(1)
Wallace Stevens
In My Craft or Sullen Art	167	(1)
Dylan Thomas
On the Words in Poetry	168	(2)
Dylan Thomas
Sound-Posture	170	(1)
Robert Frost
Amergin and Cessair	171	(3)
Traditional
from Canto LXXXI	174	(2)
Ezra Pound
Sonnet LXV	176	(1)
William Shakespeare
Rigorists	177	(2)
Marianne Moore
To Autumn	179	(2)
John Keats
On the Writing of Poetry	181	(1)
William Stafford
Thoughts	182	(1)
Gerhart Hauptmann
Samuel Johnson
William Wordsworth
Selections	183	(1)
Miguel Hernandez
These Days	184	(1)
Charles Olson
American Poetry	185	(1)
Louis Simpson
Catch	186	(1)
Robert Francis
Pitcher	187	(1)
Robert Francis
Library	188	(1)
Louis Jenkins
from Standing Up	189	(1)
Tomas Transtromer
from The Man with the Blue Guitar	190	(2)
Wallace Stevens
from Autobiography of Charles Darwin	192	(1)
SEVEN MAKING A HOLE IN DENIAL	193	(34)
The Inner Part	200	(1)
Louis Simpson
Miniver Cheevy	201	(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
``Next to of Course God America I	203	(1)
E. E. Cumming
We Real Cool	204	(1)
Gwendoly Brooks
Twenty-First. Night. Monday	205	(1)
Anna Akhmatova
The Invisible King	206	(2)
Goethe
Darkmotherscream	208	(1)
Andrei Voznesensky
Empty Warriors	209	(1)
Haki R. Madhubuti
On the Yard	210	(1)
Etheridge Knight
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand	211	(2)
Amiri Baraka
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives	213	(1)
Philip Levine
It Is This Way with Men	214	(1)
C. K. Williams
The War Prayer	215	(1)
Mark Twain
The Second Coming	216	(1)
William Butler Yeats
A First on TV	217	(1)
David Ignatow
Sunday at the State Hospital	218	(1)
David Ignatow
No Theory	219	(1)
David Ignatow
Funeral Eva	220	(1)
Koroneu
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	221	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Design	222	(1)
Robert Frost
Have You Anything to Say in Your Defense?	223	(2)
Cesar Vallejo
The Spider	225	(2)
Cesar Vallejo
EIGHT LOVING THE COMMUNITY AND WORK	227	(32)
A Ritual to Read to Each Other	233	(1)
William Stafford
Throw Yourself Like Seed	234	(1)
Miguel de Unamuno
Until One Is Committed	235	(1)
Goethe
Just as the Winged Energy of Delight	236	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Work	237	(2)
Gyula Illyes
Lamb	239	(2)
Michael Dennis Browne
Why Log Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen	241	(1)
Gary Snyder
All the Fruit	242	(1)
Friedrich Holderlin
New York	243	(3)
Federico Garcia Lorca
To the States	246	(1)
Walt Whitman
Thoughts	247	(1)
Samuel Johnson
Thoughts	248	(1)
Heraclitus
What Happened During the Ice Storm	249	(2)
Jim Heynen
The Flying Eagles of Troop 62	251	(2)
James Wright
Waxwings	253	(1)
Robert Francis
For Eli Jacobson	254	(2)
Kenneth Rexroth
Epitaph	256	(1)
Thomas McGrath
Death	257	(2)
Kuba
NINE THE NAIVE MALE	259	(24)
Which One Is Genuine?	264	(1)
Charles Baudelaire
Onion	265	(1)
Katha Pollitt
A Story About the Body	266	(1)
Robert Hass
The Rites of Manhood	267	(1)
Alden Nowlan
He Loved Three Things	268	(1)
Anna Akhmatova
When the Father Is Absent	269	(1)
James Hilman
The Black Hairs	270	(1)
Heinz Pasman
The Indian Serenade	271	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Good Deeds of the Moon	272	(2)
Charles Baudelaire
In a Tavern	274	(1)
Louis Jenkins
Faith	275	(1)
Czeslaw Milosz
from Song of Myself	276	(1)
Walt Whitman
Across the Swamp	277	(1)
Olav H. Hauge
Peer Gynt Tells His Mother About His Newest Adventure	278	(3)
Henrik Ibsen
The Hopeful Spiritual Athlete	281	(1)
Kabir
How Much Is Not True	282	(1)
Kabir
TEN THE SECOND LAYER: ANGER, HATRED, OUTRAGE	283	(74)
The Black Riders	289	(1)
Cesar Vallejo
The Twins	290	(1)
James Stephens
Indeed Indeed, I Cannot Tell	291	(1)
Henry David Thoreau
I Stand Here, Do You Understand	292	(1)
Olav H. Hauge
Hatred	293	(1)
Gwendolyn Bennett
Ribh Considers Christian Love Insufficient	294	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Lines for an Old Man	295	(1)
T. S. Eliot
The Hill	296	(1)
Robert Creeley
The Anger That Breaks the man Into Children	297	(1)
Cesar Vallejo
The Man Watching	298	(2)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Fire on the Hills	300	(1)
Robinson Jeffers
The Song of the Black Bear	301	(1)
Navajo
A Poison Tree	302	(1)
William Blake
The English Are So Nice!	303	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Mine enemy is growing old	304	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Ascensions	305	(2)
William Pillin
The United Fruit Co.	307	(2)
Pablo Neruda
The White City	309	(1)
Claude McKay
Harlem	310	(1)
Langston Hughes
Fire and Ice	311	(8)
Robert Frost
ELEVEN EARTHLY LOVE
Diogenes	319	(1)
The Mole	320	(1)
Al-Muntafil
The Guest	321	(1)
Anna Akhmatova
Three Quatrains	322	(1)
Rumi
A Glimpse	323	(1)
Walt Whitman
Body of a Woman	324	(1)
Pablo Neruda
& Balls	325	(1)
Anne McNaughton
O Wha's The Bride?	326	(1)
Hugh MacDiarmid
Greed and Aggression	327	(1)
Sharon Olds
Gentleman Without Company	328	(2)
Pablo Neruda
Last Gods	330	(2)
Galway Kinnell
Cocks and Mares	332	(1)
Ruth Stone
I Knew a Woman	333	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Food of Love	334	(2)
Carolyn Kizer
Feeding the Dog	336	(1)
Russell Edson
I Wrung My Hands Under My Dark Veil	337	(1)
Anna Akhmatova
To Women, as Far as I'm Concerned	338	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Intimates	339	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Ballad of the Despairing Husband	340	(2)
Robert Creeley
All That is Lovely In Men	342	(1)
Robert Creeley
Separation by Death	343	(1)
Ibn Hazm
Feeling Fucked Up	344	(1)
Etheridge Knight
The Impulse	345	(1)
Robert Frost
Grief	346	(1)
Gaius Valerius Catullus
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	347	(2)
Ezra Pound
``We Must Die Because We Have Known Them''	349	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
A Marriage	350	(1)
Robert Creeley
And If He Had Been Wrong for Me	351	(1)
Robert Duncan
Listening to the Koln Concert	352	(1)
Robert Bly
Once I Passed Through a Populous City	353	(1)
Walt Whitman
History	354	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
A Coal Fire in Winter	355	(2)
Thomas McGrath
TWELVE THE CULTIVATED HEART	357	(26)
The Song of Wandering Aengus	363	(1)
William Butler Yeats
New Love and the Gentle Heart	364	(1)
Dante
As I Was Walking	365	(1)
Robert Creeley
from Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs	366	(1)
Antonio Machado
I Am Not I	367	(1)
Juan Ramon Jimenez
The One Who Is at Home	368	(1)
Francisco Albanez
To Be a Slave of Intensity	369	(1)
Kabir
Archaic Torso of Apollo	370	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Someone Digging in the Ground	371	(1)
Rumi
Last Night	372	(2)
Antonio Machado
Portrait	374	(2)
Antonio Machado
Names	376	(1)
Rumi
That Journeys Are Good	377	(2)
Rumi
Advice from Heraclitus	379	(1)
Advice from Pythagoras	380	(1)
The Waking	381	(1)
Theodore Roethke
The Holy Longing	382	(1)
Goethe
THIRTEEN MOTHER AND GREAT MOTHER	383	(32)
Cherries	388	(1)
Joe Lamb
From Childhood	389	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Mother and Son	390	(2)
Alden Nowlan
from My Mother Would Be a Falconress	392	(2)
Robert Duncan
The Right Meaning	394	(2)
Cesar Vallejo
Kaddish	396	(1)
David Ignatow
Sonnet to My Mother	397	(1)
George Barker
In Memory of My Mother	398	(1)
Patrick Kavanagh
The Last Words of My English Grandmother	399	(2)
William Carlos Williams
I Am Asking You to Come Back Home	401	(1)
Jo Carson
Kore An Ethiopian Woman	402	(1)
To Juan at the Winter Solstice	403	(2)
Robert Graves
The Thief	405	(1)
Alden Nowlan
What I Heard at the Discount Department Store	406	(2)
David Budbill
The Witch	408	(1)
Santal
The Goddess	409	(1)
Theodore de Banville
Ego Tripping	410	(2)
Nikki Giovanni
Birds Nest	412	(1)
Gloria Fuertes
Old Woman Nature	413	(2)
Gary Snyder
FOURTEEN THE SPINDRIFT GAZE TOWARD PARADISE	415	(56)
Conversation in the Mountains	420	(1)
Li Po
I Think Continually of Those	421	(1)
Stephen Spender
I Live My Life	422	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
A Walk	423	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Milkweed	424	(1)
James Wright
The Invisible Men	425	(2)
Nakasak
Three Angels	427	(1)
Bob Dylan
Guardian Angel	428	(1)
Rolf Jacobsen
A Man Lost by a River	429	(1)
Michael Blumenthal
The Scattered Congregation	430	(1)
Tomas Transtromer
The Secret	431	(1)
Charles Bukowski
The Dream	432	(1)
Felix Pollak
The Light You Give Off	433	(1)
Rumi
Leda	434	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
A Blessing	435	(1)
James Wright
Two Years Later	436	(1)
John Wieners
The Guest Is Inside	437	(1)
Kabir
Say Yes Quickly	438	(1)
Rumi
The New Rule	439	(1)
Rumi
Wild Nights---Wild Nights!	440	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers	441	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Sailing to Byzantium	442	(2)
William Butler yeats
from Voyages II	444	(8)
Hart Crane
FIFTEEN ZANINESS
Necessity	452	(1)
Langston Hughes
Walking Through a Wall	453	(1)
Louis Jenkins
Football	454	(1)
Louis Jenkins
The Leaves of Heaven	455	(1)
Ed Sanders
Confessional Poem	456	(1)
Louis Jenkins
Appointed Rounds	457	(1)
Louis Jenkins
Quinn the Eskimo	458	(1)
Bob Dylan
Red Lip	459	(2)
Richard Brautigan
from A Thousand Chinese Dinners	461	(1)
Robert Mezey
Welcome Back, Mr. Knight: Love of My Life	462	(2)
Etheridge Knight
Freud Talks of the Primal Meal	464	(2)
James Hillman
Charles Boer
The Automobile	466	(1)
Russell Edson
Ape	467	(2)
Russell Edson
The Ox	469	(1)
Russell Edson
High Talk	470	(1)
William Butler Yeats
SIXTEEN LOVING THE WORLD ANYWAY	471	(38)
The World Is Too Much with Us	476	(1)
William Wordsworth
God's Grandeur	477	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty	478	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Perfume / of Flowers!	479	(1)
Charles Olson
Grappa in September	480	(1)
Cesar Pavese
Ode to My Socks	481	(3)
Pablo Neruda
The Delights of the Door	484	(1)
Francis Ponge
The Bread of This World; Praises III	485	(1)
Thomas McGrath
Breasts	486	(3)
Charles Simic
Wilderness	489	(2)
Carl Sandburg
O sweet spontaneous	491	(2)
E. E. Cummings
West Wall	493	(1)
W. S. Merwin
Ripening	494	(1)
Wendell Berry
The Rain	495	(1)
Robert Creeley
Sometimes I Go About Pitying Myself	496	(1)
Chippewa Music
Unity	497	(1)
Fazil Husnu Daglarca
Old Song	498	(1)
Traditional
Musee des Beaux Arts	499	(1)
W. H. Auden
The Earthworm	500	(1)
Harry Martinson
To Earthward	501	(2)
Robert Frost
The Groundhog	503	(2)
Richard Eberhart
from A Dialogue of Self and Soul	505	(2)
William Butler Yeats
from Vacillation	507	(2)
William Butler Yeats
Index of Poets	509	(4)
Index of First Lines	513	(6)
Copyright Acknowledgments	519