Truth and Lies : An Anthology of Poems

by Vecchione, Patrice

• ISBN13: 9780805064797
• ISBN10: 0805064796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

Summary

Here are poems teenagers will treasure, inscribe in diaries, and share with friends for years to come. "The truth isn't always beauty but the hunger for it is."--Nadine Gordimer Experienced anthologist and teacher Patrice Vecchione has created a unique thematic anthology which teenagers will pore over as they seek to be true, and have to face telling lies. Drawing on poets from Margaret Atwood to Langston Hughes, from Walt Whitman to Yevgeny Yevtusenko, she shows how truth is necessary, but how it can hurt, how lies may kill, and yet can soothe. The poems touch on a range of motivations and emotions including fear, guilt, forgiveness, trust, pride and anger. Some express surprising truths while others reveal painful lies. A sensitive gift, a great classroom resource, a companion in the hardest struggles of adolescence, Truth and Lies will be a perfect bridge from a teenager's diary to the world's greatest poetry. Song of the Bald Eagle we want what is real we want what is real don't deceive us! -Crow #1455 Opinion is a flitting thing, But truth outlasts the Sun-- If then we cannot own them both-- Possess the oldest one-- -Emily Dickinson

Author Biography

Patrice Vecchione is the editor and co-editor of several adult anthologies, including Catholic Girls (Penguin, 1992) and An Anthology of Spiritual Writings By Women (Plume, 1997). For over twenty years Ms. Vecchione has been writing and teaching poetry to children and adults in California schools, libraries and community centers. She has also been active in numerous charities and produces shows on public radio.

Table of Contents

On Truth, Lies, and Poetry	xiii
From The Simple Truth	3	(1)
Philip Levine
Brotherhood	4	(1)
Octavio Paz
The Unwritten	5	(2)
W. S. Merwin
The Secret	7	(2)
Denise Levertov
Song of the Bald Eagle	9	(1)
The Crow People
When We Were Here Together	10	(2)
Kenneth Patchen
Remember	12	(1)
Joy Harjo
From 33	13	(1)
Julia Alvarez
why some people be mad at me sometimes	14	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Lies	15	(1)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
``The teachers taught her that the world was round''	16	(1)
Gertrude Stein
Horse's Head	17	(3)
Jonell Hill
The Old Man Said: One	20	(1)
Gogisgi
Carroll Arnett
Truth and Falsehood	21	(1)
Robert Herrick
Truth	22	(1)
Robert Herrick
We Have Been Believers	23	(2)
Margaret Walker
True Stories	25	(2)
Margaret Atwood
The Wayfarer	27	(1)
Stephen Crane
Our Principal	28	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Therefore I Must Tell the Truth	29	(1)
Torlino
Beat	30	(1)
Janet S. Wong
A Song of Lies on Sabbath Eve	31	(1)
Yehuda Amichai
The Stincher	32	(2)
Jackie Kay
From Caught	34	(1)
Rodney Jones
A Poison Tree	35	(1)
William Blake
From A Shadow Play for Guilt	36	(1)
Marge Piercy
what goes around comes around or the proof is in the pudding	37	(1)
Cheryl Clarke
Our Lies and Their Beauty	38	(2)
Bruce Weigl
Tell All the Truth	40	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Mirror	41	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Four Masks	42	(2)
Cortney Davis
From To Julia de Burgos	44	(2)
Julia de Burgos
I Am Not I	46	(1)
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question	47	(2)
Diane Burns
Be Like Others	49	(2)
Czeslaw Milosz
Denial	51	(1)
Kinereth Gensler
Don't Tell a Soul	52	(1)
Osip Mandelstam
The Other Voices	53	(2)
Linda Hogan
In My Country	55	(1)
Pitika Ntuli
The Democratic Judge	56	(2)
Bertolt Brecht
The Body Politic	58	(1)
Donald Hall
Small Heart	59	(2)
Zbigniew Herbert
Bilingual Sestina	61	(2)
Julia Alvarez
Smoke and Deception	63	(1)
Raymond Carver
From Cartographies of Silence	64	(2)
Adrienne Rich
``When my love swears that she is made of truth''	66	(1)
William Shakespeare
From Fragment 26	67	(1)
Sappho
crush	68	(1)
Rita Wong
Appeal	69	(1)
Edith Nesbit
A Renewal	70	(1)
James Merrill
How She Resolved to Act	71	(1)
Merrill Moore
With the Door Open	72	(1)
David Ignatow
A Secret Kept	73	(1)
Judah al-Harizi
Hiding Our Love	74	(1)
Carolyn Kizer
``And the days are not full enough''	75	(1)
Ezra Pound
I Am Asking You to Come Back Home	76	(2)
Jo Carson
Hypocrisy	78	(1)
Samuel Butler
Sous-Entendu	79	(1)
Anne Stevenson
The Lie	80	(4)
Sir Walter Ralegh
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies	84	(1)
Anonymous
Song	85	(1)
Sir George Etherege
The Fool's Song	86	(1)
William Carlos Williams
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing	87	(1)
W. B. Yeats
The Clay Jug	88	(1)
Kabir
A Box Called the Imagination	89	(2)
Zbigniew Herbert
The Girl Who Became My Grandmother	91	(2)
Morton Marcus
The Way Through the Woods	93	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
Not Forever on Earth	94	(1)
King Nezahualcoyotl
no help for that	95	(2)
Charles Bukowski
Biographical Notes	97	(36)
Permissions	133	(6)
Index of Authors	139	(2)
Index of Titles	141

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