Contents
HURTING: WHEN THINGS FALL APART
ANNA AKHMATOVA: We Don't Know How to Say Goodbye
DEBORAH GARRISON: Worked Late on a Tuesday Night
EMILY DICKINSON: Crumbling Is Not an Instant's Act
ELIZABETH ASH VÉLEZ: Thursday, 11:00 A.M.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: The Second Coming
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet II.ii. 270–279
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT: Feeling Fucked Up
JANE HIRSHFIELD: Red Onion, Cherries, Boiling Potatoes, Milk—
WANG WEI: Returning to My Cottage
JANE KENYON: Summer: 6:00 A.M.
RICHARD EBERHART: In a Hard Intellectual Light
ROBERT GRAVES: Down, Wanton, Down!
ANDREW MARVELL: To His Coy Mistress
CAROLYN CREEDON: The Nectarine Poem
FRANK O'HARA: Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)
ROBERT HERRICK: Delight in Disorder
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA: The End and the Beginning
CLAUDE MCKAY: The Tropics in New York
PABLO NERUDA: Night on the Island
JOYCE CAROL OATES: Waiting on Elvis, 1956
ROBERT HAYDEN: Those Winter Sundays
ANNA SWIR: She Does Not Remember
KIM KONOPKA: The Layers Between Me
LOUISE GLÜCK: Purple Bathing Suit
JOHN MILTON: Excerpt from Paradise Lost
HEALING: WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF
GALWAY KINNELL: The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
LUCILLE CLIFTON: why some people be mad at me sometimes
WALLACE STEVENS: The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: Danse Russe
DAVID GEWANTER: Chai 1924–2000
BELIEVING: WHEN YOU STAY STRONG
SADIE LISK HIGHSMITH: Sadie's Poem
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: To a Poor Old Woman
ELIZABETH BISHOP: Filling Station
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS: Pied Beauty
GREGORY DJANIKIAN: Immigrant Picnic
LYNNE MCMAHON: We Take Our Children to Ireland