Contents
Matsuo Bashō, “Summer grasses”
Han Shan, “Fields, a house, many mulberry trees, fine gardens!”
Ryōkan, “I never longed for the wilder side of life”
Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
William Butler Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole”
William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 73”
Po Chü-i, “Autumn Thoughts, Sent Far Away”
Saigyō, “Winter has withered everything”
Su Tung-P’o, “12th Moon, 14th Sun . . .”
Kobayashi Issa, “This world of dew”
Lucia Perillo, “After Reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead”
William Carlos Williams, “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”
Kenneth Rexroth, “Delia Rexroth”
Andrea Hollander, “October 9, 1970”
William Wordsworth, “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”
Kobayashi Issa, “Mother I never knew”
A. R. Ammons, “In Memoriam Mae Noblitt”
Frank O’Hara, “The Day Lady Died”
Tomas Tranströmer, “Death stoops over me”
Pablo Neruda, “Ode to a Dead Carob Tree”
Walt Whitman, “Reconciliation”
Anna Kamieńska, “I Don’t Know How a Day Flew by Us”
Ikkyū Sojun, “The moon is a house”
Eihei Dōgen, “Waka on Impermanence”
Lucia Perillo, “I Could Name Some Names”
Han Shan, “They laugh at me, ‘Hey farm boy!’”
Jack Kerouac, “In my medicine cabinet”
Billy Collins, “Shoveling Snow with Buddha”
Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”
Kenneth Rexroth, “Empty Mirror”
Ikkyū Sojun, “After ten years in the red-light district”
Dick Allen, “Listening Deeply”
D. H. Lawrence, “The White Horse”
A. R. Ammons, “Clarifications”
Wei Ying-Wu, “In the Depths of West Mountain, Visiting the Master”
Li Po, “Watching a White Falcon Set Loose”
William Carlos Williams, “Fine Work with Pitch and Copper”
Kobayashi Issa, “The distant mountains”
Adam Zagajewski, “Auto Mirror”
Robert Frost, “Tree at My Window”
Wisława Szymborska, “No Title Required”
Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”
Old Shōju, “One look at plum blossoms”
Wallace Stevens, “Study of Two Pears”
Shido Bunan, “The moon’s the same old moon”
Li Po, “Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain”
Gary Snyder, “Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout”
Eihei Dōgen, “This slowly drifting cloud is pitiful”
Ryōkan, “The night is fresh and cool”
Walt Whitman, “I Stand and Look”
Elizabeth Bishop, “Filling Station”
William Carlos Williams, “The Poor”
Kobayashi Issa, “I’m going to roll over”
Wisława Szymborska, “Miracle Fair”
Po Chü-i, “Li the Mountain Recluse Stays the Night on Our Boat”
Matsuo Bashō, “Wrapping the rice cakes”
Ryōkan, “First Days of Spring — the Sky”
Su Tung-P’o, “With Mao and Fang, Visiting Bright Insight Monastery”
Kobayashi Issa, “Children imitating cormorants”
Ryōkan, “Nothing satisfies some appetites”
Chuang-Tzu, “The Joy of Fishes”
Han Shan, “The cloud road’s choked with deep mist. No one gets here that way”
Matsuo Bashō, “A field of cotton — ”
Matsuo Bashō, “A cicada shell”
Jack Gilbert, “Horses at Midnight without a Moon”
Kobayashi Issa, “Under cherry trees”
Tomas Tranströmer, “Face to Face”
Marilyn Krysl, “She Speaks a Various Language”
William Stafford, “It’s All Right”
Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
Yosa Buson, “My arm for a pillow”
Po Chü-i, “After Quiet Joys at South Garden Sent by P’ei Tu”
Pablo Neruda, “Ode to My Socks”
Ron Padgett, “Inaction of Shoes”
Fernando Pessoa, “Calm because I’m unknown”
Jack Gilbert, “A Brief for the Defense”
A. R. Ammons, “The City Limits”
Marianne Moore, “What Are Years?”
Alicia Ostriker, “Wrinkly Lady Dancer”
William Carlos Williams, “To Waken an Old Lady”
Ron Padgett, “Words from the Front”
Paulann Petersen, “Why the Aging Poet Continues to Write”