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Index
Dedication
Introduction
HURTING: WHEN THINGS FALL APART
L OLA H ASKINS : Love
D OROTHY P ARKER : Fulfillment
A NNA A KHMATOVA : We Don't Know How to Say Goodbye
D EBORAH G ARRISON : Worked Late on a Tuesday Night
E MILY D ICKINSON : Crumbling Is Not an Instant's Act
E LIZABETH A SH V ÉLEZ : Thursday, 11:00 A.M.
J ANE K ENYON : The Pear
M ARGE P IERCY : Barbie Doll
W ILLIAM B UTLER Y EATS : The Second Coming
W ILLIAM S HAKESPEARE : Hamlet II.ii. 270–279
D EBORAH G ARRISON : Fight Song
E THERIDGE K NIGHT : Feeling Fucked Up
S TEPHEN C RANE : The Heart
HIDING: WHEN YOU SHUT DOWN
J ANE H IRSHFIELD : Red Onion, Cherries, Boiling Potatoes, Milk—
P HILIP L ARKIN : Wants
W ANG W EI : Returning to My Cottage
G UILLAUME A POLLINAIRE : Hotel
J ANE K ENYON : Summer: 6:00 A.M.
L ARRY V ÉLEZ : Plainsong
R ICHARD E BERHART : In a Hard Intellectual Light
J ANE H IRSHFIELD : A Room
D EREK W ALCOTT : The Fist
B ILLY C OLLINS : Embrace
L OUISE G LÜCK : Mutable Earth
REELING: WHEN YOU GO WILD
V IRGIL : The Wave
R OBERT G RAVES : Down, Wanton, Down!
A NDREW M ARVELL : To His Coy Mistress
C AROLYN C REEDON : The Nectarine Poem
C AROLYN C REEDON : Pub Poem
F RANK O'H ARA : Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)
E LIZABETH A LEXANDER : Equinox
R OBERT H ERRICK : Delight in Disorder
M ARK D OTY : At the Gym
DEALING: WHEN YOU FACE FACTS
W ISLAWA S ZYMBORSKA : The End and the Beginning
C LAUDE M C K AY : The Tropics in New York
P ABLO N ERUDA : Night on the Island
S HAWN M. D URRETT : Lures
J OYCE C AROL O ATES : Waiting on Elvis, 1956
R OBERT H AYDEN : Those Winter Sundays
A NNA S WIR : She Does Not Remember
J OHNNY C OLEY : The Dogs
K IM K ONOPKA : The Layers Between Me
L OUISE G LÜCK : Purple Bathing Suit
J OHN M ILTON : Excerpt from Paradise Lost
HEALING: WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF
M ARIE P ONSOT : Better
L INDA P ASTAN : Petit Dejeuner
J ANE H IRSHFIELD : Not-Yet
G ALWAY K INNELL : The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
L ANGSTON H UGHES : Homecoming
L YN L IFSHIN : Navy Barbie
L UCILLE C LIFTON : why some people be mad at me sometimes
W ALLACE S TEVENS : The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
W ILLIAM C ARLOS W ILLIAMS : Danse Russe
J ANE K ENYON : The Suitor
D AVID G EWANTER : Chai 1924–2000
BELIEVING: WHEN YOU STAY STRONG
S ADIE L ISK H IGHSMITH : Sadie's Poem
W ILLIAM C ARLOS W ILLIAMS : To a Poor Old Woman
E LIZABETH B ISHOP : Filling Station
J AMES W RIGHT : A Blessing
G ERARD M ANLEY H OPKINS : Pied Beauty
S HARON O LDS : The Pope's Penis
G REGORY D JANIKIAN : Immigrant Picnic
L YNNE M C M AHON : We Take Our Children to Ireland
H ANS O STROM : Emily Dickinson and Elivis Presely in Heaven
S TERLING A. B ROWN : Sister Lou
G RACE P ALEY : Here
Afterword
Biographies of Contributors
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
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