Kiss Off · Poems to Set You Free by Esselman, Mary D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Dedication Introduction HURTING: WHEN THINGS FALL APART

LOLA HASKINS: Love DOROTHY PARKER: Fulfillment 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 VELEZ: Thursday, 11:00 A.M. JANE KENYON: The Pear MARGE PIERCY: Barbie Doll WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: The Second Coming WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet II.ii. 270–279 DEBORAH GARRISON: Fight Song ETHERIDGE KNIGHT: Feeling Fucked Up STEPHEN CRANE: The Heart

HIDING: WHEN YOU SHUT DOWN

JANE HIRSHFIELD: Red Onion, Cherries, Boiling Potatoes, Milk— PHILIP LARKIN: Wants WANG WEI: Returning to My Cottage GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE: Hotel JANE KENYON: Summer: 6:00 A.M. LARRY VELEZ: Plainsong RICHARD EBERHART: In a Hard Intellectual Light JANE HIRSHFIELD: A Room DEREK WALCOTT: The Fist BILLY COLLINS: Embrace LOUISE GLUCK: Mutable Earth

REELING: WHEN YOU GO WILD

VIRGIL: The Wave ROBERT GRAVES: Down, Wanton, Down! ANDREW MARVELL: To His Coy Mistress CAROLYN CREEDON: The Nectarine Poem CAROLYN CREEDON: Pub Poem FRANK O'HARA: Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!) ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: Equinox ROBERT HERRICK: Delight in Disorder MARK DOTY: At the Gym

DEALING: WHEN YOU FACE FACTS

WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA: The End and the Beginning CLAUDE MCKAY: The Tropics in New York PABLO NERUDA: Night on the Island SHAWN M. DURRETT: Lures JOYCE CAROL OATES: Waiting on Elvis, 1956 ROBERT HAYDEN: Those Winter Sundays ANNA SWIR: She Does Not Remember JOHNNY COLEY: The Dogs KIM KONOPKA: The Layers Between Me LOUISE GLUCK: Purple Bathing Suit JOHN MILTON: Excerpt from Paradise Lost

HEALING: WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF

MARIE PONSOT: Better LINDA PASTAN: Petit Dejeuner JANE HIRSHFIELD: Not-Yet GALWAY KINNELL: The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students LANGSTON HUGHES: Homecoming LYN LIFSHIN: Navy Barbie 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 JANE KENYON: The Suitor 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 JAMES WRIGHT: A Blessing GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS: Pied Beauty SHARON OLDS: The Pope's Penis GREGORY DJANIKIAN: Immigrant Picnic LYNNE MCMAHON: We Take Our Children to Ireland HANS OSTROM: Emily Dickinson and Elivis Presely in Heaven STERLING A. BROWN: Sister Lou GRACE PALEY: Here

Afterword Biographies of Contributors Acknowledgments About the Editors