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Poems about the various stages of grief, with 150 selections from a variety of 20th-21st century poets.;Part 3: Remembra
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Table of contents :
Introduction --
Part 1: Reckoning --
Between grief and nothing, I will take grief --
Musee des Beaux Arts / W H Auden --
Dying / Robert Pinsky --
Wake / Rita Dove --
After great pain, a formal feeling comes --
My life closed twice before its close--
/ Emily Dickinson --
Secret knowledge --
Much hurrying / Brenda Hillman --
Race / Sharon Olds --
Whale / Terrance Hayes --
Silence / D H Lawrence --
Futility / Wilfred Owen --
Lament / Anne Sexton --
Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith --
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas --
Pyrrhic victory / Lucie Brock-Broido --
Mower / Philip Larkin --
No more / Mary Jo Bang --
Loss / Ruth Stone --
Ever / Brenda Shaughnessy --
Sudden / Nick Flynn --
Do not pick up the telephone / Ted Hughes --
Funeral blues / W H Auden --
Graveyard blues / Natasha Trethewey --
Without / Donald Hall --
For a woman dead at thirty / Jean Valentine --
Final Notations / Adrienne Rich --
One continuous substance / Albert Goldbarth --
Iron / Jane Cooper --
Bereavement / Kevin Young --
This hour and what is dead / Li-Young Lee --
Carrion comfort / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
From choir practice / Forrest Hamer --
To Bhain Campbell --
Epilogue / John Berryman --
Sea canes / Derek Walcott --
Autumn passage / Elizabeth Alexander --
Let evening come / Jane Kenyon --
Part 2: Regret --
I believe, but what is belief? --
Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost --
Spots / Joel Brouwer --
Like / Frank Bidart --
Dreaming of the dead / Anne Stevenson --
Grief / Stephen Dobyns --
Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke --
On the death of friends in childhood / Donald Justice --
Shout / Simon Armitage --
We assume: on the death of our son, Reuben Masai Harper / Michael S Harper --
Written on the due date of a son never born / David Wojahn --
Stillbirth / Laure-Anne Bosselaar --
Mid-term break / Seamus Heaney --
Litany / Gregory Orr --
How some of it happened / Marie Howe --
Freedom, New Hampshire / Galway Kinnell --
Ice / Mary Oliver --
Last hellos / Les Murray --
Oh antic God / Lucille Clifton --
Speaking to my dead mother / Ruth Stone --
Reassurance / Thom Gunn --
My sister, who died young, takes up the task / Jon Pineda --
Elegy for my father / Mark Strand --
Men at my father's funeral / William Matthews --
On the death of a colleague / Stephen Dunn --
Marquee moon / Jeff Fallis --
Facts of grief / Jim Daniels --
David Lemieux / Denise Duhamel --
Dirge without music / Edna St Vincent Millay. Part 3: Remembrance --
What did I know, what did I know --
After / Elizabeth Alexander --
Poems for my brother Kenneth / Owen Dodson --
Artifact / Claudia Emerson --
Remember me / Hal Sirowitz --
Death is a woman / Joy Harjo --
Tiara / Mark Doty --
Memorial: son Bret / William Stafford --
Morning baking / Carolyn Forche --
Hand me down blues / Calvin Forbes --
Grief / C K Williams --
Myth / Natasha Trethewey --
Bones of my father / Etheridge Knight --
Song / Joseph Brodsky --
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden --
Asked for a happy memory of her father, she recalls Wrigley Field / Beth Ann Fennelly --
Forgiving my father / Lucille Clifton --
White crane / Dean Young --
Elegy / Arnold J Kemp --
Cosmos, late blooming / D A Powell --
Abiku / Afaa Michael Weaver --
Lost pilot / James Tate --
Refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas --
Luke and the duct tape / Coleman Barks --
Birthday poem / Erin Murphy --
You don't miss your water / Cornelius Eady --
Dead / Billy Collins --
Part 4: Ritual --
Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill --
Water / Philip Larkin --
My religion / Anne Carson --
Truth the dead know / Anne Sexton --
Listen Lord: a prayer / James Weldon Johnson --
Dedication for a plot of ground / William Carlos Williams --
Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Funeral rites / Seamus Heaney --
Not forgotten / Toi Derricotte --
After your death / Natasha Trethewey --
Disposal / W D Snodgrass --
Seersucker suit / Deborah Digges --
Until she returns / Reginald Shepherd --
Oboe in Handel's largo from Xerxes as elegy / Quan Barry --
Transaction / A R Ammons --
My father's body / William Matthews --
My mother's body, my professor, my bower / Jean Valentine --
Dead letters / Mary Jo Salter --
I needed to talk to my sister / Grace Paley --
Fatal April / Thomas Sayers Ellis --
Celestial music / Louise Gluck --
God / Michael Ryan --
Trying to pray / James Wright --
Ice storm / Robert Hayden --
Wasteful gesture only not / Tony Hoagland --
Blues procession / Terrance Hayes --
I just wanna testify / Cornelius Eady --
Incensation at the funeral / Matthew Rohrer --
My father's funeral / Karl Shapiro --
Cold calls / Edward Hirsch --
Burial [no woman no cry] / Kevin Young --
Mourners / Ted Kooser --
Lament / Louise Gluck --
Request / Lawrence Raab --
Elegy / Meghan O'Rourke --
Translation / Franz Wright --
Storm valediction / Campbell McGrath --
One art / Elizabeth Bishop --
Prayer / Galway Kinnell --
Part 5: Recovery --
I learn by going where I have to go --
My heart / Frank O'Hara --
Poem / Simon Armitage --
Gilded shadow / Jane Mayhall --
On new terms / Deborah Garrison --
For the anniversary of my death / W S Merwin --
Hum / Ann Lauterbach --
Try to praise the mutilated world translated by Clare Cavanagh / Adam Zagajewski --
Grief / Matthew Dickman --
My father, in heaven, is reading out loud / Li-Young Lee --
Vigil / Phillis Levin --
Practice / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Re: happiness, in pursuit thereof / C D Wright --
Light turnouts / John Ashbery --
Living alone (II) / Denise Levertov --
Beach roses / Mark Doty --
Death poem / Kim Addonizio --
Infirm / Gwendolyn Brooks --
It is what it is / Paul Muldoon --
12/19/02 --
David Leham --
Weeds and peonies / Donald Hall --
Lilacs / Richard Wilbur --
Father / Ted Kooser --
After my death / David Young --
Lucky life / Gerald Stern --
Wait / Galway Kinnell --
Wild geese / Mary Oliver --
Waking / Theodore Roethke --
Part 6: Redemption --
What will survive of us in love --
Trees / Philip Larkin --
In the city of light / Larry Levis --
Death shall have no Dominion / Dylan Thomas --
What are years? / Marianne Moore --
First Psalm / Anne Sexton --
Evening / Charles Simic --
Grasses translated by Coleman Barks / Rumi --
Redemption song / Kevin Young --
From the Clay Hill anthology / Hayden Carruth --
When death comes / Mary Oliver --
I thank you God for most this amazing / E E Cummings --
Unsolicited survey / Phillis Levin --
Yet the books translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass / Czeslaw Milosz --
Last words / James Merrill --
Music is in the piano only when it is played / Jack Gilbert --
Coda / Jason Shinder --
Litany / Aracelis Girmay --
Notes from the other side / Jane Kenyon --
Self-portrait / Charles Wright --
Mother / Anne Stevenson --
Did this ever happen to you / Franz Wright --
Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin --
Poem for a survivor / Donald Justice --
Letter from God / Ruth L Schwartz --
Otherwise / Jane Kenyon --
To breath / Kenneth Koch --
Train ride / Ruth Stone --
Acknowledgments --
Index by subject.
