The mind has cliffs of fall : poems at the extremes of feeling / edited by Robert Pinsky.
A bold new anthology of poems that contend with the most extreme human emotions, from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781324001782
- ISBN: 132400178X
- Physical Description: xxii, 225 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The sleep of reason. The man of double deed / Anonymous -- In night, when colors all to black are cast / Fulke Greville -- Line written during a period of insanity / William Cowper -- I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson -- To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane -- from Of being numerous / George Oppen -- Visits to St. Elizabeths / Elizabeth Bishop -- Bypassing Rue Descartes / Czeslaw Milosz -- Block and bag / Tom Sleigh -- Arrows / Tony Hoagland -- Creekthroat / Atsuro Riley -- Kitchen maid with supper at Emmaus; or, The mulata / Natasha Trethewey -- Some kind of crazy / Major Jackson -- Mystic bounce / Terrance Hayes -- Ignatz invoked / Monica Youn -- Dentro de la Tormenta / Ange Mlinko -- a violence / Nicole Sealey -- Is your country a he or a she in your mouth / Patricia Lockwood -- Pashtu refresher / Graham Barnhart -- Grief. Elegy for Philip Sidney / Fulke Greville -- On my first son / Ben Johnson -- On the death of Dr. Robert Levet / Samuel Johnson -- Epitaph of a hare / William Cowper -- When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd / Walt Whitman -- It was not Death, for I stood up / Emily Dickinson -- The Emperor of Ice-Cream / Wallace Stevens -- The brothers / Edwin Muir -- Funeral blues / W. H. Auden -- The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Funeral oration for a mouse / Alan Dugan -- Forbidden city / Gail Mazur -- Visitors from abroad / Louise Glück -- The illusion / Carol Muske-Dukes -- What the living do / Marie Howe -- Going to zero / Peter Balakian -- Cemetery Moles / Robert Wrigley -- from Beautiful boyfriend / Marilyn Chin -- Lyric knowledge / James Longenbach -- Sudden / Nick Flynn -- Postcard to Thom / Joshua Weiner -- One-way gate / Jenny George -- Love and rage. Artfully adorned Aphrodite / Sappho -- Caelica LXIX (When all this all) / Fulke Greville -- Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee / Michael Drayton -- My picture left in Scotland / Ben Johnson -- Before the birth of one of her children / Anne Bradstreet -- Love armed / Aphra Behn -- To George Sand / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- I cannot live with you / Emily Dickinson -- The destroyer of a soul / Lionel Johnson -- I, being born a woman and distressed / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Men loved wholly beyond wisdom / Louise Bogan -- Harlem happiness / Sterling Brown -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Love song: I and thou / Alan Dugan -- Fado / J. D. McClatchy -- Liar's karma / Erin Belieu -- First miracle / A. E. Stallings -- Mug shot / Cate Marvin -- The hunch / Kevin Young -- Father and son / Dan Chiasson -- Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds / John Murillo -- Between / Shane McCrane -- The arrangement / Vanesssa Pravin -- Poem / Wendy Trevino -- we drive home from the lake, sand in our shoes / Keetje Kuipers -- Despair. from Inferno, Canto II / Dante Alighieri -- The glass helmet, from Piers Plowman / William Langland -- Down in the depth of mine iniquity / Fulke Greville -- A hymn to God the Father / John Donne -- An ode to himself / Ben Johson -- The difference between despair and fear / Emily Dickinson -- The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy -- No worst, there is none / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- To a friend whose work has come to nothing / William Butler Yeats -- In a dark time / Theodore Roethke -- Five flights up / Elizabeth Bishop -- Life, friends, is boring / John Berryman -- Cut / Sylvia Plath -- Poor north / Mark Strand -- Playground / Alan Shapiro -- Solstice / Tracy K. Smith -- Zoloft / Maggie Dietz -- Little song / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- Guilt, shame, blame. The cruel mother / Anonymous -- Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame / William Shakespeare -- To heaven / Ben Jonson -- Sin / George Herbert -- A poison tree / William Blake -- I am / John Clare -- Channel firing / Thomas Hardy -- Yesterday / W. S. Merwin -- The image / C. K. Williams -- Failure / Philip Schultz -- Trouble with math in a one-room country school / Jane Kenyon -- Not to be dwelled on / Heather McHugh -- In memoriam Paul Celan / Edward Hirsch -- Hattie McDaniel arrives at the coconut grove / Rita Dove -- Milt and Sally / Mark Halliday -- After the thunder, before the rain / Carl Phillips -- Anoosh's obituary for himself, to his son / Adam Day -- Manic laughter. Grecian kindness / John Wilmot -- from Jubilate agno / Christopher Smart -- You are old, Father William / Lewis Carroll -- The pleasures of merely circulating / Wallace Stevens -- My apish cousins / Marianne Moore -- Several voices out of a cloud / Louise Bogan -- Sunt Leones / Stevie Smith -- To 'yes / Kenneth Koch -- Naphtha / Frank O'Hara -- Bop lyrics / Allen Ginsberg -- Abstentions / John Ashbery -- The author reflects on his 35th birthday / Ishmael Reed -- What narcissism means to me / Tony Hoagland -- Ellipsis, third or fourth dot, depending / Stuart Dischell -- Mad love / Martín Espada -- The Library at Alexandria / Joel Brouwer -- The halo / C. Dale Young -- This is a confessional poem / Kathryn Maris -- Three a.m. / Jill McDonough -- Not horses / Natalie Shapero -- In defense of nature poetry / Katie WIllingham. |
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Subject: | Emotions > Poetry. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | 808.819353 M663h 2019 (Text) | 33126024188496 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Covington Branch | 808.819353 M663h 2019 (Text) | 33126025014402 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |