ImprintNew York : Bloomsbury USA, 2010.
Descriptionxxiv, 311 pages ; 22 cm
Note: ContentIntroduction -- 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.
Note: ContentPart 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 --
Abstract:The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by therapists, ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are experiencing loss. Among the poets included: Elizabeth Alexander, W. H. Auden, Amy Clampitt, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Louise Gluck, Ted Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Marianne Moore, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott, and James Wright.-- Amazon.com.
ISBN:9781608190331 (hbk.)
ISBN:1608190331 (hbk.)
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