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Home , Adam Zagajewski, Jo Shapcott, Matthew Sweeney, Michael Donaghy, Neil Astley, Philippe Jaccottet

STAYING ALIVE real poems for unreal times

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SUB Gottingen 7 219 048 886

2006 A 6305

BISODAXG BQ5K5 CONTENTS

Various 18 Poets on poetry Neil Astley 19 Introduction Mary Oliver 28 Wild Geese 1 Body and soul Denise Levertov 31 Living Andrew Greig 31 Orkney / This Life Alistair Elliot 32 Northern Morning Raymond Carver 33 Happiness James Merrill 33 My Father's Irish Setters 35 Legs Lucille Clifton 36 homage to my hips Grven Harwood 36 Naked Vision Thorn Gunn 37 The Hug Tess Gallagher 38 The Hug 39 Chemin de Fer Alden Nowlan 40 He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded 41 An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow Michael Longley 43 A Prayer 43 Prayer Czeslaw Milosz 44 Encounter 44 FROM The Tenth Duino Elegy Denise Levertov 45 Variation on a Theme by Rilke Gjertrud Schnackenberg46 FROM A Gilded Lapse of Time Kevin Hart 47 Dark Angel Nina Cassian 48 Temptation 48 Poppies in October 49 'Eyesight of Wasps' David Constantine 49 The Wasps 50 The Old World Robert Bly 50 Watering the Horse Chase Twichell 51 Saint Animal Carol Rumens 51 Jarrow Stephen Dobyns 52 Where We Are 2 Roads and journeys Robert Frost 55 The Road Not Taken James K. "Baxter 55 The Bay Elizabeth Garrett 56 Tyranny of Choice Stevie Smith 57 Not Waving but Drowning Vona Groarke 99 57 Poem Tonight of Yesterday Hay den Carruth 100 Carl Sandburg 58 Choose Sonnet James Wright 100 Vladimir Holan 58 Meeting in a Lift Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm William Empson 101 E.E. Cummings 58 'i thank You God for most this amazing' Missing Dates WeldonKees 101 Dennis O'Driscoll 59 You Villanelle Gjertrud Schnackenberg 102 Brendan Kennelly 60 Begin Signs | Galway Kinnell 103 Louis MacNeice 60 Entirely FROM When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone j[ Brendan Kennelly 103 Adrienne Rich 61 Integrity My Dark Fathers J /& ^n#Af 104 Galway Kinnell 63 The Bear Hoping It Might Be So f Charles Wright 105 Delmore Schwartz 66 The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me Clear Night | Robert Bly 106 John Berryman 67 FROM Dream Songs Defeated ]• Theodore Roethke 106 Tracey Herd 67 FROM Some mangled dream songs for Henry The Waking Kapka Kassabova 107 Freda Downie 68 Window Mirages : Eibhlin Nic Eochaidh 108 69 The door How to kill a living thing Anne Michaels 109 FROM Sublimation Kapka Kassabova 70 The Door Robert Frost 71 Directive CW 7iwVA<;// 110 Horse Gillian Allnutt 72 The Road Home £*/Paul Muldoon 74 History Rosemary Tonks 113 Addiction to an Old Mattress Maura Dooley 75 History 113 Things Vladimir Holan 75 Snow Elma Mitchell 114 Thoughts After Ruskin Lawrence Sail 76 The Cablecar Elizabeth Bartlett 115 Themes for Women Galway Kinnell 77 That Silent Evening Maura Dooley 116 What Every Woman Should Carry Mary Oliver 78 The Journey 116 Handbag Helen Dunmore 79 When You've Got Jenny Joseph 117 Warning Muriel Rukeyser 80 Yes • Theodore Roethke 117 Dolor Stephen Dunn 81 Happiness ; Elizabeth Bishop 118 One Art 81 Machines j L0««6" G/M&?« Daww 120 Sadness William Stafford 84 Traveling through the Dark Stephen Dunn 121 Sweetness John Burnside 84 Penitence AldenNowlan 122 The Execution W.N. Herbert 86 Slow Animals Crossing >w« JTrjgAf 123 A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack Elizabeth Bishop 87 The Moose Bertolt Brecht 124 Epistle on Suicide Thomas Lux 92 Wife Hits Moose Stevie Smith 124 Harold's Leap V4M«^ Sexton 125 Her Kind 3 Dead or alive Tracey Herd 126 Anne Sexton's Last Letter to God Jaan Kaplinski 95 'To eat a pie and to have it...' Robert Frost 128 My November Guest Louise Gliick 95 Trillium 128 She Dotes Elizabeth Daryush 96 'I saw the daughter of the sun...' /?.5. 77wm