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The Art of Losing POEMS of GRIEF and HEALING The Art of Losing POEMS OF GRIEF AND HEALING EDITED BY Kevin Young NEW YORK BERLIN LONDON CONTENTS Introduction XV I. Reckoning Between grief and nothing, I will take grief. W. H. Auden Musee des Beaux Arts 3 Robert Pinsky Dying 4 Rita Dove The Wake 6 Emily Dickinson "After great pain, a formal feeling comes—" 7 "My life closed twice before its dose—" 8 Brenda Hillman Secret Knowledge 9 Much Hurrying 10 Sharon Olds The Race n Terrance Hayes The Whale 13 D. H. Lawrence Silence 15 Wilfred Owen Futility 16 Anne Sexton Lament 17 Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning 18 Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 19 Lucie Brock-Broido Pyrrhic Victory 20 Philip Larkin The Mower 21 Mary Jo Bang No More 22 Ruth Stone Loss 24 Brenda Shaughnessy Ever 25 Nick Flynn Sudden 26 Ted Hughes Do Not Pick Up the Telephone 27 Vll W. H. Auden Funeral Blues 29 Natasha Trethewey Graveyard Blues 30 Donald Hall Without 31 Jean Valentine For a Woman Dead at Thirty 33 Adrienne Rich Final Notations 34 Albert Goldbarth One Continuous Substance 35 Jane Cooper Iron 36 Kevin Young Bereavement 37 Li-Young Lee This Hour and What Is Dead 40 Gerard Manley Hopkins [Carrion Comfort] 42 Forrest Hamer from Choir Practice 43 John Berryman To Bhain Campbell 44 Epilogue 45 Derek Walcott Sea Canes 46 Elizabeth Alexander Autumn Passage 47 Jane Kenyon Let Evening Come 49 II. Regret I believe, but what is belief? Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay 53 Joel Brouwer The Spots 54 Frank Bidart Like 56 Anne Stevenson Dreaming of the Dead 57 Stephen Dobyns Grief 59 Theodore Roethke Elegy for Jane 60 Donald Justice On the Death of Friends in Childhood 61 Simon Armitage The Shout 62 Michael S. Harper We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper 63 David Wojahn Written on the Due Date of a Son Never Born 65 Laure-Anne Bosselaar Stillbirth 66 Seamus Heaney Mid-Term Break 67 Vlll Gregory Orr A Litany 68 Marie Howe How Some of It Happened 69 Galway Kinnell Freedom, New Hampshire 71 Mary Oliver Ice 76 Les Murray The Last Helios 78 Lucille Clifton "oh antic God" 82 Ruth Stone Speaking to My Dead Mother 83 Thorn Gunn The Reassurance 84 Jon Pineda My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task 85 Mark Strand Elegy for My Father 86 William Matthews Men at My Father's Funeral 93 Stephen Dunn On the Death of a Colleague 94 JeffFallis Marquee Moon 96 Jim Daniels The Facts of Grief 99 Denise Duhamel David Lemieux 101 Edna St. Vincent Millay Dirge Without Music 103 III. Remembrance What did I know, what did I know. Elizabeth Alexander After 107 Owen Dodson Poems for My Brother Kenneth 109 Claudia Emerson Artifact "4 Hal Sirowitz Remember Me "5 Joy Harjo Death Is a Woman 116 Mark Doty Tiara 118 William Stafford A Memorial: Son Bret 120 Carolyn Forche The Morning Baking 121 Calvin Forbes Hand Me Down Blues 122 C. K. Williams Grief 123 Natasha Trethewey Myth 127 Etheridge Knight The Bones of My Father 128 Joseph Brodsky A Song 130 IX Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays 132 Beth Ann Fennelly Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field 133 Lucille Clifton forgiving my father 134 Dean Young White Crane 135 Arnold J. Kemp Elegy 137 D. A. Powell cosmos, late blooming 139 Afaa Michael Weaver Abiku 140 James Tate The Lost Pilot 141 Dylan Thomas A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London 143 Coleman Barks Luke and the Duct Tape 144 Erin Murphy Birthday Poem 148 Cornelius Eady You Don't Miss Your Water 150 Billy Collins The Dead 151 IV. Ritual Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill. Philip Larkin Water 155 Anne Carson My Religion 156 Anne Sexton The Truth the Dead Know 158 James Weldon Johnson Listen Lord: A Prayer 159 William Carlos Williams Dedication for a Plot of Ground 161 Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It 163 Seamus Heaney Funeral Rites 165 Toi Derricotte Not Forgotten 169 Natasha Trethewey After Your Death 170 W. D. Snodgrass Disposal 171 Deborah Digges Seersucker Suit 172 Reginald Shepherd Until She Returns 173 Quan Barry the oboe in Handel's largo from Xerxes as elegy 175 A. R. Ammons Transaction 177 William Matthews My Father's Body 178 Jean Valentine My Mother's Body, My Professor, My Bower 180 Mary Jo Salter Dead Letters 181 Grace Paley "I needed to talk to my sister" 188 Thomas Sayers Ellis Fatal April 189 Louise Gliick Celestial Music 191 Michael Ryan God 193 James Wright Trying to Pray 194 Robert Hayden Ice Storm 195 Tony Hoagland Wasteful Gesture Only Not 196 Terrance Hayes Blues Procession 198 Cornelius Eady I Just Wanna Testify 199 Matthew Rohrer Incensation at the Funeral 200 Karl Shapiro My Father's Funeral 201 Edward Hirsch Cold Calls 204 Kevin Young Burial [No Woman No Cry] 205 Ted Kooser Mourners 208 Louise Gliick Lament 209 Lawrence Raab Request 210 Meghan O'Rourke Elegy 212 Franz Wright Translation 213 Campbell McGrath Storm Valediction 214 Elizabeth Bishop One Art 215 GalwayKinnell Prayer 216 V. Recovery Ileam by going where I have togo. Frank O'Hara My Heart 219 Simon Armitage Poem 220 Jane Mayhall The Gilded Shadow 221 Deborah Garrison On New Terms 222 W. S. Merwin For the Anniversary of My Death 223 XI Ann Lauterbach Hum 224 Adam Zagajewski Try to Praise the Mutilated World translated by Clare Cavanagh 227 Matthew Dickman Grief 228 Li-Young Lee My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud 230 Phillis Levin Vigil 232 Ellen Bryant Voigt Practice 233 C.D.Wright Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof 234 John Ashbery Light Turnouts 235 Denise Levertov Living Alone (II) 236 Mark Doty Beach Roses 237 Kim Addonizio Death Poem 238 Gwendolyn Brooks Infirm 239 Paul Muldoon It Is What It Is 240 David Lehman 12/19/02 241 Donald Hall Weeds and Peonies 242 Richard Wilbur The Lilacs 243 Ted Kooser Father 245 David Young After My Death 246 Gerald Stern Lucky Life 248 Galway Kinnell Wait 250 Mary Oliver Wild Geese 251 Theodore Roethke The Waking 252 VI. Redemption What will survive of us is love. Philip Larkin The Trees 255 Larry Levis In the City of Light 256 Dylan Thomas And Death Shall Have No Dominion 258 Marianne Moore What Are Years? 259 Anne Sexton First Psalm 260 Charles Simic Evening 262 Xll Riimi The Grasses translated by Coleman Barks 263 Kevin Young Redemption Song 265 Hayden Carruth from The Clay Hill Anthology 267 Mary Oliver When Death Comes 269 e. e. cummings "i thank You God for most this amazing" 271 Phillis Levin Unsolicited Survey 272 Czeslaw Milosz And Yet the Books translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass 275 James Merrill Last Words 276 Jack Gilbert Music Is in the Piano Only When It Is Played 277 Jason Shinder Coda 278 Aracelis Girmay Litany 279 Jane Kenyon Notes from the Other Side 281 Charles Wright Self-Portrait 282 Anne Stevenson The Mother 283 Franz Wright Did This Ever Happen to You 284 Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb 285 Donald Justice Poem for a Survivor 287 Ruth L. Schwartz Letter from God 288 Jane Kenyon Otherwise 290 Kenneth Koch To Breath 291 Ruth Stone Train Ride 292 Acknowledgments 293 Index by Subject 306 Xlll.
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