Poet's choice - Hirsch, Edward (Orlando, Florida Harcourt, 2006)
Nightingales / Jorge Luis Borges -- God's grandeur ; Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Caemon's hymn -- Caedmon / Denise Levertov -- Olympian odes: Pindar ; Bacchylides -- The Greek anthology -- Sappho (fragment 31) -- The poet as maker / F.T. Prince -- The Ars poetica / Blaga Dimitrova -- The bardic order / Eavan Boland -- Aztec poets: Nezahualcoyotl, Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin -- Riddles / Daniel Hoffman, Ella Bat-Tzion, Eytan Eytan -- Charms / Thomas Campion, Kathy Fagan -- Lines: 'I am' / John Clare -- Christmas poems / Thomas Hardy, Robert Fitzgerald -- Rooms ; The call / Charlotte Mew -- Cuchulain comforted / W.B. Yeats -- Rabindranath Tagore, final poems -- Night of terror ; The bosses of Rome / Giuseppe Belli -- In memory of / Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Sit the noon out ... ; The eel / Eugenio Montale -- The panther ; The gazelle / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Self-portraits: Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Bidart -- The saying / Ernst Stadler -- Butterfly / Nelly Sachs -- Women and war: After every war -- The beggar woman of Naples ; The yellow star again / Max Jacob -- Insomnia / Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva -- Opened my veins ... / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Incantation by laughter ; Russia, I give you ... / Velimir Khlebnikov -- May 24, 1980 / Joseph Brodsky -- Gift / Czeslaw Milosz -- A flame ; Fire ; A quick poem / Adam Zagajewski -- Nothing is lost / Tomaz Salamun -- A wake for the living / Radmila Lazic -- Shema / Primo Levi -- Blessed are they who sow and do not reap ... / Avraham Ben Yitzhak -- Merciful God / Kadya Molodowsky -- Letter of recommendation ; My father's Memorial Day / Yehuda Amichai -- J'Accuse / Aharon Shabtai -- Abd El-Hadi fights a superpower / Taha Muhammad Ali.Here there was once a country / Venus Khoury-Ghata -- Thomas Lux, Saadi Youssef / Protest poetry -- Sad toys / Ishikawa Takuboku -- Garden fragrance ; Night harvest ; Summer / Lam Thi My Da, Zuan Quynh -- My heart can't go on any longer / Miguel Hernandez -- The black heralds ; Mass / Cesar Vallejo -- Suffering / Rudolph Muller, Cesar Vallejo -- Self-naming / Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cesar Vallejo -- Body of a woman / Pablo Neruda -- Roller coaster ; I take back everything I've said / Nicanor Parra -- To Eros ; To my lady of poetry / Alfonsina The enigmas / Jorge Luis Borges -- Between going and staying / Octavio Paz -- Seawall / Julia de Burgos -- Contemporary Mexican poets (Reversible monuments) -- Sleep and poetry / Mary Ruefle, Maria Negroni -- Praise of a collie / Norman MacCaig -- The disguises / P.K. Page -- Spell of creation / Kathleeen Raine -- Waste land limericks / Wendy Cope -- Still life / Thom Gunn -- To E.T. ; The owl / Robert Frost ; Edward Thomas -- Arabic / Agha Shahid Ali -- It's me, I'm not home ; Lullaby / Reetika Vazirani -- Reading / C.K. Williams, Wallace Stevens -- Birth poems / John Berryman, Lee Upton -- The poet as mother / Kate Daniels, Kathleen Ossip -- The runner / Allen Grossman -- The portrait / Stanley Kunitz -- Childhood / Robert Hayden -- The flag of childhood / Naomi Nye -- Grandparents: Lorine Niedecker, Li-Young Lee -- Ichabod! / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Baseball / Richard Hugo -- The American prose poem / Russell Edson -- The banner bearer / William Carlos Williams -- The taxi / Amy Lowell -- Psalm / George Oppen -- Yom Kippur: Jacqueline Osherow -- Psalms / Brooks Haxton.
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Keywords: Poetry -- History and criticism