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Acquainted with the night : insomnia poems / edited by Lisa Russ Spaar.
Van Pelt Library PN6110.I56 A27 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Insomnia--Poetry.
- Insomnia.
- Night--Poetry.
- Night.
- Sleep--Poetry.
- Sleep.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 183 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- "Here is a treasury of verse on the rich subject of insomnia - meditations by poets who have sought to describe their own moments of solitude in darkness, when the world's regular bustle of activity and distraction falls away and they are left to contemplate in silence."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- The Congress of the Insomniacs / Charles Simic 17
- Part 1 Solitude And Vigil
- Insomnia / Elizabeth Bishop 21
- Insomnia / Joyce Carol Oates 22
- Lines Written at Night During Insomnia / Alexander Pushkin 23
- Insomnia / Dana Gioia 24
- Insomnia / Cornelius Eady 25
- Mirrors at 4 A.M. / Charles Simic 26
- What She Said / Patumanar 27
- The Moon / Gunnar Ekelof 28
- from The Sleepers / Walt Whitman 29
- Acquainted with the Night / Robert Frost 32
- from The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth / William Shakespeare 33
- Insomnia. Homer. Taut sails / Osip Mandelstam 35
- Insomnia Song / Gregory Orr 36
- The Bench of Boors / Herman Melville 37
- Sleep's Underside / Melissa Kirsch 38
- Insomnia / Debra Nystrom 40
- On Reading The Book of Odes / Cao Ba Quat 41
- The Insomnia of Tremayne / Donald Justice 42
- Insomnia / Salvatore Quasimodo 43
- Halcion / R. T. Smith 44
- Insomniac / Sylvia Plath 46
- Moonless Night / Louise Gluck 49
- Insomnia at the Solstice / Jane Kenyon 50
- When Night is almost done [347] / Emily Dickinson 52
- If This Room Is Our World / Weldon Kees 53
- Midnight Saving Time / Adrien Stoutenburg 54
- July Dawn / Louise Bogan 56
- Psalm: The New Day / Mark Jarman 57
- Part 2 Anguish and Longing
- One Night / Umberto Saba 63
- I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day / Gerard Manley Hopkins 64
- When Loneliness Is a Man / Yusef Komunyakaa 65
- from Night of Hell / Arthur Rimbaud 67
- Job 7:2-8; 12-15; 20-21 / King James Bible 68
- Jament at Night / H. Leivick 70
- Night in a Room by the River / Tu Fu 71
- Ballad of One Doomed to Die / Federico Garcia Lorca 72
- The Broken Dark / Robert Hayden 75
- from Macbeth / William Shakespeare 77
- Apology to Andrew / Richard Jones 79
- The Cross of Snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 81
- Exile / Ellen Bryant Voigt 82
- Tonight I've watched / Sappho 83
- Aubade / Philip Larkin 84
- Adolescence
- II / Rita Dove 87
- Dark One, / how can I sleep? / Mirabai 89
- Bright Venus, who across the heavens stray / Louise Labe 91
- The Pains of Sleep / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 92
- For whatever animals dwell on earth / Petrarch 95
- Come sleep, Oh sleep, the certain knot of peace / Sir Philip Sidney 96
- Is it thy will thy image should keep open / William Shakespeare 97
- The Night Alone / Meleagros 98
- Bread and Wine / Nina Cassian 99
- She Speaks to Her Husband, Asleep / Robert Schultz 100
- Nevertheless the moon / Muriel Rukeyser 101
- Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed / William Shakespeare 103
- How can I then return in happy plight / William Shakespeare 104
- The Late Hour / Mark Strand 105
- Part 3 Epiphany and Vision
- The Appalachian Book of the Dead III / Charles Wright 111
- To the monk Diec Son at Thanh-phong Monastery / King Tran Thai-Tong 113
- from Winter / Ryokan 114
- Vtitia'q's Song [Inuit] 115
- At the end of a crazy-moon night / Lalla 116
- Relentlessly Lovelorn, the Non-Sleeper Whispers and Re-Whispers a Magic Charm Against His Wound's Roar / Stephen Margulies 117
- Make the Bed / Stephen Cushman 118
- Insomnia / Dante Gabriel Rossetti 120
- White Night / Mary Oliver 122
- Stars / Emily Bronte 124
- Bright Star / John Keats 127
- Owl / Robert Mezey 128
- Insomnia on a Summer Night / Umberto Saba 129
- Insomnia / Tristan Corbiere 131
- A Clear Midnight / Walt Whitman 134
- His Lamp Near Daybreak / Yannis Ritsos 135
- Night-Time: Starting to Write / Bernard Spencer 137
- Gift of the Poem / Stephane Mallarme 138
- Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks / Wallace Stevens 139
- hototogisu / hototogisu tote / akeni keri / Kaga no Chiyo 141
- Astronomies and slangs to find you, dear / John Berryman 142
- from Insomnia / Marina Tsvetaeva 143
- My night awake (From The Speed of Darkness) / Muriel Rukeyser 146
- The Night Person / Richard Frost 147.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 023111544X
- OCLC:
- 40881536
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