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The dance / selected and edited by Emily Fragos.
Van Pelt Library PN6110.D3 D359 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Everyman's library pocket poets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--Poetry.
- Dance.
- Dancers.
- Dancers--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
- Summary:
- A celebration in verse of the silent poetry of dance and the dancer, this anthology features a dizzying range of subjects: Chinese dagger dances and Hindu festival dances, belly dancers and whirling dervishes, high school proms and wedding waltzes, tango, tarantella, flamenco, modern dance, reels and jigs, disco, and ballet. Some of the world' s most famous choreographers and dancers move through the poems gathered here: from Nijinsky and Pavlova to Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, from Isadora Duncan to George Balanchine and Martha Graham, from Bojangles to Baryshnikov. The work of more than 150 poets- including Shakespeare, Milton, Hafiz, Rumi, Li Po, Rilke, Rimbaud, Lorca, Akhmatova, Whitman, Dickinson, Cummings, Eliot, and Merrill- reflects the grace, the drama, the expressive power, and the sheer joy to be found in dance around the world and through the ages.
- Contents:
- Nymphes & Graces Dauncing
- From The Theogony / Hesiod 21
- From L'Allegro / John Milton 22
- From The Cities of the Plain / John Greenleaf Whittier 23
- "For you, Aphrodite, I'll compose a dance" / Anna Akhmatova 24
- 31:4 From The Old Testament / Jeremiah 25
- From The Shepheardes Calender: April / Edmund Spenser 26
- A Song to the Maskers / Robert Herrick 27
- From Endymion / John Keats 28
- From The Iliad / Homer 30
- From The Odyssey / Homer 32
- Gratiana Dauncing & Singing / Richard Lovelace 33
- From The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser 34
- From The Pythian Odes / Pindar 37
- Let Joy Be Unconfined
- The Dance / William Carlos Williams 41
- Dream Variation / Langston Hughes 42
- From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage / George Gordon, Lord Byron 43
- Life Is Motion / Wallace Stevens 44
- 3:1-4 From The Old Testament / Ecclesiastes 45
- Native Moments / Walt Whitman 46
- From Prometheus Unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley 47
- Spring / Thomas Nashe 48
- Tam O'Shanter / Robert Burns 49
- On Maria Dancing / Robert Burns 49
- From The Illuminations / Arthur Rimbaud 50
- From The Lords' Masque / Thomas Campion 51
- The Night Dance / Thomas Moore 52
- From Edward the Second / Christopher Marlowe 53
- "Dance, when you're broken open" / Jalaluddin Rumi 54
- "Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely" / Anon. 54
- From The Shepherd's Calendar / John Clare 55
- Dance, My Heart! / Rabindranath Tagore 56
- From Don Juan / George Gordon, Lord Byron 57
- From The Secular Masque / John Dryden 58
- From The Village Coquettes / Charles Dickens 59
- Imitated from the Japanese / W. B. Yeats 60
- Love's Proper Exercise
- From The Winter's Tale / William Shakespeare 63
- Give Me Your Hand / Gabriela Mistral 64
- "Chanting old poems" / Ryokan 65
- Little Viennese Waltz / Federico Garcia Lorca 66
- From Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing / John Davies 68
- Dance of the Girls' Chemises / Jaroslav Seifert 69
- The Dance / Rupert Brooke 71
- From Love Restored / Ben Jonson 72
- Song / William Blake 73
- From The Lay of the Last Minstrel / Walter Scott 74
- From Chastelard, a Tragedy / Algernon Charles Swinburne 75
- From The Tempest / William Shakespeare 76
- Seeing Her Dancing / Robert Heath 77
- From Maud / Lord Tennyson Alfred 78
- From The Odes / Horace 80
- Reciprocal Invitation to the Dance / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 81
- The Belle of the Ball / William Mackworth Praed 83
- Streets / Paul Verlaine 84
- Dancer / Carl Sandburg 85
- From Four Quartets: East Coker / T. S. Eliot 86
- From The Lords' Masque / Thomas Campion 87
- From Evangeline / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 88
- A Ballad Upon a Wedding / John Suckling 89
- Dance Figure / Ezra Pound 90
- Dance Me to the End of Love / Leonard Cohen 92
- May I Have This Dance?
- From The Waltz / George Gordon, Lord Byron 97
- Tango / Daniel Halpern 98
- Tarantella / D. H. Lawrence 100
- The Lobster Quadrille / Lewis Carroll 101
- From The Death of the Minuet / Catherine Maria Fanshawe 103
- The Waltz / Richard Brinsley Sheridan 104
- From Watching the Dance / James Merrill 105
- From Breakdancing / Jorie Graham 106
- Jazz Dancer / Cornelius Eady 107
- Fox Trot Fridays / Rita Dove 110
- Nostalgia / Billy Collins 111
- First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels / Allen Ginsberg 114
- The Best Slow Dancer / David Wagoner 115
- Children Making Merry
- "The line of dancing children on the shore" / Eugenio Montale 119
- The Little Dancers / Laurence Binyon 120
- From The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning 121
- "Rainy afternoon..." / ISSA 122
- The Baby's Dance / Ann Taylor 122
- "Dancing on the hill-tops" / Christina Rossetti 123
- How a Little Girl Danced / Vachel Lindsay 124
- The Urchins' Dance / John M. Lyly 126
- To a Child Dancing in the Wind / W. B. Yeats 126
- The God Who Only Knows Four Words / Hafiz 127
- Bring on the Dancing Girls!
- Spanish Dancer / Rainer Maria Rilke 131
- Salome's Dancing-Lesson / Dorothy Parker 132
- Belly Dancer / Diane Wakoski 133
- Javanese Dancers / Arthur Symons 135
- Dance / Federico Garcia Lorca 136
- Egyptian Dancer at Shubra / Bernard Spencer 137
- From A Song of Dagger-Dancing / Tu Fu 138
- Dance of a Nautch Girl / Anon. 139
- The Dancing Girl / Li Po 140
- Folk & Ethnic
- News of the Gold World of May / Delmore Schwartz 143
- From New Mexican Mountain / Robinson Jeffers 145
- Butterfly Dance-Song / Tawakwaptiwa 146
- The Dance at the Little Gila Ranch / James Barton Adams 147
- From Living in the Past - Part III / Philip Schultz 149
- From The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo / W. S. Gilbert 150
- Danse Africaine / Langston Hughes 153
- From Stravinsky's Three Pieces, "Grotesques," for String Quartet / Amy Lowell 154
- The Fiddler of Dooney / W. B. Yeats 156
- The World of Ballet
- Dance Memories / Denise Levertov 159
- The Ballet / Thomas Hardy 160
- The Girl Dreams that She Is Giselle / Randall Jarrell 161
- Les Sylphides / Louis Macneice 162
- From The Bayaderes / Sacheverell Sitwell 164
- The Swan / Stephen Spender 165
- Dialogue at the Ballet / William Meredith 166
- "I cannot dance upon my Toes" / Emily Dickinson 167
- Boy and Mom at the Nutcracker Ballet / Naomi Shihab Nye 168
- Ballet School / Babette Deutsch 170
- Modern Dance
- From Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen / W. B. Yeats 173
- Isadora Duncan Dancing / Louis Untermeyer 174
- The Kingdom Within / Ruth St. Denis 175
- Martha Graham / James Laughlin 176
- Pearl Primus / Owen Dodson 177
- From For the Dancer, Fred Herko / Jack Marshall 178
- For David Mercer / Adrian Mitchell 179
- From Merce of Egypt / Charles Olson 180
- From Choreography / Alfred Corn 181
- Homage
- At Kamin's Dance Bookshop / Frank O'Hara 185
- Dance Piece / Ben Belitt 186
- Suzanne Farrell, Davidsbundlertanze / Emily Fragos 188
- Arthur Mitchell / Marianne Moore 189
- Tallchief in Orpheus / Elise Paschen 190
- To New York City Ballet / Kenneth Koch 192
- From Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance to / Carl Sandburg 193
- From The War of Vaslav Nijinsky / Frank Bidart 194
- From Pavlova in London / James Elroy Flecker 196
- Bojangles and Jo / James A. Emanuel 197
- Nureyev's Feet / Scott Hightower 198
- From Nijinski / George Seferis 199
- From Owl Dancing with Fred Astaire / Sherman Alexie 201
- The Elusive Dance
- From The Bacchae / Euripides 205
- From An Essay on Criticism / Alexander Pope 206
- Farewell Performance / James Merrill 207
- The English Dancers - II / John Masefield 209
- "Six" / E. E. Cummings 211
- From The Divine Comedy: Paradise / Dante Alighieri 213
- The Secret Sits / Robert Frost 214
- Buckdancer's Choice / James Dickey 215
- The Lost Dancer / Jean Toomer 217
- Once More, the Round / Theodore Roethke 218
- To One in Paradise / Edgar Allan Poe 219
- From Memorial to D.C. / Edna St. Vincent Millay 221
- The Harlot's House / Oscar Wilde 222
- Upon a Company of Bad Dancers to Good Musick / Anne Finch 224
- From Four Quartets: Burnt Norton / T. S. Eliot 225
- "At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well" / John Berryman 226
- The Harlem Dancer / Claude Mckay 227
- From The Ballad of Reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde 228
- Dervish / J. D. Mcclatchy 229
- Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz / Wallace Stevens 231
- From The Sonnets to Orpheus: XV / Rainer Maria Rilke 233
- From The Sonnets to Orpheus: XVIII / Rainer Maria Rilke 234
- From Death's Echo / W. H. Auden 235.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1841597686
- 0307263509 :
- OCLC:
- 68572350
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