Say this of horses : a selection of poems / edited by C. E. Greer and Jenny Kander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greer, C. E. (Charles E.)

Kander, Jenny, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Poetry.

Horses.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xviii, 167 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2007.

Summary:

Containing more than a hundred poems by seventy-four poets of twenty-two nationalities, "Say This of Horses" represents the abundance of poems about horses that have been written throughout the ages and around the world.

Contents:

I Antiquity

The First Horse Prayer / Theodore Enslin 3

from "Burial of the Minnisink," / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4

With the Flesh Remaining / Jean Monahan 5

Two Horses / W. S. Merwin 6

from "Cuchullin in His Chariot," / Ancient Erse Legend 8

The Myth: Raison d'Etre / Pattiann Rogers 10

From Dread in the Eyes of Horses / Tess Gallagher 12

Horses and Men in Rain / Carl Sandburg 13

II Here, Now

Hard Foaling / Michael List 17

Young Horses! Young Horses! / Paul Boldt 18

All through the Rains / Gary Snyder 19

The Grace of Geldings in Ripe Pastures / Maxine Kumin 20

After Rain / David Baker 21

Equus / C. E. Greer 22

Bareback / William Hathaway 24

After the X-Ray / Alison Brackenhury 25

[Terrible] / Lawrence Ferlinghetti 26

Dawn Feeding / Leslie Ullman 27

from "Horse Sense," / William Hathaway 29

Amanda Dreams She Has Died and Gone to the Elysian Fields / Maxine Kumin 30

Healing the Mare / Linda McCarriston 31

Old Lilacs / Ted Kooser 32

At Grass / Philip Larkin 33

Thinking of Death and Dogfood / Maxine Kumin 34

Yellowjackets / Yusef Komunyakaa 36

Names of Horses / Donald Hall 37

An Elegy on the Death of Dobbin, the Butterwoman's Horse / Francis Fawkes 38

Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand / Larry Lewis 40

III Essence

Horses Graze / Gwendolyn Brooks 47

A Blessing / James Wright 48

The Sorrel / Roger Pfingston 49

Horses / Vizma Belsevica 50

You Can Lead a Horse to Water / Jean Monahan 51

Two Horses Playing in the Orchard / James Wright 53

The Horsemen / David Wagoner 54

The Judas-Horse / David Baker 55

The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken / Vachel Lindsay 57

The Appaloosa / Michael S. Weaver 59

Sending the Mare to Auction / Jana Harris 60

Horse / Jason S. Greer 61

Horses / Pablo Neruda 62

Horses in the Lake / Pablo Antonio Cuadra 63

from "The Golden Ode," / Imru' al-Qays 65

Piano / Stanley Plumly 67

Feeding Horses / C. E. Greer 68

from "If Poetry Were Not a Morality," / Tess Gallagher 69

Sonnet to Orpheus, 1:20 / Rainer Maria Rilke 70

Horse / Anne Sexton 71

White Horses / Claude Wilkinson 72

IV Harnessed

The White Stallion / Umayyah Ibn Abi Salt 77

Say This of Horses / Minnie Hite Moody 78

Horse Description / Labid ibn Rabi'ah 79

The Battle of Lake Regillus / Thomas Babington Macaulay 80

from "Horses and Prisoners," / James Dickey 82

Battle / Aleksandr Tkachenko 83

The Ballad of a Blind Pit Horse / Paul Zech 84

The Klipsan Stallions / Linda Bierds 85

The Trail Horse / David Wagoner 87

The Horse / William Carlos Williams 89

The Morning Track / Edward Parone 90

Morning Workout / Babette Deutsch 91

Polo Ponies Practicing / Wallace Stevens 93

The Horse-Pulling / May Sarton 94

Bronco Busting, Event #1 / May Swenson 96

Stewball / Irish Folk Song 97

Phaeton / Robin Becker 98

Two Horses / Roger Pfingston 99

V Mirrors

Morning Once More / Joy Harjo 103

There Are Two Worlds / Larry Levis 104

Horses / Murilo Mendes 106

She Had Some Horses / Joy Harjo 107

I once knew a man / Lucille Clifton 109

The Summer of the Watergate Hearings / Maxine Kumin 110

Blue Cloud Rides Horses / Edgar Silex 111

In the Nursing Home / Jane Kenyon 112

Grazing Horses / Kay Ryan 113

Ice Horses / Joy Harjo 114

from "The Horse Fair," / Robin Becker 115

On Looking at Stubbs's "Anatomy of the Horse," / Edward Lucie-Smith 117

Neon Horses / Dorianne Laux 118

Horse in Amsterdam, after Rembrandt / Lawrence Ferlinghetti 120

Horse Collage / Jenny Kander 121

Caballos / Lola Haskins 122

The Horse in the Drugstore / Tess Gallagher 123

[Don't let that horse] / Lawrence Ferlinghetti 124

VI Lenses

Dream Horses / Nancy Willard 127

Southern Horses / Xi Chuan 128

We Are Riding / Rajzel Zychlinsky 129

Horse in the Cage / Stanley Plumly 130

White Horse of the Father, White Horse of the Son / William Pitt Root 131

Naked Boys on Naked Ponies / Pattiann Rogers 133

The Triangular Field / Stephen Dobyns 135

The Dusk of Horses / James Dickey 136

Horsehair Insulation / Jean Monahan 138

from "Sitting in a Small Screenhouse on a Summer Morning," / James Wright 140

Ponies / Lauris Edmond 141

The Horse / W. S. Merwin 142

Pegasus / Varlam, Shalamov 143

Horses / W. S. Merwin 144

The Thunder of Silence / Mihai Ursachi 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1587295261

9781587295263

OCLC:

85824041