Poems of healing / edited by Karl Kirchwey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirchwey, Karl, 1956- editor.

Series:

Everyman's library pocket poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Healing--Poetry.

Healing.

Sick--Poetry.

Sick.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

239 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Summary:

"An anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing --physical, pyschological, and spiritual. With an introduction by Karl Kirchwey"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: "Abracadabra" / Quintus Serenus Sammonicus

THE ILLNESS

C. K. WILLIAMS Really

"The Soul has Bandaged moments

" / Emily Dickinson

"The sickness of angels is nothing new" / Mark Strand

From The Spleen / Anne Finch

Spleen (IV) / Charles Baudelaire

Lines Written During a Period of Insanity / Williams Cowper

From Hartford / Spencer Reece

The Virgin's Memo / Carol Ann Duffy

From Disenchantments / Douglas Dunn

[they hear the clapping of the bell and are afraid] / D. A. Powell

From The Light-Gray Soil / Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Among English Verbs / Kay Ryan

Dying / Robert Pinsky

Anorexic / Eavan Boland

Talk With a Headache / Gwyneth Lewis

Two Translations of Fragment 31 / Sappho

The Man With Night Sweats / Thom Gunn

The Funeral of Sarpedon / C. P. Cavafy

John Anderson / Keith Douglas

Pity / David Constantine

Staring at the, Sea on the Day of the Death of Another / May Swenson

THE DIAGNOSIS

Clothes / Wislawa Szymborska

Miss Gee / W. H. Auden

Little Compton / William Logan

Decision Tree / Alissa Valles

Antidote / Rafael Campo

Sonnet: Intermittent Claudication / Gavin Ewart

Prognosis / Jane Kenyon

Cancer / Lucille Clifton

1994 / Lucille Clifton

Diagnosis / C. K. Williams

Medical History / Nicole Sealey

My Mammogram / J. D. Mcclatchy

Power / Adrienne Rich

Under the Eyes / Tom Paulin

"Are we all ill with acute loneliness" / Julia Alvarez

"A Wounded Deer

- leaps highest

THE REMEDY

ABC / Robert Pinsky

Before the Game / Vasko Popa

After the Game / Vasko Popa

Eight Haiku / Masaoka Shiki

Breviary / Zbigniew Herbert

From De Medicamentis / Marcellus Empiricus

From Having It Out With Melancholy / Jane Kenyon

Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, AD 595 / C. P. Cavaey

The Flower That Drops Its Petals / Natalia Toledo

"Although a poem arises ..." / Miroslav Holub

"Although a poem is ..." / Miroslav Holub

Calibrations / Adrienne Rich

The Green Room / Greg Delanty

"When after a long silence one picks up the pen" / Mark Strand

A Slip of Paper / Louise Gluck

Kleitos' Illness / C. P. Cavaky

Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse / John Donne

From The Ship of Death / D. H. Lawrence

The Raincoat / Ada Limon

Hot Water Bottle / Mary Jo Salter

A Receipt to Cure the Vapours / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Blood and Light / Karl Kirchwey

Pain Fellow / Alissa Valles

From Phone Messages on Call / Rafael Campo

Support Group / Kate Daniels

Chemotherapy / Aimee Grunberger

From Radiation Days / J. D. Mcclatchy

Poem To My Litter / Max Ritvo

Come, Heavy Sleep / John Dowland

Deathwork / Donald Hall

From The Ruba'iyat / Omar Khayyam

Invitation to the Voyage / Charles Baudelaire

Up / Margaret Atwood

Away, Melancholy / Stevie Smith

"My own heart let me more have pity on" / Gerard Manley Hopkins

THE HEALING

Blessing The Boats / Lucille Clifton

Try to Praise the Mutilated World / Adam Zagajewski

The End and the Beginning / Wislawa Szymborska

On the Death of" the Amir's Father / Rudaki

Song: "Fear no more the heat o' th' sun" / William Shakespeare

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London / Dylan Thomas

Quarantine / Eavan Boland

From a Survivor / Adrienne Rich

For Chiara / Rosanna Warren

Black Silk / Debora Greger

Miracle / Seamus Heaney

On the Asylum Road / Charlotte Mew

Evening in the Sanitarium / Louise Bogan

Tulips / Sylvia Plath

Home After Three Months Away / Robert Lowell

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes

Morning Glory / Henri Cole

Hopkins Carrion Comfort / Gerard Manley

From In Memoriam / Lord Tennyson

"They say that `Time assuages' -" / Emily Dickinson

Retroactive / Kay Ryan

When you have forgotten Sunday: the love story / Gwendolyn Brooks

Mittelbergheim / Czeslaw Milosz

My Lady's Grave / Emily Bronte

Remember / Christina Rossetti

Sonnet XXIII "Methought I saw my late espoused Saint" / John Milton

The House / Richard Wilbur

The Cross of Snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Tomorrow as soon as the countryside pales with dawn" / Victor Hugo

The Kaleidoscope / Douglas Dunn

From Long Distance / Tony Harrison

Celebration / Grace Schulman

Farewell Performance / James Merrill

Cat in an Empty Apartment / Wislawa Szymborska

Talking to Myself / W. H. Auden

The Wound / Thom Gunn

To My Dissector / Tobias Kirchwey

Notes from the Other Side / Jane Kenyon

The Lover / Don Paterson

Crush Syndrome / Miroslav Holub

Facing It / Yusef Komunyakaa

Chorus from The Cure at Troy / Seamus Heaney

Molecules / Kate Daniels

He Stood There / Abba Kovner

Discharge / Alissa Valles

Little Prayer / Danez Smith

The Flower / George Herbert

Spring / Les Murray

The Sun This March / Wallace Stevens

Everything is Going to be All Right / Derek Mahon

The Amen Stone / Yehuda Amichai

O Heart, Small Urn / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Not for that City / Charlotte Mew

From The Second Sermon on the Warpland / Gwendolyn Brooks.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book"

ISBN:

9781101908259

1101908254

OCLC:

1164114505