No word of farewell : selected poems 1970-2000

Poems. Selections

Introduction / If My Song: New Poems -- 1969 -- My Agent Says -- 1-800 -- Black Helicopters -- At Rose's Range -- Just Folks -- The Classroom at the Mall -- Body Bags -- West Palm -- Audenesque: For the Late Returns -- Local Initiative -- The Ballad of Burton and Bobby and Bill -- Rhapsode -- Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry -- The Easiest Room in Hell -- Ballade of the Yale Younger Poets of Yesteryear -- Two Villanelles -- Lies -- Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins -- Chang Eng -- Two Portraits -- A Toast from Cana -- Human Nature -- Coastal Freeze -- Make Us an Offer -- The Dream Again -- Randolph Field, 1938 -- A Box of Ashes -- The Great Fear -- Cleante to Elmire -- At the Center -- Bone Scan -- The Dark Place -- Before Prostate Surgery -- Train for Ill: A Ballad -- Release -- More Light: Translations, Parodies, Verse -- Francois Villon: Epitaph -- Francois Villon: The Debate of Body and Heart -- Anonymous: Sonnet against Racine's Phedre -- Heinrich Heine: The Slave Ship -- Stephane Mallarme: Windows -- Albrecht Haushofer: Three Sonnets from Moabit Prison -- The Bard of Via Voice -- Versions for the Millennium -- The Professor's Lot -- Yuppigrams: Snapshots from the 80s -- Squibs -- Why They Love Us -- From The Narcissiad -- The Education of Narcissus -- Immortal Combat -- The Triumph of Narcissus -- The Drive-In -- Ars Poetica -- Among Philistines -- Monsieur Magus -- Letter from Carthage -- Iago to His Torturers -- Horatio's Philosophy.

The poets' corner : the one-and-only poetry book for the whole family

Dover beach / Musée des Beaux Arts / Dream song 76: Henry's confession / Filling station / The tyger / We real cool / How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet 43) / To a mouse / I would I were a careless child / Jabberwocky / from The general prologue / Kubla Khan / To Brooklyn Bridge / if everything happens that can't be done / There is no frigate like a book (1263) / Song (Go and catch a falling star) / Rhapsody on a windy night / Birches / Love unrequited, or the nightmare song / A supermarket in California / The beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen / Pied beauty / When I was one-and-twenty / The weary blues / The death of the ball turret gunner / Inviting a friend to supper / To autumn / Days / The owl and the pussy-cat / A psalm of life / The public garden / To his coy mistress / Love is not all / Poetry / No doctors today, thank you / Afternoon / Annabel Lee / The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Up-hill / Chicago / Fear no more the heat o' the sun / To a skylark / Sonnet LXXV (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) / If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso / The emperor of ice-cream / Do not go gentle into that good night / There was a child went forth / The red wheelbarrow / I wandered lonely as a cloud / The lake isle of Innisfree

The philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre

Works. Selections. English. 1965

Consciousness -- Self-consciousness -- Consciousness and reflection -- The Vertigo of consciousness -- Consciousness of existence -- Storytelling -- Contingency -- The Work of art -- Emotional consciousness -- Imaginative consciousness -- Perception and imagination -- Mental and material images -- From the sign to the image -- Thought and imagination -- Feeling and imagination -- Art and existence -- Consciousness and being -- The Pursuit of being -- Consciousness of something -- The Ontological proof -- The Encounter with nothingness -- The Question -- Anguish -- Possibility -- Flight -- Self-negation -- Bad faith -- The Unconscious -- Play-acting -- Sincerity -- The "Faith" of bad faith -- The Being of consciousness -- Facticity -- Transcendence -- Value -- The Circuit of selfness -- Consciousness and the other -- Hell is other people -- The Encounter with the other -- The Look -- Shame -- Fear and pride -- The Body -- Desire -- The Caress -- The Obscene -- Consciousness and action -- Resistance -- The Deed -- Being and doing -- Intention and motive -- Motive and reason -- Choice -- Conversion -- Freedom -- The Given -- My past -- My situation -- My responsibility -- Doing and having -- Self-expression -- The Desire to be -- Existential psychoanalysis -- The Desire to make -- Play -- The Desire to have -- Existential symbolism -- Existential metaphysics -- Existential ethics -- Consciousness and literature -- Art and action -- Poetry and prose -- The Writer and his audience -- Art and salvation -- A Vertiginous word -- The Language of crime -- The Crime of art -- Consciousness and society -- Actions and meanings -- Individual actions and social consequences -- Dialectical reason -- Anyone at all -- Need -- Scarcity -- Expendables -- Violence -- Labor -- Reification -- The Tool -- Social structures -- Solitude -- The Series -- Alienation -- The Group -- Encirclement -- Apocalypse -- The Oath -- Terror -- The Institution -- The Scandal -- The Verdict of history --

Selected poems

Poems. Selections

American poets continuum series ;

The Front Parlor -- To My Brother -- To My Aunt -- In the Sleep of Fathers -- Prisoners -- The Nameless Garden -- Figures in a Stranger's Dream -- To My Sister -- The Wait -- The Moth -- Fireflies -- The First Day -- On Our Unborn Child -- In Advent -- To Daphne on the Third and Fourth Days of Her Life -- Begin Again -- Lament in Spring -- Against Spring -- Script Prospectus -- Science -- Song in Spring -- September 1, 1979 -- Testament -- Cave Dwellers -- Daughter's Song -- Children in Fog -- Factory Hands -- Poem on a Photograph of a Young Painter -- Saltimbanques -- The Singers -- Red Air -- Calco di Cadevere di Donna: Pompeii -- Makers and Lovers -- Geese -- Angelic Orders: A Bestiary of Angels -- Fear Survey Schedule -- Angelic Orders -- The Angels of the American Dream -- The Angels of Birth -- The Angels of Criticism -- The Angel of DNA -- The Angels of Eternal Life -- The Angels of Film -- The Angel of the Gate -- The Angel of the Henhouse -- The Angel of Imagination -- The Angels of the Jungle -- The Angels of Knowledge -- The Angels of Love -- The Angel of Molecules -- The Angels of New England -- The Angel of Oblivion -- The Angels of Poetry -- The Angels of Quasars -- The Angels of Radiators -- The Angels of the Suburbs -- The Angels of Transmigration -- The Angels of the Underground -- The Angels of Vietnam -- The Angel of the Wolf Pack -- The Angels of Xanadu -- The Angels of Youth -- The Angel of Zealots -- Lucifer, Falling -- Letters from the Tower -- Letters from the Tower.

The branch will not break : poems

The Wesleyan poetry program

Wesleyan poetry program.

As I step over a puddle at the end of winter, I think of an ancient Chinese governor -- Goodbye to the poetry of calcium -- In fear of harvests -- Three stanzas from Goethe -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio -- Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota -- The jewel -- In the face of hatred -- Fear is what quickens me -- A message hidden in an empty wine bottle that I threw into a gully of maple trees one night at an indecent hour -- Stages on a journey westward -- How my fever left -- Miners -- In Ohio -- Two poems about President Harding -- Eisenhower's visit to Franco, 1959 -- In memory of a Spanish poet -- The undermining of the defense economy -- Twilights -- Two hangovers -- Depressed by a book of bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me -- Two horses playing in the orchard -- By a lake in Minnesota -- Beginning -- From a bus window in Central Ohio, just before a thunder shower -- March -- Trying to pray -- Two spring charms -- Spring images -- Arriving in the country again -- In the cold house -- Snowstorm in the Midwest -- Having lost my sons, I confront the wreckage of the moon : Christmas 1960 -- American wedding -- A prayer to escape from the market place -- Rain -- Today I was happy, so I made this poem -- Mary Bly -- To the evening star : Central Minnesota -- I was afraid of dying -- A blessing -- Milkweed -- A dream of burial.

Love lessons : selected poems of Alda Merini

Poems. Selections. English & Italian

Facing pages

Facing pages.

From Poetry's Flower -- From the Presence of Orpheus (1953) -- The Presence of Orpheus -- Will I Be Alone? -- From Fear of God (1955) -- Only an Angel's Hand -- Mary of Egypt (Tintoretto) -- Peace -- From Roman Wedding (1955) -- Roman Wedding -- The Pieta -- The Cumaean Sibyl -- When the Anguish -- From You Are Pietro (1961) -- From the First Part -- Peter's Mission -- From the Second Part -- Dream -- Antique Lyric -- And It Would Be Even Easier -- From the Holy Land (1984) -- As for me, I used to be a bird -- Western Ring Road -- The moon unveils itself in the madhouse gardens -- My first mother-theft -- From for Michele Pierri (unpublished until 1991) -- The Song of the Groom -- Elegy -- From the Thieving Magpie: Twenty Portraits (unpublished until 1991) -- Sappho -- Emily Dickinson -- Plath -- Alda Merini -- The Overcoat -- The Apron -- The Guest -- From Ripa's Satires (1983) -- Caesar loved Cleopatra -- From Manganelli's Quagmire or the King's Reign (1992) -- Othello -- From Colossal Inner Loves (1993) -- The Slip -- From Penniless ballads (1995) -- Then I went back to that bright snow -- From the Fox and the Curtain (1997) -- What unbearable chiaroscuro -- From Aphorisms (1997) -- From Superb Is the Night (2000) -- On the pit of an apricot -- The most superb thing is the night -- Night, if it is not swift -- There was a fountain that offered dawns -- Naviglio that succors my flesh -- There are artificial paradises -- Stay steady burning olive tree -- On the Death of My Sister -- Oh song of the snow stuck inside the ditch -- War -- The Raven -- The Cry of Death -- Unpublished (composed 2001) -- In the land of Scotland.

Lapham's quarterly : rivalry & feud

Rivalry & feud

Rivalry and feud

Lapham's quarterly ;

Like cats and dogs : animal enemies in fables and folktales / Sticks and stones / Voices in time. Offense. John Herrman surveys the feed frenzy / Choose your weapon / Renew hope / Oppositions attract / Strife upon strife / Class warfare / Survival of the fittest / Hostile work environment / Uncivil civility / Esteem of rivals / Sibling rivalry / Vanity fairs / Family court / Gadfly and ox / Blood-feud etiquette / McDonald has a cow / Do unto others / Wall Street Faust / Hatchet job / The book of my enemy has been remaindered / Burn notice / Winter of discontents / Competitive truths / The crack-up / Drama queens / Hit me with your best shot / Zero-sum / Intellectual leprosy / Escalation. Amanda Petrusich measures blood-feud pressure / A fan's notes / The quip modest / Bad-faith argument / Refraction infraction / Are you not entertained? / Farewell address / Casting call / There will be blood / Trading places / Civility disobedience / Following the money / Looking backward / Remedial revenge / Live easy or die hard / Abolish nice / Kin avenged / Railroaded / One up / Devil's advocate / The dead file / Winning side / Injured party / A cross-examined life / License to kill / My kingdom for a farce / Product placement / Reconciliation. Neighborhood football match / Anti-war protest / Grudge report / By honor bound / The only good Indian / Fear pressure / Mortal combat / Poetry slam / Volcanic eruption / Revenge gardening / State of the unions / My brother's keeper / Rules of engagement / Past as prologue / Peace offering / Doctored insults / Make a deal / Backbiting / Short-term truce / Where are they now? / Buying time / Ballad of the totems / Lesson learned / Literary joust / Jagged little pill / Unrequited revenge / Further remarks. Essays. Raising cane / Love's labors lost / Varieties of ether / Parry and thrust / Departments. Conversations : Euripides, Paz, The Notorious B.I.G. ; Miscellany : Fur envy, bone wars, aggressive boobies ; Glossary : beef, brabble, tomato can ; Sources : readings & art.

The state of the art : a chronicle of American poetry, 1988-2014

Pitt poetry series

Pitt poetry series.

1988 "like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo" -- 1989 in an unlit alcove where bookstore patrons fear to tread -- 1990 to inflame passions, disturb the complacent, and arouse the anxiety of despots -- 1991 a poem entitled "Cigarettes" by a poet named Ash -- 1992 The question of poetry and its audience -- 1993 the gust of fresh air that turned into the blizzard of '93 -- 1994 It's safe to say that the inaugural was the best-attended poetry reading of the decade -- 1995 At least somebody played ball in 1994 -- 1996 a given volume in this series might hang question marks over all three terms in the title -- 1997 As a gimmick, if that's what it is, National Poetry Month worked -- The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997 (1998) The debate is joined -- 1998 The president spoke of having had to memorize 100 lines of Macbeth -- 1999 "Whitman rocks" -- 2000 "Now I know how poems feel" -- 2001 "Everybody else was analog and Nietzsche was digital" -- 2002 The day now marks a boundary -- 2003 "How many people have to die before you can becoem president?" -- 2004 canons do not remain fixed for long -- 2005 the creative writing workshop (and) the fall of civilization -- 2006 Accessibility - as a term and, implicitly, as a value -- 2007 Undoubtedly the most parodied of all poems -- 2008 Who says that hot poems can't get you into trouble in 2008? -- 2009 "that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry" -- 2012 McChrystal sent copies of "The Second Coming" to his special operators -- 2011 in Dickinson's brain, "wider than the sky" -- 2012 the "uncanny" is a category too little invoked -- The Best of the Best American Poetry, 25th Anniversary Edition (2013) "Every time I read Pessoa I think" -- It was his poetry that kept him going -- In the antagonism between science and the humanities .

Mandelstam's worlds : poetry, politics, and identity in a revolutionary age

Critical Approaches -- Types of Poetic Difficulty -- A Dialectical Artist -- The Structure of this Book -- CULTURAL REVOLUTION -- The Political Culture of a Poet -- A Poetic Red Banner, 1918 -- Political Poetry in Translation -- Positioning Mandelstam in the 1920s -- The Peasantry and the Commune -- NEP as Utopian Dream and Reality -- Revolutionary Adaptation: The Bourgeois Revolution in a Proletarian Age -- Rightist and Leftist Deviation in the Fight over Translation -- Revolutionary Lyric -- The Historicity of Lyric Poetry -- Violence up Close -- Emblems of a New Age -- Allegories of Revolution: `Paris' (`Parizh'), 1923 -- History in the Making: `1 January 1924' and Deconstructing Lenin -- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE -- The `Slate Ode': Poetry as Historical Consciousness -- Primitivism and the `Slate Ode' -- A Genealogy of Morals in a Revolutionary Age -- Individual and Collective -- The Authority and Doubt of the Poet Legislator -- The Challenge of Eternal Return -- The Dialectic of Fear -- Who Leads, Who Heals the Wound? -- `Verses on Russian Poetry': Literary Politics and the Transvaluation of Values -- The Shape of the Cycle -- Allusion as Friendship Signalling -- Poetic Enmity and the Lesson of St Paul -- 1932 as a Turning Point -- Reforming the Canon of Russian Poetry: The Ideology of the Classic -- Allegory of Circumstance -- Elegy to a Lost Ideal -- `Octaves': From the Science of the Mind to the Music of Poetry -- Inspiration as Uncontrolled Rapture -- The Structure of `Octaves' -- The Science of the Senses -- Consciousness in the Mode of Vygotsky -- Determinism and Poetic Intentionality -- Towards Pure Poetry: Symbolist Tones and an Aeolian Harp -- THE VISUAL AND MATERIAL TURN -- Painting -- The Science of the Poetic Eye -- Under the Sign of Signac -- The Poet as Painter: Experiments in Impressionism, Cubism, and the Picturesque -- A Cubist Experiment -- Moving Pictures -- Poem as Script -- Chaplin and Art as Device -- The Poem as Iconotext -- Gesture and Voice -- Meaning and Montage -- Objects -- Art and the Maker: Production -- Art as the Made: Reception -- Art as the Found: Poetry as Object -- THE IDEAL OF LOVE -- Love's Body -- Forms of Infatuation (1): The Comic -- Forms of Infatuation (2):The Romantic -- Forms of Infatuation (3): The Tragic -- The Language of Love as the Love of Language -- A Tender Liebestod -- From Mortal to Immortal Love -- Acts of Separation -- Elegiac Guardians of Love: Mandelstam's Schubert -- Immortal Love: Notre Dame de Paris -- The Return to Archetype: Heavenly Hosts and Earth Goddess -- SPACES OF EXILE -- The Voronezh Poems (1934 -- 7) and the Geometry of Exile -- A realibus ad realiora -- The Journey into Exile -- Locating the Self: The Map of Exile -- Fields of Vision -- Mandelstam's Mallarme: The `prose of airy ink' -- Into the Fourth Dimension -- Poetry in extremis -- Geometry as a journey out of Exile -- Towards the `Stalin Ode' -- The Problem of Intentionality -- The Rhetoric of Praise -- Realms of Freedom: Invisible Visibles -- Taking to the Sky -- The Geometry of Hyperspace -- Into the Fourth Dimension.

The experience of literature : a reader with commentaries

Oedipus Rex / The tragedy of King Lear / The wild duck / The three sisters / The doctor's dilemma / Six characters in search of an author : a comedy in the making / Purgatory / Galileo

My kinsman, Major Molineux / Bartleby the scrivener : a story of Wall Street / The grand inquisitor / The death of Ivan Ilych / The treasure / Duchoux / Enemies / The pupil / The secret sharer / The dead / The hunter Gracchus / Tickets, please / The road from Colonus / Disorder and early sorrow / Di Grasso : a tale of Odessa / The sailor-boy's tale / Hills like white elephants / Barn burning / Summer's day / Of this time, of that place / The guest / The magic barrel

Edward / They flee from me / A valediction : forbidding mourning / Lycidas / To his coy mistress / An essay on Man : epistle I / Tyger! Tyger! / Resolution and independence / Kubla Khan or a vision in a dream, a fragment / Don Juan : an episode from canto II / Ode to the west wind / Ode to a nightingale / Beach / Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / The leaden echo and the golden echo / Go tell it--what a message / Sailing to Byzantium / The waste land / Neither out far nor in deep / My father moved through dooms of love / In memory of Sigmund Freud / For the union dead

A lyke-wake dirge / The cherry-tree carol / The three ravens / Sir Patrick Spens / Mary Hamilton / Westron winde, when will thou blow / To mistress Isabel Pennell / To mistress Margaret Hussey / My galley charged with forgetfulness / Forget not yet / Epithalamion / The passionate shepherd to his love / The nymph's reply / As you came from the Holy Land / Full fathom five / Tell me where is fancy bred / O mistress mine! / When that I was and a little tiny boy / Fear no more / Sonnet 18 / Sonnet 29 / Sonnet 30 / Sonnet 33 / Sonnet 55 / Sonnet 73 / Sonnet 107 / Sonnet 129 / Spring / In time of pestilence / Affliction / On my first son / Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. / To Penshurst / Song, to Celia / The triumph of Charis / Hymn to Diana / To the memory of / My beloved, the author / Mr. William Shakespeare / The indifferent / The good-morrow / The undertaking / Holy sonnet VII / The funeral / The autumnal

All the flowers of the spring / A dirge / Delight in disorder / To the virgins / To make much of time / Upon Julia's clothes / To Phyllis, to love and live with him / Ceremonies for Candlemas eve / The quip / The collar / The pulley / Song / Dirge / Go, lovely rose / On the morning of Christ's nativity / On Shakespeare / L'Allegro / How soon hath time / When I consider how my light is spent / Why so pale and wan? / A ballad upon a wedding / The constant lover / Wishes to his (supposed) mistress / To Amarantha, that she would dishevele her hair / To Althea, from prison / To Lucasta, going to the wars / The grasshopper / The garden / The mower against gardens / The mower's song / Bermudas / The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers / The pursuit / The retreat / Childhood / The world

To the memory of Mr. Oldham / Upon nothing / A description of a city shower Stella's Birthday (March 13, 1726/27) / On the death of Dr. Robert Levet / Elegy written in a country churchyard / Of Jeoffry, his cat / The ecchoing green / The lamb / The clod and the pebble / A poison tree / Ah, sun-flower / London / Stanzas from Milton / Mary Morison / Address to the Unco Guid, or the rigidly righteous / Auld Lang syne / Robert Bruce's march / To Bannockburn / A red, red rose / A man's a man for a' that / Expostulation and reply / The tables turned / She dwelt among the untrodden ways / There was a boy / Nutting / Composed upon Westminster bridge / The world is too much with us / Surprised by joy / The solitary reaper / Stepping westward / Ode : intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood / Frost at midnight / Dejection : an ode / Darkness / She walks in beauty / When we two parted / So, we'll go no more a-roving / Hymn to intellectual beauty / Ozymandias / Sonnet : England in 1819 / Tonight / To-- / Chorus from Hellas

On first looking into Chapman's Homer / When I have fears / Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art / La Belle Dame sans Merci / Ode on a Grecian urn / To autumn / Ode on melancholy / Hamatreya / Give all to love / Brahma / The valley of unrest / To Helen / Alone / Ulysses / The lotos-eaters / How sleeps the crimson petal / Come down, 0 maid / Morte d'Arthur / The revenge / The jumblies / My last duchess / Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister / A woman's last word / Childe Roland to the Dark / Tower came / Starting from Paumanok / When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / Shakespeare / Memorial verses, April 1850 / To Marguerite in returning a volume of the letters of Ortis / The scholar gipsy / Lucifer in starlight / Papa above / There's a certain slant of light / A clock stopped / I taste a liquor never brewed / Because I could not stop for death / I've seen a dying eye / A narrow fellow in the grass / Heavenly father-- take to thee / Twas later when the summer went / Before the beginning of years / When the hounds of spring / The garden of Proserpine / Sapphics / The subalterns / Wives in the Sere / The lacking sense / The darkling thrush / The voice / The five students / Who's in the next room? / Afterwards

Spring and fall / The windhover / Pied beauty / Carrion comfort / Loveliest of trees / Be still, my soul, be still / Danny Deever / Recessional / Byzantium / Leda and the swan / The second coming / A prayer for my daughter / Luke Havergal / Miniver Cheevy / Mr. Flood's party / The listeners / Home burial / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Design / Provide, provide / Directive / Anecdote of the jar / Peter Quince at the clavier / Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Soldier, there is a war / Tortoise shout / The elephant is slow to mate / The snake / A pact / Ite / Les Millwin / Come my cantilations / Prayer for his lady's life / Poetry / Elephants / La Figlia Che Piange / Sweeney among the nightingales / Journey of the magi / Animula / Here lies a lady / Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / Blue girls

Ars poetica / The end of the world / You, Andrew Marvell / All in green went my love riding / My girl's tall with hard long eyes / Anyone lived in a pretty how town / I say no world / Warning to children / The climate of thought / To Juan at the winter solstice / Voyages (II) / At Melville's tomb / The Mediterranean / Ode to the Confederate dead / Variation : ode to fear / Bearded oaks / Foreign affairs / For the word is flesh / Historical song of then and now / Modes of belief / Poetry : the art / Musée des Beaux arts / In memory of W.B. Yeats / The shield of Achilles / Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze / The far field / Light listened / In the naked bed, in Plato's cave / The heavy bear / The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Fern hill / Do not go gentle into that good night / In my craft or sullen art / Conversation / Dream song : 14 (life, friends, is boring) / Dream song : 18 (a strut for Roethke) / The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Mr. Edwards and the spider / The fat man in the mirror / The fiend / A supermarket in California / To Aunt Rose

Life doesn't frighten me

Life does not frighten me

Life doesn't frighten me

Life does not frighten me