Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-205) and index.
Contents:
The bird that sang I am / Christian Wiman -- I belong there / Mahmoud Darwish (translated from the Arabic by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché) -- My dreams, my works, must wait till after Hell / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Niagara River / Kay Ryan -- Innocence / Patrick Kavanagh -- Singing in my difficult mountains / Jack Gilbert -- Old fisherman with guitar / George Mackay Brown -- Loclas / James Lasdun -- This / Anne Stevenson -- Earthmoving malediction / Heather McHugh -- Indian boarding schools : the runaways / Louise Erdrich -- The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight -- Birthplace : new Rochelle / George Oppen -- Ö / Rita Dove -- A hole in the floor / Richard Wilbur -- Old houses / Melvin B. Tolson -- Toward the solstice / Adrienne Rich -- Moving in / Audre Lorde -- Housecooling / William Matthews -- What good poems are for / Tom Wayman -- A postcard from the volcano / Wallace Stevens -- Study the masters / Lucille Clifton -- Balance / Marilyn Nelson -- This room and everything in it / Li-Young Lee -- From sabbath poems, 1997 / Wendell Berry -- Shema / Primo Levi (translated from the Italian by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann) -- The guest Ellen at the supper for street people / David Ferry -- The master's house / Solmaz Sharif -- From the garden of the women once fallen / Lorna Goodison -- At Tikal / William Bronk -- Fable of the house / Robert Kelly -- If China / Stanisław Barańczak (translated from the Polish by Magnus J. Krynski) -- May 24, 1980 / Joseph Brodsky -- Empathy / A. E. Stallings -- The boatman / Carolyn Forché -- Vocative / Amit Majmudar -- Bilingual/Bilingüe / Rhina Espaillat -- Flint-chant / Atsuro Riley -- The Bennet Springs road / Julia Randall -- How stars start / Al Young -- The eighth elegy / Rainer Maria Rilke (translated from the German by Stephen Mitchell) -- Lot's wife / Anna Akhmatova (translated from the Russian by Richard Wilbur) -- Ode to the hotel near the children's hospital / Kevin Young -- Sparrow trapped in the airport / Averill Curdy -- Prayer / Carol Ann Duffy -- From choruses from "the rock" / T. S. Eliot -- Snake / D. H. Lawrence -- Grace / Joy Harjo -- Seabird's blessing / Alice Oswald -- The sound of trees / Robert Frost -- Family prime / Mark van Doren -- From Glanmore sonnets / Seamus Heaney -- After making love we hear footsteps / Galway Kinnel -- Homeland security / Geoffrey Brock -- Home again, home again / Marilyn L. Taylor -- Life is a carnival / Karen Solie -- Exodus 10 / Eve Ewing -- Ode to gentrification / Samantha Thornhill -- The landlady / Margaret Atwood -- Persons from Porlock / Rosamund Stanhope -- [What happiness] / Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa) (translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith) -- I love that first builder / Gihan Omar (translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid) -- The stare's nest by my window / W. B. Yeats -- Tell the bees / Sarah Lindsay -- Seven laments for the war-dead / Yehuda Amichai (translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch) -- From summer, somewhere / Danez Smith -- In a time of peace / Ilya Kaminsky -- Ithaka / C. P. Cavafy (translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley) -- We will rise / Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith) -- Harbour / Miroslav Holub (translated from the Czech by Ian Milner and George Theiner) -- (Valent)lines for A. / Peter Cole -- An old-fashioned traveller on the trade routes / Rosemary Tonks -- Bohemia lies by the sea / Ingeborg Bachmann (translated from the German by Peter Filkins) -- From the addresses / Katie Ford -- Old mama Saturday / Marie Ponsot -- Poet's work / Lorine Niedecker -- Silence / Marianne Moore -- The sorrow / Miyó Vestrini (translated from the Spanish by Anne Boyer and Cassandra Gillig) -- From the quest / W. H. Auden -- The displaced of capital / Anne Winters -- Urgent story / Tess Gallagher -- St. Elizabeth / Aracelis Girmay -- Greenock at night I find you / W. S. Graham -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- The church of the open crayon box / Patricia Lockwood -- Kitchen fable / Eleanor Ross Taylor -- At eighty-three she lives alone / Ruth Stone -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- Question / May Swenson -- Eden rock / Charles Causley -- Winding up / Derek Walcott -- Nursing home / Les Murray -- From the life of towns / Anne Carson -- Book ends / Tony Harrison -- The solitary land / Adonis (translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks) -- From Anna Liffey / Eavan Boland -- Black map / Bei Dao (translated from the Chinese by Eliot Weinberger) -- These / William Carlos Williams -- From blues / Kamau Brathwaite -- From on R.L.S. and happiness / Vicki Hearne -- For Harold Bloom / A. R. Ammons -- Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Gary Snyder.#x1E;
Summary:
"Examines how contemporary US migrant women's life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities"-- Provided by publisher.
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