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Title:

Earth-shattering poems / edited by Liz Rosenberg.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

H. Holt,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

xiv, 126 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Young adult poetry.
Poetry--Collections.

Other Authors:

Rosenberg, Liz.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Contents:

The nature of memory / Kate Schmitt (b. 1973). Her husband asks her to buy a bolt of silk / Chen Tao (eleventh century) -- Across the doorsill ; The way of love / Rumi (1207-1273) -- Haiku / Basho (1664-1694) -- London ; A Poison tree ; The sick rose / William Blake (1757-1827) -- This world of dew / Issa (1763-1827) -- To / Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) -- The whole world / Hebrew folk song (Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav, 1772-1811) -- Bright star ; This living hand / John Keats (1795-1821) -- from In memoriam A.H.H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Look down fair moon ; Reconciliation ; Sometimes with the one I love / Walt Whitman (1819-1892)-- Get drunk! / Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) -- Wild nights / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- The song of wandering Aengus ; When you are old / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) -- Three Spanish folk songs -- In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- from Requiem ; White night / Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) -- The black riders / Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) -- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / Frederico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) -- Harlem / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- If you forget me / Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) -- Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz (b. 1911) -- The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) -- Man and wife ; Skunk hour / Robert Lowell (1917-1978) -- Married / Jack Gilbert (b. 1926) -- Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight / Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) -- Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota / James Wright (1927-1980) -- The poem of chalk / Philip Levine (b. 1928) -- Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Now that I am forever with child / Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- My horse ; Small hours of the night / Roque Dalton (1935-1975) -- I could not tell ; The talk / Sharon Olds (b. 1942) -- The wide and varied world / Ellen Bryant Voight (b. 1943) -- Could have you / Greg Moglia (b. 1943) -- How graciously the animal / Linda McCarriston (b. 1943) -- Notes / Greg Kuzma (b. 1944) -- The colonel / Carolyn Forche (b. 1950) -- A love poem / Margaret Menges (b. 1951) -- A veteran father in a mental hospital, Minneapolis: 1995 ; Lunch box / J.E. Wei (b. 1963) -- Untitled / Pascale Giroux (b. 1967) -- The nature of memory / Kate Schmitt (b. 1973).

Summary:

A collection of poems that capture intense experiences and emotions by such authors as Sappho, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, and J. E. Wei.

ISBN:

9780805048216 (alk. paper)
0805048219 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

97016097

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

UHPB911 -- Milo Public Library (Milo)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

CDPC522 -- Solon Public Library (Solon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)