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100 poems to break your heart

Hirsch, Edward, (editor.).

Summary: "100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"--

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  • ISBN: 9780544931886
  • ISBN: 0544931882
  • ISBN: 9780544931800
  • Physical Description: print
    xviii, 492 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Surprised by joy ... impatient as the Wind / William Wordsworth -- This living hand / John Keats -- I am / John Clare -- In Memoriam, VII / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The God Abandons Antony / Constantine Cavafy -- The Voice / Thomas Hardy -- The Owl / Edward Thomas -- The Pretty Redhead / Guillaume Apollinaire -- What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Song for a Dark Girl / Langston Hughes -- Rooms / Charlotte Mew -- Black Stone Lying on a White Stone / César Vallejo -- I'm Going to Sleep / Alfonsina Storni -- To Julia de Burgos / Julia de Burgos -- In Memory of M. B. / Anna Akhmatova -- The Fifth Eclogue / Miklós Radnóti -- Café / Czesław Miłosz -- Merciful God / Kadya Molodowsky -- Shemà / Primo Levi -- On Living / Nâzim Hikmet -- Aspects of Robinson / Weldon Kees -- The rites for Cousin Vit / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Not Waving but Drowning / Stevie Smith -- In the Midst of Life / Tadeusz Różewicz -- On the road at night there stands the man / Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Poem of the Gifts / Jorge Luis Borges -- In the Park / Gwen Harwood -- The Whipping / Robert Hayden -- Night Sweat / Robert Lowell -- Wanting to Die / Anne Sexton -- My Nightingale / Rose Ausländer -- Next Day / Randall Jarrell -- Montana Fifty Years Ago / J. V. Cunningham -- For the Anniversary of My Death / W. S. Merwin -- Poem / Muriel Rukeyser -- The Idea of Ancestry / Etheridge Knight -- Henry's Understanding / John Berryman -- A Deathplace / L. E. Sissman -- They Feed They Lion / Philip Levine -- The Small Square / Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen -- Under One Small Star / Wisława Szymborska -- Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg / Richard Hugo -- On This Side of the River / Stephen Berg -- Aubade / Philip Larkin -- Parents / William Meredith -- Essay / Hayden Carruth -- Arches / James Schuyler -- Kindness / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River / Allen Grossman -- The Book of Yolek / Anthony Hecht -- Mr Cogito and the Imagination / Zbigniew Herbert -- From My Window / C. K. Williams -- Night Song / Louise Glück -- The Race / Sharon Olds -- In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn / Donald Justice -- The Dancing / Gerald Stern -- For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live) / Joy Harjo -- Mendocino Rose / Garrett Hongo -- (Dedications) / Adrienne Rich -- The Gas-poker / Thom Gunn -- What He Thought / Heather McHugh -- It Allows a Portrait in Line-Scan at Fifteen / Les Murray -- The People of the Other Village / Thomas Lux -- For the Taking / Linda Gregerson -- Terminus / Nicholas Christopher -- What the Living Do / Marie Howe -- The War Works Hard / Dunya Mikhail -- Halley's Comet / Stanley Kunitz -- Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Simile / Rosanna Warren -- In Memory of Joe Brainard / Frank Bidart -- jasper texas 1998 / Lucille Clifton -- The Rapture / Cynthia Huntington -- Elementary Principles at Seventy-Two / Richard Howard -- Quarantine / Eavan Boland -- Woman Martyr / Agi Mishol -- We Are Not Responsible / Harryette Mullen -- Shelley / Galway Kinnell -- Aphasia / Vijay Seshadri -- On Wanting to Tell [ ] About a Girl Eating Fish Eyes / Mary Szybist -- Lead / Mary Oliver -- Persimmon / Anya Krugovoy Silver -- Ethel's Sestina / Patricia Smith -- Woman, Mined / Carolyn Creedon -- Graveyard Blues / Natasha Trethewey -- Requiem / Camille Dungy -- Aubade in Autumn / Peter Everwine -- Barton Springs / Tony Hoagland -- Failure / Philip Schultz -- An Individual History / Michael Collier -- The Second Slaughter / Lucia Perillo -- Old School / Michael Waters -- Infinite Riches in the Smallest Room / Lucie Brock-Broido -- The African Burial Ground / Yusef Komunyakaa -- The Addict's Mother: Birth Story / Kate Daniels -- Spirit Boxing / Afaa Michael Weaver -- Obit [The Blue Dress] / Victoria Chang -- Pantoum for the Broken / Toi Derricotte -- Krishna, 3:29 A.M. / Meena Alexander.
Subject: Poetry Collections
Poetry Translations into English
Poetry History and criticism
Poetry
Poetry Translations into English
Genre: Collections.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry.
Translations.
Poetry.

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100 Poems to Break Your Heart
100 Poems to Break Your Heart
by Hirsch, Edward
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100 Poems to Break Your Heart


100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering--not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others. In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems. For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.

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