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Poem in your pocket : 200 poems to read and carry
Title
Poem in your pocket : 200 poems to read and carry / selected by Elaine Bleakney ; introduction by U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan.
ISBN
9780810906365
0810906368
Publication
New York : Abrams Image, 2009.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) ; 19 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 13744: Number line on page 3 of cover indicates 1st printing: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Autograph: Ron Padgett. From the library of Ron Padgett.
Notes
"Published in conjunction with the Academy of American Poets."
Summary
Helps to select a poem you love, then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends. Whether you're a fan of Sylvia Plath or Emily Dickinson, Frank O'Hara or Walt Whitman, this title includes poems for various people.
Variant and related titles
200 poems to read and carry
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 27, 2024
Contents
Catch / Langston Hughes
Toe the line with me / Matthea Harvey
Kore / Robert Creeley
Poem XVII of Twenty One love poems / Adrienne Rich
A map of love / Donald Justice
The more loving one / W.H. Auden
Summer in a small town / Linda Gregg
Comment / Dorothy Parker
Juventius, honey-pot, I snatched from you while you were playing / Catullus
Runaways Cafe II / Marilyn Hacker
The guests / James Tate
The dream / Louise Bogan
The fist / Derek Walcott
Time ; A good time / Yehuda Amichai
Paradise motel / Charles Simic
The reef / Elizabeth Arnold
Since feeling is complete / E.E. Cummings
To Marina / Kenneth Koch
You're / Sylvia Plath
Meditation on failling / Catherine Barnett
Father's bedroom / Robert Lowell
The god of windowscreens and honeysuckle / H.L. Hix
Bell pepper / James McMichael
The cabbage / Ruth Stone
Loft / A.R. Ammons
Tent / Ann Lauterbach
The cell / Lyn Hejinian
Leave-taking / Jennifter Clarvoe
Home is so sad / Philip Larkin
Sleeping on the ceiling / Elizabeth Bishop
The window / Robert Creeley
Child on top of a greenhouse / Theodore Roethke
Entrance / Saskia Hamilton
On being a householder / Alan Dugan
Desert places / Robert Frost
A song in the front yard / Gwendolyn Brooks
Disillusionment of ten o'clock ; Of mere being / Wallace Stevens
Another April / James Merrill
The house / Adam Zagajewski
What the dog perhaps hears / Lisel Mueller
Nest / Marianne Boruch.
Animals / Frank O'Hara
Letter / Mark Strand
Sadie and Maud / Gwendolyn Brooks
Margaret and Dusty / Alice Notley
The reassurance ; My sad captains / Thom Gunn
Consider a move / Michael Ryan
Bees / Jean Valentine
The wound / Ruth Stone
That sure is my little dog / Eleanor Lerman
White dog / Carl Phillips
Definition of stranger / Idra Novey
People getting divorced / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Song / Cynthia Zarin
Poem / Matthew Rohrer
The shampoo / Elizabeth Bishop
Man of war / Carol Frost
Winter / Marie Ponsot
The underworld / Amy Gerstler
Olympia / Henri Cole
Tenderness and rot / Kay Ryan
Warning / Taha Muhammad Ali
The bearhug / Nick Laird
Samurai song / Robert Pinsky
An old cracked tune / Stanley Kunitz
Remora / James Merrill
Hula / ROn Padgett
Mr. T / Terrance Hayes
Fame: my version / Courtney Queeney
What Bee did / Julie Larios
Wiring home / Rita Dove
The wind stopped for a moment / Killarney Clary
Dusk / Rae Armantrout
Wind in a box / Terrance Hayes
We are only human / Mary Jo Bang
One is one / Marie Ponsot.
The trees / Philip Larkin
When ecstasy is inconvenient / Lorine Niedecker
At the end of summer / Elaine Equi
So I will till the ground / Gregory Djanikian
The seasons / Susan Stewart
September, Inverness / Robert Haas
We have the right to love autumn / Mahmoud Darwish
How lonely it is / Richard Wright
Bloom / Lisa Olstein
Wintry mix / Peter Gizzi
December / Ron Padgett
The day of cold food / Li Ch'ing Chao
Aubade / Joanna Klink
The invention of streetlights / Cole Swensen
Side 19 ; Side 32 / Victor Hernandez Cruz
The city in which I love you / Li-Young Lee
Henry hates the world / John Berryman
100 Riverside: waking up at Mari's / Anne Winters
O woolly city / Priscilla Sneff
Broken sonnet / John Yau
In Antigua / Kerri Webster
The Hungarian pastry shop & cafe / Anne Pierson Wiese
Catwalk / Yusef Komunyakaa
Fear / Grace Paley
Coyotes in Greenwich / Julie Sheehan
DSS dream / Martin Espada
Harm / C.K. Williams
Meat / August Kleinzahler
Shark's teeth / Kay Ryan
Transcontinent / Donald Hall.
Cutting greens / Lucille Clifton
All the soups / Martha Rhodes
Honey / Arielle Greenberg
Self-portrait as a bear / Donald Hall
Lost in the forest / Amy Gerstler
Kitchen song / Laura Kasischke
Freezer / Lola Haskins
Red beans / Victor Hernandez Cruz
Avocado / Gary Snyder
Watermelons / Charles Simic
Spaghetti / Gerald Stern
Leap / Jon Woodward
The thirties / Adam Zagajewski
Tomato / Elizabeth Alexander
Styrofoam cup / Brenda HiIlman
A glass of water / May Sarton
Going off the deep end into confectionery / Matthea Harvey
Ciao Bella Chocolate Sorbet / Elaine Equi
Into the land of youth / Killarney Clary
Games with children / Susan Stewart
By daylight / Elizabeth Macklin
The old man and the motorcycle / Liam Rector
Muzak / Kevin Young
Weather / Eileen Myles
Flood plain / Dean Young
The lighthouse keeper / Meghan O'Rourke
I go back to May, 1937 / Sharon Olds
Winter field / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Lament for the makers / Frank Bidart
From my father's side of the bed / Marie Howe
The man splitting wood in the daybreak / Galway Kinnell
There is never enough time / Jerome Rothenberg
After reading Tu Fu, I go outside to the dwarf orchard / Charles Wright
Six apologies, Lord / Olena Kalytiak Davis
Erotic energy / Chase Twichell
The red poppy / Louise Gluck.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
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Translations.
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Academy of American Poets.
United States New York (State) New York.
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