First Loves : Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them,9780684864389

First Loves : Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them

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ISBN13: 9780684864389
ISBN10: 068486438X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-04-10
Publisher(s): Scribner
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Summary

When Carmela Ciuraru asked her favorite poets to write about the poems that first inspired them, she was astonished by the illuminating responses she received. In turn, readers will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in First Loves.

Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Sherman Alexie writes about recognizing the constant threat of violence on his reservation when he read Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz". It was a poem by her father that taught Virginia Hamilton Adair about the joys of poetry and the hidden life of her parent. J. D. McClatchy tells of first reading Homer by candlelight while eating a bowl of applesauce. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others.

Just in time for National Poetry Month, First Loves is a testament to poetry's matchless ability to restore faith, offer salvation and solidarity, and above all, alt

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 11(15)
Foreword 15(4)
Alice Quinn
Introduction 19(6)
Carmela Ciuraru
Virginia Hamilton Adair on ``Along the Road''
25(3)
Robert Browning Hamilton
Ai on ``The Bear''
28(5)
Galway Kinnell
Sherman Alexie on ``My Papa's Waltz''
33(2)
Theodore Roethke
A. R. Ammons on ``In Flanders Fields''
35(1)
John McCrae
Margaret Atwood on ``I saw a peacock with a fiery tail''
36(2)
Anonymous
Robin Becker on ``Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey''
38(6)
William Wordsworth
Sophie Cabot Black on #754 (``My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---'')
44(3)
Emily Dickinson
Star Black on ``The World as Meditation''
47(2)
Wallace Stevens
Eavan Boland on ``The Wild Swans at Coole''
49(3)
William Butler Yeats
Henri Cole on ``Voyages''
52(6)
Hart Crane
Wanda Coleman on ``Jabberwocky''
58(4)
Lewis Carroll
Billy Collins on ``The Flea''
62(4)
John Donne
Robert Creeley on ``The Highwayman''
66(6)
Alfred Noyes
Toi Derricotte on ``Southern Road''
72(3)
Sterling Brown
Mark Doty on ``Gacela of the Dark Death''
75(4)
Federico Garcia Lorca
Carolyn Forche on ``Requiem''
79(4)
Anna Akhmatova
Jonathan Galassi on Sonnet 23 (``As an unperfect actor on the stage...'')
83(3)
William Shakespeare
Louise Gluck on ``The Little Black Boy''
86(4)
William Blake
Eamon Grennan on ``The Prelude''
90(5)
William Wordsworth
Allen Grossman on ``Thanatopsis''
95(4)
William Cullen Bryant
Barbara Guest on ``Blow, Bugle, Blow''
99(2)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Donald Hall on ``Heat''
101(2)
H.D.
Daniel Halpern on ``Sunday Morning''
103(4)
Wallace Stevens
Seamus Heaney on the Dactyls of Derry
107(2)
Anthony Hecht on ``Kubla Khan''
109(4)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Edward Hirsch on ``The Night Is Darkening Round Me''
113(3)
Emily Bronte
Jane Hirshfield on ``The Listeners''
116(3)
Walter de la Mare
John Hollander on ``A Boy's Song''
119(4)
James Hogg
bell hooks on ``I Want to Die While You Love Me''
123(3)
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Richard Howard on ``My Last Duchess''
126(2)
Robert Browning
Marie Howe on ``Langston Hughes''
128(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Brigit Pegeen Kelly on ``Prologue, Act IV,'' Henry V
130(3)
William Shakespeare
Carolyn Kizer on ``Satire VII''
133(4)
Juvenal
Kenneth Koch on ``The Indian Serenade''
137(3)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Yusef Komunyakaa on ``Annabel Lee''
140(3)
Edgar Allan Poe
Maxine Kumin on ``The Vision of Sir Launfal''
143(5)
James Russell Lowell
Ursula K. Le Guin on ``Itylus''
148(4)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
David Lehman on ``Song of Myself''
152(4)
Walt Whitman
Philip Levine on ``Greater Love''
156(3)
Wilfred Owen
Timothy Liu on ``Poppies in October''
159(2)
Sylvia Plath
Elizabeth Macklin on ``If I Could Tell You''
161(3)
W. H. Auden
J. D. McClatchy on ``Hero and Leander''
164(4)
Christopher Marlowe
Heather McHugh on ``The Second Coming''
168(3)
William Butler Yeats
W. S. Merwin on ``Where Go the Boats?''
171(2)
Robert Louis Stevenson
E. Ethelbert Miller on ``Suzanne Takes You Down''
173(3)
Leonard Cohen
Jane Miller on ``Song of Amargo's Mother''
176(2)
Federico Garcia Lorca
Carol Moldaw on ``i thank You God for most this amazing'' by e. e. cummings
178(2)
Thylias Moss on ``The Diameter of the Bomb''
180(3)
Yehuda Amichai
Lisel Mueller on ``Limited''
183(2)
Carl Sandburg
Les Murray on ``Caesura''
185(3)
Kenneth Mackenzie
Joyce Carol Oates on ``After Apple-Picking''
188(5)
Robert Frost
Eric Pankey on ``Junk''
193(3)
Richard Wilbur
Robert Pinsky on ``Sailing to Byzantium''
196(3)
William Butler Yeats
Marie Ponsot on ``Helen''
199(3)
H.D.
Lawrence Raab on ``Jabberwocky''
202(2)
Lewis Carroll
Bin Ramke on ``To an Old Philosopher in Rome''
204(5)
Wallace Stevens
Claudia Rankine on ``The Black Riders''
209(2)
Cesar Vallejo
Kay Ryan on ``For a Dead Kitten''
211(2)
Sarah Henderson Hay
Grace Schulman on ``O What Is That Sound''
213(5)
W. H. Auden
Frederick Seidel on ``Canto LXXXI''
218(2)
Ezra Pound
Vijay Seshadri on ``These''
220(4)
William Carlos Williams
W. D. Snodgrass on ``The Marshes of Glynn''
224(4)
Sidney Lanier
Elizabeth Spires on #449 (``I died for Beauty---but was scarce...'')
228(2)
Emily Dickinson
Mark Strand on ``You, Andrew Marvell''
230(5)
Archibald MacLeish
James Tate on ``The Man on the Dump''
235(3)
Wallace Stevens
Richard Wilbur on ``Barbara Frietchie''
238(4)
John Greenleaf Whittier
C. K. Williams on ``The Eighth Elegy''
242(5)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Eleanor Wilner on ``The Lady Is a Tramp''
247(4)
Rodgers
Hart
Contributors' Notes 251(12)
Permissions 263(4)
Index of Poems 267

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