A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne's "Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse" and Emily Dickinson's "The Soul has Bandaged moments" to Eavan Boland's "Anorexic," from W.H. Auden's…mehr
A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne's "Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse" and Emily Dickinson's "The Soul has Bandaged moments" to Eavan Boland's "Anorexic," from W.H. Auden's "Miss Gee" to Lucille Clifton's "Cancer," and from D.H. Lawrence's "The Ship of Death" to Rafael Campo's "Antidote" and Seamus Heaney's "Miracle." Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain-in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski's "Try to Praise the Mutilated World," George Herbert's "The Flower," Wislawa Szymborska's "The End and the Beginning," Gwendolyn Brooks' "when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story" and Stevie Smith's "Away, Melancholy"-make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing.
KARL KIRCHWEY is an award-winning American poet, book reviewer, creative writing teacher, translator, arts administrator, and literary curator. He has been a director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, directed the creative writing program at Bryn Mawr College, served as Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome, and is currently a professor and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Boston University.
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Foreword QUINTUS SERENUS SAMMONICUS “Abracadabra”
THE ILLNESS C. K. WILLIAMS Really EMILY DICKINSON “The Soul has Bandaged moments –” MARK STRAND “The sickness of angels is nothing new ANNE FINCH The Spleen CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Spleen (IV) WILLIAM COWPER Lines Written During a Period of Insanity SPENCER REECE From Hartford CAROL ANN DUFFY The Virgin’s Memo DOUGLAS DUNN From Disenchantments D. A. POWELL “they hear the clapping of the bell and are afraid” GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG From The Light Gray Soil KAY RYAN Among English Verbs ROBERT PINSKY Dying EAVAN BOLAND Anorexic GWYNETH LEWIS “Talk With a Headache” SAPPHO TWO TRANSLATIONS (Fragment 31) THOM GUNN The Man With Night Sweats C. P. CAVAFY The Funeral of Sarpedon KEITH DOUGLAS John Anderson DAVID CONSTANTINE Pity MAY SWENSON Staring at the Sea on the Day of the Death of Another
THE DIAGNOSIS WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA Clothes W. H. AUDEN Miss Gee WILLIAM LOGAN Little Compton ALISSA VALLES Decision Tree RAFAEL CAMPO Antidote GAVIN EWART Sonnet: Intermittent Claudication JANE KENYON Prognosis LUCILLE CLIFTON Cancer LUCILLE CLIFTON 1994 C. K. WILLIAMS Diagnosis NICOLE SEALEY medical history J. D. MCCLATCHY My Mammogram ADRIENNE RICH Power TOM PAULIN Under the Eyes JULIA ALVAREZ “Are we all ill with acute loneliness” EMILY DICKINSON “A Wounded Deer – leaps highest–”
THE REMEDY ROBERT PINSKY ABC VASKO POPA Before the Game VASKO POPA After the Game MASAOKA SHIKI Eight Haiku ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Breviary MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS From De Medicamentis JANE KENYON From Having It Out With Melancholy C. P. CAVAFY Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, AD 595 NATALIA TOLEDO The Flower That Drops Its Petals MIROSLAV HOLUB “Although a poem arises . . .’ MIROSLAV HOLUB “Although a poem is . . .” ADRIENNE RICH Calibrations GREG DELANTY The Green Room MARK STRAND “When after a long silence one picks up the pen” LOUISE GLUCK A Slip of Paper C. P. CAVAFY Kleitos’ Illness JOHN DONNE Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse D. H. LAWRENCE From The Ship of Death ADA LIMON The Raincoat MARY JO SALTER Hot Water Bottle LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU A Receipt to Cure the Vapors KARL KIRCHWEY Blood and Light ALISSA VALLES Pain Fellow RAFAEL CAMPO From Phone Messages on Call KATE DANIELS Support Group AIMEE GRUNBERGER Chemotherapy J. D. MCCLATCHY From Radiation Days MAX RITVO Poem To My Litter JOHN DOWLAND Come, Heavy Sleep DONALD HALL Deathwork OMAR KHAYYAM From The Ruba’iyat CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Invitation to the Voyage MARGARET ATWOOD Up STEVIE SMITH Away, Melancholy GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS “My own heart let me more have pity on”
THE HEALING LUCILLE CLIFTON blessing the boats ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Try to Praise the Mutilated World WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA The End and the Beginning RUDAKI On the Death of the Amir’s Father WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Song: “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” DYLAN THOMAS A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London EAVAN BOLAND Quarantine ADRIENNE RICH From a Survivor ROSANNA WARREN For Chiara DEBORA GREGER Black Silk SEAMUS HEANEY Miracle CHARLOTTE MEW On the Asylum Road LOUISE BOGAN Evening in the Sanitarium SYLVIA PLATH Tulips ROBERT LOWELL Home After Three Months Away EMILY DICKINSON “After great pain, a formal feeling comes–” HENRI COLE Morning Glory GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Carrion Comfort ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON From In Memoriam EMILY DICKINSON “They say that ‘Time assuages’–” KAY RYAN Retroactive GWENDOLYN BROOKS when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ Mittelbergheim EMILY BRONTE My Lady’s Grave CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Remember JOHN MILTON Methought I saw RICHARD WILBUR The House HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Cross of Snow VICTOR HUGO “Tomorrow as soon as the countryside pales with dawn” DOUGLAS DUNN The Kaleidoscope TONY HARRISON From Long Distance GRACE SCHULMAN Celebration JAMES MERRILL Farewell Performance WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA Cat in an Empty Apartment W. H. AUDEN Talking to Myself THOM GUNN The Wound TOBIAS KIRCHWEY To My Dissector JANE KENYON Notes from the Other Side DON PATERSON The Lover MIROSLAV HOLUB Crush Syndrome YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Facing It SEAMUS HEANEY Chorus from The Cure at Troy KATE DANIELS Molecules ABBA KOVNER He Stood There ALISSA VALLES Discharge DANEZ SMITH little prayer GEORGE HERBERT The Flower LES MURRAY Spring WALLACE STEVENS The Sun This March DEREK MAHON Everything Is Going To Be All Right YEHUDA AMICHAI The Amen Stone H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) “O Heart, small urn” CHARLOTTE MEW Not for that City GWENDOLYN BROOKS From The Second Sermon on the Warpland
THE ILLNESS C. K. WILLIAMS Really EMILY DICKINSON “The Soul has Bandaged moments –” MARK STRAND “The sickness of angels is nothing new ANNE FINCH The Spleen CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Spleen (IV) WILLIAM COWPER Lines Written During a Period of Insanity SPENCER REECE From Hartford CAROL ANN DUFFY The Virgin’s Memo DOUGLAS DUNN From Disenchantments D. A. POWELL “they hear the clapping of the bell and are afraid” GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG From The Light Gray Soil KAY RYAN Among English Verbs ROBERT PINSKY Dying EAVAN BOLAND Anorexic GWYNETH LEWIS “Talk With a Headache” SAPPHO TWO TRANSLATIONS (Fragment 31) THOM GUNN The Man With Night Sweats C. P. CAVAFY The Funeral of Sarpedon KEITH DOUGLAS John Anderson DAVID CONSTANTINE Pity MAY SWENSON Staring at the Sea on the Day of the Death of Another
THE DIAGNOSIS WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA Clothes W. H. AUDEN Miss Gee WILLIAM LOGAN Little Compton ALISSA VALLES Decision Tree RAFAEL CAMPO Antidote GAVIN EWART Sonnet: Intermittent Claudication JANE KENYON Prognosis LUCILLE CLIFTON Cancer LUCILLE CLIFTON 1994 C. K. WILLIAMS Diagnosis NICOLE SEALEY medical history J. D. MCCLATCHY My Mammogram ADRIENNE RICH Power TOM PAULIN Under the Eyes JULIA ALVAREZ “Are we all ill with acute loneliness” EMILY DICKINSON “A Wounded Deer – leaps highest–”
THE REMEDY ROBERT PINSKY ABC VASKO POPA Before the Game VASKO POPA After the Game MASAOKA SHIKI Eight Haiku ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Breviary MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS From De Medicamentis JANE KENYON From Having It Out With Melancholy C. P. CAVAFY Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, AD 595 NATALIA TOLEDO The Flower That Drops Its Petals MIROSLAV HOLUB “Although a poem arises . . .’ MIROSLAV HOLUB “Although a poem is . . .” ADRIENNE RICH Calibrations GREG DELANTY The Green Room MARK STRAND “When after a long silence one picks up the pen” LOUISE GLUCK A Slip of Paper C. P. CAVAFY Kleitos’ Illness JOHN DONNE Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse D. H. LAWRENCE From The Ship of Death ADA LIMON The Raincoat MARY JO SALTER Hot Water Bottle LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU A Receipt to Cure the Vapors KARL KIRCHWEY Blood and Light ALISSA VALLES Pain Fellow RAFAEL CAMPO From Phone Messages on Call KATE DANIELS Support Group AIMEE GRUNBERGER Chemotherapy J. D. MCCLATCHY From Radiation Days MAX RITVO Poem To My Litter JOHN DOWLAND Come, Heavy Sleep DONALD HALL Deathwork OMAR KHAYYAM From The Ruba’iyat CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Invitation to the Voyage MARGARET ATWOOD Up STEVIE SMITH Away, Melancholy GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS “My own heart let me more have pity on”
THE HEALING LUCILLE CLIFTON blessing the boats ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Try to Praise the Mutilated World WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA The End and the Beginning RUDAKI On the Death of the Amir’s Father WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Song: “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” DYLAN THOMAS A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London EAVAN BOLAND Quarantine ADRIENNE RICH From a Survivor ROSANNA WARREN For Chiara DEBORA GREGER Black Silk SEAMUS HEANEY Miracle CHARLOTTE MEW On the Asylum Road LOUISE BOGAN Evening in the Sanitarium SYLVIA PLATH Tulips ROBERT LOWELL Home After Three Months Away EMILY DICKINSON “After great pain, a formal feeling comes–” HENRI COLE Morning Glory GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Carrion Comfort ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON From In Memoriam EMILY DICKINSON “They say that ‘Time assuages’–” KAY RYAN Retroactive GWENDOLYN BROOKS when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ Mittelbergheim EMILY BRONTE My Lady’s Grave CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Remember JOHN MILTON Methought I saw RICHARD WILBUR The House HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Cross of Snow VICTOR HUGO “Tomorrow as soon as the countryside pales with dawn” DOUGLAS DUNN The Kaleidoscope TONY HARRISON From Long Distance GRACE SCHULMAN Celebration JAMES MERRILL Farewell Performance WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA Cat in an Empty Apartment W. H. AUDEN Talking to Myself THOM GUNN The Wound TOBIAS KIRCHWEY To My Dissector JANE KENYON Notes from the Other Side DON PATERSON The Lover MIROSLAV HOLUB Crush Syndrome YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Facing It SEAMUS HEANEY Chorus from The Cure at Troy KATE DANIELS Molecules ABBA KOVNER He Stood There ALISSA VALLES Discharge DANEZ SMITH little prayer GEORGE HERBERT The Flower LES MURRAY Spring WALLACE STEVENS The Sun This March DEREK MAHON Everything Is Going To Be All Right YEHUDA AMICHAI The Amen Stone H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) “O Heart, small urn” CHARLOTTE MEW Not for that City GWENDOLYN BROOKS From The Second Sermon on the Warpland
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