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100 poems to break your heart, Edward Hirsch

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100 poems to break your heart

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Edward Hirsch

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- William Wordsworth: "Surprised by joy -- impatient as the Wind" (1815, 1820) -- John Keats: "This living hand" (1819) -- John Clare: "I am" (c. 1847) -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam, VII (c. 1848) -- Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend" (1889) -- Constantine Cavafy: "The God Abandons Antony" (1910) -- Thomas Hardy: "The Voice" (1912) -- Edward Thomas: "The Owl" (1915) -- Guillaume Apollinaire: "The Pretty Redhead" (1918)Edna St. Vincent Millay: "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" (1920) -- Langston Hughes: "Song for a Dark Girl" (1927) -- Charlotte Mew: "Rooms" (c. 1929) -- César Vallejo: "Black Stone Lying on a White Stone" (1930) -- Alfonsina Storni: "I'm Going to Sleep" (1938) -- Julia de Burgos: "To Julia de Burgos" (1938) -- Anna Akhmatova: "In Memory of M. B." (1940) -- Miklós Radnóti: "The Fifth Eclogue" (1943) -- Czesław Miłosz: "Café" (1944) -- Kadya Molodowsky: "Merciful God" (1945) -- Primo Levi: "Shemà" (1946) -- Nâzim Hikmet: ""On Living" (1948)Weldon Kees: "Aspects of Robinson" (1948) -- Gwendolyn Brooks: "The rites for Cousin Vit" (1949) -- Stevie Smith: "Not Waving but Drowning" (1953, 1957) -- Tadeusz Różewicz: "In the Midst of Life" (1955) -- Dahlia Ravikovitch: "On the road at night there stands the man" (1959) -- Jorge Luis Borges: "Poem of the Gifts" (1960) -- Gwen Harwood: "In the Park" (1961) -- Robert Hayden: "The Whipping" (1962) -- Robert Lowell: "Night Sweat" (1963) -- Anne Sexton: "Wanting to Die" (1964) -- Rose Ausländer: "My Nightingale" (1965) -- Randall Jarrell: "Next Day" (1965)J. V. Cunningham: "Montana Fifty Years Ago" (1967) -- W. S. Merwin: "For the Anniversary of My Death" (1967) -- Muriel Rukeyser: "Poem" (1968) -- Etheridge Knight: "The Idea of Ancestry" (1968) -- John Berryman: "Henry's Understanding" (1969) -- L. E. Sissman: "A Deathplace" (1969) -- Philip Levine: "They Feed They Lion" (1969) -- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen: "The Small Square" (1972) -- Wisława Szymborska: "Under One Small Star" (1972) -- Richard Hugo: "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" (1973) -- Stephen Berg: "On This Side of the River" (1975) -- Philip Larkin: "Aubade" (1977)William Meredith: "Parents" (1978) -- Hayden Carruth: "Essay" (1978) -- James Schuyler: "Arches" (1978) -- Naomi Shihab Nye: "Kindness" (1978, 1994) -- Allen Grossman: "The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River" (1979) -- Anthony Hecht: "The Book of Yolek" (1981) -- Zbigniew Herbert: "Mr Cogito and the Imagination" (1983) -- C. K. Williams: "From My Window" (1983) -- Louise Glück: "Night Song" (1983) -- Sharon Olds: "The Race" (1983) -- Donald Justice: "In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn" (1984) -- Gerald Stern: "The Dancing" (1984)

One hundred poems to break your heart