Overview

You have picked up this book because you are a poetry reader. Or you are about to be one. Because as soon as you read a poem, that’s what you are. Filled with the profound, the lyrical, the consoling, and the curious, The Poetry Reader: An Anthology is the book you would hope to find if you washed up alone on a deserted island: this companionable collection shows how poetry itself is a discussion, alive and flowing, and how poems speak to, with, and sometimes over one another. If you are a teacher, this is the anthology you wish you had as a student – a text that doesn’t try to survey entire time periods or aesthetic areas, but one that places side-by-side carefully selected poems that speak to each other over time as well as to today’s readers. - Section header notes provide critical commentary, framing the poems within their given topic - Discussion and writing suggestions give interesting and actionable prompts - Works as a standalone book, or can easily be used alongside Poetry: A Survivor's Guide, 2nd ed. Drawing on traditional poems and contemporary works, this anthology offers globe-spanning, stylistically diverse poetry, ranging from canonical poems by the likes of Sappho and Shakespeare to those of new voices such as Layli Long Soldier and Mukoma wa Ngugi. As a compact, eclectic, and approachable collection based on specific aspects of poetry and poetic practices – from identity and metaphor to sublimation and spirituality – The Poetry Reader acts as a guide to understanding the essentials of both reading and writing poetry.

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Author:   Professor Mark Yakich (Loyola University, New Orleans, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9798765104095

Pages:   240
Publication Date:   09 January 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction READING Poetic Aims “Ars Poetica” by Archibald MacLeish “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander “Ars Poetica” by José Olivarez “Poetry” by Marianne Moore Biography “Memoir” by Vijay Seshadri “Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich “the children of immigrants” by Lenelle Moïse “Ontology of Change and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins” by Cathy Park Hong Close Reading “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins “Vertigo” by Anne Stevenson “Viewpoint” by Mahmoud Darwish “His Days Go by the Way Her Years” by Ye Mimi “Someone I’m Afraid Of” by Zaki Ovais Emotion “Western Wind” by Anonymous “Blues Haiku [let me be yo wil]” by Sonia Sanchez “Not Once” by Sharon Olds “Bird-Understander” by Craig Arnold Pattern and Variation “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” by William Shakespeare (from Macbeth) “The Tyger” by William Blake “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop “Ecclesiastes” by Khaled Mattawa “katherine with the lazy eye. short. and not a good poet” by francine j. harris Ineffability “Limitations” by Henrietta Cordelia Ray Excerpt from The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens “Writer” by Joe Wenderoth Sound Work “Love (III)” by George Herbert “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden “Altruism“ by Molly Peacock “Widening Income Inequality” by Frederick Seidel Rhythm “Shards” by Aline Murray Kilmer “Dulce et decorum est” by Wilfred Owen “Any Lit” by Harryette Mullen “Gyre’s Galax” by N.H. Pritchard Enjambment “ode to the flute” by Ross Gay “Advice to Pallbearers” by Benjamin Gucciardi “what remains two” by Truong Tran “Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form” by Matthea Harvey The Line “Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa “The Secret” by Denise Levertov “In Strength Sweetness” by Elizabeth Willis “The Boy Calls Twilight” by Shane McCrae The Lyric “Fragment 22” by Sappho “Love Songs (section III)” by Mina Loy “This Room and Everything in It” by Li-Young Lee “Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara “Horizon” by Kim Hyesoon “How (Not) to Speak of God” by Mary Szybist Metaphor “85” from The Exeter Book of Riddles “Psalm 23” “Now You Need Me” by Virginia Hamilton Adair “Here I Am, Lord” by Michael Chitwood “No Metaphor” by Bryan Walpert “Punctum / Metaphor” by Carolina Ebeid “Apocatastasis” by G.C. Waldrep Ambiguity “All Your Horses” by Kay Ryan “An Argument About Horses” by Kedaranth Singh “Language Lesson 1976” by Heather McHugh “Paradoxes and Oxymorons” by John Ashbery Dickinson “Tell all the truth but tell it slant (1283)” by Emily Dickinson “After great pain, a formal feeling comes (372)” by Emily Dickinson “Because I could not stop for Death (479)” by Emily Dickinson “I cannot live with You (640)” by Emily Dickinson Classics “Cantico del Sole” by Ezra Pound “Romantic Poetry” by Diane Seuss Myths “We Were All Odysseus in Those Days” by Amorak Huey “Waiting for Icarus” by Muriel Rukeyser “Ganymede” by Jericho Brown “Confession” by Leila Chatti “Creation Myth” by Mathias Svalina Great Books “A Great Book can be read again and again…” from A Pillow Book by Suzanne Buffam “One Book” by Mary Ruefle Whitman “I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing” by Walt Whitman “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg “Ode to the Whitman Line ‘When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d’” by Kimiko Hahn Imagery “A hazy moonlit night” by Jyoin “The Garden by Moonlight” by Amy Lowell “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” by James Wright “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver “My voice will weigh on you / Xtiidxe’ zanaa luguialu’ / Te pesará mi voz” by Irma Pineda “Eight Buffalo” by Cecilia Llompart Roses “[somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” by E. E. Cummings “One Perfect Rose” by Dorothy Parker “Hothouse” by Raymond McDaniel Prose Poetry “Crate / Le Cageot” by Francis Ponge “The Adventures of a Turtle” by Russell Edson “Part of Eve’s Discussion” by Marie Howe “Hive Minds” by Jennifer L. Knox “A BOX.” by Gertrude Stein Narrative “Borges and I” by Jorge Luis Borges “The Silence” by Timothy Liu “Hunting Words with My Father [Preface]” by Mukoma wa Ngugi “38” by Layli Long Soldier Criticism and Theory “No Theory” by David Ignatow “Platonic Love” by Curt Anderson Pessoa “Autopsychography” by Fernando Pessoa “Others Narrate with Lyres or Harps” by Fernando Pessoa “The Tobacco Shop” by Fernando Pessoa Political Poetry “The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty” by Bernadette Mayer “Ginsberg” by Julia Vinograd “The Last Analysis; or, I Woke Up” by Jameson Fitzpatrick “The War Works Hard” by Dunya Mikhail Excerpt from The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion by Edmond Jabès Aesthetics “Why We Oppose Pockets for Women” by Alice Duer Miller “Opposition” by Mitsuharu Kaneko “Dramaturgy” by Jason Schneiderman Reader Response “Napoleon” by Miroslav Holub “A Rugged Coast” by Edward Mullany “The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am A Poet” by Lynn Emanuel “The Price of a Finger” by Wang Ping Classroom Reading “Early Poem” by Lucy Ives Poetry Readings “At the Student Poetry Reading” by Kim Stafford “The Poetry Reading” by Rodney Jones “Nondisabled Demands” by The Cyborg Jillian Weise “Poetry Reading” by Anna Swir Spirituality “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Amira Baraka “Your Animal” by Gerald Stern “Goodtime Jesus” by James Tate “Making Applesauce with My Dead Grandmother” by Bianca Stone “Down Jacket God” by Moon Bo Young “Substance, Shadow, and Spirit” by T’ao Ch’ien Flight “Waiting for a Ride” by Gary Snyder “Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye “Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet” by Tony Hoagland “Lanro Temple” by Chen Xianfa WRITING First Principles “so you want to be a writer?” by Charles Bukowski “no more grandma poems” by Yolanda Wisher Form “The Fish” by Marianne Moore Excerpt from Chapter E of Eunoia by Christian Bök “Personals” by C.D. Wright “what’s not to liken?” by Evie Shockley Sonnet Excerpt from Nets by Jen Bervin “Sonnet 19” by John Milton “When in my weeping I inquire of Love (Sonnet 132)” by Gaspara Stampa “Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX)” by Edna St. Vincent Millay “shattered sonnet #3 “ by Olena Kalytiak Davis “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” by Terrance Hayes Identity “This Be The Verse” by Philip Larkin “Where Do You Come From?” by Meena Alexander “Poppies in October” by Sylvia Plath “The Red Poppy” by Louise Glück Self-Expression Excerpt from Song of Myself (1892 version) by Walt Whitman “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou “‘You Should Write a Poem about That,’ They Say” by Emilia Phillips ""The Self in Poetry: A GNAT (Grossly Non-Academic Talk) with a Weaving Metaphor"" by Rachel Zucker Memory “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost “Standing by a Shelf” by Brandon D. Johnson “Theories of Time and Space” by Natasha Trethewey “My Father’s Mother Asks Him to Forget the War” by John Z. Guzlowski “Digging” by Seamus Heaney Sublimation “When I Am Asked” by Lisel Mueller “the mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” by Sherman Alexie “Dreams” by Ashley Durant Imitation Excerpt from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart “Arrival” by Jeffrey Harrison “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell “Coy Mistress” by Annie Finch “Variations on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop” by John Murillo Avant-Garde “To make a dadaist poem” by Tristan Tzara Revision “Revision” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat Poet-Teachers “Pencil” by Marianne Boruch “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes Professionalization “With Tenure” by David Lehman “Portrait of an Administrator with Strategic Plan and Office Supplies” by Jehanne Dubrow “Rubric for the Rubric Concerning Students’ Core Educational Competency In Reading Things In Books And Writing About Them” by Susan Harlan Literary Magazines “Rejections” by Etheridge Knight Publication “Publication Date” by Franz Wright Series, Sequence “On Living” by Nazim Hikmet “Children (from Holocaust)” by Charles Reznikoff Excerpt from My Life by Lyn Hejinian “Series as Opposed to Sequence” by Mary Leader Collections “Dedication” by Czeslaw Milosz Poetic Practices “You Fixed It” by Zeina Hashem Beck “Writing Prompt” by Michael Torres Moods “Catullus: Odio et Amo” by Frank Bidart “Catullus: Excrucior” by Frank Bidart “Catullus: Id faciam” by Frank Bidart Excerpt from Please Bury Me in This by Allison Benis White “Self-Portrait with Profanity” by Safia Elhillo “A Brief for the Defense” by Jack Gilbert “Happiness” by Jane Kenyon Depression “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot “McDonalds Is Impossible” by Chelsea Martin “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy” by Jack Spicer “Cotton in a Pill Bottle” by Dean Young “To Sleep” by John Keats “Solitary Observation Brought Back from a Sojourn in Hell” by Louise Bogan Meditation “Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain” by Li Bai “To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"" by Jenny Xie “Meditation at Lagunitas” by Robert Hass “Meditation Denying Everything” by Katie Peterson Procrastination “The Unwritten” by W.S. Merwin End Notes “Ornithology” by Ron Koertge “All the Generations Before Me” by Yehuda Amichai “Things No One Knows” by Wanda Coleman Excerpt from OBIT by Victoria Chang “Mourning” by Carolyn Forché “Under a Certain Little Star” by Wislawa Szymborska Notes Acknowledgements Index of Titles and First Lines"

Reviews

Spanning centuries and continents, The Poetry Reader represents the dazzling possibility of poetry and its limitless capacity to see the world slant. This is a generous, generative project, one of those rare teaching resources that is also a pleasure. Yakich has created something truly special: an anthology that invites conversation. * Erica Wright, Former Poetry Editor of Guernica Magazine and author of All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (2017) * This anthology captures the vigor and immediacy of the art of poetry. From Walt Whitman to Leila Chatti, William Shakespeare to Mukoma wa Ngugi, the selections feel surprising and inevitable. The Poetry Reader provides thorough, insightful, and thought-provoking discussion to support teachers, students, and writers, as well as variety and vitality to reward anyone reading for pleasure. This book will instruct and delight. * Peter Campion, author of Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry (2019) *

A superb collection of great poems, paired with keen insights on what makes them tick. * Kirkus Reviews * Spanning centuries and continents, The Poetry Reader represents the dazzling possibility of poetry and its limitless capacity to see the world slant. This is a generous, generative project, one of those rare teaching resources that is also a pleasure. Yakich has created something truly special: an anthology that invites conversation. * Erica Wright, Former Poetry Editor of Guernica Magazine and author of All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (2017) * This anthology captures the vigor and immediacy of the art of poetry. From Walt Whitman to Leila Chatti, William Shakespeare to Mukoma wa Ngugi, the selections feel surprising and inevitable. The Poetry Reader provides thorough, insightful, and thought-provoking discussion to support teachers, students, and writers, as well as variety and vitality to reward anyone reading for pleasure. This book will instruct and delight. * Peter Campion, author of Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry (2019) *

Author Information

Mark Yakich is Gregory F. Curtin, S.J. Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA, where he has been editor of New Orleans Review since 2012. He is the author of the poetry collections Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (2004), The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (2008), and Spiritual Exercises (2019); a novel, A Meaning for Wife (2011); and Object Lessons book on Football (Bloomsbury, 2022), and a guide to reading and writing poems, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2016/2022).

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