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The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

Kevin Young
4.10/5 (637 ratings)
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Poetry serves a unique role in our lives, distilling human experience and emotion down to truths as potent as they are brief. There are two times most people turn to for love and loss. The Art of Losing will be the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal a gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are experiencing loss.

Reckoning. Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden ; Dying / Robert Pinsky ; Wake / Rita Dove ; "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" ; 'My life closed twice before its close" / Emily Dickinson ; Secret knowledge ; Much hurrying / Brenda Hillman ; Race / Sharon Olds ; Whale / Terence Hayes ; Silence / D.H. Lawrence ; Futility / Wilfred Owen ; Lament / Anne Sexon ; Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas ; Pyrrhic victory / Lucie Brock-Broido ; Mower / Philip Larkin ; No more / Mary Jo Bang ; Loss / Ruth Stone ; Sudden / Nick Flynn ; Do not pick up the telephone / Ted Hughes ; Funeral blues / W.H. Auden ; Graveyard blues / Natasha Trethewey ; Without / Donald Hall ; For a woman dead at thirty / Jean Valentine ; Final Notations / Adrienne Rich ; One continuous substance / Albert Goldbarth ; Iron / Jane Cooper ; Bereavement / Kevin Young ; This hour and what is dead / Li-Young Lee ; (Carrion comfort) / Gerard Manley Hopkins ; from Choir practice / Forrest Hamer ; To Bhain Campbell ; Epilogue / John Berryman ; Sea canes / Derek Walcott ; Autumn passage / Elizabeth Alexander ; Let evening come / Jane Kenyon --

Regret. Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost ; Spots / Joel Brouwer ; Like / Frank Bidart ; Dreaming of the dead / Anne Stevenson ; Grief / Stephen Dobyns ; Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke ; On the death of fiends in childhood / Donald Justice ; Shout / Simon Armitage ; We assume : on the death of our son, Reuben Masai Harper / Michael S. Harper ; Written on the due date of a son never born / David Wojahn ; Stillbirth / Laure-Anne Bosselaar ; Mid-term break / Seamus Heaney ; A litany / Gregory Orr ; How some of it happened / Marie Howe ; Freedom, New Hampshire / Galway Kinnell ; Ice / Mary Oliver ; Last hellos / Les Murray ; "oh antic God" / Lucille Clifton ; Speaking to my dead mother / Ruth Stone ; Reassurance / Thom Gunn ; My sister, who died young, takes up the task / Jon Pineda ; Elegy for my father / Mark Strand ; Men at my father's funeral / William Matthews ; On the death of a colleague / Stephen Dunn ; Marquee moon / Jeff Fallis ; Facts of grief / Jim Daniels ; David Lemieux / Denise Duhamel ; Dirge without music / Edna St. Vincent Millay --

Remembrance. After / Elizabeth Alexander ; Poems for my brother Kenneth / Owen Dodson ; Artifact / Caludia Emerson ; Remember me / Hal Sirowitz ; Death is a woman / Joy Harjo ; Tiara / Mark Doty ; A memorial : son Bret / William Stafford ; Morning baking / Carolyn Forché ; Hand me down blues / Calvin Forbes ; Grief / C.K. Williams ; Myth / Natasha Trethewey ; Bones of my father / Etheridge Knight ; A song / Joseph Brodsky ; Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden ; Asked for a happy memory of her father, she recalls Wrigley Field / Beth Ann Fennelly ; forgiving my father / Lucille Clifton ; White crane / Dean Young ; Elegy / Arnold J. Kemp ; cosmos, late blooming / D.A. Powell ; Abiku / Afaa Michael Weaver ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas ; Luke and the duct tape / Coleman Barks ; Birthday poem / Erin Murphy ; You don't miss your water / Cornelius Eady ; Dead / Billy Collins --

Ritual. Water / Philip Larkin ; My religion / Anne Carson ; Truth the dead know / Anne Sexton ; Listen Lord : a prayer / James Weldon Johnson ; Dedication for a plot of ground / William Carlos Williams ; Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa ; Funeral rites / Seamus Heaney ; Not forgotten / Toi Derricotte ; After your death / Natasha Trethewey ; Disposal / W.D. Snodgrass ; Seersucker suit / Deborah Digges ; Until she returns / Reginald Shepherd ; Oboe in Handel's largo from Xerxes as elegy / Quan Barry ; Transaction / A.R. Ammons ; My father's body / William Matthews ; My mother's body, my professor, my bower / Jean Valentine ; Dead letters / Mary Joe Salter ; "I needed to talk to my sister" / Grace Paley ; Fatal April / Thomas Sayers Ellis ; Celestial music / Louise Glück ; God / Michael Ryan ; Trying to pray / James Wright ; Ice storm / Robert Hayden ; Wasteful gesture only not / Tony Hoagland ; Blues procession / Terrance Hayes ; I just wanna testify / Cornelius Eady ; Incensation at the funeral / Matthew Rohrer ; My father's funeral / Karl Shapiro ; Cold calls / Edward Hirsch ; Burial (no woman no cry) / Kevin Young ; Mourners / Ted Kooser ; Lament / Louise Glück ; Request / Lawrence Raab ; Elegy / Meghan O'Rourke ; Translation / Franz Wright ; Storm valediction / Campbell McGrath ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop ; Prayer / Galway Kinell --

Recovery. My heart / Frank O'Hara ; Poem / Simon Armitage ; Gilded shadow / Jane Mayhall ; On new terms / Deborah Garrison ; For the anniversary of my death / W.S. Merwin ; Hum / Ann Lauterbach ; Try to praise the mutilated word / Adam Zagajewski (translated by Clare Cavanagh) ; Grief / Matthew Dickman ; My father, in heaven, is reading out loud / Li-Young Lee ; Vigil / Phillis Levin ; Practice / Ellen Bryant Voigt ; Re : happiness, in pursuit thereof / C.D. Wright ; Light turnouts / John Ashbery ; Living alone (II) / Denise Levertov ; Beach roses / Mark Doty ; Death poem / Kim Addonizio ; Infirm / Gwendolyn Brooks ; It is what it is / Paul Muldoon ; 12/19/02 / David Lehman ; Weeds and peonies / Donald Hall ; Lilacs / Richard Wilbur ; Father / Ted Kooser ; After my death / David Young ; Lucky life / Gerald Stern ; Wild Geese / Mary Oliver ; Waking / Theodore Roetheke --

Redemption. Trees / Philip Larkin ; In the city of light / Larry Levis ; And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas ; What are years? / Marianne Moore ; First psalm / Anne Sexton ; Evening / Charles Simic ; Grasses / Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks) ; Redemption song / Kevin Young ; from Clay hill anthology / Hayden Carruth ; When death comes / Mary Oliver ; "i thank you God for most this amazing" / e.e. cummings ; Unsolicited survey / Phillis Levin ; And yet the books / Czeslaw Milosz (translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass) ; Last words / James Merrill ; Music is in the piano only when it is played / Jack Gilbert ; Coda / Jason Shinder ; Litany / Aracelis Girmay ; Notes from the other side / Jane Kenyon ; Self-portrait / Charles Wright ; Mother / Anne Stevenson ; Did this ever happen to you / Franz Wright ; An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin ; Poem for a survivor / Donald Justice ; Letter from God / Ruth L. Schwartz ; Otherwise / Jane Kenyon ; To breath / Kenneth Koch ; Train ride / Ruth Stone.
Format:
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336 pages
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eng
ISBN10:
1608190331
ISBN13:
9781608190331
kindle Asin:
B00C0WHVTE

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

Kevin Young
4.10/5 (637 ratings)
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Poetry serves a unique role in our lives, distilling human experience and emotion down to truths as potent as they are brief. There are two times most people turn to for love and loss. The Art of Losing will be the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal a gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are experiencing loss.

Reckoning. Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden ; Dying / Robert Pinsky ; Wake / Rita Dove ; "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" ; 'My life closed twice before its close" / Emily Dickinson ; Secret knowledge ; Much hurrying / Brenda Hillman ; Race / Sharon Olds ; Whale / Terence Hayes ; Silence / D.H. Lawrence ; Futility / Wilfred Owen ; Lament / Anne Sexon ; Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas ; Pyrrhic victory / Lucie Brock-Broido ; Mower / Philip Larkin ; No more / Mary Jo Bang ; Loss / Ruth Stone ; Sudden / Nick Flynn ; Do not pick up the telephone / Ted Hughes ; Funeral blues / W.H. Auden ; Graveyard blues / Natasha Trethewey ; Without / Donald Hall ; For a woman dead at thirty / Jean Valentine ; Final Notations / Adrienne Rich ; One continuous substance / Albert Goldbarth ; Iron / Jane Cooper ; Bereavement / Kevin Young ; This hour and what is dead / Li-Young Lee ; (Carrion comfort) / Gerard Manley Hopkins ; from Choir practice / Forrest Hamer ; To Bhain Campbell ; Epilogue / John Berryman ; Sea canes / Derek Walcott ; Autumn passage / Elizabeth Alexander ; Let evening come / Jane Kenyon --

Regret. Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost ; Spots / Joel Brouwer ; Like / Frank Bidart ; Dreaming of the dead / Anne Stevenson ; Grief / Stephen Dobyns ; Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke ; On the death of fiends in childhood / Donald Justice ; Shout / Simon Armitage ; We assume : on the death of our son, Reuben Masai Harper / Michael S. Harper ; Written on the due date of a son never born / David Wojahn ; Stillbirth / Laure-Anne Bosselaar ; Mid-term break / Seamus Heaney ; A litany / Gregory Orr ; How some of it happened / Marie Howe ; Freedom, New Hampshire / Galway Kinnell ; Ice / Mary Oliver ; Last hellos / Les Murray ; "oh antic God" / Lucille Clifton ; Speaking to my dead mother / Ruth Stone ; Reassurance / Thom Gunn ; My sister, who died young, takes up the task / Jon Pineda ; Elegy for my father / Mark Strand ; Men at my father's funeral / William Matthews ; On the death of a colleague / Stephen Dunn ; Marquee moon / Jeff Fallis ; Facts of grief / Jim Daniels ; David Lemieux / Denise Duhamel ; Dirge without music / Edna St. Vincent Millay --

Remembrance. After / Elizabeth Alexander ; Poems for my brother Kenneth / Owen Dodson ; Artifact / Caludia Emerson ; Remember me / Hal Sirowitz ; Death is a woman / Joy Harjo ; Tiara / Mark Doty ; A memorial : son Bret / William Stafford ; Morning baking / Carolyn Forché ; Hand me down blues / Calvin Forbes ; Grief / C.K. Williams ; Myth / Natasha Trethewey ; Bones of my father / Etheridge Knight ; A song / Joseph Brodsky ; Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden ; Asked for a happy memory of her father, she recalls Wrigley Field / Beth Ann Fennelly ; forgiving my father / Lucille Clifton ; White crane / Dean Young ; Elegy / Arnold J. Kemp ; cosmos, late blooming / D.A. Powell ; Abiku / Afaa Michael Weaver ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas ; Luke and the duct tape / Coleman Barks ; Birthday poem / Erin Murphy ; You don't miss your water / Cornelius Eady ; Dead / Billy Collins --

Ritual. Water / Philip Larkin ; My religion / Anne Carson ; Truth the dead know / Anne Sexton ; Listen Lord : a prayer / James Weldon Johnson ; Dedication for a plot of ground / William Carlos Williams ; Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa ; Funeral rites / Seamus Heaney ; Not forgotten / Toi Derricotte ; After your death / Natasha Trethewey ; Disposal / W.D. Snodgrass ; Seersucker suit / Deborah Digges ; Until she returns / Reginald Shepherd ; Oboe in Handel's largo from Xerxes as elegy / Quan Barry ; Transaction / A.R. Ammons ; My father's body / William Matthews ; My mother's body, my professor, my bower / Jean Valentine ; Dead letters / Mary Joe Salter ; "I needed to talk to my sister" / Grace Paley ; Fatal April / Thomas Sayers Ellis ; Celestial music / Louise Glück ; God / Michael Ryan ; Trying to pray / James Wright ; Ice storm / Robert Hayden ; Wasteful gesture only not / Tony Hoagland ; Blues procession / Terrance Hayes ; I just wanna testify / Cornelius Eady ; Incensation at the funeral / Matthew Rohrer ; My father's funeral / Karl Shapiro ; Cold calls / Edward Hirsch ; Burial (no woman no cry) / Kevin Young ; Mourners / Ted Kooser ; Lament / Louise Glück ; Request / Lawrence Raab ; Elegy / Meghan O'Rourke ; Translation / Franz Wright ; Storm valediction / Campbell McGrath ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop ; Prayer / Galway Kinell --

Recovery. My heart / Frank O'Hara ; Poem / Simon Armitage ; Gilded shadow / Jane Mayhall ; On new terms / Deborah Garrison ; For the anniversary of my death / W.S. Merwin ; Hum / Ann Lauterbach ; Try to praise the mutilated word / Adam Zagajewski (translated by Clare Cavanagh) ; Grief / Matthew Dickman ; My father, in heaven, is reading out loud / Li-Young Lee ; Vigil / Phillis Levin ; Practice / Ellen Bryant Voigt ; Re : happiness, in pursuit thereof / C.D. Wright ; Light turnouts / John Ashbery ; Living alone (II) / Denise Levertov ; Beach roses / Mark Doty ; Death poem / Kim Addonizio ; Infirm / Gwendolyn Brooks ; It is what it is / Paul Muldoon ; 12/19/02 / David Lehman ; Weeds and peonies / Donald Hall ; Lilacs / Richard Wilbur ; Father / Ted Kooser ; After my death / David Young ; Lucky life / Gerald Stern ; Wild Geese / Mary Oliver ; Waking / Theodore Roetheke --

Redemption. Trees / Philip Larkin ; In the city of light / Larry Levis ; And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas ; What are years? / Marianne Moore ; First psalm / Anne Sexton ; Evening / Charles Simic ; Grasses / Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks) ; Redemption song / Kevin Young ; from Clay hill anthology / Hayden Carruth ; When death comes / Mary Oliver ; "i thank you God for most this amazing" / e.e. cummings ; Unsolicited survey / Phillis Levin ; And yet the books / Czeslaw Milosz (translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass) ; Last words / James Merrill ; Music is in the piano only when it is played / Jack Gilbert ; Coda / Jason Shinder ; Litany / Aracelis Girmay ; Notes from the other side / Jane Kenyon ; Self-portrait / Charles Wright ; Mother / Anne Stevenson ; Did this ever happen to you / Franz Wright ; An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin ; Poem for a survivor / Donald Justice ; Letter from God / Ruth L. Schwartz ; Otherwise / Jane Kenyon ; To breath / Kenneth Koch ; Train ride / Ruth Stone.
Format:
Pages:
336 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
1
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1608190331
ISBN13:
9781608190331
kindle Asin:
B00C0WHVTE

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