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Americans' favorite poems : the Favorite Poem Project anthology
    
Publisher: W.W. Norton,
Pub date: c2000.
Pages: xix, 327 p. ;
ISBN: 0393048209
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Evanston Public Library Main
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808.81 America     Book     Adult Non-Fiction - 2nd Floor West
Summary
This anthology of 200 poems embodies Robert Pinsky's commitment to discover America's beloved poetry, his special undertaking as Poet Laureate of the United States. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Booklist Review
Poet laureate Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project was a stroke of genius. Americans were invited to share by letter a poem they treasured; then many were recorded reading their chosen poems for inclusion in a national video and audio archive. The response was tremendous, and as Pinsky notes, many of the matches between reader and poem defy stereotypes, and all attest to the vital role that poetry plays in more lives than seems possible in a country that appears to pay scant attention to this quiet art form. Here each poem is introduced in extraordinarily moving personal disclosures by the reader who chose it. Teenagers and octogenarians, a social worker, a farmer, a nurse, a truck driver, a commodities trader, a librarian, a judge, and an alcoholic who memorizes poetry to test her sobriety selected poems by Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Haki R. Madhubuti, W. S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, and Dylan Thomas. No one person, however well read, could have created this resounding collection, which may well become a favorite in its own right. --Donna Seaman From: Syndetics Solutions, Inc. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Table of Contents
   Introduction p. 3
   The Sentence p. 5
   Mansion p. 6
   Will, lost in a sea of trouble p. 8
   Dover Beach p. 9
   The Improvement p. 11
   Variation on the Word Sleep p. 12
   In Memory of W. B. Yeats
   Refugee Blues
   Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note p. 18
   One Art
   At the Fishhouses
   Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle p. 23
   Eternity
   The Ecchoing Green
   The Little Black Boy
   The Emigrant Irish p. 27
   Before the Birth of one of her Children
   To my Dear and loving Husband
   The Soldier p. 30
   We Real Cool
   The Bean Eaters
   Sonnet 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. p. 33
   My Last Duchess p. 34
   Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress p. 36
   Address to a Haggis p. 38
   She Walks in Beauty from Manfred p. 40
   Jabberwocky p. 44
   Grandmither, Think Not I Forget p. 46
   31 p. 48
   The City p. 49
   from Zeitgehoft p. 50
   from The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales p. 51
   You Called Me Corazon p. 52
   The Lost Baby Poem p. 53
   from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner p. 54
   Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge
   Voyages (III)
   The Rain
   I Know a Man
   Yet Do I Marvel p. 63
   I sing of Olaf glad and big p. 64
   Last Poem p. 66
   The Bee p. 67
   I'm Nobody! Who are you? (288)
   I never saw a Moor--(1052)
   A little Madness in the Spring (1333)
   "Hope" is the thing with Feathers--(254)
   A Bird came down the Walk--(328)
   The Flea
   A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
   The Embrace p. 77
   Daystar p. 78
   Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part (10) p. 80
   Love Song: I And Thou p. 81
   We Wear the Mask p. 82
   A Lyric in Exile p. 83
   The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
   Dry Salvages (II)
   The Rhodora p. 91
   The Road Not Taken
   Acquainted with the Night
   Immigrants
   Birches
   A Hillside Thaw
   "Out, Out--"
   The Terms in Which I Think of Reality p. 99
   The Queen of Carthage p. 101
   Baby Song p. 102
   Names of Horses p. 103
   The Darkling Thrush p. 105
   Meditation at Lagunitas p. 107
   Those Winter Sundays
   Monet's "Waterlilies"
   Mid-Term Break p. 112
   Invictus p. 114
   Church-musick
   Vertue
   The pebble p. 118
   Things I Didn't Know I Loved p. 119
   Do you see the town? p. 123
   from the Iliad (Book Six, lines 439-79) p. 124
   God's Grandeur
   Pied Beauty
   The Windhover
   Diffugere Nives p. 129
   Minstrel Man
   Merry-Go-Round
   Mother to Son
   Driving Montana p. 134
   Next Day
   Losses
   The Purse-Seine p. 140
   The Creation p. 142
   Song To Celia
   On My First Son
   Ecce Puer p. 148
   Ode to a Nightingale
   Sonnet VII (O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell)
   This Living Hand
   Otherwise p. 153
   St. Francis and the Sow p. 154
   Facing It p. 156
   Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation p. 157
   from Tao te Ching p. 159
   Snake p. 160
   The New Colossus p. 163
   Come into Animal Presence p. 164
   You Can Have It p. 166
   A Psalm of Life p. 168
   The Moon Sails Out
   Song of the Barren Orange Tree
   Patterns p. 173
   The First Snow-Fall p. 177
   Waking in the Blue p. 179
   Big Momma p. 181
   To His Coy Mistress p. 183
   Art p. 185
   Strawberries p. 186
   Sonnet XXIV (When you, that at this moment are to me)
   Dirge Without Music
   Happiness p. 189
   On Pilgrimage p. 190
   Lycidas p. 191
   Harmonics p. 196
   Poetry
   I May, I Might, I Must
   The Time I've Lost in Wooing p. 199
   Ode to My Socks p. 200
   Quiet Until the Thaw p. 203
   A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island p. 204
   The Summer Day p. 207
   Dulce et Decorum Est p. 208
   To Return to the Urges Unconscious of Their Beginnings p. 210
   Luncheon on the Grass p. 211
   The Night Dances
   Lady Lazarus
   Polly's Tree
   Cancer and Nova p. 219
   from Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot p. 220
   The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter p. 222
   I loved you p. 224
   Love Constant Beyond Death p. 225
   The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd p. 226
   Naming of Parts p. 227
   To the Days
   Prospective Immigrants Please Note
   Entrance p. 231
   Romance p. 232
   Our Land p. 234
   Eros Turannos
   Mr. Flood's Party
   My Papa's Waltz
   Night Journey
   The Waking
   Who Says Words with My Mouth p. 243
   Chicago p. 244
   Equal to the gods p. 246
   An Old Man on the River Bank p. 247
   Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?)
   Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes)
   Sonnet 138 (When my love swears that she is made of truth)
   Not Waving But Drowning p. 252
   Scars p. 253
   The Idea of Order at Key West
   The Snow Man
   Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
   Girl in a Nightgown
   Block City
   Home No More Home to Me, Whither Must I Wander?
   Pot Roast p. 261
   Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition p. 263
   Gift p. 265
   Ulysses p. 267
   Casey at the Bat p. 270
   Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
   In My Craft or Sullen Art
   Fern Hill
   Tichborne's Elegy p. 277
   A Far Cry from Africa p. 278
   Arizona Midnight p. 280
   An Old Man's Thought of School
   from Song of the Open Road (1, 4, and 8)
   To a Certain Cantatrice
   from Song of Myself (46 and 52)
   Love Calls Us to the Things of This World p. 287
   My Fly p. 289
   To Elsie
   Danse Busse
   from The Prelude (Book IV, lines 354-70)
   Lines (Tintern Abbey)
   On a Bank As I Sat Fishing p. 301
   A Blessing p. 302
   Forget Not Yet p. 303
   Politics
   When You Are Old
   Sailing to Byzantium
   The lower leaves of the trees p. 307
   To Go to Lvov p. 308
   The Way of the Water-Hyacinth p. 311
   Permissions p. 313
   Index p. 321
Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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Title: Americans' favorite poems : the Favorite Poem Project anthology / edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz.
Portion of title: Favorite Poem Project anthology
Edition: 1st ed.
Publication info: New York : W.W. Norton, c2000.
Physical descrip: xix, 327 p. ; 25 cm.
General Note: Includes index.
Held by: ALGONQUIN ALGONQUINB CARY DESPLAINES DUNDEE ELA GLENCOE HUNTLEY LAKEFOREST LAKE_VILLA LINCOLNWD MCHENRY NILES NORTHBROOK PARK_RIDGE ROUND_LAKE WILMETTE WINNETKA NORTHFIELD ZIONBENTON CRYSTALAKE EPLMAIN EPLNORTH EPLSOUTH
Genre index term: Poetry.
Added author: Pinsky, Robert.
Added author: Dietz, Maggie.
Added author: Favorite Poem Project (U.S.)
Control Number: ocm41404648
ISBN: 0393048209 : $24.95
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