The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart

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Three central leaders of the men's movement present a rich and insightful collection of poems that will appeal to both men and women--more than 300 powerful and profound works from Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, Wadsworth, Blake, and many others.

Foreword

xix

ONE APPROACH TO WILDNESS

(30)

Danse Russe

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Smell!

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Crazy Dog Events

(1)

Jerome Rothenberg

Four Quatrains

(1)

Rumi

Much Madness is divinest Sense

(1)

Emily Dickinson

from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

(1)

Aime Cesaire

Bread and Wine

(1)

Friedrich Holderlin

Has Anyone Seen the Boy?

(1)

Rumi

from The Will to Believe

(1)

William James

from Proverbs from Hell

(2)

William Blake

from Middle of the Way

(1)

Galway Kinnell

The Wild Mallard Thought

(1)

Henry David Threau

The Wild Man Comes to the Monastery

(1)

Anonymous

from Song of a Man Who Has Come Through

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Knowing Nothing Shuts the Iron Gates

(1)

Kabir

from In a Dark Time

(1)

Theodore Roethke

Little Infinite Poem

(2)

Federico Garcia Lorca

The Wild Old Wicked Man

(2)

William Butler Yeats

Mad as the Mist and Snow

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Song of the Cuban Blacks

(2)

Federico Garcia Lorca

Advice

(1)

Bill Holm

TWO FATHERS' PRAYERS FOR SONS AND DAUGHTERS

(32)

With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach

(1)

William Stafford

A Story

(1)

Li-Young Lee

A Prayer for My Son

(2)

William Butler Yeats

On the Beach at Fontana

(1)

James Joyce

In the Third Month

(1)

David Ray

On My First Son

(1)

Ben Jonson

The Idea of Ancestry

(2)

Etheridge Knight

Men and Birth: The Unexplainable

(1)

Haki R. Madhubuti

Lastness

(2)

Galway Kinnell

Changing Diapers

(1)

Gary Snyder

At the Washing of My Son

(1)

David Ray

from a Prayer for My Daughter

(2)

William Butler Yeats

A Flower Given to My Daughter

(1)

James Joyce

An Ark for Lawrence Durrell

(1)

Robert Duncan

The Turtle

(2)

William Carlos Williams

Boy at the Window

(1)

Richard Wilbur

For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old

(1)

Robert Bly

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

(1)

Galway Kinnell

Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

A Story That Could Be True

(2)

William Stafford

THREE WAR

(30)

War

(1)

Miguel Hernandez

The Man From Washington

(1)

James Welch

Rundown Church

(2)

Federico Garcia Lorca

Dulce et Decorum Est

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Postcard

(1)

Miklos Radnoti

Dry Loaf

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Ode for the American Dead in Asia

(2)

Thomas McGrath

Words for My Daughter

(3)

John Balaban

To President Bush at the Start of the Gulf War

(1)

Robert Bly

Becoming Milton

(2)

Coleman Barks

from The Homeric Hymn to Ares

(1)

The Secret of Victory

(1)

George Patton

from Lessons of the War

(2)

Henry Reed

Big Dream, Little Dream

(1)

Louis Simpson

Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind

(1)

Stephen Crane

The Colonel

(1)

Carolyn Forche

``Keeping Their World Large''

(2)

Marianne Moore

Passing an Orchard by Train

(1)

Robert Bly

FOUR I KNOW THE EARTH, AND I AM SAD

(24)

The Wind, One Brilliant Day

(1)

Antonio Machado

Sonnets to Orpheus IV

100

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

101

(1)

Langston Hughes

Rain

102

(1)

Vachel Lindsay

Melancholy Inside Families

103

(2)

Pablo Neruda

Walking Around

105

(2)

Pablo Neruda

No More Auction Block

107

(1)

Spiritual

I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain

108

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Day Lady Died

109

(1)

Frank O'Hara

Sonnets to Orpheus VIII

110

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Sunflower

111

(1)

Rolf Jacobsen

Snowbanks North of the House

112

(1)

Roberty Bly

Healing

113

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Come In

114

(1)

Robert Frost

I Am Going to Speak of Hope

115

(1)

Cesar Vallejo

And What If After so Many Words

116

(1)

Cesar Vallejo

FIVE THE HOUSE OF FATHERS AND TITANS

117

(36)

For, Brother, What Are We?

123

(1)

Thomas Wolfe

from Democracy in America

124

(1)

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Bones of My Father

125

(2)

Etheridge Knight

from Theogony

127

(1)

Hesiod

Saturn

128

(1)

Sharon Olds

The Guild

129

(1)

Sharon Olds

My Papa's Waltz

130

(1)

Theodore Roethke

American Primitive

131

(1)

William Jay Smith

My Father's Wedding

132

(2)

Robert Bly

The Portrait

134

(1)

Stanley Kunitz

The Core of Masculinity

135

(1)

Rumi

The Gift

136

(2)

Li-Young Lee

The Weight of Sweetness

138

(1)

Li-Young Lee

Only When My Heart Freezes

139

(2)

Alden Nowlan

Those Winter Sundays

141

(1)

Robert Hayden

My Father Went to Funerals

142

(1)

Howard Nelson

Offering

143

(2)

Thomas McGrath

The Distant Footsteps

145

(1)

Cesar Vallejo

Yesterday

146

(2)

W. S. Merwin

from Memories of My Father

148

(1)

Galway Kinnell

The Race

149

(2)

Sharon Olds

The Irish Cliffs of Mother

151

(2)

Wallace Stevens

SIX LANGUAGE: SPEAKING WELL AND SPEAKING OUT

153

(40)

Magic Words

160

(1)

Eskimo

The Mind

161

(1)

Trobriands

Songs Are Thoughts

162

(1)

Orpingalik

On Being Extravagant

163

(1)

Henry David Thoreau

from Gargantua

164

(1)

Francois Rabelais

from The Havana Lectures

165

(1)

Federico Garcia Lorca

Poetry Is a Destructive Force

166

(1)

Wallace Stevens

In My Craft or Sullen Art

167

(1)

Dylan Thomas

On the Words in Poetry

168

(2)

Dylan Thomas

Sound-Posture

170

(1)

Robert Frost

Amergin and Cessair

171

(3)

Traditional

from Canto LXXXI

174

(2)

Ezra Pound

Sonnet LXV

176

(1)

William Shakespeare

Rigorists

177

(2)

Marianne Moore

To Autumn

179

(2)

John Keats

On the Writing of Poetry

181

(1)

William Stafford

Thoughts

182

(1)

Gerhart Hauptmann

Samuel Johnson

William Wordsworth

Selections

183

(1)

Miguel Hernandez

These Days

184

(1)

Charles Olson

American Poetry

185

(1)

Louis Simpson

Catch

186

(1)

Robert Francis

Pitcher

187

(1)

Robert Francis

Library

188

(1)

Louis Jenkins

from Standing Up

189

(1)

Tomas Transtromer

from The Man with the Blue Guitar

190

(2)

Wallace Stevens

from Autobiography of Charles Darwin

192

(1)

SEVEN MAKING A HOLE IN DENIAL

193

(34)

The Inner Part

200

(1)

Louis Simpson

Miniver Cheevy

201

(2)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

``Next to of Course God America I

203

(1)

E. E. Cumming

We Real Cool

204

(1)

Gwendoly Brooks

Twenty-First. Night. Monday

205

(1)

Anna Akhmatova

The Invisible King

206

(2)

Goethe

Darkmotherscream

208

(1)

Andrei Voznesensky

Empty Warriors

209

(1)

Haki R. Madhubuti

On the Yard

210

(1)

Etheridge Knight

A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand

211

(2)

Amiri Baraka

Animals Are Passing from Our Lives

213

(1)

Philip Levine

It Is This Way with Men

214

(1)

C. K. Williams

The War Prayer

215

(1)

Mark Twain

The Second Coming

216

(1)

William Butler Yeats

A First on TV

217

(1)

David Ignatow

Sunday at the State Hospital

218

(1)

David Ignatow

No Theory

219

(1)

David Ignatow

Funeral Eva

220

(1)

Koroneu

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

221

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Design

222

(1)

Robert Frost

Have You Anything to Say in Your Defense?

223

(2)

Cesar Vallejo

The Spider

225

(2)

Cesar Vallejo

EIGHT LOVING THE COMMUNITY AND WORK

227

(32)

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

233

(1)

William Stafford

Throw Yourself Like Seed

234

(1)

Miguel de Unamuno

Until One Is Committed

235

(1)

Goethe

Just as the Winged Energy of Delight

236

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Work

237

(2)

Gyula Illyes

Lamb

239

(2)

Michael Dennis Browne

Why Log Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen

241

(1)

Gary Snyder

All the Fruit

242

(1)

Friedrich Holderlin

New York

243

(3)

Federico Garcia Lorca

To the States

246

(1)

Walt Whitman

Thoughts

247

(1)

Samuel Johnson

Thoughts

248

(1)

Heraclitus

What Happened During the Ice Storm

249

(2)

Jim Heynen

The Flying Eagles of Troop 62

251

(2)

James Wright

Waxwings

253

(1)

Robert Francis

For Eli Jacobson

254

(2)

Kenneth Rexroth

Epitaph

256

(1)

Thomas McGrath

Death

257

(2)

Kuba

NINE THE NAIVE MALE

259

(24)

Which One Is Genuine?

264

(1)

Charles Baudelaire

Onion

265

(1)

Katha Pollitt

A Story About the Body

266

(1)

Robert Hass

The Rites of Manhood

267

(1)

Alden Nowlan

He Loved Three Things

268

(1)

Anna Akhmatova

When the Father Is Absent

269

(1)

James Hilman

The Black Hairs

270

(1)

Heinz Pasman

The Indian Serenade

271

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Good Deeds of the Moon

272

(2)

Charles Baudelaire

In a Tavern

274

(1)

Louis Jenkins

Faith

275

(1)

Czeslaw Milosz

from Song of Myself

276

(1)

Walt Whitman

Across the Swamp

277

(1)

Olav H. Hauge

Peer Gynt Tells His Mother About His Newest Adventure

278

(3)

Henrik Ibsen

The Hopeful Spiritual Athlete

281

(1)

Kabir

How Much Is Not True

282

(1)

Kabir

TEN THE SECOND LAYER: ANGER, HATRED, OUTRAGE

283

(74)

The Black Riders

289

(1)

Cesar Vallejo

The Twins

290

(1)

James Stephens

Indeed Indeed, I Cannot Tell

291

(1)

Henry David Thoreau

I Stand Here, Do You Understand

292

(1)

Olav H. Hauge

Hatred

293

(1)

Gwendolyn Bennett

Ribh Considers Christian Love Insufficient

294

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Lines for an Old Man

295

(1)

T. S. Eliot

The Hill

296

(1)

Robert Creeley

The Anger That Breaks the man Into Children

297

(1)

Cesar Vallejo

The Man Watching

298

(2)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fire on the Hills

300

(1)

Robinson Jeffers

The Song of the Black Bear

301

(1)

Navajo

A Poison Tree

302

(1)

William Blake

The English Are So Nice!

303

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Mine enemy is growing old

304

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Ascensions

305

(2)

William Pillin

The United Fruit Co.

307

(2)

Pablo Neruda

The White City

309

(1)

Claude McKay

Harlem

310

(1)

Langston Hughes

Fire and Ice

311

(8)

Robert Frost

ELEVEN EARTHLY LOVE

Diogenes

319

(1)

The Mole

320

(1)

Al-Muntafil

The Guest

321

(1)

Anna Akhmatova

Three Quatrains

322

(1)

Rumi

A Glimpse

323

(1)

Walt Whitman

Body of a Woman

324

(1)

Pablo Neruda

& Balls

325

(1)

Anne McNaughton

O Wha's The Bride?

326

(1)

Hugh MacDiarmid

Greed and Aggression

327

(1)

Sharon Olds

Gentleman Without Company

328

(2)

Pablo Neruda

Last Gods

330

(2)

Galway Kinnell

Cocks and Mares

332

(1)

Ruth Stone

I Knew a Woman

333

(1)

Theodore Roethke

Food of Love

334

(2)

Carolyn Kizer

Feeding the Dog

336

(1)

Russell Edson

I Wrung My Hands Under My Dark Veil

337

(1)

Anna Akhmatova

To Women, as Far as I'm Concerned

338

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Intimates

339

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Ballad of the Despairing Husband

340

(2)

Robert Creeley

All That is Lovely In Men

342

(1)

Robert Creeley

Separation by Death

343

(1)

Ibn Hazm

Feeling Fucked Up

344

(1)

Etheridge Knight

The Impulse

345

(1)

Robert Frost

Grief

346

(1)

Gaius Valerius Catullus

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

347

(2)

Ezra Pound

``We Must Die Because We Have Known Them''

349

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

A Marriage

350

(1)

Robert Creeley

And If He Had Been Wrong for Me

351

(1)

Robert Duncan

Listening to the Koln Concert

352

(1)

Robert Bly

Once I Passed Through a Populous City

353

(1)

Walt Whitman

History

354

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

A Coal Fire in Winter

355

(2)

Thomas McGrath

TWELVE THE CULTIVATED HEART

357

(26)

The Song of Wandering Aengus

363

(1)

William Butler Yeats

New Love and the Gentle Heart

364

(1)

Dante

As I Was Walking

365

(1)

Robert Creeley

from Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs

366

(1)

Antonio Machado

I Am Not I

367

(1)

Juan Ramon Jimenez

The One Who Is at Home

368

(1)

Francisco Albanez

To Be a Slave of Intensity

369

(1)

Kabir

Archaic Torso of Apollo

370

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Someone Digging in the Ground

371

(1)

Rumi

Last Night

372

(2)

Antonio Machado

Portrait

374

(2)

Antonio Machado

Names

376

(1)

Rumi

That Journeys Are Good

377

(2)

Rumi

Advice from Heraclitus

379

(1)

Advice from Pythagoras

380

(1)

The Waking

381

(1)

Theodore Roethke

The Holy Longing

382

(1)

Goethe

THIRTEEN MOTHER AND GREAT MOTHER

383

(32)

Cherries

388

(1)

Joe Lamb

From Childhood

389

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Mother and Son

390

(2)

Alden Nowlan

from My Mother Would Be a Falconress

392

(2)

Robert Duncan

The Right Meaning

394

(2)

Cesar Vallejo

Kaddish

396

(1)

David Ignatow

Sonnet to My Mother

397

(1)

George Barker

In Memory of My Mother

398

(1)

Patrick Kavanagh

The Last Words of My English Grandmother

399

(2)

William Carlos Williams

I Am Asking You to Come Back Home

401

(1)

Jo Carson

Kore An Ethiopian Woman

402

(1)

To Juan at the Winter Solstice

403

(2)

Robert Graves

The Thief

405

(1)

Alden Nowlan

What I Heard at the Discount Department Store

406

(2)

David Budbill

The Witch

408

(1)

Santal

The Goddess

409

(1)

Theodore de Banville

Ego Tripping

410

(2)

Nikki Giovanni

Birds Nest

412

(1)

Gloria Fuertes

Old Woman Nature

413

(2)

Gary Snyder

FOURTEEN THE SPINDRIFT GAZE TOWARD PARADISE

415

(56)

Conversation in the Mountains

420

(1)

Li Po

I Think Continually of Those

421

(1)

Stephen Spender

I Live My Life

422

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

A Walk

423

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Milkweed

424

(1)

James Wright

The Invisible Men

425

(2)

Nakasak

Three Angels

427

(1)

Bob Dylan

Guardian Angel

428

(1)

Rolf Jacobsen

A Man Lost by a River

429

(1)

Michael Blumenthal

The Scattered Congregation

430

(1)

Tomas Transtromer

The Secret

431

(1)

Charles Bukowski

The Dream

432

(1)

Felix Pollak

The Light You Give Off

433

(1)

Rumi

Leda

434

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

A Blessing

435

(1)

James Wright

Two Years Later

436

(1)

John Wieners

The Guest Is Inside

437

(1)

Kabir

Say Yes Quickly

438

(1)

Rumi

The New Rule

439

(1)

Rumi

Wild Nights---Wild Nights!

440

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

441

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Sailing to Byzantium

442

(2)

William Butler yeats

from Voyages II

444

(8)

Hart Crane

FIFTEEN ZANINESS

Necessity

452

(1)

Langston Hughes

Walking Through a Wall

453

(1)

Louis Jenkins

Football

454

(1)

Louis Jenkins

The Leaves of Heaven

455

(1)

Ed Sanders

Confessional Poem

456

(1)

Louis Jenkins

Appointed Rounds

457

(1)

Louis Jenkins

Quinn the Eskimo

458

(1)

Bob Dylan

Red Lip

459

(2)

Richard Brautigan

from A Thousand Chinese Dinners

461

(1)

Robert Mezey

Welcome Back, Mr. Knight: Love of My Life

462

(2)

Etheridge Knight

Freud Talks of the Primal Meal

464

(2)

James Hillman

Charles Boer

The Automobile

466

(1)

Russell Edson

Ape

467

(2)

Russell Edson

The Ox

469

(1)

Russell Edson

High Talk

470

(1)

William Butler Yeats

SIXTEEN LOVING THE WORLD ANYWAY

471

(38)

The World Is Too Much with Us

476

(1)

William Wordsworth

God's Grandeur

477

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Pied Beauty

478

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Perfume / of Flowers!

479

(1)

Charles Olson

Grappa in September

480

(1)

Cesar Pavese

Ode to My Socks

481

(3)

Pablo Neruda

The Delights of the Door

484

(1)

Francis Ponge

The Bread of This World; Praises III

485

(1)

Thomas McGrath

Breasts

486

(3)

Charles Simic

Wilderness

489

(2)

Carl Sandburg

O sweet spontaneous

491

(2)

E. E. Cummings

West Wall

493

(1)

W. S. Merwin

Ripening

494

(1)

Wendell Berry

The Rain

495

(1)

Robert Creeley

Sometimes I Go About Pitying Myself

496

(1)

Chippewa Music

Unity

497

(1)

Fazil Husnu Daglarca

Old Song

498

(1)

Traditional

Musee des Beaux Arts

499

(1)

W. H. Auden

The Earthworm

500

(1)

Harry Martinson

To Earthward

501

(2)

Robert Frost

The Groundhog

503

(2)

Richard Eberhart

from A Dialogue of Self and Soul

505

(2)

William Butler Yeats

from Vacillation

507

(2)

William Butler Yeats

Index of Poets

509

(4)

Index of First Lines

513

(6)

519

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