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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
Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of sufferingānot just our own suffering but also the pain of others.We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others.
In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenthcentury to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems.
For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.
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āThe Pretty Redhead,ā translated from Guillaume Apollinaireās original French, from Collected Poems. Translation copyright Ā© 1971 by James Wright. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.
āSong for a Dark Girlā from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel. Copyright Ā© 1927 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Harold Ober Associates and Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
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āIn Memory of M. B.ā from Poems of Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward. Copyright Ā© 1940 by Anna Akhmatova. Translation copyright Ā© 1967, 1973 by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. Used by permission of Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents and FTM Agency, Ltd.
āThe Fifth Eclogue,ā translated from MiklĆ³s RadnĆ³tiās original Hungarian, from Clouded Sky. Copyright Ā© 1943 by MiklĆ³s RadnĆ³ti. Translation copyright Ā© 1972, 2003 by Mrs. MiklĆ³s RadnĆ³ti, Steven Polgar, Stephen Berg, and S. J. Marks. Used by permission of Sheep Meadow Press.
āCafĆ©ā from New and Collected Poems: 1931ā2001 by CzesÅaw MiÅosz. Copyright Ā© 1945 by CzesÅaw MiÅosz. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers LLC.
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āAspects of Robinsonā from The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, edited by Donald Justice. First appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright Ā© 1948 by Weldon Kees. Used by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.
āThe rites for Cousin Vitā from Annie Allenby Gwendolyn Brooks. Copyright Ā© 1949 by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions.
āNot Waving but Drowningā from Collected Poems of Stevie Smith by Stevie Smith. Copyright Ā© 1957 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
āIn the Midst of Life,ā translated from Tadeusz RĆ³Å¼ewiczās original Polish, from The Survivors and Other Poems. Translation by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire copyright Ā© 1976 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
āOn the road at night there stands the manā from Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch, translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. Copyright Ā© 1959 by Dahlia Ravikovitch. Translation copyright Ā© 2009 by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. Used by permission of W. W. Norton and Company, The Estate of Dahlia Ravikovitch, and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Israel.
āPoem of the Gifts,ā translated from Jorge Luis Borgesās original Spanish, from Selected Poems, edited by Alexander Coleman. Copyright Ā© 1960, 1999 by Maria Kodama. Translation copyright Ā© 1999 by Alastair Reid. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, The Colchie Agency, and The Wylie Agency LLC.
āIn the Parkā from Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood. First appeared in the Bulletin published under the pseudonym Walter Lehmann. Copyright Ā© 1961 by Gwen Harwood. Used by permission of Penguin Random House Australia.
āThe Whippingā from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher. Copyright Ā© 1962 by Robert Hayden. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
āNight Sweatā from Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright Ā© 1964 by Robert Lowell. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
āWanting to Dieā from Live or Die by Anne Sexton. First appeared in the Observer. Copyright Ā© 1964 by Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
āMy Nightingale,ā translated from Rose AuslƤnderās original German, from After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets. Copyright Ā© 1965 by Rose AuslƤnder. Translation copyright Ā© 2004 by Eavan Boland. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
āNext Dayā from The Complete Poems by Randall Jarrell. First appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright Ā© 1963 by Randall Jarrell. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
āMontana Fifty Years Agoā from The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele. Copyright Ā© 1967 by J. V. Cunningham. Reprinted by permission of Ohio University Press.
āFor the Anniversary of My Deathā by W. S. Merwin from The Essential W. S. Merwin, edited by Michael Wiegers. Copyright Ā© 1967 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company LLC on behalf of Copper Canyon Press and The Wylie Agency LLC.
āPoemā from Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, edited by Janet E. Kaufman and Anne F. Herzog with Jan Heller Levi. Copyright Ā© 1968 by Muriel Rukeyser. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
āThe Idea of Ancestryā from The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight. Copyright Ā© 1968 by Etheridge Knight. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
āHenryās Understandingā from Collected Poems: 1937ā1971 by John Berryman. First appeared in the Harvard Advocate. Copyright Ā© 1969 by John Berryman. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
āA Deathplaceā from Night Music by L. E. Sissman. First appeared in Harperās Magazine. Copyright Ā© 1969 by L. E. Sissman. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
āThey Feed They Lionā from New Selected Poems by Philip Levine. Copyright Ā© 1968, 1972 by Philip Levine. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
āThe Small Square,ā translated from Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresenās original Portuguese, from Log Book: Selected Poems. Copyright Ā© 1972 by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Translation copyright Ā© 1997 by Richard Zenith. Reprinted by permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. and S.P.A. (Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores).
āUnder One Small Star,ā translated from WisÅawa Szymborskaās original Polish, from Map: Collected and Last Poems. Copyright Ā© 1972 by The WisÅawa Szymborska Foundation. Translation by Clare Cavanagh and StanisÅaw BaraÅczak copyright Ā© 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
āDegrees of Gray in Philipsburgā from Making Certain It Goes On: Collected Poems of Richard Hugo by Richard Hugo. Copyright Ā© 1973 by Richard Hugo. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
āOn This Side of the Riverā from New and Selected Poems by Stephen Berg. First appeared in American Review. Copyright Ā© 1975 by Stephen Berg. Used by permission of Millie Lane-Berg.
āAubadeā from The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett. First appeared in the Times Literary Supplement. Copyright Ā© 1977 by Philip Larkin. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Faber & Faber.
āParentsā from Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith. First appeared in The New Yorker. Copyright Ā© 1980 by William Meredith. Used by permission of TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.
āEssayā from Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems 1969ā1977 by Hayden Carruth. Copyright Ā© 1978 by Hayden Carruth. Used by permission of Sheep Meadow Press.
āArchesā from Collected Poems by James Schuyler. First appeared in the New York Review of Books. Copyright Ā© 1978 by James Schuyler. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
āKindnessā from Words Under Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye. Copyright Ā© 1980 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Reprinted by permission of Far Corner Books.
āThe Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago Riverā from The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected (1979ā1991) by Allen Grossman. Copyright Ā© 1979 by Allen Grossman. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
āThe Book of Yolekā from The Transparent Man by Anthony Hecht. First appeared in the New Statesman. Copyright Ā© 1982 by Anthony Hecht. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
āMr Cogito and the Imagination,ā translated from Zbigniew Herbertās original Polish, from The Collected Poems 1956ā1998. Copyright Ā© 1983 by The Estate of Zbigniew Herbert. Translation by Alissa Valles copyright ...