First Loves Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them

Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Alice Quinn Introduction by Carmela Ciuraru Virginia Hamilton Adair on "Along the Road" by Robert Browning Hamilton Ai on "The Bear" by Galway Kinnell Sherman Alexie on "My Papa''s Waltz" by Theodore Roethke A. R. Ammons on "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae Margaret Atwood on "I saw a peacock with a fiery tail" by Anonymous Robin Becker on "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth Sophie Cabot Black on #754 ("My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun -- ") by Emily Dickinson Star Black on "The World as Meditation" by Wallace Stevens Eavan Boland on "The Wild Swans at Coole" by William Butler Yeats Henri Cole on "Voyages" by Hart Crane Wanda Coleman on "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll Billy Collins on "The Flea" by John Donne Robert Creeley on "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes Toi Derricotte on "Southern Road" by Sterling Brown Mark Doty on "Gacela of the Dark Death" by Federico Garcia Lorca Carolyn Forche on "Requiem" by Anna Akhmatova Jonathan Galassi on Sonnet 23 ("As an unperfect actor on the stage...") by William Shakespeare Louise Gluck on "The Little Black Boy" by William Blake Eamon Grennan on "The Prelude" by William Wordsworth Allen Grossman on "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant Barbara Guest on "Blow, Bugle, Blow" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Donald Hall on "Heat" by H.D. Daniel Halpern on "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens Seamus Heaney on the Dactyls of Derry Anthony Hecht on "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward Hirsch on "The Night Is Darkening Round Me" by Emily Bronte Jane Hirshfield on "The Listeners" by Walter de la Mare John Hollander on "A Boy''s Song" by James Hogg bell hooks on "I Want to Die While You Love Me" by Georgia Douglas Johnson Richard Howard on "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning Marie Howe on "Langston Hughes" by Gwendolyn Brooks Brigit Pegeen Kelly on "Prologue, Act IV," Henry V by William Shakespeare Carolyn Kizer on "Satire VII" by Juvenal Kenneth Koch on "The Indian Serenade" by Percy Bysshe Shelley Yusef Komunyakaa on "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe Maxine Kumin on "The Vision of Sir Launfal" by James Russell Lowell Ursula K. Le Guin on "Itylus" by Algernon Charles Swinburne David Lehman on "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman Philip Levine on "Greater Love" by Wilfred Owen Timothy Liu on "Poppies in October" by Sylvia Plath Elizabeth Macklin on "If I Could Tell You" by W. H. Auden J. D. McClatchy on "Hero and Leander" by Christopher Marlowe Heather McHugh on "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats W. S. Merwin on "Where Go the Boats?" by Robert Louis Stevenson E. Ethelbert Miller on "Suzanne Takes You Down" by Leonard Cohen Jane Miller on "Song of Amargo''s Mother" by Federico Garcia Lorca Carol Moldaw on "i thank You God for most this amazing" by e. e. cummings Thylias Moss on "The Diameter of the Bomb" by Yehuda Amichai Lisel Mueller on "Limited" by Carl Sandburg Les Murray on "Caesura" by Kenneth Mackenzie Joyce Carol Oates on "After Apple-Picking" by Robert Frost Eric Pankey on "Junk" by Richard Wilbur Robert Pinsky on "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats Marie Ponsot on "Helen" by H.D. Lawrence Raab on "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll Bin Ramke on "To an Old Philosopher in Rome" by Wallace Stevens Claudia Rankine on "The Black Riders" by Cesar Vallejo Kay Ryan on "For a Dead Kitten" by Sarah Henderson Hay Grace Schulman on "O What Is That Sound" by W. H. Auden Frederick Seidel on "Canto LXXXI" by Ezra Pound Vijay Seshadri on "These" by William Carlos Williams W. D. Snodgrass on "The Marshes of Glynn" by Sidney Lanier Elizabeth Spires on #449 ("I died for Beauty -- but was scarce...") by Emily Dickinson Mark Strand on "You, Andrew Marvell" by Archibald MacLeish James Tate on "The Man on the Dump" by Wallace Stevens Richard Wilbur on "Barbara Frietchie" by John Greenleaf Whittier C. K. Williams on "The Eighth Elegy" by Rainer Maria Rilke Eleanor Wilner on "The Lady Is a Tramp" by Rodgers & Hart Contributors'' Notes Permissions Index of PoemsCiuraru, Carmela is the author of 'First Loves Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them' with ISBN 9780684864396 and ISBN 0684864398.