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Acquainted with the night : insomnia poems / edited by Lisa Russ Spaar.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Columbia University Press, [1999], ©1999.
Description
xiv, 183 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Details
Subject(s)
Insomnia
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Poetry
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Night
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Poetry
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Sleep
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Spaar, Lisa Russ
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Summary note
"Here is a treasury of verse on the rich subject of insomnia - meditations by poets who have sought to describe their own moments of solitude in darkness, when the world's regular bustle of activity and distraction falls away and they are left to contemplate in silence."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
The Congress of the Insomniacs / Charles Simic
Insomnia / Elizabeth Bishop
Insomnia / Joyce Carol Oates
Lines Written at Night During Insomnia / Alexander Pushkin
Insomnia / Dana Gioia
Insomnia / Cornelius Eady
Mirrors at 4 A.M. / Charles Simic
What She Said / Patumanar
The Moon / Gunnar Ekelof
From The Sleepers / Walt Whitman
Acquainted with the Night / Robert Frost
From The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth / William Shakespeare
Insomnia. Homer. Taut sails / Osip Mandelstam
Insomnia Song / Gregory Orr
The Bench of Boors / Herman Melville
Sleep's Underside / Melissa Kirsch
Insomnia / Debra Nystrom
On Reading The Book of Odes / Cao Ba Quat
The Insomnia of Tremayne / Donald Justice
Insomnia / Salvatore Quasimodo
Halcion / R. T. Smith
Insomniac / Sylvia Plath
Moonless Night / Louise Gluck
Insomnia at the Solstice / Jane Kenyon
When Night is almost done [347] / Emily Dickinson --
If This Room Is Our World / Weldon Kees
Midnight Saving Time / Adrien Stoutenburg
July Dawn / Louise Bogan
Psalm: The New Day / Mark Jarman
One Night / Umberto Saba
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day / Gerard Manley Hopkins
When Loneliness Is a Man / Yusef Komunyakaa
From Night of Hell / Arthur Rimbaud
Job 7:2-8; 12-15; 20-21 / King James Bible
Lament at Night / H. Leivick
Night in a Room by the River / Tu Fu
Ballad of One Doomed to Die / Federico Garcia Lorca
The Broken Dark / Robert Hayden
From Macbeth / William Shakespeare
Apology to Andrew / Richard Jones
The Cross of Snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Exile / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Tonight I've watched / Sappho
Aubade / Philip Larkin
Adolescence - II / Rita Dove
Dark One, / how can I sleep? / Mirabai
Bright Venus, who across the heavens stray / Louise Labe
The Pains of Sleep / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
For whatever animals dwell on earth / Petrarch
Come sleep, Oh sleep, the certain knot of peace / Philip Sidney
Is it thy will thy image should keep open / William Shakespeare
The Night Alone / Meleagros
Bread and Wine / Nina Cassian
She Speaks to Her Husband, Asleep / Robert Schultz
Nevertheless the moon / Muriel Rukeyser
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed / William Shakespeare
How can I then return in happy plight / William Shakespeare
The Late Hour / Mark Strand
The Appalachian Book of the Dead III / Charles Wright
To the monk Duc Son at Thanh-phong Monastery / King Tran Thai-Tong
From Winter / Ryokan
Utitia'q's Song [Inuit]
At the end of a crazy-moon night / Lalla
Relentlessly Lovelorn, the Non-Sleeper Whispers and Re-Whispers a Magic Charm Against His Wound's Roar / Stephen Margulies
Make the Bed / Stephen Cushman
Insomnia / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
White Night / Mary Oliver
Stars / Emily Bronte --
Bright Star / John Keats
Owl / Robert Mezey
Insomnia on a Summer Night / Umberto Saba
Insomnia / Tristan Corbiere
A Clear Midnight / Walt Whitman
His Lamp Near Daybreak / Yannis Ritsos
Night-Time: Starting to Write / Bernard Spencer
Gift of the Poem / Stephane Mallarme
Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks / Wallace Stevens
hototogisu / hototogisu tote / akeni keri / Kaga No Chiyo
Astronomies and slangs to find you, dear / John Berryman
From Insomnia / Marina Tsvetaeva
My night awake (From The Speed of Darkness) / Muriel Rukeyser
The Night Person / Richard Frost.
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ISBN
023111544X (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
99020099
OCLC
40881536
RCP
C - S
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