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)
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.
ISBN
023111544X (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
99020099
OCLC
40881536
RCP
C - S
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