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Poetry for the Earth A Collection of Poems from Around the World That Celebrates Nature

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ISBN-10: 0449905993

ISBN-13: 9780449905999

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sara Dunn, Alan Scholefield

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The poetic concern for nature has been, in the words of Anna Akhmatova, "wild in our breast for centuries." Now, Poetry for the Earth collects an astonishing diversity of poetic response to the environment, from eras and places as diverse as classical Greece, Elizabethan England, seventeenth-century Japan, contemporary Africa,and modern America. In moods that range from urgent to contemplative, euphoric to indignant, here are poems by: Paula Gunn Allen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Emily Dickinson, Alice Walker and many others. From haiku and tribal riddles to blank verse, these poems speak anew to a relationship in crisis, propelling us all toward appreciation and reflection of the planet that gives…    
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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/17/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Introduction
Celebration: 'So I shake with joy'
'The Very Leaves of the Acacia-Tree Are London'
Fable of Fables
Dream Variation
Moved
from Song of Myself
from Scottish Scene
Steppe
Low-Anchored Cloud
from the Parliament of Fowls
The Garden
Sacrament
My Mississippi Spring
Spring in the Lowlands
For Robbie Moore
'Most Beautiful of Things'
'Repeat that, Repeat'
Pleasant Sounds
from the Task, Book I
from Epipsychidion
'Leave Krete and Come to this Holy Temple'
from Poly-Olbion, the First Song
Mount Saint Helens/Loowit: An Indian Woman's Song
'You Firmly Built Alps'
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
from Teisa: A Descriptive Poem of the River Tees, Its Towns and Antiquities
A Paraphrase Upon the Tenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace
Inversnaid
from The Seasons, Winter
'Year's End'
A Bright Day
Loss: 'Lament for all that is purple like dusk'
Binsey Poplars
The Song of the Wild Dove
Temps Perdu
Caption to a Landscape
Dispossessed
Biography for the Use of the Birds
October Journey
from the Cambridge Songs
Long Division: A Tribal History
The Tropics in New York
Enclosure
Pastoral I
from Pastoralls, the Fourth Eglogue
Study of History
Ephesos
Concerning the Flooding of Prague After Constant Rains
The Sea Eats the Land at Home
The Mountain Stream
'Far Inland'
Loch Thom
Anger: 'A perpetual/sour October'
Ploughing the Roughlands
'I Go from the Woods'
Alone in the Woods
Cutting a Track to Cardwell
The Trees are Down
To a Gentleman, on His Intending to Cut Down a Grove to Enlarge His Prospect
The Elm Decline
from An Essay on Man
The Mower Against Gardens
'I Love the English Country Scene'
Sheltered Garden
from Padding It
from the Wonders of the Peake
Verses on Hearing that an Airy and Pleasant Situation, Near a Populous and Commercial Town, Was Surrounded with New Buildings
New Ecology
from Colebrook Dale
A Song of Glasgow Town
from Satire III
Sorrow Home
'Honeysuckle was the Saddest Odor of All, I Think'
Autumn on the Land
Green Rock, Winthrop Bay
After I Came Back from Iceland
Celebration 1982
Mikhael at Viksjon
Consolation: 'Moments of an azure hue'
Come Hither
After the Winter
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Speak of the North
Plash Mill, Under the Moor
Early Spring
Tashkent Breaks into Blossom
'Everything is Plundered ...'
Beyond Time
Delight in Nature
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Heirloom
Kopis'taya
Granite Call
The Marl Pits
Stone Fish Lake
Trees be Company
'Thrise Happie Hee, Who by some Shadie Grove'
from Paradise Lost, Book IV
A Summer's Wish
Autumn Burns Me
Within the Circuit of this Plodding Life
The Soaking
Digging
Planting Bamboos
'Lounge in the Shade of the Luxuriant Laurel's'
Contemplation: 'How can you realise the wideness of the world?'
The Rose
Coast Range
Having Climbed to the Topmost Peak of the Incense-Burner Mountain
Above the Oxbow
Lesson VI, Lesson X
Dry River
So which is the Truth?
Inner
Oh Earth, wait for Me
"'Nature" is what We See'
Epir Rhema
Connections
A Nocturnal Reverie
Wild Peaches
Sunart
Hamatreya
From the Sound of the Wind that is Blowing
At Stoke
Advice
The Reedbeds of the Hackensack
Pieces of Unprofitable Land
Pause
Geography 2
On Sight
The Black Finger
Rural Reflections
Lachesis Lapponica
Two Campers in Cloud Country
This Solitude of Cataracts
Observation: 'Sensitive to the millionth of a flicker'
The Waters of Lung-T'ou
Signs and Signals
The Gum Forest, from Four Gaelic Poems
'Blazing in Gold'
Ibadan
Morning Sea
Land-Schap Between Two Hills
Concrete Poem 240663
The Bight
Whale at Twilight
Night and Morning
The Night in Isla Negra
from March '79
What Frank, Martha and I know about the Desert
Riddles
'The Day Breaks'
Robles, M'Hija, Robles!
Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River
The Trail is not a Trail
Roadside
The Road at Frosses
'As Imper Ceptibly as Grief'
The Nomads
Nocturne
The Sky
Disquiet: 'Something warns me everywhere'
The Power Source
Neighbours
Permafrost
'Distance Collapsed in Rubble'
Augury
St John River
A Dream of Water
What the Pool Said, on Midsummer's Day
The River God
Rising Damp
The Reason Why I am Afraid Even Though I am a Fisherman
The River
The Fear
Winter Woods
Walking in Autumn
Out of Time
'There's A Certain Slant of Light'
Over Heard Over S. E. Asia
Open Spaces
Twilight View
From in Parenthesis
The Field
We Are Entitled to Love Autumn
Today's Meditation
One of These Days
The Recital of Lost Cities
Domus Caedet Arborem
From the City of Dreadful Night
Men in the City
A Holiday
'Never Forget'
By the Cam
from The Poor of the Borough, Letter XXII, Peter Grimes
Night-Time in Mid-Fall
from Paradise Lost, Book II
from the Seasons, Summer
The Dry Season
Summer Storm (Circa 1916), and God's Grace
Jeremiah 4, 23-28
And When Summer Comes to an End ...
Biographical Notes
Acknowledgements
Index of Poets
Index of First Lines