Say this of horses : a selection of poems / edited by C.E. Greer and Jenny Kander
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| Subjects: | Horses--Poetry |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007 |
| LC Classification: | P, PN |
| Table of Contents: | The first horse prayer / Theodore Enslin 3 from "Burial of the Minnisink," / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4 With the flesh remaining / Jean Monahan 5 Two horses / W. S. Merwin 6 from "Cuchullin in his chariot"; ancient Erse legend 8 The myth : Raison d'Etre / Pattiann Rogers 10 From dread in the eyes of horses / Tess Gallagher 12 Horses and men in rain / Carl Sandburg 13 Hard foaling / Michael List 17 Young horses! : young horses! / Paul Boldt 18 All through the rains / Gary Snyder 19 The grace of geldings in ripe pastures / Maxine Kumin 20 After rain / David Baker 21 Equus / C. E. Greer 22 Bareback / William Hathaway 24 After the x-ray / Alison Brackenbury 25 [Terrible] / Lawrence Ferlinghetti 26 Dawn feeding / Leslie Ullman 27 from "Horse sense" / William Hathaway 29 Amanda dreams she has died and gone to the Elysian fields / Maxine Kumin 30 Healing the mare / Linda McCarriston 31 Old lilacs / Ted Kooser 32 At grass / Philip Larkin 33 Thinking of death and dogfood / Maxine Kumin 34 Yellowjackets / Yusef Komunyakaa 36 Names of horses / Donald Hall 37 An elegy on the death of Dobbin, the butterwoman's horse / Francis Fawkes 38 Elegy with a bridle in its hand / Larry Levis 40 Horses graze / Gwendolyn Brooks 47 A blessing / James Wright 48 The sorrel / Roger Pfingston 49 Horses / Vizma Belsevica 50 You can lead a horse to water / Jean Monahan 51 Two horses playing in the orchard / James Wright 53 The horsemen / David Wagoner 54 The judas-horse / David Baker 55 The bronco that would not be broken / Vachel Lindsay 57 The appaloosa / Michael S. Weaver 59 Sending the mare to auction / Jana Harris 60 Horse / Jason S. Greer 61 Horses / Pablo Neruda 62 Horses in the lake / Pablo Antonio Cuadra 63 from "The golden ode," / Imru' al-Qays 65 Piano / Stanley Plumly 67 Feeding horses / C. E. Greer 68 from "If poetry were not a morality" / Tess Gallagher 69 Sonnet to Orpheus, 1:20 / Rainer Maria Rilke 70 Horse / Anne Sexton 71 White horses / Claude Wilkinson 72 The white stallion / Umayyah Ibn Abi Salt 77 Say this of horses / Minnie Hite Moody 78 Horse description / Labid ibn Rabi'ah 79 The battle of Lake Regillus / Thomas Babington Macaulay 80 from "Horses and prisoners" / James Dickey 82 Battle / Aleksandr Tkachenko 83 The ballad of a blind pit horse / Paul Zech 84 The Klipsan stallions / Linda Bierds 85 The trail horse / David Wagoner 87 The horse / William Carlos Williams 89 The morning track / Edward Parone 90 Morning workout / Babette Deutsch 91 Polo ponies practicing / Wallace Stevens 93 The horse-pulling / May Sarton 94 Bronco busting, event #1 / May Swenson 96 Stewball / Irish Folk Song 97 Phaeton / Robin Becker 98 Two horses / Roger Pfingston 99 Morning once more / Joy Harjo 103 There are two worlds / Larry Levis 104 Horses / Murilo Mendes 106 She had some horses / Joy Harjo 107 I once knew a man / Lucille Clifton 109 The summer of the Watergate hearings / Maxine Kumin 110 Blue cloud rides horses / Edgar Silex 111 In the nursing home / Jane Kenyon 112 Grazing horses / Kay Ryan 113 Ice horses / Joy Harjo 114 from "The horse fair," / Robin Becker 115 On looking at Stubbs's "anatomy of the horse" / Edward Lucie-Smith 117 Neon horses / Dorianne Laux 118 Horse in Amsterdam, after Rembrandt / Lawrence Ferlinghetti 120 Horse collage / Jenny Kander 121 Caballos / Lola Haskins 122 The horse in the drugstore / Tess Gallagher 123 [Don't let that horse] / Lawrence 124 Dream horses / Nancy Willard 127 Southern horses / Xi Chuan 128 We are riding / Rajzel Zychlinsky 129 Horse in the cage / Stanley Plumly 130 White horse of the father, white horse of the son / William Pitt Root 131 Naked boys on naked ponies / Pattiann Rogers 133 The triangular field / Stephen Dobyns 135 The dusk of horses / James Dickey 136 Horsehair insulation / Jean Monahan 138 from "Sitting in a small screenhouse on a summer morning / James Wright 140 Ponies / Lauris Edmond 141 The horse / W. S. Merwin 142 Pegasus / Varlam Shalamov 143 Horses / W. S. Merwin 144 The thunder of silence / Mihai Ursachi 145 |
| Additional Authors: | Greer, C. E. (Charles E.) Kander, Jenny, 1933- |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2006932731 ISBN: 1587295261 ISBN: 9781587295263 Includes index |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 167 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 85824041 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 1587295261 9781587295263 |