First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired ThemReaders will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in "First Loves". Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others. |
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Acknowledgments | 11 |
Introduction by Carmela Ciuraru | 19 |
Virginia Hamilton Adair on Along the Road by Robert | 27 |
Sherman Alexie on My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke | 33 |
Sophie Cabot Black on 754 My Life had stood | 44 |
Eavan Boland on The Wild Swans at Coole by William | 51 |
Wanda Coleman on Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll | 58 |
Robert Creeley on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes | 66 |
Yusef Komunyakaa on Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe | 140 |
Ursula K Le Guin on Itylus by Algernon Charles | 148 |
Philip Levine on Greater Love by Wilfred Owen | 156 |
Elizabeth Macklin on If I Could Tell You by W H Auden | 161 |
Heather McHugh on The Second Coming by William | 170 |
Jane Miller on Song of Amargos Mother by Federico | 176 |
Lisel Mueller on Limited by Carl Sandburg | 183 |
Eric Pankey on Junk by Richard Wilbur | 193 |
Toi Derricotte on Southern Road by Sterling Brown | 72 |
Carolyn Forche on Requiem by Anna Akhmatova | 79 |
Louise Gluck on The Little Black Boy by William Blake | 86 |
Allen Grossman on Thanatopsis by William Cullen | 95 |
Donald Hall on Heat by H D | 101 |
Seamus Heaney on the Dactyls of Derry | 107 |
Edward Hirsch on The Night Is Darkening Round | 114 |
bell hooks on I Want to Die While You Love Me by Georgia | 125 |
Brigit Pegeen Kelly on Prologue Act TV Henry V | 132 |
Marie Ponsot on Helen by H D | 199 |
Claudia Rankine on The Black Riders by Cesar Vallejo | 209 |
Frederick Seidel on Canto LXXXI by Ezra Pound | 218 |
Snodgrass on The Marshes of Glynn by Sidney | 225 |
Elizabeth Spires on 449 I died for Beautybut | 228 |
K Williams on The Eighth Elegy by Rainer Maria | 242 |
Permissions | 263 |
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