100 poems to break your heart

100 poems to break your heart

Book - 2021

"100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"--

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Subjects
Poetry > Collections.
Poetry > Translations into English.
Poetry > History and criticism.
Poetry.
Genres
Poetry
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021.
Language
English
Physical Description
xviii, 492 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780544931886
  • Introduction
  • "Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind" (1815, 1820)
  • "This living hand" (1819)
  • "I am" (c. 1847)
  • In Memoriam, VII (c. 1848)
  • "Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend" (1889)
  • "The God Abandons Antony" (1910)
  • "The Voice" (1912)
  • "The Owl" (1915)
  • "The Pretty Redhead" (1918)
  • "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" (1920)
  • "Song for a Dark Girl" (1927)
  • "Rooms" (c. 1929)
  • "Black Stone Lying on a White Stone" (1930)
  • "I'm Going to Sleep" (1938)
  • "To Julia de Burgos" (1938)
  • "In Memory of M. B." (1940)
  • "The Fifth Eclogue" (1943)
  • "Café" (1944)
  • "Merciful God" (1945)
  • "Shemà" (1946)
  • "On Living" (1948)
  • "Aspects of Robinson" (1948)
  • "The rites for Cousin Vit" (1949)
  • "Not Waving but Drowning" (1953, 1957)
  • "In the Midst of Life" (1955)
  • "On the road at night there stands the man" (1959)
  • "Poem of the Gifts" (1960)
  • "In the Park" (1961)
  • "The Whipping" (1962)
  • "Night Sweat" (1963)
  • "Wanting to Die" (1964)
  • "My Nightingale" (1965)
  • "Next Day" (1965)
  • "Montana Fifty Years Ago" (1967)
  • "For the Anniversary of My Death" (1967)
  • "Poem" (1968)
  • "The Idea of Ancestry" (1968)
  • "Henry's Understanding" (1969)
  • "A Deathplace" (1969)
  • "They Feed They Lion" (1969)
  • "The Small Square" (1972)
  • "Under One Small Star" (1972)
  • "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" (1973)
  • "On This Side of the River" (1975)
  • "Aubade" (1977)
  • "Parents" (1978)
  • "Essay" (1978)
  • "Arches" (1978)
  • "Kindness" (1978, 1994)
  • "The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River" (1979)
  • "The Book of Yolek"(1981)
  • "Mr Cogito and the Imagination" (1983)
  • "From My Window" (1983)
  • "Night Song" (1983)
  • "The Race" (1983)
  • "In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn" (1984)
  • "The Dancing" (1984)
  • "For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live)" (1985)
  • "Mendocino Rose" (1987)
  • "(Dedications)" (1990-91)
  • "The Gas-poker" (1991)
  • "What He Thought" (1991)
  • "It Allows a Portrait in Line-Scan at Fifteen" (1993)
  • "The People of the Other Village" (1993)
  • "For the Taking" (1993)
  • "Terminus" (1993)
  • "What the Living Do" (1994)
  • "The War Works Hard" (1994)
  • "Halley's Comet" (1995)
  • "Song" (1995)
  • "Simile" (1996)
  • "In Memory of Joe Brainard" (1997)
  • "jasper texas 1998" (1998)
  • "The Rapture" (2000)
  • "Elementary Principles at Seventy-Two" (2001)
  • "Quarantine" (2001)
  • "Woman Martyr" (2002)
  • "We Are Not Responsible" (2002)
  • "Shelley" (2004)
  • "Aphasia" (2004)
  • "On Wanting to Tell [ ] About a Girl Eating Fish Eyes" (2004)
  • "Lead" (2005)
  • "Persimmon" (2005)
  • "Ethel's Sestina" (2006)
  • "Woman, Mined" (2006)
  • "Graveyard Blues" (2006)
  • "Requiem" (2006)
  • "Aubade in Autumn" (2007)
  • "Barton Springs" (2007)
  • "Failure" (2007)
  • "An Individual History" (2007)
  • "The Second Slaughter" (2008)
  • "Old School" (2010)
  • "Infinite Riches in the Smallest Room" (2015)
  • "The African Burial Ground" (2014)
  • "The Addict's Mother: Birth Story" (2014-15)
  • "Spirit Boxing" (2015)
  • "Obit [The Blue Dress]" (2016)
  • "Pantoum for the Broken" (2017)
  • "Krishna, 3:29 a.m." (2018)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits
Review by Booklist Review

Who will reach for this assemblage of poems meant to break our hearts? Those who know that solace can be found in poetry and its assurance that one is not alone in facing heartbreak and loss, which is visited upon us in new and crushing ways in the time of COVID-19. Another draw is Hirsch himself, of course, a consummate poet (his most recent collection is Stranger by Night, 2020) all-too fluent in grief, whose radiant books about poetry, among them Poet's Choice (2006), have guided readers to a deeper appreciation for this endlessly surprising and affecting literary form. Each profoundly arresting poem is accompanied by a succinct yet passionate essay masterfully combining biography and commentary. Hirsch has selected lyrics confronting sorrow engendered by the death of a loved one, war, genocide, exile, violence, racism, and other crimes against humanity. Proceeding chronologically from the late nineteenth century to the present and encompassing translated works, Hirsch's darkly illuminating anthology includes Anna Ahkmatova, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nazim Hikmet, Garret Hongo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Czesław Miłosz, Adrienne Rich, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, and César Vallejo. Mary Oliver crystallizes Hirsch's vision and mission: "I tell you this / to break your heart, / by which I mean only / that it break open and never close again / to the rest of the world."

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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