1. Approach to Wildness --
Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams --
Smell! / William Carlos Williams --
Crazy Dog Events / Jerome Rothenberg --
Much Madness is Divinest Sense / Emily Dickinson --
from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land / Aime Cesaire --
Bread and Wine / Friedrich Holderlin --
Has Anyone Seen the Boy? / Rumi --
from The Will to Believe / William James --
from Proverbs from Hell / William Blake --
from Middle of the Way / Galway Kinnell --
The Wild Mallard Thought / Henry David Thoreau --
The Wild Man Comes to the Monastery / Anonymous --
from Song of a Man Who Has Come Through / D. H. Lawrence --
Knowing Nothing Shuts the Iron Gates / Kabir --
from In a Dark Time / Theodore Roethke --
Little Infinite Poem / Federico Garcia Lorca --
The Wild Old Wicked Man / William Butler Yeats --
Mad as the Mist and Snow / William Butler Yeats --
Song of the Cuban Blacks / Federico Garcia Lorca --
2. Fathers' Prayers for Sons and Daughters --
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach / William Stafford --
A Story / Li-Young Lee --
A Prayer for My Son / William Butler Yeats --
On the Beach at Fontana / James Joyce --
In the Third Month / David Ray --
On My First Son / Ben Jonson --
The Idea of Ancestry / Etheridge Knight --
Men and Birth: The Unexplainable / Haki R. Madhubuti --
Lastness / Galway Kinnell --
Changing Diapers / Gary Snyder --
At the Washing of My Son / David Ray --
from A Prayer for My Daughter / William Butler Yeats --
A Flower Given to My Daughter / James Joyce --
An Ark for Lawrence Durrell / Robert Duncan --
The Turtle / William Carlos Williams --
Boy at the Window / Richard Wilbur --
For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old / Robert Bly --
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps / Galway Kinnell --
Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper / Rainer Maria Rilke --
A Story That Could Be True / William Stafford --
War / Miguel Hernandez --
The Man from Washington / James Welch --
Rundown Church / Federico Garcia Lorca --
Dulce et Decorum Est / Wilfred Owen --
Postcard / Miklos Radnoti --
Dry Loaf / Wallace Stevens --
Ode for the American Dead in Asia / Thomas McGrath --
Words for My Daughter / John Balaban --
To President Bush at the Start of the Gulf War / Robert Bly --
Becoming Milton / Coleman Barks --
from The Homeric Hymn to Ares --
The Secret of Victory / George Patton --
from Lessons of the War / Henry Reed --
Big Dream, Little Dream / Louis Simpson --
Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind / Stephen Crane --
The Colonel / Carolyn Forche --
"Keeping Their World Large" / Marianne Moore --
Passing an Orchard by Train / Robert Bly --
4. I Know the Earth, and I Am Sad --
The Wind, One Brilliant Day / Antonio Machado --
Sonnets to Orpheus IV / Rainer Maria Rilke --
The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes --
Melancholy Inside Families / Pablo Neruda --
Walking Around / Pablo Neruda --
No More Auction Block (Spiritual) --
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain / Emily Dickinson --
The Day Lady Died / Frank O'Hara --
Sonnets to Orpheus VIII / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Sunflower / Rolf Jacobsen --
Snowbanks North of the House / Robert Bly --
Healing / D. H. Lawrence --
Come In / Robert Frost --
I Am Going to Speak of Hope / Cesar Vallejo --
And What If After So Many Words / Cesar Vallejo --
5. The House of Fathers and Titans --
For, Brother, What Are We? / Thomas Wolfe --
from Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville --
The Bones of My Father / Etheridge Knight --
from Theogony / Hesiod --
The Guild / Sharon Olds --
The Sick Image of My Father Fades / John Horder --
My Papa's Waltz / Theodore Roethke --
American Primitive / William Jay Smith --
My Father's Wedding / Robert Bly --
The Portrait / Stanley Kunitz --
The Core of Masculinity / Rumi --
The Gift / Li-Young Lee --
The Weight of Sweetness / Li-Young Lee --
Only When My Heart Freezes / Alden Nowlan --
Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden --
My Father Went to Funerals / Howard Nelson --
Offering / Thomas McGrath --
The Distant Footsteps / Cesar Vallejo --
Yesterday / W. S. Merwin --
from Memories of My Father / Galway Kinnell --
The Race / Sharon Olds --
The Irish Cliffs of Moher / Wallace Stevens --
6. Language: Speaking Well and Speaking Out --
Songs Are Thoughts / Orpingalik --
On Being Extravagant / Henry David Thoreau --
from Gargantua / Francois Rabelais --
from The Havana Lectures / Federico Garcia Lorca --
Poetry Is a Destructive Force / Wallace Stevens --
In My Craft or Sullen Art / Dylan Thomas --
On the Words in Poetry / Dylan Thomas --
Sound-Posture / Robert Frost --
Amergin and Cessair (Traditional) --
from Canto LXXXI / Ezra Pound --
Sonnet LXV / William Shakespeare --
Rigorists / Marianne Moore --
To Autumn / John Keats --
On the Writing of Poetry / William Stafford --
Thoughts / Gerhart Hauptmann, Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth --
Selections / Miguel Hernandez --
These Days / Charles Olson --
American Poetry / Louis Simpson --
Catch / Robert Francis --
Pitcher / Robert Francis --
Library / Louis Jenkins --
from Standing Up / Tomas Transtromer --
from The Man with the Blue Guitar / Wallace Stevens --
from Autobiography of Charles Darwin --
7. Making a Hole in Denial --
The Inner Part / Louis Simpson --
Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
"Next To Of Course God America I / E. E. Cummings --
We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Twenty-First. Night. Monday / Anna Akhmatova --
The Invisible King / Goethe --
Darkmotherscream / Andrei Voznesensky --
Empty Warriors / Haki R. Madhubuti --
On the Yard / Etheridge Knight --
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand / Amiri Baraka --
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives / Philip Levine --
It Is This Way with Men / C. K. Williams --
The War Prayer / Mark Twain --
The Second Coming / William Butler Yeats --
A First on TV / David Ignatow --
Sunday at the State Hospital / David Ignatow --
No Theory / David Ignatow --
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop / William Butler Yeats --
Have You Anything to Say in Your Defense? / Cesar Vallejo --
The Spider / Cesar Vallejo --
8. Loving the Community and Work --
A Ritual to Read to Each Other / William Stafford --
Throw Yourself Like Seed / Miguel de Unamuno --
Until One Is Committed / Goethe --
Just as the Winged Energy of Delight / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Lamb / Michael Dennis Browne --
Why Log Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen / Gary Snyder --
All the Fruit / Friedrich Holderlin --
New York / Federico Garcia Lorca --
To the States / Walt Whitman --
Thoughts / Samuel Johnson --
What Happened During the Ice Storm / Jim Heynen --
The Flying Eagles of Troop 62 / James Wright --
Waxwings / Robert Francis --
For Eli Jacobson / Kenneth Rexroth --
Epitaph / Thomas McGrath --
Which One Is Genuine? / Charles Baudelaire --
A Story About the Body / Robert Hass --
The Rites of Manhood / Alden Nowlan --
He Loved Three Things / Anna Akhmatova --
When the Father Is Absent / James Hillman --
The Black Hairs / Heinz Pasman --
The Indian Serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
The Good Deeds of the Moon / Charles Baudelaire --
In a Tavern / Louis Jenkins --
Faith / Czeslaw Milosz --
from Song of Myself / Walt Whitman --
Across the Swamp / Olav H. Hauge --
Peer Gynt Tells His Mother About His Newest Adventure / Henrik Ibsen --
The Hopeful Spiritual Athlete / Kabir --
How Much Is Not True / Kabir
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