Poetry Daily Essentials 2007 Book

About the Editors     iii
Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     xi
My Father's Track and Field Medal   Edward Hirsch     2
Schemes   Alison Brackenbury     3
The Evening Star   Louise Gluck     4
Edge   Eamon Grennan     5
Riffing Deciduous   Brendan Galvin     6
Sunflowers in a Field   Daniel Anderson     7
Winter Field   Joanna Klink     9
Death of a Gull   Cleopatra Mathis     10
Huge Fragility   Tony Dent     12
Hummingbird   Dorianne Laux     13
Sand   Patty Seyburn     14
Late Beauty   Karl Kirchwey     15
Honey Suckles   Daniel Wolff     18
Home Front and Gardens   Elton Glaser     19
Twilight: After Haying   Jane Kenyon     20
Virgil: from the Second Georgic   Virgil     21
Concerning a Young Woman   Sappho     25
The Spanish Lover   Claudia Emerson     26
Oasis   Dana Goodyear     27
FirstLove   Wislawa Szymborska     28
Latents   Kay Ryan     29
Lesser Evils   Joel Brouwer     30
Marvell Noir   Ann Lauinger     31
Travel Plans   Leslie Monsiur     32
Animal Self   Randy Blasing     33
Medical Advice   Joel Sheerin     34
Sounding Aboard the Rafaella   Rex Wilder     35
The Welcome   David Joel Friedman     36
Re-Gifting   Vona Groarke     37
Oatmeal   Peggy Shumaker     38
13 Haiku About My Husband and Current State of Happiness   Mary Kane     39
Anent the Yellow Field, Fa-La   Brooks Haxton     41
A Marriage Must Be Worked At   Michael Chitwood     42
Anatomy of Failure   Meghan O'Rourke     43
And Day Brought Back My Night   Geoffrey Brock     45
The Long Marriage   Jeffrey Skinner     45
Takeoff   Alan Shapiro     46
The Hoopoe's Crown   Jacqueline Osherow     47
Acrostic: Outhouse   Paula Bohince     53
First Breath Last Breath$dAntler     54
At Home   Hugo Claus     55
A Lamb by Its Ma   Chase Twichell     56
Horseneck Beach Odalisque   William Logan     57
Absence   Anne Marie Macari     58
Obedience, Or the Lying Tale   Jennifer Chang     60
My Mother's Hands   David Woo     62
Near Hag's Head   Daniel Tobin     63
Peter Street   Peter Sirr     64
The United States   Rodney Jones     65
The Demise of Camembert   Ron Slate     67
Elena Ceaucescu's Bed   W.D. Snodgrass     69
A Stick, A Cup, A Bowl, A Comb   Darta Wier     70
Board Book & the Costume of a Whooping Crane   David Wojahn     72
Blackbird   C.K. Wiliams     75
Contract Law   Michael Scharf     77
About Money   Liam Rector     78
You Miss It   Max Garland     80
The Pier Aspiring   Thomas Lux     82
Suddenly   Louis Simpson     83
Nothing's As It Should Be   Robert Phillips      84
On Broadway   Timothy Liu     85
When the Watchman Saw the Light   C.P. Cavafy     87
Our Generation   Carl Dennis     88
[I want to build]   Friedrich Holderlin     90
Hephaistos   Liam Aungier     91
Icarus Descending   Carol Edelstein     92
Noah at Dusk   Terri Witek     93
The Shout   Simon Armitage     94
The Population   Peter Campion     95
The View From Zero Bridge   Lynn Aarti Chandhok     96
Subway Seethe   J. Allyn Rosser     97
Selling Out   Dennis O'Driscoll     98
Chess Match Ends in Fight   David Hernandez     99
Kitty Oppenheimer Tends Louis Slotin after an Accident in the Lab   John Canaday     100
The Bear   Dan Chiasson     101
Who the Meek Are Not   Mary Karr     102
The Private Meditations of John Wyclif: On Angels   Thom Satterlee     103
Far Niente   Heather McHugh     104
Elegance   Linda Gregg     105
Description of a Lost Thing   Charles Simic      106
They Had Torn Off My Face at the Office   Ted Kooser     107
Empty Similes   Bob Hicok     108
My First Mermaid   Debora Greger     109
Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale   Eric Pankey     111
Two Wheeler Spins   Colette Inez     112
The Fire Museum   Jennifer Fumiko Cahill     113
House Guest   Alexandra Teague     114
Ghazal   Marilyn Hacker     115
Enemies of Enormity   David Rivard     116
I Followed a Ribbon   Jesse Ball     118
Resistance   Peter Leight     119
Miss Congeniality   Laura Kasischke     121
Pain Tries to Think of Something   Laurie Lamon     123
Dress Rehearsal   Floyd Skloot     124
Six at the Beginning   Deborah Bogen     125
Talking at blerancourt   David Antin     126
Small parts slowly   Mary Molinary     136
Faced with 8:38   Mary Molinary     136
On us too   Mary Molinary     137
Very Hot Day   Michael Ryan      139
To Failure   Tim Skeen     140
Trying to Be Penitent   J.T Barbarese     141
Stroke   William Greenway     143
Racial Profile #2   June Jordan     144
Sursum Corda   Hillel Schwartz     146
The Chair She Sits In   Alberto Rios     149
Blue Umbrella   Gail Mazur     150
Report from My Own Backyard   Paula Closson Buck     152
Used One Speed, Princeton   Daisy Fried     154
One-Time Use   Richard D. Allen     155
Feeding the Fire   Edison Jennings     156
Aristophanes at the Woodpile   Robert Chute     157
Snow   Kevin Hart     158
Mycorrhizae   Talvikki Ansel     159
Army Tales   Kevin Prufer     160
New Year, with Nipperkin   Richard Kenney     162
Sylvia   Gerald Stern     163
Charles Street, Late November   Erica Funkhouser     164
Keepsake   Philip White     165
Wishful Rhetoric   Kevin Stein     166
"Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly"   Albert Goldbarth     167
The Unlasting   John Koethe     168
Darkness Starts   Christian Wiman     178
Tree Ghost   Yusef Komunyakaa     179
Death, Etc.   Maxine Kumin     180
Appalachian Farewell   Charles Wright     182
Prescience   Franz Wright     183
Big Doors   Richard Tillinghast     184
To You   Kevin A. Gonzalez     185
To the Soul   W.S. Merwin     186
White Heron Pond   David Baker     187
The Insistence of Beauty   Stephen Dunn     189
Ars Poetica   Czeslaw Milosz     191
Testament   Gustaf Sobin     193
My Mother's Poem   David Wagoner     194
The Pity of Punctuation   Susan Hahn     195
The Locust Song   Albert Goldbarth     197
In a Field   Elizabeth Spires     199
Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall   Ray Gonzalez     201
Logo Rhythms   Karl Elder     202
Lullabye   Amanda Jernigan      206
Old Age   Daniel Hoffman     207
Postmortem   Clare Rossini     208
Still Life With Jonquils   Andrea Hollander Budy     209
Miscegenation   Natasha Trethewey     210
Up Late, Reading Whitman   James Kimbrell     211
You Got a Song, Man   Martin Espada     215
Jittery   Jim Simmerman     217
Counterman   Paul Violi     219
International Incidents   Robert Hershon     221
Some Days I Feel Like Janet Leigh   Barbara Hamby     222
Local Heroes   Thomas Lynch     223
Black Labrador   David Young     225