Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems Book

Introduction     13
"A Brief for the Defense"   Jack Gilbert     23
"Mindful"   Mary Oliver     25
"Happiness"   Stephen Dunn     27
"Grammar"   Tony Hoagland     28
"Good God, What a Night That Was"   Petronius Arbiter     30
"Ecstasy"   Hayden Carruth     31
"Your Laughter"   Pablo Neruda     32
"What Do Women Want?"   Kim Addonizio     35
"From Blossoms"   Li-Young Lee     37
"Photograph"   Lucille Clifton     39
"The Best Cigarette"   Billy Collins     40
"Sonnets to Orpheus: IX"   Rainer Maria Rilke     42
"The Summer Day"   Mary Oliver     43
"Why I Am Happy"   William Stafford     44
"Our Hearts Should Do This More"   Hafiz     45
"The Swan"   Kabir     46
"Adam and Eve in the Garden"   John Milton     47
"Sabbaths 2004: IV"   Wendell Berry     49
"The Dancing"   Gerald Stern     50
"Sabbaths 1999: II"   Wendell Berry     51
"Happiness"   Jane Kenyon     52
"The Swan"   Mary Oliver     54
"Thank You, My Fate"   Anna Swir     56
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (Excerpt)   William Wordsworth     57
"Lines Composed over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey"   Billy Collins     58
"Eating Poetry"   Mark Strand     61
"That City That I Have Loved"   Anna Akhmatova     63
"For Angela"   Margaret Menges     65
"For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old"   Robert Bly     66
"Welcome Morning"   Anne Sexton     68
"All the Earth, All the Air"   Theodore Roethke     70
"Magnificent the Morning Was" (Excerpt)   William Wordsworth     72
"I Sing the Body Electric" (Excerpt)   Walt Whitman     73
"Sea-Fever"   John Masefield     74
"The Joys That Sting"   C. S. Lewis     75
"Surprised by Joy" (Excerpt)   William Wordsworth     76
"A Dialogue of Self and Soul" (Excerpt)   W. B. Yeats     77
"My True Home Is Cold Mountain" (Excerpt)   Han Shan      78
"The Enquiry" (Excerpt)   Anne Finch     79
"Bathing the New Born"   Sharon Olds     81
"I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed"   Emily Dickinson     83
"Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes"   Billy Collins     84
"'Tis So Much Joy!"   Emily Dickinson     87
"Mind Wanting More"   Holly Hughes     88
"But You Who Are So Happy Here" (Excerpt)   Dante Alighieri     90
"The Joy of Writing" (Excerpt)   Wislawa Szymborska     92
"Happiness"   Raymond Carver     93
"To Sadness"   Pablo Neruda     95
"Salt Heart"   Jane Hirshfield     98
"Kissing Again"   Dorianne Laux     100
"Dance in Your Blood"   Rumi     103
"Late Self-Portrait Rembrandt"   Jane Hirshfield     104
"A Birthday Poem"   Ted Kooser     105
"The Orgasms of Organisms"   Dorianne Laux     106
"Variation on a Theme by Rilke" (The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem I, Stanza I)   Denise Levertov     107
"Full Summer"   Sharon Olds     108
"Poem in October"   Dylan Thomas      110
"A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy For Ever" (Excerpt)   John Keats     113
"The Source of Joy"   Rumi     116
"Written in a Carefree Mood"   Lu Yu     118
"New Shining Worlds"   Irving Layton     119
"Sonnets to Orpheus: X"   Rainer Maria Rilke     120
"I Am Really Just a Tambourine"   Hafiz     121
"A Wild Peculiar Joy"   Irving Layton     122
"Cutting Loose"   William Stafford     124
"Plucking the Rushes"   Anonymous     125
"Eternity"   William Blake     126
"Your little voice"   E. E. Cummings     127
"When the Violin"   Hafiz     129
"Visitation"   Mark Doty     131
"When I Was Young"   Erica Ehrenberg     135
"The White Lilies"   Louise Gluck     137
"Upon Julia's Clothes"   Robert Herrick     138
"I like my body when it is with your body"   E. E. Cummings     139
"It's This Way"   Nazim Hikmet     140
"The Widening Sky"   Edward Hirsch     141
"Only When I Am Quiet and Do Not Speak"   Jane Hirshfield     142
"Pied Beauty"   Gerard Manley Hopkins     144
"I Want Something Without a Name"   Erica Ehrenberg     145
"Even If I Don't See It Again"   Marie Howe     146
"Sitting Up with My Wife on New Year's Eve"   Hsu Chun-Ch'ien     147
"Cow Worship"   Gerald Stern     148
"Blackberry Eating"   Galway Kinnell     149
"The Round"   Stanley Kunitz     150
"A Summer Day"   Li Po     152
"First Thanksgiving"   Sharon Olds     153
"Here"   Grace Paley     155
"The Pleasures of the Door"   Francis Ponge     157
"Grapefruit"   Gerald Stern     158
"In Praise of Dreams"   Wislawa Szymborska     161
"Allegro"   Tomas Transtromer     163
"The Great Sea"   Uvavnuk     164
"This Is Just to Say"   William Carlos Williams     165
"A Blessing"   James Wright     166
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"   W. B. Yeats     168
"Matins" (Excerpt)   Denise Levertov      169
"I Come Home Wanting to Touch Everyone"   Stephen Dunn     171
"Snow Geese"   Mary Oliver     173
"Why"   Wendell Berry     175
About the Poets     177
Permissions Acknowledgments     197
Index of First Lines     203