Synopses & Reviews
From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the timeless themes of love and marriage, friendship and motherhood, the Everymans Library Pocket Poets set has it all. Theres something for everyone to enjoy in this 75-volume set, from
Animal Poems to
Zen Poems. Each book comes in an elegant 256-page pocket-sized hardcover edition (4 1/8" x 6 1/4"), with full-cloth covers, lovely illustrated and jewel-tone jackets, silk ribbon markers, and gold stamping. Perfect for your home library, or as a gift for any occasion.
This set includes one each of the following titles:
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry edited by Peter Washington
Animal Poems edited by John Hollander
Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova
Auden: Poems by W. H. Auden
Baudelaire: Poems by Charles Baudelaire
Beat Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Blake: Poems by William Blake
Blues Poems edited by Kevin Young
Browning: Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Byron: Poems by Lord Byron, G. Gordon
Chinese Erotic Poems edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
Christmas Poems edited by Peter Washington
Coleridge: Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Comic Poems edited by Peter Washington
Conversation Pieces by Kurt Brown
The Dance edited by Emily Fragos
Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson
Doggerel edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Donne: Poems by John Donne
Eliot: Poems by T. S. Eliot
Emerson: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emily Bronte: Poems by Emily Bronte
Erotic Poems edited by Peter Washington
Eugene Onegin and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin
Fatherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Friendship Poems edited by Peter Washington
Frost: Poems by Robert Frost
Garden Poems edited by John Hollander
The Great Cat edited by Emily Fragos
Haiku edited by Peter Washington
Hardy: Poems by Thomas Hardy
Herbert: Poems by George Herbert
Hopkins: Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hughes: Poems by Langston Hughes
Indian Love Poems edited by Meena Alexander
Jazz Poems edited by Kevin Young
Keats: Poems by John Keats
Kipling: Poems by Rudyard Kipling
Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love Letters edited by Peter Washington
Love Poems edited by Peter Washington
Love Songs and Sonnets edited by Peter Washington
Love Speaks Its Name by J. D. McClatchy
Lullabies and Poems for Children edited by Diana Secker Larson
Marriage Poems edited by John Hollander
Marvell: Poems by Andrew Marvell
Milton: Poems by John Milton
Motherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru
On Wings of Song by J. D. McClatchy
Persian Poets edited by Peter Washington
Plath: Poems by Sylvia Plath
Poe: Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
Poems Bewitched and Haunted edited by John Hollander
Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poems by Robert Burns
Poems of Mourning edited by Peter Washington
Poems of New York edited by Elizabeth Schmidt
Poems of Sleep and Dreams edited by Peter Washington
Poems of the American West edited by Robert Mezey
Poems of the Sea by J. D. McClatchy
Prayers edited by Peter Washington
Rilke: Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rimbaud: Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
The Roman Poets edited by Peter Washington
Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti
Shakespeare: Poems by William Shakespeart
Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude edited by Carmela Ciuraru
Sonnets edited by John Hollander
Stevens: Poems by Wallace Stevens
Tennyson: Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson
War Poems edited by Peter Washington
Whitman: Poems by Walt Whitman
Wordsworth: Poems by William Wordsworth
Zen Poems edited by Peter Harris
Everymans Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everymans Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines.
Synopsis
New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetry-ranging from Walt Whitmans exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city.
All the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire escapes, from the South Bronx to Coney Island to Broadway to Central Park, and from Langston Hughess Harlem to James Merrills Upper East Side. Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde are just a few of the poets gathered here, alongside a host of new young voices.
Encompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing metropolis has to offer, Poems of New York will be treasured by literary lovers of New York everywhere.
Synopsis
A beautifully jacketed small hardcover that collects the greatest poetic tributes, past and present, to a remarkable metropolis.
New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetry-ranging from Walt Whitman's exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets' moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city.
All the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire escapes, from the South Bronx to Coney Island to Broadway to Central Park, and from Langston Hughes's Harlem to James Merrill's Upper East Side. Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde are just a few of the poets gathered here, alongside a host of new young voices.
Encompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing metropolis has to offer, Poems of New York will be treasured by literary lovers of New York everywhere.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Table of Contents
ForewordWALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
Mannahatta
Broadway
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)
The House-Top: A Night Piece
AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)
The Taxi
Anticipation
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
Arrival at the Waldorf
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
The Great Figure
SARA TEASDALE (1884-1933)
Union Square
Broadway
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
New York
CLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948)
The Tropics in New York
The Citys Love
A Song of the Moon
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
Recuerdo
‘‘If I should learn
DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)
Observation
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
“Taxis toot whirl people moving”
CHARLES REZNIKOFF (1894-1976)
“Walk about the subway station”
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA (1898-1936)
Dawn
HART CRANE (1899-1933)
To Brooklyn Bridge
The Harbor Dawn
The Tunnel
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
The Weary Blues
Good Morning
Harlem
Juke Box Love Song
Subway Rush Hour
HELENE JOHNSON (1906-1995)
The Street to the Establishment
W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
Refugee Blues
September 1, 1939
GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984)
Pedestrian
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
The Man-Moth
Letter to N.Y.
MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)
Seventh Avenue
MAY SWENSON (1913-1989)
Staying at Eds Place
At the Museum of Modern Art
KARL SHAPIRO (1913-2000)
Future-Present
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (1919- )
“The Pennycandystore beyond the El”
AMY CLAMPITT (1920-1994)
Dancers Exercising
GRACE PALEY (1922- )
The Nature of This City
Fear
On Mothers Day
HOWARD MOSS (1922-1987)
The Building
The Roof Garden
DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)
The Cabdrivers Smile
JAMES SCHUYLER (1923-1991)
This Dark Apartment
An East Window on Elizabeth Street
March Here
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA (1923- )
Photograph from September 11
KENNETH KOCH (1925- )
Girl and Baby Florist Sidewalk Pram Nineteen
Seventy Something
GERALD STERN (1925- )
96 Vandam
Let Me Please Look Into My Window
FRANK OHARA (1926-1966)
Steps
Gamin
JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)
An Urban Convalescence
164 East 72nd Street
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
I am a Victim of Telephone
My Sad Self
W. S. MERWIN (1927- )
St. Vincents
GALWAY KINNELL (1927- )
Room of Return
Running on Silk
JOHN ASHBERY (1927- )
A Sendentary Existence
So Many Lives
CHARLES TOMLINSON (1927- )
All Afternoon
PHILIP LEVINE (1928- )
Get Up
RICHARD HOWARD (1929- )
209 Canal
Among the Missing
L. E. SISSMAN (1929-1976)
Tears at Korvettes
Visiting Chaos
ADRIENNE RICH (1929- )
Upper Broadway
GREGORY CORSO (1930-2001)
Eastside Incidents
The Whole Mess . . . Almost
DEREK WALCOTT (1930- )
The Bridge
AMIRI BARAKA (1934- )
Return of the Native
MARK STRAND (1934- )
Night Piece
AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)
To My Daughter the Junkie on a Train
A Trip on the Staten Island Ferry
TED BERRIGAN (1934-1983)
Whitman in Black
HETTIE JONES (1934- )
Dust— A Survival Kit, Fall 2001
JUNE JORDAN (1936-2002)
Toward a City that Sings
“If you saw a Negro lady”
C. K. WILLIAMS (1936- )
Love: Wrath
From War
CHARLES SIMIC (1938- )
Couple at Coney Island
For the Very Soul of Me
THOMAS M. DISCH (1940- )
The Argument Resumed; or, Up Through Tribeca
In Praise of New York
BILLY COLLINS (1941- )
Man Listening to Disc
ERICA JONG (1942- )
Walking Through the Upper East Side
SHARON OLDS (1942- )
Boy Out in the World
NIKKI GIOVANNI (1943- )
Just a New York Poem
The New Yorkers
RONALD WARDALL (1947- )
Three Weeks After
DAVID LEHMAN (1948- )
The World Trade Center
October 11, 1998
September 14, 2001
LAWRENCE JOSEPH (1948- )
In the Age of Postcapitalism
DOUG DORPH (1949- )
Love
EDWARD HIRSCH (1950- )
Man on a Fire Escape
JORIE GRAHAM (1951- )
Expulsion
ROBERT POLITO (1951- )
Overheard in the Love Hotel
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER (1951- )
Construction Site, Windy Night
1972, #43
The Last Hours of Laódikê, Sister of Hektor
ELIZABETH MACKLIN (1952- )
A Married Couple Discovers Irreconcilable Differences
VICKIE KARP (1953- )
Glass
LAURIE SHECK (1953- )
In the South Bronx
The Subway Platform
CORNELIUS EADY (1954- )
The Amateur Terrorist
Dread
PHILLIS LEVIN (1954- )
Out of Chaos
VIJAY SESHADRI (1954- )
A Werewolf in Brooklyn
Immediate City
JUDITH BAUMEL (1956- )
You werent Crazy and You werent Dead
LI-YOUNG LEE (1957- )
From The City in Which I Love You
MARTÍN ESPADA (1957- )
The Owl and the Lightning
JAMES LASDUN (1958- )
Woman Police Officer in Elevator
REGINALD SHEPHERD (1963- )
Antibody
DEBORAH GARRISON (1965- )
Worked Late on a Tuesday Night
I Saw You Walking
MALENA MÖRLING (1965- )
Let Me Say This
WILLIE PERDOMO (1967- )
123rd Street Rap
DAVID BERMAN (1967- )
New York, New York
KEVIN YOUNG (1970- )
City-as-School
MELANIE REHAK (1971- )
Adonis All Male Revue, November 24
DAVID SEMANKI (1971- )
Rain
NATHANIEL BELLOWS (1972- )
Liberty Island
Acknowledgments