Inventions of farewell : a book of elegies /
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
c2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Authors names only (titles of poems omitted): Watching : visions of the dying and the dead. "Do not go gentle" : watching the dying ([includes] Thomas Hood, Emily Dickenson, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, D.H. Lawrence, Wilfred Owen, Dylan Thomas, Donald Hall, Thom Gunn, Roy Fisher, John Stone, Frank Bidart, Douglas Dunn, Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Paul Monette, Mark Doty, Tom Sleigh, Rafael Campo)
- "In the chill of the body" : viewing the dead ([includes] Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Mew, Adelaide Crapsey, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams
- D. H. Lawrence
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Countee Cullen
- Ruth Stone
- W. D. Snodgrass
- Sylvia Plath
- Tony Harrison
- Sharon Olds
- Ellen Bryant Voigt
- Tess Gallagher
- Molly Peacock
- Malena Morling)
- "How to perform a funeral" : ceremonies of separation ([includes] Emily Dickinson
- William Carlos Williams
- Theodore Roethke
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- J. C. Hall
- Anne Stevenson
- Stephen Dunn
- Carol Muske
- Judi Benson
- Mary Stewart Hammond
- Agha Shahid Ali
- Joseph Stroud
- Carol Ann Duffy)
- "Death, thou shalt die" : imagining the afterlife ([includes] John Donne
- Henry Vaughan
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- William Butler Yeats
- Sterling A. Brown
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Philip Larkin
- James Dickey
- Anne Sexton
- Thom Gunn
- Sandra M. Gilbert
- Alice Walker
- Ellery Akers
- Jacqueline Osherow)
- Grieving : lamentations for the dead. "Begin then, sisters of the sacred well" : the pastoral tradition ([includes] John Milton
- Percy Bysshe Shelley)
- "Blood-hot and personal" : mourning deaths in the family ([includes] John Masefield
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- May Swenson
- John Berryman
- Robert Lowell
- Diana O'Hehir
- Denise Levertov
- Carolyn Kizer
- Allen Ginsberg
- William Dickey
- Adrienne Rich
- Elaine Feinstein
- Tony Harrison
- Seamus Heaney
- Richard Garcia
- Marilyn Hacker
- Wendy Barker
- James Tate
- Alan Williamson
- Gregory Orr
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Jill Bialosky
- Li-Young Lee
- Francisco Aragon)
- "How you call to me, call to me" : lamenting the death of the beloved ([includes] John Milton
- Lady Catherine Dyer
- William Wordsworth
- Emily Bronte
- Thomas Hardy
- Ruth Stone
- Judith Wright
- Peter Davison
- Donald Hall
- Sandra M. Gilbert
- Douglas Dunn
- Tess Gallagher
- Paul Monette)
- "Sorrow's springs" : grieving for the deaths of children ([includes] Ben Jonson
- Anne Bradstreet
- Katherine Philips
- Christina Rossetti
- Alice Meynell
- Elizabeth Bishop
- William Stafford
- X. J. Kennedy
- Lucille Clifton
- Marilyn Nelson
- Paula Meehan)
- "How far from then forethought of" : mourning the deaths of friends ([includes] Thomas Gray
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Christina Rossetti
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- A. E. Housman
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Theodore Roethke
- Jane Cooper
- Gary Snyder
- Derek Walcott
- Linda Pastan
- Robert Pinsky
- Heather McHugh)
- "The stained stones" : elegizing those dead by violence ([includes] Willaim Collins
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Herman Melville
- Alice Meynell
- Rudyard Kipling
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Ezra Pound
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Ivor Gurney
- Claude McKay
- Wilfred Owen
- Langston Hughes
- Richard Eberhart
- Robert Hayden
- Randall Jarrell
- Naomi Replansky
- Shirley Kaufman
- Robert Bly
- Audre Lorde
- William Heyen
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- James Fenton)
- "Brightness falls from the air" : grieving for the great and beautiful ([includes] Walt Whitman
- A. E. Housman
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- E. E. Cummings
- Frank O'Hara
- Lucille Clifton
- Betty Adcock
- Richard Blessing
- Sharon Olds
- Rita Dove)
- "Laments for the makers" : poets mourning other poets ([includes] William Dunbar
- Ben Jonson
- William Wordsworth
- Emily Dickinson
- Hart Crane
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Robert Hayden
- John Berryman
- Maxine Kumin
- W. S. Merwin
- Anne Sexton
- William Dickey
- Gary Snyder
- Jayne Cortez
- Marilyn Hacker
- Christopher Gilbert)
- "If I should die, think only this of me" : self-elegies ([includes] Chidiock Tichborne
- William Shakespeare
- Thomas Flatmen
- John Gay
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Robert Browning
- Emily Dickinson
- Christina Rossetti
- J. M. Synge
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Rupert Brooke
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- John Betjeman
- David Wright
- James Wright
- David Young
- C. K. Williams
- Grace Nichols)
- "Death & Co." : meditations on mortality ([includes] Thomas Nashe
- Thomas Gray
- Thomas Hardy
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Walter de la Mare
- Carl Sandburg
- Ezra Pound
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Stevie Smith
- Richard Eberhart
- Richard Wilbur
- Dennis O' Driscoll
- Index).