The Healing Art
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The Healing Art
A celebrated poet and doctor connects—through favorite verses and stories from his life and practice—poetry and healing.As a respected and much-loved doctor, Rafael Campo shares favorite poems with patients on his rounds. After all, incantation has played a role in healing for millennia, displaced only recently by modern scientific obsessions.In this luminous book, Campo restores the link between poetry and healing, offering pharmaceutical samples of work by a diverse group of poets such as Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Miroslav Holub, Audre Lorde, Lucia Perillo, and William Carlos Williams. He leads us through the stages of illness and recuperation, from first inklings of mortality through symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and finally recovery or—and here medicine recoils but poetry perseveres—death, and even immortality.At each stage, Campo reveals the richness of individual poems and the potent medicine they offer. Ultimately, he proposes a biocultural model of illness as provocative as it is humane—one that restores the art of poetry to its rightful place at the heart of a healthy society. 10 b/w illustrations.
Poetry
The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt
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The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt
This volume collects every poem Clampitt published in a book during her lifetime. They often attend to the natural world, whether directly, by focusing on the landscape of Iowa or Maine, or indirectly, by focusing on other poets of nature like Keats and Wordsworth.
Poetry
Acts of Light
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Acts of Light
Originally published in 1980 and nominated for a National Book Award, Acts of Light includes Dickinson's best-loved poems as well as an extensive essay on the poet's life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Color paintings.
Poetry
Old Glory
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Old Glory
For the first time, in one volume, the rich canon of American war poems, from Yankee Doodle to Robert Creeley's Ground Zero.This unique, comprehensive anthology gathers together more than two hundred poems about the American experience of war—narratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, tributes, and battle hymns—many of them classics. Written by soldier-poets as well as poets on the home front, they are deeply personal, reflecting love of country, sacrifice, tragedy, glory, and sometimes disillusionment or dissent.Arranged chronologically, virtually every conflict is included: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, September 11, and the present war in Iraq. Among the 140 poets are Longfellow, Wheatley, Dunbar, Bryant, Emerson, Thoreau, Crane, Dickinson, Melville, Whitman, Whittier, Masters, Bogan, Lindsay, Cummings, Eliot, Frost, Lowell, Pound, Sandburg, Bishop, Hughes, Levertov, Stevens, Williams, Bly, Creeley, Ginsberg, Harper, Paley, Rich, Warren, Komunyakaa, Weigl, and Collins.A major historical, cultural, and literary volume,Old Glory speaks from the depth of time as well as from the immediacy of our own moment.
Poetry
Bing Bang Boing
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Bing Bang Boing
A collection of humorous poetry and pen-and-ink line drawings. Subjects include smelly socks, elephants' trunks, and eating beetles for breakfast.
Poetry
Bending Home
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Bending Home
In these usually short-lined narrative lyrics, the poet pays tribute or acts as witness to the lives of women (even the typeface of this edition is a triumph of womanhood, designed by the first great woman typeface designer). Other poems are political, reflecting the sorts of concerns that the poet has pursued in her prose works, notably A CHORUS OF STONES.
Poetry