How to Eat a Poem (eBook)

MAGIC WORDS -- POEMS ABOUT POETRY, BOOKS, WORDS, AND IMAGINATIONThe First Book, Rita DoveThere Is No Frigate Like a Book, Emily Dickinsonfrom "Magic Words," Inuit (Eskimo) passageIntroduction to Poetry, Billy CollinsThe Poem, Amy LowellArs Poetica, Archibald MacLeishHow to Eat a Poem, Eve MerriamSix Words, Lloyd SchwartzPrickled Pickles Don't Smile, Nikki GiovanniThirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Wallace StevensThis Is Just to Say, William Carlos WilliamsVariations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams, Kenneth KochToday is Very Boring, Jack PrelutskyThe Unwritten, W. S. MerwinWrite, Do Write, Marilyn ChinMY HEART LEAPS UP -- POEMS ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF THE NATURAL WORLDMy Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, William WordsworthW. D., Don't Fear That Animal, W. D. SnodgrassSwift Things Are Beautiful, Elizabeth CoatsworthSummer, Kawabata BoshaAutumn, Arakida MoritakeWinter, Takarai KikakuSpring, Matsuo BashoNothing Gold Can Stay, Robert FrostThe Desert Is My Mother, Pat MoraEl desierto es mi madre, Pat Moramaggie and milly and molly and may, E. E. CummingsA Jelly-Fish, Marianne MooreThe Eagle, Alfred, Lord TennysonEagle Poem, Joy HarjoConsidering the Snail, Thom GunnThe Porcupine, Ogden NashThe Crocodile, Lewis CarrollThe Tyger, William BlakeSteam Shovel, Charles MalanCartoon Physics, part 1, Nick FlynnThe Falling Star, Sara TeasdaleHalley's Comet, Stanley KunitzWhen I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, Walt WhitmanI THINK OVER AGAIN MY SMALL ADVENTURES -- POEMS ABOUT TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, SPORTS, AND PLAYSick, Shel SilversteinTravel, Edna St. Vincent MillayInsomnia, Marilyn NelsonHarlem Night Song, Langston HughesThe Rider, Naomi Shihab NyeThe Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 A.M., Agha Shahid AliFirst Love, Carl LindnerSkier, Robert FrancisSkater, Ted KooserThe Acrobat, Wislawa SzymborskaBaseball, Linda PastanCasey at the Bat, Ernest Lawrence ThayerOne Art, Elizabeth BishopI Think Over Again My Small Adventures, AnonymousBed In Summer, Robert Lewis Stevensonfrom The Bed Book, Sylvia PlathSummons, Robert FrancisHOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS -- POEMS ABOUT LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, SADNESS, HOPE, AND OTHER EMOTIONSShirley Said, Dennis DoyleOranges, Gary SotoThe Floor and the Ceiling, William Jay SmithAnnabel Lee, Edgar Allan PoeSympathy, Paul Lawrence DunbarOzymandias, Percy Bysshe ShelleySpring and Fall, Gerard Manley HopkinsTrees, Walter Dean MyersWith Kit, Age Seven, At the Beach, William StaffordAt the End of the Weekend, Ted KooserLittle Old Letter, Langston Hughesfrom "I Am a Black Woman," Mari Evanshomage to my hips, Lucille CliftonChildhood Morning--Homebush, James McAuleyHope Is the Thing with Feathers, Emily DickinsonQuintrain, Said 'AqlACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PERMISSIONSALPHABETICAL INDEX OF POETS, TITLES AND FIRST LINES