Joy: 100 poems

Still Wilderness / Christian Wiman

A note on the selections

First Song / Galway Kinnell

From The Precision of Pain and the Blurriness of Joy: The Touch of Longing Is Everywhere / Yehuda Amichai (translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld)

Canal Bank Walk / Patrick Kavanagh

This Is Us Saint's Day / Jen Hadfield

Travelin' Shoes / Cornelius Eady

The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog / Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Hamlen Brook / Richard Wilbur

hag riding / Lucille Clifton

Small Moth / Sarah Lindsay

And We Love Life / Mahmoud Darwish (translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)

To Make a Summer / Josephine Miles

The Crowd / Charles Baudelaire (translated from the French by Keith Waldrop)

The Dancing / Gerald Stern

With wine and being lost, with / Paul Celan (translated from the German by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh)

Out at Lanesville / David Ferry

The Bluet / James Schuyler

Hip-Hop Ghazal / Patricia Smith

Temptation / Nina Cassian (translated from the Romanian by Brenda Walker and Andrea Deletant)

Loony-Bin Basketball / Mary Karr

Pastoral / Rita Dove

Walking with Russell / Don Paterson

You're / Sylvia Plath

Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams

Summer Kitchen / Donald Hall

The Second Madrigal / Anna Swir (translated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan)

A Brief for the Defense / Jack Gilbert

Tea at the Palaz of Hoon / Wallace Stevens

Susie Asado / Gertrude Stein

Joy / Lisel Mueller

The rites for Cousin Vit / Gwendolyn Brooks

One of the Many Days / Norman Maccaig

The Moose / Elizabeth Bishop

Best Laid / Maureen N. Mclane

Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree / P.K. Page

From Blossoms / Li-Young Lee

"Who never wanted

maddest Joy" / Emily Dickinson

Hurrahing in Harvest / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Laundromat / Lorine Niedecker

Late Beethoven / Adam Zagajewski (translated from the Polish by Renata Gorczynska)

The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message / Adrienne Rich

Big Finish / Kimberly Johnson

Unrelenting Flood / William Matthews

Meditation on a Grapefruit / Craig Arnold

Blackbird Etude / A.E. Stallings

Slim in Atlanta / Sterling A. Brown

Station / Maria Hummel

A Poem for the Epiphany / Pablo Medina (translated from the Spanish by the author)

Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow / Robert Duncan

Wedding Poem / Ross Gay

Once in a Lifetime, Snow / Les Murray

Pentecost / Michael Donaghy

C Major / Tomas Transtromer (translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton)

to the sea / Aracelis Girmay

Plumbing / Ruth Stone

The Joy of Writing / Wislawa Szymborska (translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak)

Meeting Point / Louis Macneice

Coming / Heather Mchugh

True Love / Sharon Olds

Once, I / Jane Hirshfield

Tractor / Ted Hughes

Yoko / Thom Gunn

from Vacillation / W.B. Yeats

Memoir / Vijay Seshadri

The Rapture of Dry Ice Burning Off Skin as the Moment of the Soul's Apotheosis / Thylias Moss

And I Was Alive / Osip Mandelstam (translated from the Russian by Christian Wiman)

Little Clown, My Heart / Sandra Cisneros

Land's End / August Kleinzahler

Procedure / Jo Shapcott

Ode to the Urge / Ricardo Castillo (translated from the Spanish by Robert L. Jones)

Lore / R.S. Thomas

from Poems for Moscow / Marina Tsvetaeva (translated from the Russian by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine)

The Season of Phantasmal Peace / Derek Walcott

But I, too, want to be a poet / Fanny Howe

Dawn Outside the City Walls / Juan Ramon Jimenez (translated from the Spanish by Robert Bly)

The Ache of Marriage / Denise Levertov

Happiness / Paisley Rekdal

Accidents of Birth / William Meredith

Far from Kingdoms / Patrizia Cavalli (translated from the Italian by Judith Baumel)

I'd Rather Go with You / Danielle Chapman

Coming / Philip Larkin

King David Dances / John Berryman

The Answer / Sara Teasdale

Epitaph / H.D.

The Lemons / Eugenio Montale (translated from the Italian by Jonathan Galassi)

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front / Wendell Berry

"Love of My Flesh, Living Death" / Lorna Dee Cervantes

Glamourie / Kathleen Jamie

After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent / William Stafford

Half a Double Sonnet / Mary Jo Salter

Warning / Taha Muhammad Ali (translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin)

Directive / Robert Frost

Old Pewter / Seamus Heaney

Well Water / Randall Jarrell

Here / Grace Paley

Joy / Robinson Jeffers

What Are Years / Marianne Moore

Yes / Muriel Rukeyser

Ideal Audience / Kay Ryan

The City Limits / A.R. Ammons

An Old Cracked Tune / Stanley Kunitz

Acknowledgments

Credits.