It is the rare individual who has not, at one time or another, been kept awake for hours on end -- as the rest of the world, maddeningly, appears to be comfortably lost in the nocturnal world of dreams. Here is a treasury of verse on the rich subject of insomnia -- meditations by poets who have sought to describe their own moments of solitude in darkness, when the world's regular bustle of activity and distraction falls away and they are left to contemplate in silence. Acquainted with the Night brings together Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop, Rimbaud and Sappho, Shakespeare and Shelley --…mehr
It is the rare individual who has not, at one time or another, been kept awake for hours on end -- as the rest of the world, maddeningly, appears to be comfortably lost in the nocturnal world of dreams. Here is a treasury of verse on the rich subject of insomnia -- meditations by poets who have sought to describe their own moments of solitude in darkness, when the world's regular bustle of activity and distraction falls away and they are left to contemplate in silence. Acquainted with the Night brings together Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop, Rimbaud and Sappho, Shakespeare and Shelley -- the great poets of the Western literary heritage -- on a theme with which each one has been acutely familiar. Lisa Russ Spaar has also unearthed ruminations on the sleepless nights of poets the world over: in a fascinatingly diverse anthology, she has harvested verse from Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Inuit, Vietnamese, Tamil, Yiddish, and Romanian poets, who together present an illuminating display of insomnia's extraordinary and enduring legacy in widely different cultures through the centuries. As these exquisite poems chart a course from solitude, through anxiety, to epiphany, the reader truly learns what it means to be acquainted with the night.
One: Solitude and Vigil Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop Insomnia by Joyce Carol Oates Lines Written at Night During Insomnia by Alexander Pushkin Insomnia by Dana Gioia Insomnia by Cornelius Eady Mirrors at 4 A.M. by Charles Simic What She Said by Patumanr The Moon by Gunnar Ekel from The Sleepers by Walt Whitman Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost from The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare Insomnia. Homer. Taut sails by Osip Mandelstam Insomnia Song by Gregory Orr The Bench of Boors by Herman Melville Sleep's Underside by Melissa Kirsch Insomnia by Debra Nystrom On Reading The Book of Odes by Cao B Qu t The Insomnia of Tremayne by Donald Justice Insomnia by alvatore Quasimodo Halcion by R. T. Smith Insomniac by Sylvia Plath Moonless Night by Louise Glock Insomnia at the Solstice by Jane Kenyon When Night is almost done [347] by Emily Dickinson If This Room Is Our World by Weldon Kees Midnight Saving Time by Adrien Stoutenburg July Dawn by Louise Bogan Psalm: The New Day by Mark Jarman Two: Anguish and Longing One Night by Umberto Saba I wake and feel the fell of dark not day by Gerard Manley Hopkins When Loneliness Is a Man by Yusef Komunyakaa from Night of Hell by Arthur Rimbaud Job 7:2--8; 12--15; 20--21 by King James Bible Lament at Night by H. Leivick Night in a Room by the River by Tu Fu Ballad of One Doomed to Die by Federico Garcia Lorca The Broken Dark by Robert Hayden from Macbeth by William Shakespeare Apology to Andrew by Richard Jones The Cross of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Exile by Ellen Bryant Voigt Tonight I've watched by Sappho Aubade by Philip Larkin Adolescence--II by Rita Dove Dark One /how can I sleep? by Mirabai Bright Venus who across the heavens stray by Louise Lab The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge For whatever animals dwell on earth by Petrarch Come sleep Oh sleep the certain knot of peace by Sir Philip Sidney Is it thy will thy image should keep open by William Shakespeare The Night Alone by Meleagros Bread and Wine by Nina Cassian She Speaks to Her Husband Asleep by Robert Schultz Nevertheless the moon by Muriel Rukeyser Weary with toil I haste me to my bed by William Shakespeare How can I then return in happy plight by William Shakespeare The Late Hour by Mark Strand Three: Epiphany and Vision The Appalachian Book of the Dead III by Charles Wright To the monk at Thanh-phong Monastery by King Tron Th i-t"ng from Winter by Ryokan Utitia'q's Song [Inuit] At the end of a crazy-moon night by Lalla Relentlessly Lovelorn the Non-Sleeper Whispers and Re-Whispers a Magic Charm Against His Wound's Roar by Stephen Margulies Make the Bed by Stephen Cushman Insomnia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti White Night by Mary Oliver Stars by Emily Brontâ Bright Star by John Keats Owl by Robert Mezey Insomnia on a Summer Night by Umberto Saba Insomnia by Tristan Corbiäre A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman His Lamp Near Daybreak by Yannis Ritsos Night-Time: Starting to Write by Bernard Spencer Gift of the Poem by Stephane Mallarm Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks by Wallace Stevens hototogisu/hototogisu tote/akeni keri by Kaga no Chiyo Astronomies and slangs to find you dear by John Berryman from Insomnia by Marina Tsvetaeva My night awake (from The Speed of Darkness) by Muriel Rukeyser The Night Person by Richard Frost
One: Solitude and Vigil Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop Insomnia by Joyce Carol Oates Lines Written at Night During Insomnia by Alexander Pushkin Insomnia by Dana Gioia Insomnia by Cornelius Eady Mirrors at 4 A.M. by Charles Simic What She Said by Patumanr The Moon by Gunnar Ekel from The Sleepers by Walt Whitman Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost from The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare Insomnia. Homer. Taut sails by Osip Mandelstam Insomnia Song by Gregory Orr The Bench of Boors by Herman Melville Sleep's Underside by Melissa Kirsch Insomnia by Debra Nystrom On Reading The Book of Odes by Cao B Qu t The Insomnia of Tremayne by Donald Justice Insomnia by alvatore Quasimodo Halcion by R. T. Smith Insomniac by Sylvia Plath Moonless Night by Louise Glock Insomnia at the Solstice by Jane Kenyon When Night is almost done [347] by Emily Dickinson If This Room Is Our World by Weldon Kees Midnight Saving Time by Adrien Stoutenburg July Dawn by Louise Bogan Psalm: The New Day by Mark Jarman Two: Anguish and Longing One Night by Umberto Saba I wake and feel the fell of dark not day by Gerard Manley Hopkins When Loneliness Is a Man by Yusef Komunyakaa from Night of Hell by Arthur Rimbaud Job 7:2--8; 12--15; 20--21 by King James Bible Lament at Night by H. Leivick Night in a Room by the River by Tu Fu Ballad of One Doomed to Die by Federico Garcia Lorca The Broken Dark by Robert Hayden from Macbeth by William Shakespeare Apology to Andrew by Richard Jones The Cross of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Exile by Ellen Bryant Voigt Tonight I've watched by Sappho Aubade by Philip Larkin Adolescence--II by Rita Dove Dark One /how can I sleep? by Mirabai Bright Venus who across the heavens stray by Louise Lab The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge For whatever animals dwell on earth by Petrarch Come sleep Oh sleep the certain knot of peace by Sir Philip Sidney Is it thy will thy image should keep open by William Shakespeare The Night Alone by Meleagros Bread and Wine by Nina Cassian She Speaks to Her Husband Asleep by Robert Schultz Nevertheless the moon by Muriel Rukeyser Weary with toil I haste me to my bed by William Shakespeare How can I then return in happy plight by William Shakespeare The Late Hour by Mark Strand Three: Epiphany and Vision The Appalachian Book of the Dead III by Charles Wright To the monk at Thanh-phong Monastery by King Tron Th i-t"ng from Winter by Ryokan Utitia'q's Song [Inuit] At the end of a crazy-moon night by Lalla Relentlessly Lovelorn the Non-Sleeper Whispers and Re-Whispers a Magic Charm Against His Wound's Roar by Stephen Margulies Make the Bed by Stephen Cushman Insomnia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti White Night by Mary Oliver Stars by Emily Brontâ Bright Star by John Keats Owl by Robert Mezey Insomnia on a Summer Night by Umberto Saba Insomnia by Tristan Corbiäre A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman His Lamp Near Daybreak by Yannis Ritsos Night-Time: Starting to Write by Bernard Spencer Gift of the Poem by Stephane Mallarm Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks by Wallace Stevens hototogisu/hototogisu tote/akeni keri by Kaga no Chiyo Astronomies and slangs to find you dear by John Berryman from Insomnia by Marina Tsvetaeva My night awake (from The Speed of Darkness) by Muriel Rukeyser The Night Person by Richard Frost
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