An anthology that explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations—the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India’s Ganges, Egypt’s Nile, the Yellow River of China—and have nourished modern cities from London to New York, so it’s natural that poets have for centuries drawn essential meanings and metaphors from their endless currents. In this collection, British poets from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Ted Hughes and Alice Oswald mingle with American voices…mehr
An anthology that explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations—the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India’s Ganges, Egypt’s Nile, the Yellow River of China—and have nourished modern cities from London to New York, so it’s natural that poets have for centuries drawn essential meanings and metaphors from their endless currents. In this collection, British poets from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Ted Hughes and Alice Oswald mingle with American voices ranging from verses by the indigenous Klallam people and the African-American spirituals “Deep River” and “Roll, Jordan, Roll” to such recent poets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, and Natasha Tretheway. Walt Whitman’s iconic “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and Emily Dickinson’s tersely erotic “My River Runs to Thee" stream alongside poems from ancient Babylon and Egypt. Contributions from India, Nepal, Japan, China, Thailand, France, Germany, Russia, Serbia, Chile, Mexico, the Congo, and Nigeria round out this celebration of the rivers of the world. Includes: • “My River Runs to Thee" by Emily Dickinson • “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes • “Ol’ Man River” by Oscar Hammerstein II • “The Golden Boat” by Rabindranath Tagore • “The River God” by Stevie Smith • “The River Bends but the Water Does Not” by Buddhādasa Bhikkhu • “The Niagara River” by Kay Ryan • “Amazon” by Pablo Neruda Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
HENRY HUGHES is a poet, essayist, and professor of English at Western Oregon University. A winner of the Oregon Book Award, he is also the editor of the Everyman's Library collections The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing and Fishing Stories.
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HEADWATERS
Hymn to the Nile Ezekiel 47:9 LAOZI From Dao De Jin WANG WEI Cormorant Bank From Gold Dust Spring DAFYDD LLWYD OF MATHAFARN From To The River Dyfi ALEXANDER POPE From Windsor Forest SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE To the River Otter GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON First Fountain TRADITIONAL ENGLISH SONG The Waters of Tyne TRADITIONAL AMERICAN SONG Shenandoah RALPH WALDO EMERSON The River HENRY DAVID THOREAU From The Journal CARL SANDBURG Languages PABLO NERUDA Amazon TED HUGHES River VASKO POPA Great Lord Danube GABRIEL OKARA The Call of the River Nun JIM HARRISON River III RICHARD HUGO Beaverbank DAVID WAGONER Talking to Barr Creek DUANE NIATUM Evening Near the Hoko River CHARLES WRIGHT Cloud River
Rapids & Pools
WANG WEI Luan Family Rapids HENRY VAUGHAN The Water-Fall GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON Could Love EDGAR ALLAN POE To the River ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON From The Brook ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Looking-Glass River THOMAS HARDY The Something that Saved Him GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Inversnaid WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Stream and Sun at Glendalough IVAN BUNIN With the Current NIKOLAUS LENAU Look into the Stream ROBERT FROST Too Anxious for Rivers WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS River Rhyme ANNE RIDLER River God’s Song TED HUGHES Low Water WILLIAM STAFFORD Looking Across the River DIANE WAKOSKI The Canoer KAY RYAN The Niagara River GARY SNYDER The Canyon Wren DON MCKAY Pool GEFFREY DAVIS Upriver, Downstream JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS Suture DONOVAN DOUGLAS Haskin’s Creek, August, As Revival TRINITY HERR Topography NATASHA TRETHEWEY Elegy RAYMOND CARVER Simple Freeze, Flow & Flood
FUJIWARA NO SADAYORI Winter Dawn, Uji River JOHN DRYDEN London After the Great Fire, 1666 EDMUND SPENSER From Prothalamion HENRY DAVID THOREAU From The Journal HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW From To the River Charles WALT WHITMAN From Crossing Brooklyn Ferry SIDNEY LANIER The Song of the Chattahoochee RUDYARD KIPLING The River’s Tale THOMAS HARDY Overlooking the River Stour KENJI MIYAZAWA Along that Frozen Little River WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Down by the Salley Gardens T.S. ELIOT From The Dry Salvages W.H. AUDEN River Profile A.R. AMMONS River JAMES WRIGHT To Flood Stage Again WILLIAM STAFFORD Ask Me HAYDEN CARRUTH The Water DON MCKAY Night Skating on the Little Paddle River JAMES DICKEY Inside the River SHUNTARO TANIKAWA From The River WENDELL BERRY The River Voyagers LOUIS GLÜCK Early December in Croton-on-Hudson LOUISE ERDRICH I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move KAREN HOULE Pleasure Craft ALICE OSWALD Birdwatcher EMILY ROSKO Flood Plain
Troubled Waters
From The Epic of Gilgamesh WILLIAM BLAKE Why Should I care for the Men of Thames JÓNAS HALLGRÍMSSON The Sog, Iceland WALT WHITMAN Cavalry Crossing a Ford ERNST STADLER Ride Over the Cologne Rhine Bridge at Night WILFRED OWEN Shadwell Stair LOUIS MACNEICE Charon EUGENIO MONTALE Near Capua RABINDRANATH TAGORE The Golden Boat PAUL DRESSER On The Banks of the Wabash, Far Away H.D. Leda WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS From Paterson OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II From Ol’ Man River CONSTANCE URDANG The River STEVIE SMITH The River God TED HUGHES Ophelia JAMES WRIGHT In Response to a Rumor that the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned CITTADHAR HṚDAYA River WILLIAM MEREDITH At the Confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado CHARLES BUKOWSKI The Rivers TSITSI ELLA JAJI Limpopo Blues JAMES GALVIN Cache la Poudre JORGE HUMBERTO CHÁVEZ The River TRACY SMITH Wade in the Water TODD DAVIS Poem Made from Sadness and Water KIT EVANS Riverbed Blues
Meditations & Meanderings
LAOZI From Dao De Jin DU FU Thoughts on Traveling By Night KOBAYASHI ISSA Cricket Singing UEJIMA ONITSURA Below the Jumping Sweetfish WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Upon Westminster Bridge OSCAR WILDE Symphony in Yellow MARCEL PROUST The Carafes of the Vivonne GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Mirabeau Bridge WALLACE STEVENS The River of Rivers in Connecticut LANGSTON HUGHES The Negro Speaks of Rivers BUDDHĀDASA BHIKKHU The River Bends But the Water Does Not PAULINE STAINER Pouring the Sand Mandala into the Thames SYLVIA PLATH Faun ROBERT BLY Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River GRACE PALEY Suddenly There’s Poughkeepsie JAMES REANEY To the Avon River, Above Stratford, Canada GARY SNYDER River in the Valley EAVAN BOLAND Anna Liffey MARY OLIVER At Black River SAM HAMILL A Snapshot of Susitna ALICE OSWALD From Dart TCHICAYA U TAM’SI Brush Fire TODD DAVIS Gnosis PAULA BOHINCE La Seine
Deltas
ZHANG RUOXU Moonlight on the Spring River MATSUO BASHO Mogami River Hot Summer Day EMILY DICKINSON My River Runs to Thee Least Rivers WILLIAM GIBSON From The River Columbia ALICE MEYNELL The Visiting Sea VALERY BRYUSOV To Myself HART CRANE Repose of Rivers CARL SANDBURG River Moons MARINA TSVETAEVA From The Notebook ROBINSON JEFFERS Salmon-Fishing RUTH PITTER The Estuary EUGENIO MONTALE Delta THEODORE ROETHKE River Incident SHUNTARO TANIKAWA River JAMES DICKEY Awaiting the Swimmer RAYMOND CARVER Where Water Comes Together with Other Water DAVID BOTTOMS In a Jon Boat During a Florida Dawn JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS Sediment BRUCE BOND The Delta SCOTT STARBUCK The Hunger
Hymn to the Nile Ezekiel 47:9 LAOZI From Dao De Jin WANG WEI Cormorant Bank From Gold Dust Spring DAFYDD LLWYD OF MATHAFARN From To The River Dyfi ALEXANDER POPE From Windsor Forest SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE To the River Otter GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON First Fountain TRADITIONAL ENGLISH SONG The Waters of Tyne TRADITIONAL AMERICAN SONG Shenandoah RALPH WALDO EMERSON The River HENRY DAVID THOREAU From The Journal CARL SANDBURG Languages PABLO NERUDA Amazon TED HUGHES River VASKO POPA Great Lord Danube GABRIEL OKARA The Call of the River Nun JIM HARRISON River III RICHARD HUGO Beaverbank DAVID WAGONER Talking to Barr Creek DUANE NIATUM Evening Near the Hoko River CHARLES WRIGHT Cloud River
Rapids & Pools
WANG WEI Luan Family Rapids HENRY VAUGHAN The Water-Fall GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON Could Love EDGAR ALLAN POE To the River ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON From The Brook ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Looking-Glass River THOMAS HARDY The Something that Saved Him GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Inversnaid WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Stream and Sun at Glendalough IVAN BUNIN With the Current NIKOLAUS LENAU Look into the Stream ROBERT FROST Too Anxious for Rivers WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS River Rhyme ANNE RIDLER River God’s Song TED HUGHES Low Water WILLIAM STAFFORD Looking Across the River DIANE WAKOSKI The Canoer KAY RYAN The Niagara River GARY SNYDER The Canyon Wren DON MCKAY Pool GEFFREY DAVIS Upriver, Downstream JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS Suture DONOVAN DOUGLAS Haskin’s Creek, August, As Revival TRINITY HERR Topography NATASHA TRETHEWEY Elegy RAYMOND CARVER Simple Freeze, Flow & Flood
FUJIWARA NO SADAYORI Winter Dawn, Uji River JOHN DRYDEN London After the Great Fire, 1666 EDMUND SPENSER From Prothalamion HENRY DAVID THOREAU From The Journal HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW From To the River Charles WALT WHITMAN From Crossing Brooklyn Ferry SIDNEY LANIER The Song of the Chattahoochee RUDYARD KIPLING The River’s Tale THOMAS HARDY Overlooking the River Stour KENJI MIYAZAWA Along that Frozen Little River WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Down by the Salley Gardens T.S. ELIOT From The Dry Salvages W.H. AUDEN River Profile A.R. AMMONS River JAMES WRIGHT To Flood Stage Again WILLIAM STAFFORD Ask Me HAYDEN CARRUTH The Water DON MCKAY Night Skating on the Little Paddle River JAMES DICKEY Inside the River SHUNTARO TANIKAWA From The River WENDELL BERRY The River Voyagers LOUIS GLÜCK Early December in Croton-on-Hudson LOUISE ERDRICH I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move KAREN HOULE Pleasure Craft ALICE OSWALD Birdwatcher EMILY ROSKO Flood Plain
Troubled Waters
From The Epic of Gilgamesh WILLIAM BLAKE Why Should I care for the Men of Thames JÓNAS HALLGRÍMSSON The Sog, Iceland WALT WHITMAN Cavalry Crossing a Ford ERNST STADLER Ride Over the Cologne Rhine Bridge at Night WILFRED OWEN Shadwell Stair LOUIS MACNEICE Charon EUGENIO MONTALE Near Capua RABINDRANATH TAGORE The Golden Boat PAUL DRESSER On The Banks of the Wabash, Far Away H.D. Leda WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS From Paterson OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II From Ol’ Man River CONSTANCE URDANG The River STEVIE SMITH The River God TED HUGHES Ophelia JAMES WRIGHT In Response to a Rumor that the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned CITTADHAR HṚDAYA River WILLIAM MEREDITH At the Confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado CHARLES BUKOWSKI The Rivers TSITSI ELLA JAJI Limpopo Blues JAMES GALVIN Cache la Poudre JORGE HUMBERTO CHÁVEZ The River TRACY SMITH Wade in the Water TODD DAVIS Poem Made from Sadness and Water KIT EVANS Riverbed Blues
Meditations & Meanderings
LAOZI From Dao De Jin DU FU Thoughts on Traveling By Night KOBAYASHI ISSA Cricket Singing UEJIMA ONITSURA Below the Jumping Sweetfish WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Upon Westminster Bridge OSCAR WILDE Symphony in Yellow MARCEL PROUST The Carafes of the Vivonne GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Mirabeau Bridge WALLACE STEVENS The River of Rivers in Connecticut LANGSTON HUGHES The Negro Speaks of Rivers BUDDHĀDASA BHIKKHU The River Bends But the Water Does Not PAULINE STAINER Pouring the Sand Mandala into the Thames SYLVIA PLATH Faun ROBERT BLY Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River GRACE PALEY Suddenly There’s Poughkeepsie JAMES REANEY To the Avon River, Above Stratford, Canada GARY SNYDER River in the Valley EAVAN BOLAND Anna Liffey MARY OLIVER At Black River SAM HAMILL A Snapshot of Susitna ALICE OSWALD From Dart TCHICAYA U TAM’SI Brush Fire TODD DAVIS Gnosis PAULA BOHINCE La Seine
Deltas
ZHANG RUOXU Moonlight on the Spring River MATSUO BASHO Mogami River Hot Summer Day EMILY DICKINSON My River Runs to Thee Least Rivers WILLIAM GIBSON From The River Columbia ALICE MEYNELL The Visiting Sea VALERY BRYUSOV To Myself HART CRANE Repose of Rivers CARL SANDBURG River Moons MARINA TSVETAEVA From The Notebook ROBINSON JEFFERS Salmon-Fishing RUTH PITTER The Estuary EUGENIO MONTALE Delta THEODORE ROETHKE River Incident SHUNTARO TANIKAWA River JAMES DICKEY Awaiting the Swimmer RAYMOND CARVER Where Water Comes Together with Other Water DAVID BOTTOMS In a Jon Boat During a Florida Dawn JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS Sediment BRUCE BOND The Delta SCOTT STARBUCK The Hunger
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