Poems That Make Grown Men Cry (38 page)

Introduction to ‘The
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‘If I Could Tell You’ copyright © 1945 by W. H. Auden and renewed
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Keith Douglas, ‘Canoe’, from
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Bertolt Brecht, ‘The Book Burnings’, originally published in Germans as ‘Die Bucherverbrennung’. Copyright © 2014 by Thomas Mark Kuhn and David J
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Randall Jarrell, ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’, from
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Berthold Brecht, ‘War Has Been Brought Into Disrepute’,
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Jacques Prevért, ‘Le
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Stanley Kunitz, ‘End of Summer’, from
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Tony Harrison, ‘Long Distance I and II’, from
Selected Poems
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Les Murray, ‘The Widower in the Country’, from
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Christopher Okigbo, ‘Elegy for Alto’, from
Labyrinths with Path of Thunder
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Seamus Heaney, ‘Requiem For The Croppies’ and ‘A Call’, from
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Hayden Carruth, ‘Essay’, from
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Peter Porter, ‘An Exequy’, from
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John N. Morris, ‘For Julia, in the Deep Water’ from
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W. S. Graham: ‘Dear Bryan Wynter’, from
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Wendell Berry, ‘A Meeting’, from
New Collected Poems
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Charles Bukowski, ‘eulogy to a hell of a dame’ from
The Pleasures Of The Damned
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Derek Walcott, ‘Sonnet XLIII’ and ‘Love After Love’, from
Midsummer
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Mary Oliver, ‘In Blackwater Woods’, from
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our faces,
my heart, brief as photos
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Elegies
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Mauricio Rosencof, ‘Brindis
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Memorias
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Adrienne Rich, Part Ten of ‘Eastern War Time’, from
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James Wright, ‘A Blessing’, from
Collected Poems
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Harold Pinter, ‘It Is Here’, from
Various Voices
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James Fenton,
‘For Andrew Wood’, from
Out of Danger
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John Updike, ‘Not Cancelled Yet’, from
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism
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William Matthews, ‘A Poetry Reading at West Point’ rom
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Victoria Redel, ‘Bedecked’, from
Swoon
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Billy Collins, ‘The Lanyard’, from
The Trouble With Poetry: And Other Poems
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Emily Zinnemann, ‘Regarding the
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Craig Raine, ‘For Ruthie Rogers in Venice’ copyright © Craig Raine, 2010. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.

Robin Robertson, ‘Keys to the Doors’, from
Hill of Doors
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Mohsin Hamid’s introduction to ‘Keys to the Door’ Copyright © Mohsin Hamid, 2014.

Afterword by Nadine Gordimer: Copyright © Nadine Gordimer, 2014.