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Overview
To honor FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list—past, present, and future
Poetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters.
The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux's first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Grace Paley, Carl Phillips, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, James Schuyler, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, James Wright, and Adam Zagajewski.
Today, Henri Cole, francine j. harris, Ishion Hutchinson, Maureen N. McLane, Ange Mlinko, Valzhyna Mort, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Frederick Seidel are among the poets who are continuing FSG's tradition as a discoverer and promoter of the most vital and distinguished contemporary voices.
This anthology is a wide-ranging showcase of some of the best poems published in America over the past three generations. It is also a sounding of poetry's present and future.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374722616 |
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| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication date: | 11/23/2021 |
| Sold by: | Macmillan |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 416 |
| File size: | 957 KB |
About the Author
Jonathan Galassi is the president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he has edited and published poets since 1986.
Robyn Creswell is a consulting editor for poetry at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is a former poetry editor of The Paris Review. He teaches Arabic literature at Yale University.
Table of Contents
Introduction xv
Beginnings: 1950s-1970s
"Dream Song #22" John Berryman 3
"We Are Many," Alastair Reid Pablo Neruda 4
"A Dedication to my Wife" T. S. Eliot 6
"Skunk Hour" Robert Lowell 7
"Cape Breton" Elizabeth Bishop 9
"Next Day" Randall Jarrell 11
From "Seasons of the Soul" Allen Tate 14
"Long Live Spring," H. R. Hays Juan Ramón Jiménez 17
"Night" Louise Bogan 18
"When sleep enters the body like smoke" Michael Roloff Nelly Sachs 19
"O My Sweet Animals," Allen Mandelbaum Salvatore Quasimodo 21
"Dream Song #29" John Berryman 22
"Losses" Randall Jarrell 23
From Prussian Nights Robert Conquest Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 25
"Pilgrims" Jean Valentine 27
"Waking Early Sunday Morning" Robert Lowell 28
"The First Days" James Wright 32
"Ravenna (1)," James Wright Herman Hesse 33
"The Road to Tucumcari" Sidney Goldfarb 34
"Sea Grapes" Derek Walcott 36
"Sad Steps" Philip Larkin 37
"Rites of Passage" Thom Gunn 38
"Oysters" Seamus Heaney 39
"Dream Song #90" John Berryman 40
"Dream Song #149" John Berryman 41
"Epilogue" Robert Lowell 42
The 1980s and 1990s
"North Haven" Elizabeth Bishop 45
"Clearances, III" Seamus Heaney 47
"The Ball Poem" John Berryman 48
"On the Dressing gown lent me by my Hostess the Brazilian Consul in Milan, 1958" Stevie Smith 49
"Song" James Schuyler 51
"Sleepless City," Greg Simon Steven F. White Federico García Lorca 52
"Walking," Alastair Reid Heberto Padilla 54
"Above the Inland Empire today" Killarney Clary 55
"Water-Gardening in an Old Farm Dam" Les Murray 56
"Gros-Ilet" Derek Walcott 58
"The Whitsun Weddings" Philip Larkin 60
"To Urania" Joseph Brodsky 63
"Russia Comes into Poland," Renata Gorczynski Benjamin Ivry C. K. Williams Adam Zagajewski 64
"Poem Does" Frederick Seidel 67
"What Ails My Fern?" James Schuyler 69
"The Problem of Anxiety" John Ashbery 71
"Santarézn" Elizabeth Bishop 72
"Green Sees Things in Waves" August Kleinzahler 75
"Garden" C. K. Williams 77
"Artfully adorned Aphrodite, deathless" Jim Powell Sappho 78
"Guilty of Dust" Frank Bidart 80
"Before Our Eyes" Lawrence Joseph 82
"Six Belons" Chase Twichell 84
"Changing at York" Tony Harrison 85
From Cora Fry's Pillow Book Rosellen Brown 86
"The Decanter," Paul Graves Carol Ueland Aleksandr Kushner 88
"Brancusi's Golden Bird" Mina Loy 89
"A Gilded Lapse of Time" Gjertrud Schnackenberg 91
"As I Step over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor" James Wright 93
"Japan" Michael Fried 94
"The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever" Les Murray 95
"The Man with Night Sweats" Thom Gunn 98
"iv.10 / To Ligurinus," David Ferry Horace 100
"Lines from the Testament," Norman MacAfee Luciano Martinengo Pier Paolo Pasolini 101
"A Song" Joseph Brodsky 105
"Arethusa," version by Ted Hughes Ovid 105
"Trying to Learn" Lydia Davis 109
"After Catullus" August Kleinzahler 110
"In Paris with You" James Fenton 112
"Shirt" Robert Pinsky 114
"Absent Soul," Christopher Maurer Federico Garcia Lorca 116
"Eclogue II," translated David Ferry Virgil 118
"Do you still remember:falling stars" Edward Snow Rainer Maria Rilke 121
"Aubade" Philip Larkin 122
From the Odyssey XI, 40-90 Robert Fitzgerald Homer 124
"Milkweed and Monarch" Paul Muldoon 126
"The Appalachian Book of the Dead" Charles Wright 128
"Sonnet of Intimacy," Elizabeth Bishop Vinícius De Moraes 130
From the Inferno III, 67-108 Robert Pinsky Dante Alighieri 131
"Jerusalem" James Fenton 133
"Bogland" Seamus Heaney 136
"The Eel," Jonathan Galassi Eugenio Montale 138
"Your One Good Dress" Brenda Shaughnessy 140
The 2000s
"As" Paul Muldoon 143
"Eternal" Andrew Frisardi Giuseppe Ungaretti 147
"Vague Poem (Vaguely love poem)" Elizabeth Bishop 148
"Frederick Seidel" Frederick Seidel 150
"Crimson-Weave Carpet," David Hinton Po Chü-I 152
"Self-Portrait as the Red Princess" Henri Cole 154
"Here" Grace Paley 156
"My galley, loaded with forgetfulness," David Young Petrarch 157
"Riding Westward" Carl Phillips 158
From "Autobiography of my Alter Ego" Yusef Komunyakaa 160
"Crossroads" Louise Glück 162
"Blood Dub" Jeff Clark 163
"Real Time" John Ashbery 164
"Autumn Maneuver," Peter Filkins Ingeborg Bachmann 165
"Parallax" Don Paterson 166
"Passerby, these are words…," Hoyt Rogers Yves Bonnefoy 167
From "Eleven Planets at the End of the Andalusian Scene," Fady Joudah Mahmoud Darwish 168
From War Music Christopher Logue 169
From Beowulf Seamus Heaney 171
"Retreat" Eliza Griswold 173
"Lament of a Legionnaire on Germanicus's Campaign to the Elbe River," Michael Hofmann Durs Grünbein 174
"Mu'allaqa" Frederick Seidel 175
"Bellosguardo," version Robert Lowell Eugenio Montale 179
"The Game Changed" Lawrence Joseph 180
"My Father's House Has Many Mansions" Michael Hofmann 183
"My Mother's Lips" C. K. Williams 185
"Election Day" Stuart Dybek 187
"Reading Milosz," Clare Cavanagh Adam Zagajewski 188
From King of a Hundred Horsemen Marilyn Hacker Marie Étienne 189
"The Heart of Thomas Hardy" John Betjeman 190
"Above the Red Deep-Water Clays" James McMichael 191
"The Pettichap's Nest" John Clare 193
"A Lost Art" Richard Howard 195
"Loss Lieder" Susan Wheeler 199
"Excursion Susan Sontag" Maureen N. McLane 200
"The Poetry" Don Paterson 204
The 2010s
"Forty Acres" Derek Walcott 207
"The Coal Jetty" Sinéad Morrissey 208
"The Smokestack" Joshua Mehigan 211
"Seawhere" Shane McCrae 214
"Gelsenkirchen" Ange Mlinko 216
"The Small Dark Interior" Ishion Hutchinson 217
"Through the Slaughter" Peter Cole 219
"Over the Counties of Kings and Queens Came the Second Idea" Rowan Ricardo Phillips 222
"Almost Like the Blues" Leonard Cohen 224
From Time Ted Hughes Yehuda Amichai 226
From I Am the Beggar of the World Eliza Griswold 227
"Empathy" A. E. Stallings 228
"Black Figs" Yusef Komunyakaa 230
"Very simple love that believes in words," J. D. McClatchy Patrizia Cavalli 231
"They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century" Maureen N. McLane 232
"Aubade" John Koethe 233
"Half-light" Frank Bidart 234
"A Foreshortened Journey" Louise Glück 236
"The Setting of the Moon," Jonathan Galassi Giacomo Leopardi 238
"Love" Daniel Nadler 241
"The Embrace," Jamie McKendrick Valerio Magrelli 242
"The Ginger-Haired in Heaven" Glyn Maxwell 243
"Silver" Devin Johnston 244
"A Winter Night," Robin Robertson Tomas Tranströmer 246
"Answered? Pierre Joris Paul Celan 247
"At Thomas Merton's Grave" Spencer Reece 248
"Ode to a Pair of Socks," Mark Strand Pablo Neruda 249
"Hive" Carol Ann Duffy 252
"Dog Creek Mainline" Charles Wright 253
"Blueberries" James Lasdun 255
"The Closet" Bill Knott 257
"Affirmations" Karen Solie 259
"Marina" T. S. Eliot 260
"If You Will, I Will" Carl Phillips 262
"When I was beautiful" Averill Curdy 264
"Self-Portrait with Rifle" Henri Cole 266
"Self Help" Katie Peterson 268
"The Halving" Robin Robertson 269
"Little Aster," Michael Hofmann Gottfried Benn 271
"Buried Alive," Richard Zenith Carlos Drummond De Andrade 272
"Vanitas Varietatum," Charles Wright Luciano Erba 273
"To a Giraffe" Marianne Moore 274
"A Scattering" Christopher Reid 275
"Thick Description" Eleanor Chai 276
"Here's what I envy: Prussian blue," Carol Ueland Robert Carnevale Aleksandr Kushner 278
"A Defence of Poetry" Charles Bernstein 280
"Poem in a Style Which Is Not Mine," John Ashbery Max Jacob 283
"From a Window" Christian Wiman 284
The 2020s
"On My Seventy-Eighth" Frank Bidart 289
"The Arno at Rovezzano," Jonathan Galassi Eugenio Montale 291
"Snow Approaching on the Hudson" August Kleinzahler 292
"Ephphatha" Spencer Reece 294
"Sing a Darkness" Carl Phillips 296
From "Repeat Until Time" Hannah Sullivan 298
"Even Homer Nods" Rowan Ricardo Phillips 300
"Venice, Florida" Ange Mlinko 302
"Psalm," Pierre Joris Paul Celan 304
"Cum Clave" Sylvie Baumgartel 305
"Goodbye, Mullah Omar" Eliza Griswold 307
"The Fly" Paul Muldoon 309
From Beowulf Maria Dahvana Headley 311
"Oregon Trail, Missouri" francine j. harris 313
"The Butterflies the Mountain and the Lake" Shane McCrae 315
"They tear down my family home," Robyn Creswell Iman Mersal 316
"Singer" Valzhyna Mort 317
"Afternoons and Early Evenings" Louise Glück 319
"Meditation," Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody Charles Baudelaire 320
"Never Heaven" Christian Wiman 321
"The Body Remembers" Yusef Komunyakaa 322
"Oceans could separate us, but no" Chet'la Sebree 324
"Dancer" Joshua Weiner Nelly Sachs 325
"Pomegranates," Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody Paul Valéry 327
"The Calling of St. Matthew," Clare Cavanagh Adam Zagajewski 328
"Song" Delmore Schwartz 330
"in broad dayliGht black moms look grieving" Roya Marsh 331
"Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses" A. E. Stallings 333
"What Was Poetry?" John Koethe 334
"Postscript" Seamus Heaney 337
Notes on the Poets 341
Acknowledgments 371
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines 373