Revenge and forgiveness : an anthology of poems / edited by Patrice Vecchione

Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2004.
Copyright Date: ©2004.
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: 148 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Creators: Vecchione, Patrice, Hopkins, Lee Bennett, and Henry Holt and Company

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Contents

"My heart, you might pierce it and take it" : song / from a Quechuan myth -- Only cherries? / Kenneth Patchen -- Dogs / Kat Meads -- Enemies / Wendell Berry -- Say you love me / Molly Peacock -- Sugarmother's daughter dreams / Patrice Vecchione -- First memory / Louise Gluck -- Revenge fable / Ted Hughes -- Grief / Gaius Valerius Catullus -- Mine enemy is growing old / Emily Dickinson -- Revenge / Robert Herrick -- A curse on a thief / X.J. Kennedy -- "I will write songs against you" / Charles Reznikoff -- A curse on mine-owners -- Sonnet XC / William Shakespeare -- "Envenomed are my songs" / Heinrich Heine -- Revenge / Charles Henry Webb -- Bitter fruit of the tree / Sterling A. Brown -- Hygiene / Toni Mirosevich -- Envy / Edmund Spenser -- A ritual to read to each other / William Stafford -- Catch / George Bilgere -- Sea of faith / John Brehm -- To a bad heart / Tim Reynolds -- Blink / Cecilia Woloch -- Stronger lessons / Walt Whitman -- A pact / Ezra Pound -- Poem / Muriel Rukeyser -- To a terrorist / Stephen Dunn -- The minefield / Diane Thiel -- What they wanted / Victor H. Bausch -- Becoming Milton / Coleman Barks -- Hero / Semezdin Mehmedinovic -- From Henry V, act IV, scene 1 / William Shakespeare -- No sorry / Catherine Bowman -- Another vigil at San Quentin / Alison Luterman -- Prayer / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Why people murder / Ellen Bass -- Kissie Lee / Margaret Walker -- Poison / William Heyen -- Electrocuting an elephant / George Bradley -- Malediction / Barry Spacks -- The appartition / John Donne -- Note from a loving wife / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- "I had never seen her so angry" / Gary Young -- Wheels / Sarah Rabkin -- Any lover to any beloved / Faiz Ahmed Faiz -- You called me corazón / Sandra Cisneros -- Quatrain : forgive me not / Lilla Cabot Perry -- Jerusalem / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Forgiveness / Morton Marcus -- The Jewish time bomb / Yehuda Amichai -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Sonnet XXXV / William Shakespeare -- Love after love / Derek Walcott -- Let there be new flowering / Lucille Clifton.

Summary

A collection of nearly sixty poems dealing with revenge and forgiveness, plus suggested readings about each contributing poet.

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ISBN

0805073760 (acid-free paper)
9780805073768 (acid-free paper)

Collection

Lee Bennett Hopkins Collection.

Audience

Preteens

Note

Rare Books copy: "First edition--2004" stated (1st printing--number line beginning "1" on t.p. verso); in publisher's original boards and dust jacket; LAID IN: brief review clipped from School Library Journal (7/04).

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of Acquisition

Rare Books copy: Gift of Lee Bennett Hopkins.

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