 | The Rag and bone shop of the heart : poems for men by Robert Bly | DromJohn | Approach to wildness, Danse Russe, William Carlos Williams, Smell!, Crazy dog events, Jerome Rothenberg, Four quatrains, Rumi, Much madness is divinest sense, Emily Dickinson, Notebook to a return to the native land, Aimé Césaire, Bread and wine, Friedrich Hölderlin, Has anyone see the boy?, The Will to believe, William James, Proverbs from hell, William Blake, Middle of the way, Galway Kinnell, The Wild mallard thought, Henry David Thoreau, The Wild man comes to the monastery, Song of a man who has come through, D. H. Lawrence, Knowing nothing shuts the iron gates, Kabir, In a dark time, Theodore Roethke, Little infinite poem, Federico García Lorca, The Wild old wicked man, William Butler Yeats, Song of the Cuban blacks, Advice, Bill Holm, Father's prayers for sons and daughters, With Kit age 7 at the beach, William Stafford, A Story, Li-Young Lee, A Prayer for my son, On the beach at Fontana, James Joyce, In the third month, David Ray, On my first son, Ben Jonson, The Idea of ancestry, Etheridge Knight, Mean an birth: the unexplainable, Haki R. Madhubuti, Lastness, Changing diapers, Gary Snyder, At the washing of my son, from A Prayer for my daughter, A Flower given to my daughter, An Ark for Lawrence Durrell, Robert Duncan, The Turtle, Boy at the window, Richard Wilbur, For my son Noah ten years old, Robert Bly, After making love we hear footsteps, Sometimes a man stands up during supper, Rainer Maria Rilke, A Story that could be true, War, Miguel Hernandez, The Man from Washington, James Welch, Rundown church, Federico Garcia Lorca, Dulce et decorum est, Wilfred Owen, Postcard, Miklós Radnóti, Dry loaf, Wallace Stevens, Ode for the American dead in Asia, Thomas McGrath, Words for my daughter, John Balaban, To President Bush at the start of the Gulf War, Becoming Milton, Coleman Barks, from The Homeric hymn to Ares, George Patton, from Lessons of the war, Henry Reed, Big dream little dream, Louis Simpson, Do not weep maiden for war is kind, Stephen Crane, The Colonel, Carolyn Forché, Keeping their world large, Marianne Moore, Passing an orchard by train, I know the Earth and I am sad, The Wind one brilliant day, Antonio Machado, Sonnets to Orpheus IV, The Negro speaks of rivers, Langston Hughes, Rain, Vachel Lindsay, Melancholy inside families, Pablo Neruda, Walking around, No more auction block, Spiritual, I felt a funeral in my brain, The Day Lady died, Frank O'Hara, Sonnets to Orpheus VIII, Sunflower, Rolf Jacobsen, Snowbanks north of the house, Healing, Come in, Robert Frost, I am going to speak of hope, César Vallejo, And what if after so many words, The House of fathers and titans, For brothers what are we?, Thomas Wolfe, from Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, The Bones of my father, from Theogony, Hesiod, Saturn, Sharon Olds, The Guild, My Papa's waltz, American primitive, William Jay Smith, My Father's wedding, The Portrait, Stanley Kunitz, The Core of masculinity, The Gift, The Weight of Sweetness, Li-Young-Lee, Only when my heart freezes, Alden Nowlan, Those winter Sundays, Robert Hayden, My father went to funerals, Howard Nelson, Offering, The Distant footsteps, Yesterday, W. S. Merwin, from Memories of my father, The Race, The Irish cliffs of Moher, Language: speaking well and speaking out, Magic words, Eskimo, The Mind, Trobriands, Songs are thoughts, Orpingalik, On being extravagant, from Gargantua, François Rabelais, from The Havana lectures, Poetry is a destructive force, In my craft of sullen art, Dylan Thomas, On the words in poetry, Sound-posture, Amergin and Cessair, Traditional, from Canto LXXXI, Ezra Pound, Sonnet LXV, William Shakespeare, To autumn, John Keats, On the writing of poetry, Thoughts, Gerhart Hauptmann, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth, Selections, These days, Charles Olson, American poetry, Catch, Robert Francis, Pitcher, Library, Louis Jenkins, from Standing up, Tomas Tranströmer, from The Man with the blue guitar, from Autobiography of Charles Darwin, Making a hole in denial, The Inner part, Miniver Cheevy, Edward Arlington Robinson, Next to of course God America I, E. E. Cummings, We real cool, Gwendolyn Brooks, Twenty-first night Monday, Anna Akhmatova, The Invisible king, Goethe, Darkmotherscream, Andrei Voznesensky, Empty warriors, On the yard, A Poem some people will have to understand, Amiri Baraka, Animals are passing from our lives, Philip Levine, It is this way with men, C. K. Williams, The War prayer, Mark Twain, The Second coming, A First on tv, David Ignatow, Sunday at the state hospital, No theory, Funeral Eva, Koroneu, Crazy Jane tales with the bishop, William Butler Years, Design, Have you anything to say in your defense?, The Spider, Loving the community and work, A Ritual to read to each other, Throw yourself like seed, Miguel de Unamuno, Until one is committed, Just as the winged energy of delight, Work, Gyula Illyés, Lamb, Michael Dennis Browne, Why log drivers rise earlier than students of zen, All the fruit, New York, To the states, Walt Whitman, Heraclitus, What happened during the ice storm, Jim Heynen, The Flying eagles of Troop 62, James Wright, Waxwings, For Eli Jacobson, Kenneth Rexroth, Epitaph, Death, Kuba, The Naïve male, Which one is genuine?, Charles Baudelaire, Onion, Katha Pollitt, A Story about the body, Robert Hass, The Rites of manhood, He loved three things, When the father is absent, James Hillman, The Black hairs, Heinz Pasman, The Indian serenade, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Good deeds of the moon, In a tavern, Faith, Czeslaw Milosz, from Song of myself, Across the swamp, Olav H. Hauge, Peer Gynt tells his mother about his newest adventure, Henrik Ibsen, The Hopeful spiritual athlete, How much is not true, The Second layer: anger hatred outrage, The Black riders, The Twins, James Stephens, Indeed indeed I cannot tell, I stand here do you understand, Hatred, Gwendolyn Bennett, Ribh considers Christian love insufficient, Lines for an old man, T. S. Eliot, The Hill, Robert Creeley, The Anger that breaks the man into children, The Man watching, Fire on the hills, Robinson Jeffers, The Song of the black bear, Navajo, A Poison tree, The English are so nice!, Mine enemy is growing old, The Ascensions, William Pillin, The United Fruit Co., The White city, Claude McKay, Harlem, Fire and ice, Earthly love, Diogenes, The Mole, Al-Muntafil, The Guest, Three quatrains, A Glimpse, Body of a woman, & balls, Anne McNaughton, O wha's the bride?, Hugh MacDiarmid, Greed and aggression, Gentlemen without company, Last gods, Cocks and mares, Ruth Stone, I knew a woman, Food of love, Carolyn Kizer, Feeding the dog, Russell Edson, I wrung my hands under my dark veil, To women as far as I'm concerned, Intimates, Ballad of the despairing husband, All that is lovely in men, Separation by death, The Impulse, Grief, Gaius Valerius Catullus, The River-merchant's wife: a letter, We must die because we have known them, A Marriage, And if he had been wrong for me, Listening to the Köln concert, Once I passed through a populous city, History, A Coal fire in winter, The Cultivated heart, The Song of wandering Aengus, New love and the gentle heart, Dante, As I was walking, from Moral proverbs and folk songs, I am not I, Juan Ramón Jiménez, The One who is at home, Francisco Albanez, To be a slave of intensity, Archaic torso of Apollo, Someone digging in the ground, Last night, Portrait, Names, That journeys are good, Advice from Heraclitus, Advice from Pythagoras, The Waking, The Holy longing, Mother and great mothers, Cherries, Joe Lamb, From childhood, Mother and son, Alden Newlan, from My mother would be a falconress, The Right meaning, Kaddish, Sonnet to my mother, George Barker, In memory of my mother, Patrick Kavanagh, The Last words of my English grandmother, I am asking you to come back home, Jo Carson, Kore, An Ethiopian woman, To Juan at the winter solstice, Robert Graves, The Thief, What I heard at the discount department store, David Budbill, The Witch, Santal, The Goddess, Théodore de Banville, Ego Tripping, Nikki Giovanni, Birds nest, Gloria Fuertes, Old woman nature, The Spindrift gaze toward paradise, Conversation in the mountains, Li Po, I think continually of those, Stephen Spender, I live my life, A Walk, Milkweed, The Invisible men, Nakasak, Three angels, Bob Dylan, Guardian angel, A Man lost by a river, Michael Blumenthal, The Scattered congregation, The Secret, Charles Bukowski, The Dream, Felix Pollak, The Light you give off, Leda, A Blessing, Two years later, John Wieners, The Guest is inside, Say yes quickly, The New rule, Wild nights -- wild nights!, Safe in their alabaster chambers, Sailing to Byzantium, from Voyages II, Hart Crane, Zaniness, Necessity, Walking through a wall, Football, The Leaves of heaven, Ed Sanders, Confessional poem, Appointed rounds, Quinn the Eskimo, Red lip, Richard Brautigan, from A Thousand Chinese dinners, Robert Mezey, Welcome back Mr. Knight: love of my life, Freud talks the primal meal, Charles Boer, The Automobile, Ape, The Ox, High talk, Loving the world anyway, The World is too much with us, God's grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Perfume / of flowers!, Grappa in September, César Pavese, Ode to my socks, The Delights of the door, Francis Ponge, The Bread of the world; praises III, Breast, Charles Simic, Wilderness, Carl Sandburg, O sweet spontaneous, West wall, Ripening, Wendell Berry, The Rain, Sometimes I go about pitying myself, Chippewa Music, Unity, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Old song, Musée des Beaux Arts, W. H. Auden, The Earthworm, Harry Martinson, To Earthward, The Groundhog, Richard Eberhart, from A Dialogue of self and soul, from Vacillation, urj, urs, dsp |
