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Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets
Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets
Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets
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"A lovely collection of poetry." — Book Scrounger
"The foreword is amazing. A lovely little anthology with some beautiful poetry by some very talented women." — From the Inside
In this soul-stirring collection of timeless verse, five legendary female poets address life's pains and sorrows as well as its joys and renewals. The poems appeal to the heart, providing companionship on the rugged path that all must tread. The roster features writers from ancient to modern times: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
As instapoets continue to make poetry more accessible and popular, they build on the tradition of intimate, confessional works built by earlier generations. No one is more prominent at this heritage than the mysterious, evocative fragments of Sappho, which inspired an earlier generation of female poets to let loose their own talent. From idiosyncratic Dickinson to the passionate, Pulitzer Prize–winning Lowell, the romanticism of Teasdale, and the intense art of St. Vincent Millay — yet another Pulitzer winner — these writers were early trailblazers in speaking their emotional truth through their craft.
This handsome volume features original illustrations by Claire Whitmore, a Foreword by poet and novelist Lisa Locascio, and brief biographies of all five poets.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherIxia Press
Release dateFeb 1, 2018
ISBN9780486828930
Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets
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Sappho

Mary Barnard (1909–2001) was a prominent American poet, translator, and biographer with many books in her repertoire. She studied Greek at Reed College and began to translate at Ezra Pound's suggestion in the 1930s. Her Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir was published by the University of California Press in 1984. Two years later she received the Western States Book Award for her book-length poem, Time and the White Tigress. She also published prose fiction and a volume of essays on mythology as well as the original lyrics gathered in Collected Poems.  

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    Wild Nights - Sappho

    WILD NIGHTS

    Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets

    Foreword by Lisa Locascio

    Illustrated by Claire Whitmore

    Mineola, New York

    Copyright

    Foreword copyright © 2018 by Lisa Locascio

    Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Claire Whitmore

    Copyright © 2018 by Dover Publications, Inc.

    All rights reserved.

    Bibliographical Note

    Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets is a new work, first published by Ixia Press in 2018.

    International Standard Book Number

    ISBN-13: 978-0-486-82426-0

    ISBN-10: 0-486-82426-8

    IXIA PRESS

    An imprint of Dover Publications, Inc.

    Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

    82426801   2018

    www.doverpublications.com/ixiapress

    CONTENTS

    Foreword by Lisa Locascio

    SAPPHO

    Come, Venus

    To the Goddess of Love

    The Muses

    Fragment 16

    To a Woman

    The Moon

    Beauty

    Peer of the Gods

    Fragment 40

    Fatima

    Long Ago

    Fragments

    Weeping

    Now Eros

    The Stars

    Summer

    Country Maiden

    Pluck Those Garlands

    Lo, Love

    Kupris

    EMILY DICKINSON

    Pain

    The Brain

    I’ve Got an Arrow Here

    I Hide Myself

    You Left Me

    Hope

    Our Share

    I Had No Time

    My River

    Wild Nights!

    Come Slowly

    He Touched Me

    I Have No Life

    Heart

    To Lose Thee

    Proud

    The Face

    Beauty

    Ecstasy

    We Outgrow Love

    If I Can Stop

    AMY LOWELL

    Fireworks

    The Bungler

    The Tree of Scarlet Berries

    Anticipation

    The Letter

    A Year Passes

    Obligation

    Opal

    A Rainy Night

    Madonna of the Evening Flowers

    A Decade

    The Taxi

    The Giver of Stars

    Absence

    Aubade

    Prime

    A Gift

    A Petition

    Miscast II

    Autumn

    SARA TEASDALE

    Twilight

    Night Song at Amalfi

    Off Algiers

    The Look

    But Not to Me

    Faults

    After Parting

    Tides

    After Love

    New Love and Old

    The Kiss

    Gifts

    November

    Wisdom

    Wood Song

    Come

    Love-Free

    A Prayer

    Peace

    The Answer

    The Coin

    EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

    First Fig

    Midnight Oil

    The Merry Maid

    Afternoon on a Hill

    Song of Shattering I

    Ashes of Life

    Sorrow

    Witch-Wife

    Thursday

    To the Not Impossible Him

    V

    The Philosopher

    Sonnet III

    Sonnet IV

    Eel-Grass

    Spring

    Mariposa

    Ebb

    Sonnet XLIII

    The Dream

    Passer Mortuus Est

    Biographies

    Index of First Lines

    FOREWORD

    In the Azure Spaces

    For a while there, we heard a lot of popular variants of the word feel. First came the feels and then the phrase that feel when, quickly shortened to the hashtaggable TFW. Although those professing feels were not exclusively young women, this was the demographic identified as the feels’ primary arbiter, witches-initiate in that interstitial realm of desire and pain. There, the girls generated emotion so powerful that it took independent form, what Tibetan Buddhists and, much later, the movie director David Lynch called a tulpa—an internal sensation so pervasive it becomes its own being, its own world. From their realm’s dizzying heights, these feelers rained down judgments on those who provoked them.

    Since then we have held in our cultural dreaming a dialectic of feels, a way of knowing through feel. Pop stars are popular feel-triggers—and baby animals and politicians and unexpected workaday heroics against hatred and injustice. The feel is both coveted—nothing can be sold or bought without it—and feared, cast often as fickle, pernicious,

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