Bartlett's Poems for Occasions
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Takamura Ko-taro- (translated by Hiroaki Sato): “Lemon Elegy.” Reprinted by permission of University of Hawaii Press.
Dylan Thomas: “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas, from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright 1945 by The Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower” by Dylan Thomas, from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright 1939 by New Directions Publishing Corp. “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas, from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright 1952 by Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp and David Higham Associates.
Tu Fu (translated by Burton Watson): “Spring Prospect” from Chinese Lyricism, translated by Burton Watson © 1971 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher.
Guiseppe Ungaretti (translated by Andrew Frisardi): “Shout No More” from Selected Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti. Translation copyright © 2002 by Andrew Frisardi. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
John Updike: “January,” copyright © 1965, 1999 by John Updike. Reprinted from A Child’s Calendar by permission of Holiday House, Inc.
Margaret Walker: “Lineage” reprinted by permission of Ayer Company Publishers.
Robert Penn Warren: “Heart of Autumn” from New and Selected Poems, copyright © 1985 by Robert Penn Warren. Reprinted by permission of William Morris Agency, Inc., on behalf of the Author.
Edith Wharton: “Terminus” reprinted by permission of the Estate of Edith Wharton and the Watkins/Loomis Agency.
William Carlos Williams: “By the road to the contagious hospital” by William Carlos Williams, from “Spring and All, Section I” from Collected Poems: 1909-1939, Volume I, copyright 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.; “These” by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems: 1909-1939, Volume I, copyright 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.; “The Descent” by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems 1939-1962, Volume II, copyright 1948, © 1962 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
W. B. Yeats, “Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors” reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume I: The Poems, Revised, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1933 by The Macmillan Company; copyright renewed © 1961 by Bertha Georgie Yeats. Reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd. on behalf of Michael B. Yeats. “Sailing to Byzantium” reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume I: The Poems, Revised, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1928 by The Macmillan Company; copyright renewed © 1956 by Georgie Yeats. Reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd. on behalf of Michael B. Yeats.
Yosa Buson (translated by Harold Henderson): “What piercing cold I feel” from An Introduction to Haiku by Harold G. Henderson, copyright © 1958 by Harold G. Henderson. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
Yosano Akiko (translated by Kenneth Rexroth): “Black hair,” from One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese, copyright © 1976 by Kenneth Rexroth. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.; “Labor Pains” (translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi), from Women Poets of Japan, copyright © 1973 by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Louis Zukofsky: “Happiest February” from Complete Short Poetry, p. 148. © 1991 Paul Zukofsky. Reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.
About the Editor
Geoffrey O’Brien is a widely published poet, critic, editor, and cultural historian. He has been honored with a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Institute for the Humanities. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he is the editor-in-chief of the Library of America. He lives in New York City.