Poems I Can’t Live Without

Or some of them. At least, the ones I have linked in this blog…

A
Adam Zagajewski, ”Plans, Reports”
Adam Zagajewski, “Encounter”
Adam Zagajewski, “Ordinary Life”
Alice Notley, “I've meant to tell you many things about my life…”
Alice Walker, “S M”
Amy Gerstler, “Fuck You Poem #45”
Anne Carson, “On Major and Minor”
Anne Sexton, “With Mercy For the Greedy”
Andre Breton, ”Free Union”
Anthony Hecht, “Double Sonnet”

B
Blaise Cendrars, “The Head”
Brenda Shaughnessy, “The Poets Are Dying”

C
Charles Baudelaire, “Femmes damnées”
Czeslaw Milosz, ”Encounter”
Czeslaw Milosz, ”In Black Despair”
Czeslaw Milosz, ”Forget”
Czeslaw Milosz, “A Song on the End of the World”

D
Daniel Halpern, “Passing”
Dean Rader, “Elegy Pantoum”
Dean Young, “Facet”
Dean Young, “Rothko’s Yellow”
Dean Young, “Scribblers Everywhere”
Dean Young, “The Best Way I Can Describe It”
Dean Young, “The Unattainable”
Donika Kelly, “Love Poem: Centaur”
Dorothea Lasky, “Miscarriage”

E
Elisabeth Weiss, “The Anna Fragments”
Erica Dawson, “In Black and White”
Ewa Lipska, ”Indiscretion”

F
Frank O’Hara, “For Grace, After a Party”
Frank O’Hara, “In Memory of My Feelings”
Frank O’Hara, “Why I Am Not a Painter”

G
Gerrit Lansing, “A Poem of Love in Eleven Lines”

H
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, “All The White Boys On The Eastside Loved Larry Bird”
Haryette Mullen, “Wipe That Smile Off Your Aphasia”

I
Ingeborg Bachmann, “Darkness Spoken”

J
Jamaal May, “There Are Birds Here”
James Schuyler, “The Dog Wants His Dinner”
James Wright, “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”
James Wright, “Hook”
James Tate, “For Kenneth Patchen”
Jean D'Amerique, “Workshop of Silence”
Jim Daniels, “Testament”
John Ashbery, “Anticipated Stranger,”
John Ashbery, “Laughing Gravy”
John Ashbery, “Syringa”
John Ashbery, “This Room”
John Keats, “Lamia”
John Richard Reed, “Leaves from a Partbook”

K
Kay Ryan, ”Why We Must Struggle”

L
Les Murray, “Defense of Poetry, 1998”
Linda Gregg, “Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live”
Linda Pastan, “Why Are Your Poems So Dark?”
Louise Gluck, “Vespers”

M
Marina Tsvetaeva, “Ars Poetica”
Matthew Zapruder, “Schwinn”
Mary Maxwell, “Beckett in Roussillon”
Michael Blumenthal, "The Bitter Truth"
Michael Palmer, “Dearest Reader”
Monica Youn, “Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)”

N
Nadia Tueni, “Would You Come Back?”

O

P
Paul Guest, “1987”
Peter Gizzi, “Comfort and Consolation”
Peter Schjeldahl, “Gauge”

Q

R
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Entering”
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Lament”
Rainer Maria Silke, Sonnets to Orpheus
Richard Brautigan, “We Were the Eleven O’Clock News”
Rita Dove, “Persephone’s Journey”
Robert Creeley, “The Hill”
Robert Desnos, “I Dream So Much of You”
Robert Farnsworth, “Music for Piano and Electrical Storm”
Robert Hogg, “Desire”
Ron Padgett, “First Drift”
Rosmarie Waldrop, “Vibrations that beat…”
Richard Siken, “Line”

S

T
T. J. Sandella, “Pathology of Violence”

U

V

W
W. S. Merwin, “To the Words”
William Bronk, “The Touch”
Wislawa Szymborska, “Tortures”
Wislawa Szymborska, “Any Case”
Wislawa Szymborska, “An Opinion on the Question of Pornography”

X

Y
Yoel Hoffman, “[9]”
Yoel Hoffman, “[84]”
Yoel Hoffman, “[130]”
Yoel Hoffman, “[141]”

Z
Zbigniew Herbert