Revenge and forgiveness : an anthology of poems /

A collection of nearly sixty poems dealing with revenge and forgiveness, plus suggested readings about each contributing poet. Revenge and forgiveness are two of the most prominent elements in the history of human interaction. With each generation, one or the other may seem to increase or diminish i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vecchione, Patrice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • My heart, you might pierce it and take it
  • 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
  • Curse on a thief / X.J. Kennedy
  • I will write songs against you / Charles Reznikoff
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pact / Ezra Pound
  • Poem / Muriel Rukeyser
  • To a terrorist / Stephen Dunn
  • 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 /