{"product_id":"river-poems-isbn-9780593535530","title":"River Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn anthology that explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRivers were the arteries of our first civilizations—the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India’s Ganges, Egypt’s Nile, the Yellow River of China—and have nourished modern cities from London to New York, so it’s natural that poets have for centuries drawn essential meanings and metaphors from their endless currents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection, British poets from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Ted Hughes and Alice Oswald mingle with American voices ranging from verses by the indigenous Klallam people and the African-American spirituals “Deep River” and “Roll, Jordan, Roll” to such recent poets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, and Natasha Tretheway. Walt Whitman’s iconic “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry\" and Emily Dickinson’s tersely erotic “My River Runs to Thee\" stream alongside poems from ancient Babylon and Egypt. Contributions from India, Nepal, Japan, China, Thailand, France, Germany, Russia, Serbia, Chile, Mexico, the Congo, and Nigeria round out this celebration of the rivers of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes:\u003cbr\u003e• “My River Runs to Thee\" by Emily Dickinson\u003cbr\u003e• “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes\u003cbr\u003e• “Ol’ Man River” by Oscar Hammerstein II\u003cbr\u003e• “The Golden Boat” by Rabindranath Tagore\u003cbr\u003e• “The River God” by Stevie Smith\u003cbr\u003e• “The River Bends but the Water Does Not” by Buddhādasa Bhikkhu  \u003cbr\u003e• “The Niagara River” by Kay Ryan\u003cbr\u003e• “Amazon” by Pablo Neruda \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHEADWATERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Hymn to the Nile\u003cbr\u003e Ezekiel 47:9\u003cbr\u003e LAOZI  \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Dao De Jin\u003cbr\u003e WANG WEI Cormorant Bank \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Gold Dust Spring\u003cbr\u003e DAFYDD LLWYD OF MATHAFARN  \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e To The River Dyfi\u003cbr\u003e ALEXANDER POPE \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Windsor Forest\u003cbr\u003e SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE  To the River Otter\u003cbr\u003e GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON  First Fountain\u003cbr\u003e TRADITIONAL ENGLISH SONG The Waters of Tyne\u003cbr\u003e TRADITIONAL AMERICAN SONG Shenandoah\u003cbr\u003e RALPH WALDO EMERSON The River\u003cbr\u003e HENRY DAVID THOREAU \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Journal\u003cbr\u003e CARL SANDBURG Languages\u003cbr\u003e PABLO NERUDA  Amazon\u003cbr\u003e TED HUGHES River\u003cbr\u003e VASKO POPA  Great Lord Danube\u003cbr\u003e GABRIEL OKARA The Call of the River Nun\u003cbr\u003e JIM HARRISON River III\u003cbr\u003e RICHARD HUGO  Beaverbank\u003cbr\u003e DAVID WAGONER  Talking to Barr Creek\u003cbr\u003e DUANE NIATUM  Evening Near the Hoko River\u003cbr\u003e CHARLES WRIGHT  Cloud River\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRapids \u0026amp; Pools\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e WANG WEI  Luan Family Rapids\u003cbr\u003e HENRY VAUGHAN  The Water-Fall\u003cbr\u003e GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON  Could Love\u003cbr\u003e EDGAR ALLAN POE  To the River\u003cbr\u003e ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON  \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Brook\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON  Looking-Glass River\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS HARDY  The Something that Saved Him\u003cbr\u003e GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS  Inversnaid\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS  Stream and Sun at Glendalough\u003cbr\u003e IVAN BUNIN  With the Current\u003cbr\u003e NIKOLAUS LENAU  Look into the Stream\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT FROST Too Anxious for Rivers\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS  River Rhyme\u003cbr\u003e ANNE RIDLER River God’s Song\u003cbr\u003e TED HUGHES  Low Water\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM STAFFORD Looking Across the River\u003cbr\u003e DIANE WAKOSKI  The Canoer \u003cbr\u003e KAY RYAN The Niagara River\u003cbr\u003e GARY SNYDER  The Canyon Wren\u003cbr\u003e DON MCKAY  Pool\u003cbr\u003e GEFFREY DAVIS Upriver, Downstream\u003cbr\u003e JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS  Suture\u003cbr\u003e DONOVAN DOUGLAS  Haskin’s Creek, August, As Revival\u003cbr\u003e TRINITY HERR Topography\u003cbr\u003e NATASHA TRETHEWEY Elegy\u003cbr\u003e RAYMOND CARVER  Simple\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFreeze, Flow \u0026amp; Flood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e FUJIWARA NO SADAYORI  Winter Dawn, Uji River\u003cbr\u003e JOHN DRYDEN  London After the Great Fire, 1666\u003cbr\u003e EDMUND SPENSER \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Prothalamion\u003cbr\u003e HENRY DAVID THOREAU \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Journal\u003cbr\u003e HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW  \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e To the River Charles\u003cbr\u003e WALT WHITMAN  \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Crossing Brooklyn Ferry\u003cbr\u003e SIDNEY LANIER The Song of the Chattahoochee\u003cbr\u003e RUDYARD KIPLING  The River’s Tale\u003cbr\u003e THOMAS HARDY  Overlooking the River Stour\u003cbr\u003e KENJI MIYAZAWA  Along that Frozen Little River\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS  Down by the Salley Gardens\u003cbr\u003e T.S. ELIOT  \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Dry Salvages\u003cbr\u003e W.H. AUDEN  River Profile\u003cbr\u003e A.R. AMMONS  River\u003cbr\u003e JAMES WRIGHT To Flood Stage Again\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM STAFFORD  Ask Me\u003cbr\u003e HAYDEN CARRUTH The Water\u003cbr\u003e DON MCKAY  Night Skating on the Little Paddle River\u003cbr\u003e JAMES DICKEY Inside the River\u003cbr\u003e SHUNTARO TANIKAWA  \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The River\u003cbr\u003e WENDELL BERRY  The River Voyagers\u003cbr\u003e LOUIS GLÜCK  Early December in Croton-on-Hudson\u003cbr\u003e LOUISE ERDRICH  I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move\u003cbr\u003e KAREN HOULE  Pleasure Craft\u003cbr\u003e ALICE OSWALD  Birdwatcher\u003cbr\u003e EMILY ROSKO  Flood Plain\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTroubled Waters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Epic of Gilgamesh\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM BLAKE Why Should I care for the Men of Thames\u003cbr\u003e JÓNAS HALLGRÍMSSON  The Sog, Iceland\u003cbr\u003e WALT WHITMAN  Cavalry Crossing a Ford\u003cbr\u003e ERNST STADLER  Ride Over the Cologne Rhine Bridge at Night\u003cbr\u003e WILFRED OWEN  Shadwell Stair\u003cbr\u003e LOUIS MACNEICE  Charon\u003cbr\u003e EUGENIO MONTALE  Near Capua \u003cbr\u003e RABINDRANATH TAGORE  The Golden Boat\u003cbr\u003e PAUL DRESSER On The Banks of the Wabash, Far Away\u003cbr\u003e H.D.  Leda\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS From Paterson\u003cbr\u003e OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II  From Ol’ Man River\u003cbr\u003e CONSTANCE URDANG The River\u003cbr\u003e STEVIE SMITH  The River God\u003cbr\u003e TED HUGHES Ophelia\u003cbr\u003e JAMES WRIGHT In Response to a Rumor that the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, \u003cbr\u003e                          West Virginia, Has Been Condemned\u003cbr\u003e CITTADHAR HṚDAYA  River\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM MEREDITH  At the Confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado\u003cbr\u003e CHARLES BUKOWSKI  The Rivers\u003cbr\u003e TSITSI ELLA JAJI  Limpopo Blues\u003cbr\u003e JAMES GALVIN  Cache la Poudre \u003cbr\u003e JORGE HUMBERTO CHÁVEZ  The River \u003cbr\u003e TRACY SMITH Wade in the Water\u003cbr\u003e TODD DAVIS  Poem Made from Sadness and Water\u003cbr\u003e KIT EVANS Riverbed Blues\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMeditations \u0026amp; Meanderings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e LAOZI \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Dao De Jin\u003cbr\u003e DU FU  Thoughts on Traveling By Night\u003cbr\u003e KOBAYASHI ISSA  Cricket Singing\u003cbr\u003e UEJIMA ONITSURA Below the Jumping Sweetfish\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM WORDSWORTH  Upon Westminster Bridge\u003cbr\u003e OSCAR WILDE  Symphony in Yellow\u003cbr\u003e MARCEL PROUST  The Carafes of the Vivonne\u003cbr\u003e GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Mirabeau Bridge  \u003cbr\u003e WALLACE STEVENS The River of Rivers in Connecticut\u003cbr\u003e LANGSTON HUGHES  The Negro Speaks of Rivers\u003cbr\u003e BUDDHĀDASA BHIKKHU  The River Bends But the Water Does Not\u003cbr\u003e PAULINE STAINER  Pouring the Sand Mandala into the Thames\u003cbr\u003e SYLVIA PLATH  Faun\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT BLY Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River\u003cbr\u003e GRACE PALEY  Suddenly There’s Poughkeepsie\u003cbr\u003e JAMES REANEY  To the Avon River, Above Stratford, Canada\u003cbr\u003e GARY SNYDER River in the Valley\u003cbr\u003e EAVAN BOLAND  Anna Liffey\u003cbr\u003e MARY OLIVER  At Black River\u003cbr\u003e SAM HAMILL  A Snapshot of Susitna\u003cbr\u003e ALICE OSWALD From Dart\u003cbr\u003e TCHICAYA U TAM’SI  Brush Fire\u003cbr\u003e TODD DAVIS  Gnosis\u003cbr\u003e PAULA BOHINCE La Seine\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeltas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ZHANG RUOXU  Moonlight on the Spring River\u003cbr\u003e MATSUO BASHO  Mogami River  \u003cbr\u003e                            Hot Summer Day\u003cbr\u003e EMILY DICKINSON   My River Runs to Thee\u003cbr\u003e                               Least Rivers\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM GIBSON  From The River Columbia\u003cbr\u003e ALICE MEYNELL The Visiting Sea\u003cbr\u003e VALERY BRYUSOV  To Myself\u003cbr\u003e HART CRANE  Repose of Rivers\u003cbr\u003e CARL SANDBURG  River Moons\u003cbr\u003e MARINA TSVETAEVA From The Notebook\u003cbr\u003e ROBINSON JEFFERS  Salmon-Fishing\u003cbr\u003e RUTH PITTER The Estuary\u003cbr\u003e EUGENIO MONTALE  Delta\u003cbr\u003e THEODORE ROETHKE  River Incident\u003cbr\u003e SHUNTARO TANIKAWA River\u003cbr\u003e JAMES DICKEY  Awaiting the Swimmer\u003cbr\u003e RAYMOND CARVER  Where Water Comes Together with Other Water\u003cbr\u003e DAVID BOTTOMS  In a Jon Boat During a Florida Dawn\u003cbr\u003e JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS  Sediment\u003cbr\u003e BRUCE BOND  The Delta\u003cbr\u003e SCOTT STARBUCK The HungerHENRY HUGHES is a poet, essayist, and professor of English at Western Oregon University. A winner of the Oregon Book Award, he is also the editor of the Everyman's Library collections \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFishing Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.Foreword by Henry Hughes\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It was our first river trip together, falling in love and maybe afraid of falling as we slid the wooden drift boat down the icy ramp into Oregon’s Siletz River, running cold and clear through the dripping dark vault of basalt and towering evergreens. Chloë pointed out gray dipper birds walking underwater, acrobatic otters, and rolling Chinook salmon; and I rowed, avoiding mossy rocks and overhanging snags, reading the gravelly bends and blue chutes. We talked and gazed, anchoring in a turquoise pool under a golden stand of alder to cast our flies. “This feels like a poem,” Chloë said.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer observation reflects an ancient confluence of water and words. Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations—the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India’s Ganges, Egypt’s Nile, the Yellow River of China—and have nourished modern cities from London to New York, so it’s natural that poets have for centuries drawn essential meanings and metaphors from their endless currents. Rivers teem with symbolic significance: they have long been ritual sites for funerals and baptisms, for deaths and rebirths; they slake our thirst, nourish our crops, and provide us with food, transportation, and power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This collection of poems honors the geographic and cultural legacies of rivers, “Loving them all the way back to their source,” as Raymond Carver vows. “Hymn to the Nile,” from the second millennium BCE, hails the life-giving Egyptian river: “If the Nile smiles, the earth is joyous.” Fifteen hundred years later, the Old Testament prophet, Ezekiel, reminds us that “wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live.” Concurrently in China, the \u003ci\u003eDao De Jin\u003c\/i\u003e affirms that “The highest good is like water \/ Nourishing all things.” Water settles in low places, coming “close to the Dao,” the \u003ci\u003eway\u003c\/i\u003e, the natural order of the universe. East Asian reverence for rivers surfaces in Chinese Tang dynasty poets and Japanese haiku masters such as Matsuo Basho and his transformative Mogami River that “Has poured the hot summer sun \/ Into the ocean.”   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the West, Edmund Spenser sets a flowery and swan-filled wedding on the “Sweet Thames,” asking it to “run softly, till I end my song.” England’s River Thames runs through many poems in this collection, hailed by John Dryden as the quenching salvation after the Great Fire of 1666, and by Alexander Pope as the “Father of the British Floods.” Modern portraits of the Thames by Wilfred Owen, Louis MacNeice, and Stevie Smith recognize the watershed’s industrial degradation and urban squalor; but the river is nonetheless imbued with mysterious powers. “They say I am a foolish old smelly river,” Stevie Smith writes. “But they do not know of my wide original bed \/ Where the lady waits, with her golden sleepy head.”   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ted Hughes and Alice Oswald speak the river voices of western England; John Burnside takes us for a cool swim on a hot summer night in Scotland; and Welsh poet Owen Sheers gauges human arrogance in the face of flooding. In “Clonfeacle,” Paul Muldoon tells the riverside story of St. Patrick as a parable of negotiation amid the sectarian conflicts in Northern Ireland, and the struggles and stamina of Irish womanhood are brilliantly personified in Eavan Boland’s “Anna Liffey.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Across the Atlantic, American voices spring from their own deep pools of memory. Louise Erdrich witnesses a devastating flood on Minnesota’s Chippewa reservation. Seeing the distressed herons flying above, her grandfather tells her “These are the ghosts of the tree people” and the poet longs to “dream our way back” to those sacred origins. Struggle and hope echo through the African-American spirituals “Roll, Jordon Roll” and “Deep River,” and are honored afresh in Tracy Smith’s “Wade in the Water”: “Singing that old blood-deep song \/ That dragged us to those banks.”  Walt Whitman’s expansive “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” achieves an urban transcendence beyond place and time. Our collective connection to rivers is powerfully realized in Langston Hughes’ sonorous evocation of identity, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” where he contemplates the Mississippi transformed by emancipation and the currents that enlarge our consciousness: “My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Flowing or still, water reflects the cycle of life. Canadian poet Don McKay recalls ice skating on the Little Paddle River where “Some may glimpse a lost one \/ in the spaces between the skaters or the watchers.” On Florida’s Black River, Mary Oliver watches a napping alligator, fearing its predatory ferocity and reminded that “death comes before \/ the rolling away \/ of the stone.” And in a moving elegy, Natasha Tretheway relives salmon fishing with her beloved late father.     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rivers don’t stop at political or social boundaries, as Mexican poet Jorge Humberto Chávez dramatizes in his troubling portrait of the Rio Grande. Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda offers a sensual tribute to his beloved multinational Amazon River; Tchicaya U Tam’si marks the confluence of his life with that of the complicated Congo; and Serbian poet Vasko Popa hails the “great Lord Danube” as it glimmers across Europe. The poetry in this collection flows from over twenty nations in millions of miles of changing currents.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since our first river adventure in Oregon, Chloë and I have explored the Columbia, Amazon, Hudson, Thames, Elbe, Hvítá, Seine, and countless smaller waterways, like the Cherwell near her family’s home in Oxfordshire where we endeavored to punt away a summer afternoon, admiring swans, drinking wine, and reading poetry. Whether it was the wine, a stuck pole, or some rough meter that caused my unexpected swim, we were soon revived by laughter and cups of Pimm’s at the Boat House. Whatever trouble we get into, boating in sticky canals or tricky rapids, in high and low water, fair weather or foul, the rivers and their flow of words endure, deepening and carrying us on.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300935618789,"sku":"NP9780593535530","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593535530.jpg?v=1767735816","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/river-poems-isbn-9780593535530","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}