THE ILLNESS C. K. WILLIAMS Really EMILY DICKINSON The Soul has Bandaged moments MARK STRAND The sickness of angels is nothing new ANNE FINCH The Spleen CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Spleen (IV) WILLIAM COWPER Lines Written During a Period of Insanity SPENCER REECE From Hartford CAROL ANN DUFFY The Virgin s Memo DOUGLAS DUNN From Disenchantments D. A. POWELL they hear the clapping of the bell and are afraid GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG From The Light Gray Soil KAY RYAN Among English Verbs ROBERT PINSKY Dying EAVAN BOLAND Anorexic GWYNETH LEWIS Talk With a Headache SAPPHO TWO TRANSLATIONS (Fragment 31) THOM GUNN The Man With Night Sweats C. P. CAVAFY The Funeral of Sarpedon KEITH DOUGLAS John Anderson DAVID CONSTANTINE Pity MAY SWENSON Staring at the Sea on the Day of the Death of Another
THE DIAGNOSIS WIS AWA SZYMBORSKA Clothes W. H. AUDEN Miss Gee WILLIAM LOGAN Little Compton ALISSA VALLES Decision Tree RAFAEL CAMPO Antidote GAVIN EWART Sonnet: Intermittent Claudication JANE KENYON Prognosis LUCILLE CLIFTON Cancer LUCILLE CLIFTON 1994 C. K. WILLIAMS Diagnosis NICOLE SEALEY medical history J. D. MCCLATCHY My Mammogram ADRIENNE RICH Power TOM PAULIN Under the Eyes JULIA ALVAREZ Are we all ill with acute loneliness EMILY DICKINSON A Wounded Deer leaps highest
THE REMEDY ROBERT PINSKY ABC VASKO POPA Before the Game VASKO POPA After the Game MASAOKA SHIKI Eight Haiku ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Breviary MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS From De Medicamentis JANE KENYON From Having It Out With Melancholy C. P. CAVAFY Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, AD 595 NATALIA TOLEDO The Flower That Drops Its Petals MIROSLAV HOLUB Although a poem arises . . . MIROSLAV HOLUB Although a poem is . . . ADRIENNE RICH Calibrations GREG DELANTY The Green Room MARK STRAND When after a long silence one picks up the pen LOUISE GLUCK A Slip of Paper C. P. CAVAFY Kleitos Illness JOHN DONNE Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse D. H. LAWRENCE From The Ship of Death ADA LIMON The Raincoat MARY JO SALTER Hot Water Bottle LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU A Receipt to Cure the Vapors KARL KIRCHWEY Blood and Light ALISSA VALLES Pain Fellow RAFAEL CAMPO From Phone Messages on Call KATE DANIELS Support Group AIMEE GRUNBERGER Chemotherapy J. D. MCCLATCHY From Radiation Days MAX RITVO Poem To My Litter JOHN DOWLAND Come, Heavy Sleep DONALD HALL Deathwork OMAR KHAYYAM From The Ruba iyat CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Invitation to the Voyage MARGARET ATWOOD Up STEVIE SMITH Away, Melancholy GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS My own heart let me more have pity on
THE HEALING LUCILLE CLIFTON blessing the boats ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Try to Praise the Mutilated World WIS AWA SZYMBORSKA The End and the Beginning RUDAKI On the Death of the Amir s Father WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Song: Fear no more the heat o the sun DYLAN THOMAS A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London EAVAN BOLAND Quarantine ADRIENNE RICH From a Survivor ROSANNA WARREN For Chiara DEBORA GREGER Black Silk SEAMUS HEANEY Miracle CHARLOTTE MEW On the Asylum Road LOUISE BOGAN Evening in the Sanitarium SYLVIA PLATH Tulips ROBERT LOWELL Home After Three Months Away EMILY DICKINSON
KARL KIRCHWEY is an award-winning American poet, book reviewer, creative writing teacher, translator, arts administrator, and literary curator. He has been a director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, directed the creative writing program at Bryn Mawr College, served as Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome, and is currently a professor and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Boston University.