| Variant title |
Don't forget to fly |
| Contents |
Now lift me close / Walt Whitman -- Daybreak / Stephen Spender -- Early morning / Philip Dow -- Song / Donald Justice -- Day begins / Denise Levertov -- Poem for a suicide / George Economou -- Along the river / E.J. Enright -- Suicide's note / Langston Hughes -- Abandoned farmhouse / Ted Kooser -- Gone / Ralph Pomeroy -- Boy wandering in Simms' Valley / Robert Penn Warren -- Dressmaker's dummy as scarecrow / Barbara Howes -- Ode to a dressmaker's dummy / Donald Justice -- Separation / P. Wolny -- Disintegration / Richard Shelton -- Going in / Marge Piercy -- Three moments / Susan Sherman -- Love letter / Linda Pastan -- Love letters, unmailed / Eve Merriam -- Burning love letters / Howard Moss -- To my father / Ralph Pomeroy -- Sonnett for my father / Donald Justice -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Letter to a dead father / Richard Shelton -- Sound of night / Maxine Kumin -- Nightfall / Elder Olson -- Going to sleep in the country / Howard Moss -- This is a poem to my son Peter / Peter Meinke -- To my daughter / Stephen Spender -- To L.B.S. / Winfield Townley Scott -- Bouquets / Robert Francis -- Dandelions / Howard Nemerov -- Wind flowers / Margo Lockwood -- White summer flower / W.S. Merwin -- Ode to a dead dodge / David McElroy -- Packard / David Barker -- Buick / Karl Shapiro -- Cats / Robert Francis -- Secret in the cat / May Swenson -- Kitten / Ogden Nash -- Cat on couch / Barbara Howes -- Accomplishments / Cynthia MacDonald -- Barbie Doll / Marge Piercy -- Strawberries / Judith Hemschemeyer -- Double feature / Theodore Roethke -- Bijou / Vern Rutsala -- Poet's farewell to his teeth / William Dickey -- My teeth / Ed Ochester -- After the dentist / May Swenson -- Root canal / Marge Piercy -- Crows / Philip Booth -- Night crow / Theodore Roethke -- From a birch / P. Wolny -- Crows / Tom Clark -- Poet / Lucille Clifton -- Poet / Linda Pastan -- Reply to the question / Eve Merriam -- I show the daffodils to the retarded kids / Constance Sharp -- Children not kept at home / Joyce Carol Oats -- My dim-wit cousin / Theodore Roethke -- Children / Mark Vinz -- Child in the rug / John Haines -- Windows / W.S. Merwin -- Old men / Ogden Nash -- Two old gentlemen / Robert Wallace -- Old men / Charles Reznikoff -- War story / John Stallworthy -- War / Randall Jarrell -- Post-mortem / Siegfried Sassoon -- Radar / Alan Ross -- Glutton / Karl Shapiro -- Fat man / Vern Rutsala -- Amputation / Helen Sorrells -- Leg / Karl Shapiro -- On a child who lived one minute / X.J. Kennedy -- to Evan / Richard Eberhart -- Anthony / Jane Shore -- Moving / Randall Jarrell -- Going away / Howard Nemerov -- Moving in winter / Adrienne Rich -- Yugoslav Cemetery / Celeste Turner Wright -- City graveyard / Joyce Carol Oats -- In a country cemetery in Iowa / Ted Kooser -- Youth / Richard Shelton -- Boy at a certain age / Robert Francis -- Portrait of the boy as artist Barbara Howes -- Wonders of the world / Richard Shelton -- Gift / Ed Ochester -- Walking in the rain / Dan Saxon -- Lines for a friend who left / John Logan -- Poem / Langston Hughes -- Arrival of my mother / Keith Wilson -- If there are any heavens / e.e. cummings -- Portrait of my mother on her wedding day / Celia Gilbert -- Swimmer / Robert Francis -- Near drowning / Ralph Pomeroy -- Lament for the non-swimmers / David Wagoner -- Insomnia / Joyce Carol Oats -- Insomnia the gem of the ocean / John Updike -- Insomnia / Marge Piercy -- House-hunting / David Wagoner -- On the house of a friend / John Logan -- Ann's house / Dick Lourie -- House remembers / Robert Francis -- Grandmother / Wendell Berry -- My grandmother had bones / Judith Hemschemeyer -- Gooseberries / Peter Wild -- Grandmother / Henry Carlile -- Canary / Ogden Nash -- Cardinal / Barbara Howes -- Red-wing blackbird / William Carlos Williams -- Bay bank / A.R. Ammons -- Gnat on my paper / Richard Eberhart -- Interlude / Karl Shapiro -- To the fly in my drink / David Wagoner -- Sunday / Vern Rutsala -- Sunday rain / John Updike -- On a Sunday / Charles Reznikoff -- Sunday funnies / Anne Keiter -- Girl sitting alone at party / Donald Justice -- Girl in front of the bank / Robert Wallace -- My sons / Ron Loewinsohn -- Marriage contract / Vern Rutsala -- Perfect husband / Ogden Nash -- Elegy / Theodore Roethke -- Elegy for a woman who remembered everything / David Wagoner -- Glass / Robert Francis -- Theory of poetry / Archibold MacLeish -- Uses of poetry / Winfield Townley Scott -- For poets / Al Young. |
| Abstract |
An anthology of modern poems touching on such phenomena as parents, love, suicide, dentists, poets, insomnia, marriage, Sundays, cemeteries, and cats. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017214583 includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #136A.9. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017215325 has enclosed at front cover a copy of Oxford University Press receipt for reprinting "To Evan" and "Gnat on my Paper" by Richard Eberhart (11 Aug. 1981 / Paid 21 Dec. 1981), and a Bradbury Press Newsletter advertising Don't Forget to Fly, by Paul B. Janeczko (Oct. 1981). Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #136B.2. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Richard Eberhart Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copies Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Dont forget to fly. Scarsdale, N.Y. : Bradbury Press, ©1981 |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Young adult nonfiction. |
| Genre/form | Young adult nonfiction. |
| LCCN | 81010220 |
| ISBN | 0878881875 |
| ISBN | 9780878881871 |
| ISBN | 0027477800 |
| ISBN | 9780027477801 |
