Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets
By Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay and
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"The foreword is amazing. A lovely little anthology with some beautiful poetry by some very talented women." — From the Inside
In this soul-stirring collection of timeless verse, five legendary female poets address life's pains and sorrows as well as its joys and renewals. The poems appeal to the heart, providing companionship on the rugged path that all must tread. The roster features writers from ancient to modern times: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
As instapoets continue to make poetry more accessible and popular, they build on the tradition of intimate, confessional works built by earlier generations. No one is more prominent at this heritage than the mysterious, evocative fragments of Sappho, which inspired an earlier generation of female poets to let loose their own talent. From idiosyncratic Dickinson to the passionate, Pulitzer Prize–winning Lowell, the romanticism of Teasdale, and the intense art of St. Vincent Millay — yet another Pulitzer winner — these writers were early trailblazers in speaking their emotional truth through their craft.
This handsome volume features original illustrations by Claire Whitmore, a Foreword by poet and novelist Lisa Locascio, and brief biographies of all five poets.
Sappho
Mary Barnard (1909–2001) was a prominent American poet, translator, and biographer with many books in her repertoire. She studied Greek at Reed College and began to translate at Ezra Pound's suggestion in the 1930s. Her Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir was published by the University of California Press in 1984. Two years later she received the Western States Book Award for her book-length poem, Time and the White Tigress. She also published prose fiction and a volume of essays on mythology as well as the original lyrics gathered in Collected Poems.
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Wild Nights - Sappho
WILD NIGHTS
Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets
Foreword by Lisa Locascio
Illustrated by Claire Whitmore
Mineola, New York
Copyright
Foreword copyright © 2018 by Lisa Locascio
Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Claire Whitmore
Copyright © 2018 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets is a new work, first published by Ixia Press in 2018.
International Standard Book Number
ISBN-13: 978-0-486-82426-0
ISBN-10: 0-486-82426-8
IXIA PRESS
An imprint of Dover Publications, Inc.
Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications
82426801 2018
www.doverpublications.com/ixiapress
CONTENTS
Foreword by Lisa Locascio
SAPPHO
Come, Venus
To the Goddess of Love
The Muses
Fragment 16
To a Woman
The Moon
Beauty
Peer of the Gods
Fragment 40
Fatima
Long Ago
Fragments
Weeping
Now Eros
The Stars
Summer
Country Maiden
Pluck Those Garlands
Lo, Love
Kupris
EMILY DICKINSON
Pain
The Brain
I’ve Got an Arrow Here
I Hide Myself
You Left Me
Hope
Our Share
I Had No Time
My River
Wild Nights!
Come Slowly
He Touched Me
I Have No Life
Heart
To Lose Thee
Proud
The Face
Beauty
Ecstasy
We Outgrow Love
If I Can Stop
AMY LOWELL
Fireworks
The Bungler
The Tree of Scarlet Berries
Anticipation
The Letter
A Year Passes
Obligation
Opal
A Rainy Night
Madonna of the Evening Flowers
A Decade
The Taxi
The Giver of Stars
Absence
Aubade
Prime
A Gift
A Petition
Miscast II
Autumn
SARA TEASDALE
Twilight
Night Song at Amalfi
Off Algiers
The Look
But Not to Me
Faults
After Parting
Tides
After Love
New Love and Old
The Kiss
Gifts
November
Wisdom
Wood Song
Come
Love-Free
A Prayer
Peace
The Answer
The Coin
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
First Fig
Midnight Oil
The Merry Maid
Afternoon on a Hill
Song of Shattering I
Ashes of Life
Sorrow
Witch-Wife
Thursday
To the Not Impossible Him
V
The Philosopher
Sonnet III
Sonnet IV
Eel-Grass
Spring
Mariposa
Ebb
Sonnet XLIII
The Dream
Passer Mortuus Est
Biographies
Index of First Lines
FOREWORD
In the Azure Spaces
For a while there, we heard a lot of popular variants of the word feel. First came the feels
and then the phrase that feel when,
quickly shortened to the hashtaggable TFW.
Although those professing feels were not exclusively young women, this was the demographic identified as the feels’ primary arbiter, witches-initiate in that interstitial realm of desire and pain. There, the girls generated emotion so powerful that it took independent form, what Tibetan Buddhists and, much later, the movie director David Lynch called a tulpa—an internal sensation so pervasive it becomes its own being, its own world. From their realm’s dizzying heights, these feelers rained down judgments on those who provoked them.
Since then we have held in our cultural dreaming a dialectic of feels, a way of knowing through feel. Pop stars are popular feel-triggers—and baby animals and politicians and unexpected workaday heroics against hatred and injustice. The feel is both coveted—nothing can be sold or bought without it—and feared, cast often as fickle, pernicious,