Lifelines: A Poetry Anthology Patterned on the Stages of Life - Hardcover

The Bride by Bella Akhmadulina
My Son, In Whose Face There Is Already A Sign by Yehuda Amichai
On Aging by Maya Angelou
Embassy by Wystan Hugh Auden
Eighteen by Maria Banus
Uncertain Admission by Frances Bazil
Done With The Work Of Breathing, Done by Ambrose Bierce
In The Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
Letter To N.y. by Elizabeth Bishop
Infant Joy, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
We Real Cool; The Pool Players. Seven At The Golden Shovel by Gwendolyn Brooks
To David - At Six Months by Eleanor Cameron
The Way by Robert Creeley
Dying by Emily Dickinson
I Know I'm Not Sufficiently Obscure by Ray Durem
When I Was Three I Had A Friend by Richard (1949-) Edwards
Unwanted by Edward Field
Dresses by Kathleen Fraser
My Own Epitaph by John Gay
Jose Cruz by Mel Glenn
Epitaph by Thomas Hardy
Middle-age Enthusiasms by Thomas Hardy
The Superseded by Thomas Hardy
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Fisherwoman by David Ignatow
I See A Truck by David Ignatow
Long-expected One And Twenty by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson
Men At Forty by Donald Justice
First Song by Galway Kinnell
R.a.f. (aged Eighteen) by Rudyard Kipling
An Old Woman by Arun Kolatkar
The Woman With Child by Freda Laughton
The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
Two Brothers: Two Saltimbanques by John (1923-1987) Logan
For The Record; In Memory Of Eleanor Bumpurs by Audre Lorde
Spoon River Anthology: Fiddler Jones by Edgar Lee Masters
The College Colonel by Herman Melville
For The Anniversary Of My Death by William Stanley Merwin
Beach Party Given By T. Shaughnessy For The Sisters by Josephine Miles
Paths by Josephine Miles
Small Traveller From An Unseen Shore by Cosmo Monkhouse
Fable by Merrill Moore
The Parent by Ogden Nash
Ave Maria by Frank O'hara
Poem by Frank O'hara
The Rubaiyat, Sels. by Omar Khayyam
To Charlotte Pulteney [in Her Mother's Arms] by Ambrose Philips
Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
Turning Thirty by Katha Pollitt
The Hired Man's Faith In Children by James Whitcomb Riley
Elegy For Jane by Theodore Roethke
In The End We Are All Light by Liz Rosenberg
This Is My Name by Norman Rosten
Sonnet: 73 by William Shakespeare
Montauk Highway by Harvey Shapiro
The Conventionalist by Florence Margaret Smith
Human Affection by Florence Margaret Smith
Check-up by Miriam Solan
Runaway Teen by William Edgar Stafford
With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach by William Edgar Stafford
The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Marriage by Mark Strand
Today by Carol Tarlen
Deadline by David E. Thomson
An Academic Fantasy by Michelle M. Tokarczyk
An Alternative Ending To A Temp Job by Michelle M. Tokarczyk
A Woman Writing In America by Michelle M. Tokarczyk
Working Into Night by Michelle M. Tokarczyk
Baby, Baby by Anonymous
Epitaph To Mrs. Freland, In Edwelton Churchyard, Nottingham by Anonymous
God Made The Bees by Anonymous
Harry Parry by Anonymous
The Month Of Maying by Anonymous
Old Roger Is Dead And Gone To His Grave by Anonymous
On A Female Rope-dancer by Anonymous
Sally, Sally Waters, Sprinkle In The Pan by Anonymous
Show Me The Way by Anonymous
Back From Vacation by John Updike
The Gesture by Judith Vollmer
The Nuclear Accident At Sl 1, Idaho Falls, 1961 by Judith Vollmer
Baby Random by Belle Waring
Before Penicillin by Belle Waring
It Was My First Nursing Job by Belle Waring
A Twenty-four Week Preemie, Change Of Shift by Belle Waring
Holding The Line by Tom Wayman
Marketing by Tom Wayman
Paper, Scissors, Stone by Tom Wayman
Students by Tom Wayman
Surplus Value: Chalk White by Tom Wayman
Wayman Among The Administrators by Tom Wayman
Mr. Kyle The Banker by Charles Harper Webb
Conch by Elwyn Brooks White
Arbor by Nancy Willard
One For The Road by Nancy Willard
Chapter Eleven by Charles Kenneth Williams
To Waken An Old Lady by William Carlos Williams
Easy Hours by Irene Willis
Wall Street by Robert Winner
Winter Loafing by Robert Winner
The Rainbow [in The Sky] by William Wordsworth
Mutterings Over The Crib Of A Deaf Child by James Wright
A Poem By Garnie Braxton by James Wright
Let No Charitable Hope by Elinor Wylie
Brown Penny by William Butler Yeats
The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner (2) by William Butler Yeats
The Fee by Bill Zavatsky
Work by Paul Zimmer
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

A jacket photo of a child's hand cradled in an adult palm signifies Marcus's ever-fertile theme. His four ``stages of life'' are expressed in headings from the poems themselves: ``Small Traveller'' (infancy and childhood); ``I Am Old Enough'' (youth); ``On Such a Hill'' (parenting and middle age); ``In the End We Are All Light.'' The 80 poems are from 60 poets, mostly from the US, with a multicultural representation and a good selection of women (22 poems plus, one assumes, some of the anonymous works). The poets range from Omar Khayy m, Shakespeare, Melville, and Hardy to 20th-century masters and less familiar contemporary voices. Eleanor Cameron's ``To David--at Six Months'' is the only previously unpublished entry; though there's an occasional old favorite (Stevenson's ``The Swing''), most haven't been widely anthologized. There's something here for any poetry lover, with ``easy'' (but not trivial) poems among more challenging entries. Best, these are poems that, as Marcus says in a provocative introduction, ``provide you with a good many starting points for viewing your own, and other people's, life experiences from an enriched perspective''--poems of ``urgency and ardor with which the poets...set about the mysterious work of examining their own life stories for traces of yours and mine.'' Marcus has judiciously selected poems whose complementary epiphanies make this one of those fine anthologies whose whole is greater than the sum of its excellent parts. Notes on the poets. Poetry. 11+) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.