CONTENTS
Why Poetry for Difficult Times?
1.
GOOD BONES by Maggie Smith
Don’t Tell the Children
2.
THE THING IS by Ellen Bass
Remember This
3.
THE QUARREL by Conrad Aiken
Heartstrings
4.
CUTTING LOOSE by William Stafford
Listen for the Sound
5.
RAIN LIGHT by W. S. Merwin
Original Wonder
6.
HOW THE LIGHT COMES by Jan Richardson
The Light in the Dark
7.
NOW YOU KNOW THE WORST by Wendell Berry
There Is No “Other”
8.
A BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE by Jack Gilbert
In Defense of Joy
9.
IT’S THIS WAY by Nazim Hikmet
What Is a Man Anyhow?
10.
ANNUNCIATION by Marie Howe
Something Else Can Speak
Permissions Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Poets
About the Author
