John Kinsella (Ed.)

Biographical note:  John Kinsella is the author of over twenty books, including The Hunt (Bloodaxe/FACP, 1998), The Hierarchy of Sheep (Bloodaxe/FACP, 2000/2001), Auto (Salt, 2000) and Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems (W. W. Norton, 2003). He is editor of the international literary journal Salt, consultant editor of Westerly, Cambridge correspondent for Overland, and international editor of the American journal The Kenyon Review. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University and Professor of English at Kenyon College.

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EAN13:  9781844714018
ISBN:  9781844714018
Author:  John Kinsella
Title:  Dreamhoard
Series:  Anthologies
Product class:  BB
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  CTC
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  01-Mar-08
Extent:  176pp
Height:  198 mm
Width:  129 mm
Thickness:  18 mm
Weight:  264 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  NP
Price:  GBP 12.99
Price:  USD 23.95
Rights:  World

Main description:  This collection of “dream” poems crosses many times, places and cultural spaces. It is a collection of different poetic responses to the subject of “dreams”, but also to how dreams affect what poets write, and why they write. The poems range from the deeply sincere to the mystical, the ironic to the horrifying. They go deep into the places of dreams, and they examine how dreams talk through broader society. Most relevantly, many of these poems look at how we live with our dreams, how diverse in nature a dream might be, and how our dreams affect our decisions and behaviours in our waking lives. As W.B. Yeats wrote, “In dreams begin responsibilities”.

Table of contents:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Khubla Khan
D.H. Lawrence: Dream
Langston Hughes: Dreams
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Good Boy
“George Gordon, Lord Byron”: The Dream
Edgar Allan Poet: A Dream Within a Dream
John Donne: The Dream
William Blake: A Dream
W.B. Yeats: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W.B. Yeats: When You are Old and Grey and Full of Sleep
Paul Éluard: L’amoureuse
Paul Verlaine: Mon rêve familier
Charles Baudelaire: Rêve parisien
Arthur Rimbaud: Rêvé pour li’hiver
Charles Cros: Phantasma
Emily Dickinson: The nearest dream recedes
Emily Dickinson: Let me not mar that pefect dream
Rainer Maria Rilke: Ich bin zu Hause… Tag und Traum
Georg Trakl: Sebastian In Traum
Thomas Stanley: from Anacreon: The Dream (VIII)
Thomas Stanley: from Anacreon: The Dream (XLIV)
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Mutability
Christina Rossetti: Dreamland
Judith Wright: The Other Half
Anonymous: “Epic of Gilgamesh: Tablet VII, (1-20)”
Homer: Odyssey (Penelope’s Dream)
Homer: Odyssey (City of Dreams)
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Land of Nod
Mo Mo: Sold Out
Mei Yao Ch’en: In broad daylight I dream
Du Fu: Dreaming of Li Bai
Su Shi: “To the Tune of the ‘Song of the River Town’, a Record of a Dream”
Sappho: “Fragment 84; Cyprian, in my dream”
Robert Frost: A Dream Pang
James Merrill: Pipe Dream
Giorgios Vizyenos: The Dream
Wilfred Owen: Soldier’s Dream
Anonymous: The Dream of the Rood
J.H. Prynne: A Dream of Retained Colour
the Pearl Poet: The Pearl Stanzas 1-20
Alexander Pushkin: I have outlasted all desire
Dorothy Hewett: Psyche’s Husband
Herman Melville: The Berg (a dream)
John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Kenneth Slessor: Sleep
John Berryman: Dream Song 132: A Small Dream
Mary Hannay Foott: In the Land of Dreams
Christopher Brennan: Was it the sun that broke my dream
Zora Berenice May Cross: Sonnet LIV: Love Sonnets
John Shaw Neilson: May
John Shaw Neilson: The Crane is My Neighbour
Seamus Heaney: Bone Dreams
Sylvia Plath: The Shrike
Walt Whitman: I Dream’d in a Dream
Adrienne Rich: The Dream-Site from An Atlas of a Difficult World
Federico García Lorca: Cindad sin sueño
Michael Dransfield: That which we call a rose
Gwen Harwood: “Dreaming, Waking”
Samuel Wagan Watson: White Stucco Dreaming
Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio Canto IX (Dream of the Eagle)
Aimé Césaire: Mobile fléau de songes étranges
Judith Wright: A Child’s Nightmare
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Pains of Sleep
John Keats: Eve of Saint Agnes
David Unaipon: dreamtime stories: three
Langston Hughes: Dream Deferred
Roma Potiki: Toetoe Tum
Robert Browning: Bad Dreams
Déwé Gorodé: Nuits Blanches
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Love
Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle: Le Rêve du Jaguar
Robert Desnos: J’ai rêvé de Joi
Keki Daruwalla: Easy and Difficult Animals
Keki Daruwalla: Wolf
Alamgir Hashmi: To Him in Confinement
Alamgir Hashmi: America is a Punjabi Word
Robert Burns: Song: I Dream’d I lay
Léopold Sédar Senghor: Visit
Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Ballad of Dreamland
Jaime Saenz: Tu Calavera
Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz: etxract from El Sueño
C.K. Williams: Shells
C.K. Williams: History
Veronica Forrest-Thomson: In Memorium
W.N. Herbert: Whilst I Was Asleep
Laura Riding: Sleep Contravened
Sophia De Mello Breyner: Shake Off the Clouds
Charles De Burine: Les Réves
Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Dream Pedlary
Lisa Bellear: Woman of the Dreaming
Sujata Bhatt: The Dream
Les Murray: Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever
Lorine Niedecker: Subliminal
Nathaniel Tarn: Dogs Dreaming
Maxine Kumin: “The Dreamer, The Dream”
John Milton: Eve’s Nightmare/dream from Paradise Lost
Phil Salom: The World of Dream
John Forbes: The Return
John Forbes: A Dream
Alireza Belman: Interpretation
Breyten Breytenbach: Dreams are Also Wounds
Dennis Brutus: At Night
Louise Gluck: “Omen, after Alexander Pushkin”
John Burnside: Homage to Greta Garbo
Anna Akhmatova: In Dream
Phyllis Webb: Composed Like Them
Margaret Atwood: Dreams of the Animals
Ernest Dowson: Vita Summa Brevis
Miklós Radnoti: Dream Landscape
Eugenio Montale: Il sogno del prigoniero (The Prisoner’s Dream)
Walter De La Mare: Dreams
Ovid: Metamorphosis
Wallace Stevens: Disillusionment at Ten O’Clock
Catherine Pozzi: Je dormais (I Was Sleeping)
Heid E. Erdrich: They all Dream the Lake Again

Excerpt from book:  

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Dream Land

Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where shadows are
Her pleasant lot.

She left the rosy morn,
She left the fields of corn,
For twilight cold and lorn
And water springs.
Through sleep, as through a veil,
She sees the sky look pale,
And hears the nightingale
That sadly sings.

Rest, rest, a perfect rest
Shed over brow and breast;
Her face is toward the west,
The purple land.
She cannot see the grain
Ripening on hill and plain;
She cannot feel the rain
Upon her hand.

Rest, rest, for evermore
Upon a mossy shore;
Rest, rest at the heart’s core
Till time shall cease:
Sleep that no pain shall wake;
Night that no morn shall break
Till joy shall overtake
Her perfect peace.