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Mark Jarman

Poet Mark Jarman won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and has authored many collections of poetry...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems about the Afterlife
		Advice to Passengers by John Gallaher

		Beyond Even This by Maggie Anderson

		Beyond the Years by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		Heaven for Helen by Mark Doty

		How Can It Be I Am No Longer I by Lucie Brock-Broido

		In a Country by Larry Levis

		Larry Levis in Provincetown by Rick Hilles

		Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh XXI Dynasty by Thomas James

		Populating Heaven by Maureen N. McLane

		Purgatory by Maxine Kumin

		Red String by Minnie Bruce Pratt

		Song ["When I am dead, my dearest"] by Christina Rossetti

		The Book of the Dead Man (Food) by Marvin Bell

		Poems About Fathers
		'The child is father to the man.' by Gerard Manley Hopkins

		The Last 4 Things [That hard thread] by Kate Greenstreet

		A Boy and His Dad by Edgar Guest

		A Situation for Mrs. Biswas by Prageeta Sharma

		A Story by Philip Levine

		A Story by Li-Young Lee

		American Primitive by William Jay Smith

		Blood by Naomi Shihab Nye

		Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

		Daddy by Sylvia Plath

		Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas

		Father by Edgar Guest

		Father Outside by Nick Flynn

		Father's Day Cards

		from The Princess [Sweet and low, sweet and low] by Lord Alfred Tennyson

		Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World by Sherman Alexie

		Her Father by Thomas Hardy

		Inventing Father In Las Vegas by Lynn Emanuel

		Lay Back the Darkness by Edward Hirsch

		Man of the Year by Robin Becker

		Meeting with My Father in the Orchard by Homero Aridjis

		My Father by Scott Hightower

		my father moved through dooms of love by E. E. Cummings

		My Father on His Shield by Walt McDonald

		My Father Remembers Blue Zebras by Judy Halebsky

		My Father's Hat by Mark Irwin

		My Father's Leaving by Ira Sadoff

		My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke

		Only a Dad by Edgar Guest

		Parents by William Meredith

		Passing by Carl Phillips

		Poems about Fathers

		Renewal [Excerpt] by Chris Abani

		Shaving Your Father's Face by Michael Dickman

		Tended Strength: Gifts of Poetry for Fathers

		The Ferryer by Sharon Olds

		The Idea of Ancestry by Etheridge Knight

		The Idiot by Charles Reznikoff

		The Portrait by Stanley Kunitz

		The Trouble Ball [excerpt] by Martín Espada

		Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

		To Her Father with Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet

		Whose Mouth Do I Speak With by Suzanne Rancourt

		With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach by William Stafford

		Working Late by Louis Simpson

		Yesterday by W. S. Merwin

		Poems About Hell
		The Aeneid, Book VI, [First, the sky and the earth] by Virgil

		A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

		A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud

		Canto XIV by Ezra Pound

		Hellish Night by Arthur Rimbaud

		How Can It Be I Am No Longer I by Lucie Brock-Broido

		I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra by Ishmael Reed

		Medusa by Patricia Smith

		Orfeo by Jack Spicer

		Proverbs of Hell by William Blake

		Silence Raving by Clayton Eshleman

		Slim Greer in Hell by Sterling A. Brown

		Song of Devils by Thomas Shadwell

		Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen

		Styx by Dana Levin

		The Bistro Styx by Rita Dove

		The Dead by Mina Loy

		The Philosophy of Pitchforks by Sue Owen

		The Pomegranate by Eavan Boland

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Descriptions of Heaven and Hell
by Mark Jarman


The wave breaks And I'm carried into it. This is hell, I know, Yet my father laughs, Chest-deep, proving I'm wrong. We're safely rooted, Rocked on his toes. Nothing irked him more Than asking, "What is there Beyond death?" His theory once was That love greets you, And the loveless Don't know what to say.

Audio Clip
February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive
From The Rote Walker, published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Mark Jarman. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

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