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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charles Reznikoff

Born in 1894, in Brooklyn, New York, Charles Reznikoff is the author of several collections of poetry and was a principal proponent of Objectivism...
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		Poems About Home
		9773 Comanche Ave. by David Trinidad

		Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [excerpt] by Aimé Césaire

		Birthplace by Michael Cirelli

		Daily by Naomi Shihab Nye

		Dusting by Marilyn Nelson

		Fishing on the Susquehanna in July by Billy Collins

		He Foretells His Passing by F. D. Reeve

		Home is so Sad by Philip Larkin

		My House, I Say by Robert Louis Stevenson

		On the Disadvantages of Central Heating by Amy Clampitt

		Otherwise by Jane Kenyon

		Proclamation by Stuart Dischell

		Psalm of Home Redux by David Lee

		Steppingstone by Andrew Hudgins

		Sysiphusina by Shira Dentz

		The Afternoon Sun by C. P. Cavafy

		The Bedroom by Paula Bohince

		The Cabbage by Ruth Stone

		The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats

		This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams

		Untitled [I grew up in North Adams] by Brenda Iijima

		Wonder Cabinet by Tina Chang

		Poems About New Year's
		In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells] by Lord Alfred Tennyson

		A Good Year Down by Jeni Olin

		A New Law by Greg Delanty

		A Song for New Year's Eve by William Cullen Bryant

		At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy

		Fragments for the End of the Year by Jennifer K. Sweeney

		Heavy Snowfall in A Year Gone Past by Laura Jensen

		In Tenebris by Ford Madox Ford

		Letter to GC by Dana Levin

		Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays by Charles Reznikoff

		New Year's Morning by Helen Hunt Jackson

		New years' morning by Carl Adamshick

		The Call of the Open by Percy Bysshe Shelley

		The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

		The Garden Year by Sara Coleridge

		The New Year by Emma Lazarus

		The Old Year by John Clare

		The Passing of the Year by Robert W. Service

		The Year by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

		The Year's Awakening by Thomas Hardy

		Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 by William Collins

		Poems for Thanksgiving
		América by Richard Blanco

		Eternity by William Blake

		Fire Dreams by Carl Sandburg

		Grace For a Child by Robert Herrick

		Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus [excerpt] by Denise Levertov

		One day is there of the series by Emily Dickinson

		Signs of the Times by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		Thanksgiving by Edgar Guest

		Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child

		Thanksgiving Letter from Harry by Carl Dennis

		The Culture of Glass by Thylias Moss

		The Harvest Moon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

		The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier

		The Thanksgivings by Harriet Maxwell Converse

		The Transparent Man by Anthony Hecht

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		An Exhortation by Percy Bysshe Shelley

		Anybody Can Write a Poem by Bradley Paul

		Dawn by James Laughlin

		Dear J. by Kazim Ali

		Epistle: Leaving by Kerrin McCadden

		In Portraits in Seasons by Danielle Pafunda

		In the old days a poet once said by Ko Un

		Inert Perfection by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		Language by W. S. Merwin

		Leo Said by Eileen Myles

		Night School by Micah Ballard

		Night Theater by Meena Alexander

		Poetry by Marianne Moore

		Poetry by Monica Ferrell

		Poetry by Alfred Kreymborg

		Poetry is by Emilio Villa

		Potentially Interesting & Secretly Devastating by Tina Brown Celona

		Q & A by Terence Winch

		Render, Render by Thomas Lux

		so you want to be a writer? by Charles Bukowski

		The Bear by Galway Kinnell

		The Gift by Chard deNiord

		The Language of Love by Rodney Jones

		The Novel as Manuscript by Norman Dubie

		The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am A Poet by Lynn Emanuel

		To a Young Poet by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		What He Thought by Heather McHugh

		what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt] by David Antin

		While Writing by Noelle Kocot


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Te Deum
by Charles Reznikoff

Not because of victories I sing, having none, but for the common sunshine, the breeze, the largess of the spring. Not for victory but for the day's work done as well as I was able; not for a seat upon the dais but at the common table.

From The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff. Copyright © 1976 by Charles Reznikoff. Used by permission of Black Sparrow Press, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc.

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