Villanelles

Editors' Acknowledgments
Preface: Dancing with the Villanelle
Introduction: The History of the Villanelle
JEAN PASSERAT J'ay perdu ma tourterelle
THE VILLANELLE TRADITION
EMILY PFEIFFER When the Brow of June
THOMAS HARDY
The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again
w. E. HENLEY Villanelle
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
The Best Is Good Enough
SIR EDMUND GOSSE
Wouldst Thou Not Be Content to Die
OSCAR WILDE Theocritus - A Villanelle
EDITH M. THOMAS
Across the World I Speak to Thee
MAY PROBYN Villanelle
JOHN DAVIDSON Untitled
ERNEST DOWSON Villanelle of Sunset
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
The House on the Hill
JAMES JOYCE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
EUGENE O'NEILL Villanelle of Ye Young Poet's
First Villanelle to His Ladye and Ye
Difficulties Thereof
WILLIAM EMPSON Missing Dates
w. H. AUDEN If I Could Tell You
THEODORE ROETHKE The Waking
ELIZABETH BISHOP One Art
DYLAN THOMAS
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
WELDON KEES Villanelle
HOWARD NEMEROV Equations of a Villanelle
SYLVIA PLATH Mad Girl's Love Song
CONTEMPORARY VILLANELLES
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Teacher
SHERMAN ALEXIE Dangerous Astronomy
AGHA SHAHID ALI A Villanelle
SUZANNE ALLEN Keep Them All
JULIA ALVAREZ Woman's Work
TIEL AISHA ANSARI Fluid Boundaries
CORRINA BAIN Villanelle for the Jealous
NED BALBO Ophelia: A Wreath
ROBIN BECKER Villanelle for a Lesbian Mom
BRUCE BENNETT Spilled
TARA BETTS Damned Multi-tudes
RONALD BOTTRALL
Would It Be Better to Be Dead?
MARION BOYER The Cattle Graze, Grow Fat
ANTOINETTE BRIM Black Enough
LEE ANN BROWN Villanelle to Beth
STEPHEN BURT For Lindsay Whalen
RAFAEL CAMPO The Enemy
JARED CARTER Labyrinth
LORNA DEE CERVANTES
A Blue Wake for New Orleans
CHERYL CLARKE
What Goes Around Comes Around or
The Proof Is in the Pudding
MARTHA COLLINS The Story We Know
WENDY COPE Lonely Hearts
STEVEN CRAMER Villanelle After a Burial
GRAHAME DAVIES Grey
DEBORAH DIGGES The Rockettes
том DISCH Villanelle for Charles Olson
TIMOTHY DONNELLY Clair de Lune
SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY Valvano Villanelle
DENISE DUHAMEL "Please Don't Sit Like a Frog,
Sit Like a Queen"
JOHN EDMINSTER Martha and Mary
MARTIN ESPADA
The Prisoners of Saint Lawrence
RHINA P. ESPAILLAT Song
SUSAN FEALY Metamorphosis
ANNIE FINCH Beach of Edges
MARK FORD Fragments
WENDY GALGAN
Burning Angels: March 25, 1911
SUZANNE GARDINIER Tonight
CLAUDIA GARY The Topiarist
TAYLOR GRAHAM Black Country Coal, 1868
ERIC GUERRIERI Hungry Traveler Villanelle
MARILYN HACKER Villanelle for D.G.B
DURIEL E. HARRIS
Villanelle for the Dead White Fathers
SEAMUS HEANEY
Villanelle for an Anniversary
ANTHONY HECHT Prospects
MATTHEW HITTINGER
The Astronomer on Misnomers
RICHARD HOFFMAN Villanelle
JOHN HOLLANDER By the Sound
PAUL HOOVER Sonnet 56: Villanelle
KENNETH HYAM
On a Photograph by Philip Jones Griffiths
KATIE JENKINS Raise a Drink
DONALD JUSTICE In Memory of the Unknown
Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn
JULIE KANE Kissing the Bartender
MIMI KHALVATI Villanelle
CAROLYN KIZER On a Line from Valery
JEE LEONG KOH Novenary with Hens
STEVE KOWIT The Grammar Lesson
ALEKSANDRA LANE Knife
URSULA к. LE GUIN Extinction
SHARMAGNE LELAND-ST. JOHN
For as Long as the Rivers Flow
RATE LIGHT After the Season
TIMOTHY LIU In Hot Pursuit
WILLIAM LOGAN Lying in Bed
THOMAS LUX
On Visiting Herbert Hoover's Birth and
Burial Place
AUSTIN MACRAE Mowing
MARIE-ELIZABETH MALI Campaign Season
TAYLOR MALI The Basic Paradox
RANDALL MANN Complaint of the Regular
CHARLES MARTIN Terminal Colloquy
JAMES MERRILL The World and the Child
PATRICIA MONAGHAN
Confiteor: A Country Song
LENARD D. MOORE
Meditation: The Poet Worries a Line
MARILYN NELSON Daughters, 1900
RATE NORTHROP The Place Above the River
MENDI LEWIS OBADIKE Eschew and Languish
GREGORY ORR Wild Heart
BARBARA J. ORTON The Student
KATHLEEN OSSIP The Mexican Quilt
ALICIA OSTRIKER
Another Story, Another Song
MOLLY PEACOCK Little Miracle
ALISON PELEGRIN The Zydeco Tablet
CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ Villanelle
MARIE PONSOT Northampton Style
KHADIJAH QUEEN Inglewood Sunday, 1986
TAD RICHARDS Used by Permission
ANDREW RIHN
Villanelle in the Voice of Richard Nixon
LOIS ROMA-DEELEY Sugar Baby Fixing
j. ALLYN ROSSER Sugar Dada
CAROL RUMENS A Case of Deprivation
MICHAEL RYAN Milk the Mouse
MARY JO SALTER School Pictures
MICHAEL SCHMIDT Understaffed Villanelle
ROBERT SCHULTZ The Chankiri Tree
DAVID SHAPIRO Drawing After Summer
DAN SKWIRE Voice Mail Villanelle
PATRICIA SMITH XXXL Villanelle
TRACY к. SMITH Solstice
WILLIAM JAY SMITH Villanelle
w. D. SNODGRASS Mutability
SUSAN B. A. SOMERS-WILLETT
Oppenheimer's Lament
RATE SONTAG Stepmother-of-Vinegar
A. E. STALLINGS Burned
GEORGE SZIRTES
Henryk Ross: Children of the Ghetto
MARILYN L. TAYLOR Subject to Change
TONY TRIGILIO Marina and Lee
DAVID TRINIDAD Chatty Cathy Villanelle
QUINCY TROUPE Song
TIM UPPERTON How Far We Went
LYRAE VAN CLIEF-STEFANON Hum
DAVID WAGONER Canticle for Xmas Eve
KEN WALDMAN I Jokes
RONALD WALLACE
Nightline: An Interview with the General
GAIL WHITE Partying with the Intelligentsia
CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW
Rockin' a Man, Stone Blind
с. к. WILLIAMS Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother
SIMON WILLIAMS
Louie Spray and the 69lb Muskie
VILLANELLES ABOUT VILLANELLES
TONY BARNSTONE Mexican Movie, 1939
GRACE BAUER For Her Villain
RATE BERNADETTE BENEDICT Rienelie
CHARLES BERNSTEIN Sad Boy's Sad Boy
GAVIN EWART Villanelle
ANITA GALLERS One Fart
NOAH ELI GORDON A Midnight Villanelle
JOHN HOLLANDER Villanelle
JANET R. KIRCHHEIMER Experts Say
MIRIAM N. KOTZIN Villanelle Villainess SUSAN MCLEAN
Post-Parting: A Villanizio
ROBERT SCHECHTER The Crossing
SANDY SHREVE Change
LISA VIHOS The Body of My Words
VARIATIONS ON THE VILLANELLE
DERICK BURLESON Waking Again
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI
Conversion Theory with Canyon HAYDEN
CARRUTH Saturday at the Border
BRENDAN CONSTANTINE Cold Reading
WESLI COURT (LEWIS TURCO)
Terzanelle in Thunderweather
SADigA DE MEIJER Neonatal.
LATASHA N. NEVADA DIGGS the originator .
RITA DOVE Black Billy Waters, at His Pitch
DANNA EPHLAND Flight
CHARLES FORT To a Young Child Waking
KIMIKO HAHN Impunity
SEAN HILL Distance Between Desires
MAXINE KUMIN
The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views DENISE LEVERTOV
Obsessions
KIM LOCKWOOD Stasis
KAMILAH AISHA MOON Her Poem Stuns Mine
into Holding Its Head
PAUL MULDOON Milkweed and Monarch
CAROL MUSKE-DUKES Little L.A. Villanelle
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
Last Aerogramme to You, with Lizard
BRUCE PRATT
A Quarrel of Crows: A Villahaikunelle
JOSE EDMUNDO OCAMPO REYES Villa,nelle
ALBERTO Rios La Sequia/The Drought
TIM SEIBLES Kiss My Villanelle
EVIE SHOCKLEY go tell it on the mountain
JON SNIDER Touch
GILBERT SORRENTINO Untitled
MARK STRAND TWO de Chiricos
KAREN SWENSON
I Have Lost the Address of My Country
DAVI WALDERS
Between Queen and Queen-to-Be
ANNE WALDMAN The Lie
Acknowledgments