Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems

edited by andrew motion

• Selected Shorter Poems

  • Living in America
  • The Garden of Intellect
  • Still Life in Utah
  • Ann Arbor
  • Sierra Nevada
  • The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument
  • Poem for a Daughter
  • The Mother
  • Siskin
  • Generations
  • Coming Back to Cambridge
  • North Sea off Carnoustie
  • By the Boat House, Oxford
  • Ragwort
  • The Minister
  • Enough of Green
  • Path
  • Between
  • The Circle
  • The Sun Appears in November
  • Meniscus
  • The Price
  • If I Could Paint Essences
  • Small Philosophical Poem
  • Ah Babel
  • Swifts
  • Himalayan Balsam
  • The Fish Are All Sick
  • In the Tunnel of Summers
  • Waving to Elizabeth
  • After the Fall
  • Two Poems for Frances Horovitz
    • Red Rock Fault
    • Willow Song
  • Dreaming of the Dead
  • The Fiction Makers
  • Making Poetry
  • A Dream of Stones
  • Trinity at Low Tide
  • Salter's Gate
  • Cold
  • Washing the Clocks
  • Politesse
  • Bloody Bloody
  • Black Hole
  • Lost
  • Journal Entry: Impromptu in C Minor
  • Letter to Sylvia Plath
  • The Other House
  • Elegy
  • When the camel is dust it goes through the needle's eye
  • Where the Animals Go
  • As I Lay Sleeping
  • Saying the World
  • Vertigo
  • A Surprise on the First Day of School
  • Arioso Dolente
  • Moonrise
  • Skills
  • An Angel
  • Granny Scarecrow
  • Leaving
  • On Going Deaf
  • To witness pain is a different form of pain
  • Postscriptum
  • A Report from the Border
  • Haunted
  • Hearing with My Fingers
  • A Marriage
  • Washing My Hair
  • Who's Joking with the Photographer?
  • To Phoebe
  • In the Weather of Deciduous Souls
  • Stone Milk
  • Before Eden
  • The Enigma
  • Orcop
  • Inheriting My Grandmother's Nightmare
  • Beach Kites
  • Variations on a Line by Peter Redgrove

• Correspondences: A Family History in Letters