
Do Not Go Gentle
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Grief isn't denied but experienced and made more bearable by being put into memorable words. Searing poems of lament are followed by moving elegies celebrating the lives of those we will always love. Whether and how the spirit survives is then explored in an extraordinary gathering of poems by writers as different and diverse as the Persian mystic Rumi, Zen Buddhist composers of Japanese haiku, and American poets Mary Oliver and Jane Kenyon. Buttressed against their assertions of faith in an afterlife are modern sceptics, from Auden and Larkin to William Carlos Williams and C.K. Williams, whose wrestling with the meaning of death helps us make sense of no sense, mirroring our own anxieties and difficulties. But however various and contradictory these poems, their message chimes with Larkin's famous words, proving 'Our almost-instinct almost true:/ What will survive of us is love.' Unlike other poetry anthologies of loss, mourning and remembrance, Do Not Go Gentle offers a selection of poems specifically for reading at funerals and memorial services. It can also be used for reading aloud to friends and family, or for reading while numbed and bewildered - all times when the right poem can help us share and bear the burden of immediate grief.
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- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1: Stop All the Clocks
- Funeral Blues
- Wept
- Memorial
- Comparisons
- Remember
- The Five Stages of Grief
- The Widower
- The Suicides
- Life
- Epitaph Upon A Child That Died
- The Child Dying
- On My First Sonne
- Light
- On the Death of a Child
- The Unquiet Grave
- Remembrance
- After the Burial
- Especially When It Snows
- 2: Lives Enriched
- Because He Lived
- Epitaph on a Friend
- The Good
- When a Friend
- Cleopatra's Lament for Antony
- Dirge for Fidele
- 'We say the dead depart'
- 'Not, how did he die, but how did he live?'
- from In Memoriam A.H.H.
- As Befits a Man
- from Joyce: By Herself and Her Friends
- Tract
- Gravy
- Haiku
- 3: I Am Not There
- 'Do not stand at my grave and weep'
- Song
- Turn Again to Life
- For Katrina's Sun Dial
- 'Thinking I enjoyed the pleasures of life'
- Demiurge
- In the End Is the Body
- Sonnet LXXXIX
- Haiku
- The Soul Driven from the Body
- 'I'm the one who has the body'
- The Paradox
- 'Everything you see'
- 4: The Dying of the Light
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
- Invictus
- Et in Arcadia
- On Parting with My Wife, Janina
- from When You Died
- Aubade
- from Le Petit Salvié
- The Minister
- A Last Marriage
- 5: The Other Side
- Notes from the Other Side
- The Reassurance
- Breath
- Oh
- Years go by
- I See You Dancing, Father
- In Memory of My Mother
- The Dead
- Resurrection
- Eden Rock
- Inside Our Dreams
- Song
- Haiku
- 6: Nothing Dies
- After Great Pain
- In Blackwater Woods
- from Song of Myself
- Unmarked Boxes
- The Creation
- Heredity
- 'Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning'
- Kaddish
- A Marriage
- Three Elegiac Poems
- In the Nursing Home
- 'Why cling'
- When Death Comes
- Come, Death
- 'Death be not proud'
- Nothing Is Lost
- Let Evening Come
- from Autumn Journal
- A Celtic Blessing
- No Need
- This Is What I Wanted to Sign Off With
- Late Fragment
- Dead Woman
- Every Town a Home Town
- Begin
- Acknowledgements
- Index of Writers
- Copyright
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