Index

Yehuda Amichai

• Near the Wall of a House

Aristotle

• Poetics – On Michael Davis and Political Considerations
• Poetics – The Problem of Knowledge and Action
• Is Politics Reducible to Rhetoric?
• Politics Bk. 2 Ch. 9 Paragraph 1
• Ethics Bk. 1 Ch. 6
• Ethics Bk. 2 Ch. 4
• Ethics Bk. 2 Ch. 7

W.H. Auden

• Musee de Beaux Arts
• Ganymede
• Are You There?
• The More Loving One
• Epitaph on a Tyrant
• “Jumbled in the common box…”

Charles Baudelaire

• La Pipe
• Le Chat

Marvin Bell

• Mars Being Red

William Blake

• The Human Abstract
• The Little Boy Lost / The Little Boy Found
• The Tyger
• A Divine Image / The Divine Image
• All Religions are One

Robert Bly

• Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter

Emily Dickinson

• “Banish Air from Air”
• “Apology for Her”
• “Be Mine the Doom”
• “Spring is the Period”
• “I made slow Riches but my Gain”
• “Good to hide, and hear ’em hunt!”
• “How well I knew Her not”
• “Away from Home are some and I”
• “Expectation – is Contentment”
• “They say that Time assuages”
• “A South Wind – has a pathos”
• “Fame of Myself, to justify”
• “I stepped from Plank to Plank”
• “Me, change! Me, alter!”
• “We like a Hairbreadth ‘scape…”
• “So the Eyes accost – and sunder…”
• “A Moth the hue of this…”
• “I fear a Man of frugal Speech…”
• “I dwell in Possibility…”
• “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
• “Hope is the thing with feathers…”
• “Such is the Force of Happiness…”
• “I sometimes drop it, for a Quick…”
• “I could suffice for Him, I knew…”
• “The Soul selects her own Society…”
• “I had not minded – Walls…”
• “Love – is anterior to Life…”
• “To hang out head – ostensibly…”
• “Publication is the Auction…”
• “My Triumph lasted till the Drums…”
• “The Sunset stopped on Cottages…”
• “Had I not This, or This, I said…”
• “I should not dare to leave my friend…”
• “I’ve nothing else – to bring, You know…”
• “My Reward for Being…”
• “The Earth has many keys…”
• “The heart asks pleasure first…”
• “What I can do – I will”
• “When night is almost done…”
• “To fight aloud is very brave…”
• “Read, sweet, how others strove…”
• “Success is counted sweetest…”
• “So has a Daisy vanished…”
• “Our share of night to bear…”
• “There’s a certain slant of light…”
• “The power to be true to You…”
• “I’ve seen a Dying Eye…”
• “These are the days when Birds come back…”
• “If I can stop one heart from breaking…”

Ario Farin

• Up, up and away!
• As sad as the scent of smoked fish

The Federalist (Hamilton, Madison, Jay)

• Federalist No. 1: Moderation & Justice, “Reflection and Choice”
• Federalist No. 9: On the Improvements in Political Science
• Federalist No. 10 (1st paragraph): On Faction
• Federalist No. 84 (selected portions): On Rights

Robert Frost

• Mowing
• Meeting and Passing
• Bond and Free
• The Pasture
• Hyla Brook
• The Oven Bird
• For Once, Then, Something
• The Gift Outright

Martin Heidegger

• From “Introduction to Metaphysics”
• Comment on “Building Dwelling Thinking”

Hopkins

• The Caged Skylark
• Heaven-Haven
• “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame…”
• God’s Grandeur

Thomas Jefferson

• First Inaugural Address
• Letter to John Norvell, 6.14.1807
• Letter to James Madison, 9.6.1789
• Letter to William Ludlow, 9.6.1824
• On Jefferson’s Epitaph

Immanuel Kant

• On Susan Shell’s “Kant’s Theory of Property”
• The Problem of Power in “Perpetual Peace”
• The Problem of Reason in “Perpetual Peace”

Katia Kapovich

• Apartment 75
• Painting a Room

John Keats

• To Autumn
• The Human Seasons
• On first looking into Chapman’s Homer

Jane Kenyon

• Otherwise
• Mosaic of the Nativity: Serbia, Winter 1993

Amy King

• State of a Nation
• Ivywall of Sparrows
• Calling all agents
• I’ve Opted for a Heart This Mid-November Morn
• A Solution to Science, In Part
• Everyone Has a Decision To Make
• Two if by Land, I Do

Stanley Kunitz

• The Abduction

Dorianne Laux

• Break

Abraham Lincoln

• Proclamation of Thanksgiving
• The Gettysburg Address
• Second Inaugural Address

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics: Notes on “The Case of Wagner”
• Nietzsche on Education and Possibility
• On The Nature Of Teaching: Regarding Three Aphorisms from Beyond Good and Evil

Plato

• On the “Menexenus”
• On the “Cleitophon”
• Republic 331d-336a
• On the “Lovers”
• On the Crito

Plutarch

• Life of Pericles

Ezra Pound

• In a Station of the Metro
• Fan Piece, For Her Imperial Lord
• A Virginal

Kay Ryan

• Sharks’ Teeth
• Nothing Ventured
• Turtle

William Shakespeare

• “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
• “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame…”
• “That time of year thou mayst in me behold…”
• “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought…”
• On Macbeth

Alice Shapiro

• The Twittering Machine
• I
• Beads

Gary Soto

• The Soup

William Stafford

• At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border

Wallace Stevens

• The Snow Man

Nomi Stone

• Why I Came

Alexis de Tocqueville

• A Few Notes on Vol 1., Pt. 2, Ch. 5
• Greatness and Individualism in Tocqueville

Virgil

• On the Boat Race (Aeneid V)

Derek Walcott

• Europa

Tom Wayman

• Did I Miss Anything?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

• From the “Blue Book”

Cecilia Woloch

• Slow Children at Play

Charles Wright

• Words and the Diminution of All Things

William Butler Yeats

• Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
• The Second Coming
• Easter 1916
• Sailing to Byzantium
• Leda and the Swan
• When Helen Lived
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• The Choice

*end authors*

Music:

• Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
• Weakerthans – Aside
• Weakerthans – Sun in an Empty Room
• Weakerthans – Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure
• Weakerthans – Night Windows
• Weakerthans – None of the Above
• Weakerthans – Utilities
• Death Cab for Cutie – “Lightness”
• Death Cab for Cutie – “Transatlanticism”
• The Good Life – “You Don’t Feel Like Home To Me”
• Bob Dylan/Elliott Smith: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”
• The Roots – “False Media”
• Why? – Sanddollars
• On “La Boheme”
• On Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”

Movies:

• Up
• 9
• Star Trek (2009)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Watchmen
• The Prestige
• The Departed
• Children of Men
• Babel
• Rescue Dawn
• Batman Begins
• The Dark Knight

*end arts*

Selected Poems:

• I am away from my computer
• A Daughter to her Parents on Their Anniversary
• Enfolding
• Bachelor
• Wolcott’s Heraldry
• Good Friday
• Place
• Still Life
• Investment
• An Impassioned Beauty Speaks
• Learning

Selected Fiction and Travel Narrative:

• Meals
• Puppy Love
• Dreaming in America
• Collegium in Costa Rica