Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:07:17 -0400
To: asle@equinox.unr.edu
From: Ralph Black <blackrw@wfu.edu>
Subject: dead animals in the middle of the poems

With many thanks to everyone who chimed in with their favorite dead
animal poems, here is the list. Compiled, but not checked for
accuracy, quality, or the actual mortal state of the critters.

best,

Ralph

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Dead Animal Poems
(w/ a little prose snuck for good measure)


Virginia Adair, "Early Walk"

William Stafford, "Travelling Through the Dark"

Robinson Jeffers, "The Deer Lay Down their Bones," "Hurt Hawks," "The House
Dog's Grave"

Mary Oliver, "The Kitten"

Stanley Kunitz, "The Wellfleet Whale"

Gerald Stern, "Behaving Like a Jew," "Burying an Animal on the Way to New
York," "The Dog"

Czslaw Milosz, "The Spider"

Mark Doty, "Crab," "Crane" (in Atlantis)

Robert Bly, "The Dead Seal" (a prose poem--I think the seal "walks" away at
the end)

John Haines, "The Moosehead"

John Daniel, "A Crossing"

Terry Tempest Williams, "Redemption," "Water" in Desert Quartet (prose),
"Whistling Swan" chapter from Refuge

Brendan Galvin, "A Ring of Quail Bones"

Pattiann Rogers, "Eulogy for a Hermit Crab"

Richard Eberhard, "The Groundhog"

Margaret Atwood, "The Animals in That Country"

Emily Dickinson, "His Bill is clasped/his Eye forsook/" (#1102)

S.T. Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

James Wright, "Small Frogs Killed on the Highway"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "The Buck in the Snow."

Thomas Gray, "Ode: On the Death of a Favorite Cat . . ."

Richard Wilbur, "The Death of a Toad"

Charles Baudelaire, "A Carcass" ("Une charogne")

William Cowper, "Epitaph on a Hare"

John Clare, "Badger"

Gary Snyder, "The Dead by the Side of the Road," "Two Fawns that Didn't See
the Light this Spring" (Turtle Is.)

James Dickey, "The Heaven of Animals"

Vicki Hearne, "All of My Beautiful Dogs Are Dying" in The Parts of Light

Andrew Hudgins, "Corn Snake" in Saints and Strangers

Leslie Marmon Silko, "Preparations" in Storyteller

Bridgit Pegeen Kelly, "The White Deer"

Louden Wainright III, "Dead Skunk in the Middle or the Road" (song)

Simon Ortiz, "For our Brothers: Blue Jay, Gold Finch, Flicker, Squirrel" in
Woven Stone.

David Bottoms, "Shooting Rats in the Bibb County Dump"

Linda Hasselstrom, poems in Caught By the Wing

Galway Kinnell, "The Porcupine," "The Bear"

Theodore Roethke, "The Far Field"

Barry Lopez, "Apologia" (essay)

Roadkill Cooking Festival in Missoula (misc.)

John McPhee, "Travels in Georgia" (prose)

Howard Nemerov, "The Goose Fish"

R.P. Dickey, "Fried Rabbit," in Running Lucky

Dick Kaiser, "Road-Kill Romance"

Sheryl St. Germain, "Thinking About Being a Woman as I Drive From Louisiana
to New Mexico" in Journals of Scheherazade

Ted Hughes, "What is the Truth?" (book-length poem), "View of a Pig"

Irving Layton, "The Bull Calf," "Butterfly on Rock"

Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare (novel)

Roger M. Knutson, Flattened Fauna: A Field Guide

Hayden Carruth, The Sleeping Beauty

Kenneth Rexroth, from Collected Poems

Lew Welch, "Song of the Turkey Buzzard," in Ring of Bone

Richard Wilbur, a dead dog poem

William Heyen, "The Cardinal," slaughtered sheep poem

Greg Keeler, "For the Armadillos"

Scott Cairns,  "Harbor Seals"  in The Theology of Doubt

W.S. Merwin, dead cat poem, "Fly"

James Dickey, "The Sheep Child"

D.H. Lawrence, "Mountain Lion"

Gary Paulsen, "Foreword" to Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass

Margaret Cavendish, "The Hunting of the Hare," in Kissing the Rod

Aida Tsunao, "Wild Duck," in Like Underground Water

Carter Revard, "Brothers," in Cowboys and Indians

William Carlos Williams, "The Sparrow"

Andrew Marvell, "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun"

Mary Pratt, The Substance of Light: The Art of Mary Pratt

Diana Brebner, poems based on Pratt's paintings, in The Golden Lotus and
Flora and Fauna

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