Poetry will save your life: a memoir

Discovery. "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Danger. We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks ; "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Wonder. "The Star" by Jane Taylor and Ann Taylor

Selfhood. "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson ; "The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Memory. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth

Shame. "You and Your Whole Race" by Langston Hughes ; "I, too" by Langston Hugues

Ancestors. Psalm 23: "The Lord Is My Shepherd"

War. "My child blossoms sadly" by Yehuda Amichai

Prayer. "Have you prayed?" by Li-Young Lee

Imagination. "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens

Death. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

Poetry. "Ars Poetica?" by Czeslaw Milosz

Family. "January 1, 1965" by Joseph Brodsky ; "Childhood" by Rainer Maria Rilke

Fathers. "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden

Faith. "After great pain, a fomral feeling comes" by Emily Dickinson ; "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson ; " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

Foreboding. "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke

Depression. "Poppies in October" by Sylvia Plath

Envy. Sonnet 29: "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" by William Shakespeare ; "Confession" by Louise Gluck

Sexuality. "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

First love. "Bright Star" by John Keats ; "A Blessing" by James Wright

Mothers. "My Mother's Feet" by Stanley Plumly

Friendship. "Taking the Hands" bu Robert Bly ; "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond" by E.E. Cummings

Passion. "That Red Coal" by Gerald Stern ; "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay ; "The Tropics in New York" by Claude McKay ; "Heat" by Denis Johnson

Legacy. "fury" by Lucille Clifton ; :Diving into the Wreck" bu Adrienne Rich ; Marriage. "Song for the Last Act" by Louise Bogan

Grief. "