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The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales

Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Claudia Carlson

First published 2003
Publisher Story Line Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Kay Nielsen
Pages xvi+287
Price $19.95
ISBN 1586540270

  • Apparent first (print) edition.
  • This entry is for the initial printing.
  • Notes 'About the Authors' appear on pp. 261-272, acknowledgments begin on p. 273, a selected bibliography is on on pp. 279-282.
  • Indices of the poems by tale and by authors and titles are printed beginning on p.284, a note 'About the Editors' is on p. 287.
  • Data from OCLC and Amazon.com.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Landscape: In the Forest Sandra M. Gilbert Poem
4 Voices from the Forest Lisel Mueller Poem
10 Afraid to Look Afraid to Look Away Kathleen Jesme Poem
12 Asleep in the Forest Andrea Hollander Budy Poem
14 Gretel Mary Jo Bang Poem
15 Black Fairy Tale Elizabeth Spires Poem
17 Further Adventures Elaine Equi Poem
18 The Twelve Dancing Princesses Sandra M. Gilbert Poem
19 The Sleeping Kingdom Donald Finkel Poem
21 Briar Rose Debora Greger Poem
23 Instructions Neil Gaiman Poem
26 Hotel Grimm Jeanne Marie Beaumont Poem
27 Lost in the Forest Amy Gerstler Poem
28 Fairy Tales Henry Sloss Poem
31 Fairy Tale Ellen Bryant Voigt Poem
32 The Twelve Dancing Princesses Anne Sexton Poem
36 The Maiden Without Hands Martha Carlson-Bradley Poem
37 The White Snake Martha Carlson-Bradley Poem
38 The Sister of the Swans Janet McAdams Poem
40 An Embroidery (I) Denise Levertov Poem
42 Cinderella's Story Mona Van Duyn Poem
44 The Frog Prince Joyce Thomas Poem
46 The Stepmother Arrives Patricia Carlin Poem
51 Babe in the Woods Moyra Donaldson Poem
52 The Robber Bridegroom Allen Tate Poem
53 What Bugs Bunny Said to Red Riding Hood Tim Seibles Poem
55 The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood" Agha Shahid Ali Poem
56 Grandmother Laurence Snydal Poem
57 Gretel, Lost Jean Monahan Poem
58 Hansel Tells Gretel of the Witch Regie Cabico Poem
60 Gretel, from a Sudden Clearing Marie Howe Poem
62 Witch Words Valery Nash Poem
63 The Witch Sara Henderson Hay Poem
64 The Fisherman's Wife Maura Stanton Poem
65 The Sleeper 1 and 2 Sara Henderson Hay Poem
66 The Gift Jean Monahan Poem
68 Sleeping Beauty Has Words Claudia Carlson Poem
69 The Bear Ann Stanford Poem
71 Snow White and Rose Red Debora Greger Poem
73 Rapunzel David Trinidad Poem
74 Rapunzel Shorn Lisa Russ Spaar Poem
75 The Prince Gwen Straus Poem
77 Ashputtel Penelope Shuttle Poem
78 Straw Into Gold Bruce Bennett Poem
79 Her Shadow Gwen Straus Poem
81 Snow White in Exile Susan Thomas Poem
82 Dwarves Martin Mooney Poem
84 Fervor Kimiko Hahn Poem
87 A Spell for Sleeping Alastair Reid Poem
88 from The Sleeping Beauty Hayden Carruth Poem
91 The Glass Coffin Sue Owen Poem
92 Sleeping Beauty's Dreams Denise Duhamel Poem
93 The Frog Prince Stevie Smith Poem
95 Fractured Fairy Tale Susan Wheeler Poem
96 The Sleeping Princess Ann Stanford Poem
97 sleeping beauty Lucille Clifton Poem
98 Beauty Sleeping Now Anna Rabinowitz Poem
99 Jealousy Sharon Dolin Poem
100 Fable Muriel Rukeyser Poem
101 Immortality Lisel Mueller Poem
105 The Objects in Fairy Tales Elaine Equi Poem
108 Snow White: The Mirror Alice Friman Poem
109 Snow White Turns 39 Anne Sheldon Poem
110 The Poisoned Apple Sue Owen Poem
111 Rampion Natasha Sajé Poem
112 Rapunzel's Clock Lisa Russ Spaar Poem
113 The Glass Slipper Jane Shore Poem
115 The Twelve Dancing Princesses Margaret Rockwell Poem
116 Masquerade Barbara Crooker Poem
117 Cinderella's Life at the Castle Russell Edson Poem
121 Little Red-Cap Carol Ann Duffy Poem
123 Rapunzel Alice Friman Poem
124 The Skeptical Prince Bruce Bennett Poem
125 Rumplestiltskin Keeps Mum Claudia Carlson Poem
126 Kissing the Toad Galway Kinnell Poem
127 How to Change a Frog Into a Prince Anna Denise Poem
128 Where's Wolf? Jeanne Marie Beaumont Poem
129 Hans My Hedgehog Martha Carlson-Bradley Poem
131 Cinderella Gwen Straus Poem
132 The Robber Bridegroom Margaret Atwood Poem
133 The Goosegirl Maura Stanton Poem
134 Rapunzel Brenda Hillman Poem
135 The Fisherman's Wife Ingrid Wendt Poem
137 Sex and Politics in Fairyland Wanda Coleman Poem
139 Fairy Tale Aliki Barnstone Poem
141 Rapunzel Olga Broumas Poem
143 Song for Rapunzel Essex Hemphill Poem
147 Cinderella Dream at Ten Ingrid Wendt Poem
149 Cinderella Enid Dame Poem
151 The Two Gretels Robin Morgan Poem
152 One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes Martha Carlson-Bradley Poem
154 Brother and Sister Terri Windling Poem
155 Cinderella Olga Broumas Poem
157 Gretel Andrea Hollander Budy Poem
158 Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale Jane Yolen Poem
159 Rose Red Erin Belieu Poem
160 The Stepsister's Story Emma Bull Poem
162 Girl Without Hands Margaret Atwood Poem
164 Rampion Nicole Cooley Poem
165 To the Nixie of the Mill-Pond Annie Finch Poem
167 Little Red Riding Hood Olga Broumas Poem
169 Lessons from a Mirror Thylias Moss Poem
170 The Wicked Witch Carol Jane Bangs Poem
172 Against Cinderella Julia Alvarez Poem
175 The Sleeping Beauty: Variation of the Prince Randall Jarrell Poem
177 The True Story of Snow White Bruce Bennett Poem
178 Anaconda Mining Makes the Seven Dwarfs an Offer Mike Carlin Poem
179 HM Customs & Excise Rachel Loden Poem
180 Juvenile Court Sara Henderson Hay Poem
181 The Social Worker Finds Hansel and Gretel Difficult to Place Enid Dame Poem
182 On a Nineteenth Century Color Lithograph of Red Riding Hood by the Artist J. H. Alice Wirth Gray Poem
187 The Peasant Girl David Trinidad Poem
189 The Ugly Stepsister Denise Duhamel Poem
191 Grave Fairytale Dorothy Hewett Poem
193 Rapunzel: A Modern Tale Maria Terrone Poem
194 Scorched Cinderella Amy Gerstler Poem
195 The Girl with No Hands Rigoberto González Poem
197 Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins R. S. Gwynn Poem
199 Snow White and the Man Sent to Fetch Her Heart Alice Wirth Gray Poem
201 Snow White Andrea Hollander Budy Poem
202 Hazel Tells LaVerne Katharyn Howd Machan Poem
203 Sleeping Beauty Donald Finkel Poem
204 Achtung, My Princess, Good Night Barbara Hamby Poem
207 Ever After Debora Greger Poem
209 Kissing the Frog Wendy Taylor Carlisle Poem
210 Cinderella Randall Jarrell Poem
212 Cinderella and Lazarus, Part II Dorothy Barresi Poem
213 Twenty Years After Marlene Joyce Pearson Poem
214 Gretel in Darkness Louise Glück Poem
215 Hansel's Game Agha Shahid Ali Poem
217 Snow White Over & Over Lee Upton Poem
218 Snow White: The Prince Alice Friman Poem
219 From the Journals of the Frog Prince Susan Mitchell Poem
221 The Prince Who Woke Briar Rose Anne Sheldon Poem
223 Queen Charming Writes Again Pamela White Hadas Poem
227 Gretel Ronald Koertge Poem
228 An Interview with Red Riding Hood, No Longer Little Agha Shahid Ali Poem
230 The Archaeology of a Marriage Maxine Kumin Poem
235 Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm Gregory Orr Poem
236 The Old Story Emily Hiestand Poem
237 Daughters with Toad Mark DeFoe Poem
238 Dock Martha Ronk Poem
239 A Fairy Tale Amy Lowell Poem
241 Fundevogel Meg Kearney Poem
243 A Happy Ending for the Lost Children Charles Martin Poem
245 Nocturne with Witch, Oven and Two Little Figures Peter Cooley Poem
247 Snow White Nicole Cooley Poem
249 Conversation with My Father Elline Lipkin Poem
250 Transfiguration Begins at Home Estha Weiner Poem
251 Castrato Yusef Komunyakaa Poem
252 Poem About Straw James Nolan Poem
253 The Wolf in the Bed Rachel Hadas Poem
254 The Sleeping Beauty Rachel Hadas Poem
256 This Is a Convalescent Home, Not the Fairy Tale Cottage and Always the Good Father Marlene Joyce Pearson Poem
257 Like Gretel Jeff Walt Poem
258 Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny Lisel Mueller Poem
260 Kinder- und Hausmärchen Diane Thiel Poem
xi Introduction (The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales) Jeanne Marie Beaumont & Claudia Carlson Essay