The Jumpers’ Library

Welcome to the Jumpers’ Library, curated by Kate Milford and Anders Ganz. We present the following selections, and invite you to explore.

Selections from Ambrose Bierce

• Chickamauga
• The Damned Thing
• Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General
• The Stranger
• What I Saw of Shiloh
• The Passing Show
• The Woman and the Devil
• A Study in Gray

Selections from Meng Chiao

Selections from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Selections from Stephen Crane

• The Black Riders and Other Lines

Selections from Mina Loy

“There is no Life or Death”

Selections from Gabriela Mistral

The translations below were graciously provided by Randall Couch and were taken from Madwomen, which your librarians heartily recommend for further reading.

• The Fervent Woman
• The Storyteller
• She Who Walks
• She Who Waits
• Two Forgotten Ones
• The Changed Woman

Selections from Edgar Allan Poe

• Mesmeric Revelation

Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke

The translations below were graciously provided by Edward Snow and were taken from The Poetry of Rilke, which your librarians heartily recommend for further reading.

• The First Duino Elegy
• Entrance
• To Say Before Going to Sleep
• Memory
• The Solitary
• Presentiment
• From a Stormy Night

Selections from Wallace Stevens

• The Idea of Order at Key West
• A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
• Angel Surrounded by Paysans

Selections from Tom Waits

• The Briar and the Rose
• Black Wings