Simple, poignant and sweet. A poem by Federico García Lorca.

It's True
Ay, the pain it costs me
to love you as I love you!

For love of you, the air, it hurts,
and my heart,
and my hat, they hurt me.

Who would buy it from me,
this ribbon I am holding,
and this sadness of cotton,
white, for making hankerchiefs with?

Ay, the pain it costs me
to love you as I love you!

I think every person should have at least one love that makes his/her hat hurt!

Hello Saffron. I just put together a list of all my dad's American poetry books.

Here it is


Author Title
Allan, D and Tallman W The Poetics of the New American Poetry
Allan, D and Tallman W The New American Poetry
Ammons, AR Collected Poems
Ammons, AR Sphere
Ammons, AR Tape for the Turn of the Year
Antin, David Talking at the Boundaries
Ashbery, John Self Portrait in a Convicts Mirror
Ashbery, John Three Poems
Ashbery, John Double Dream of Spring
Ashbery, John Some Trees
Ashbery, John Your Name Here
Ashbery, John Rivers and Mountains
Ashbery, John The Vermont Notebook
Ashbery, John Self Portrait in a Convicts Mirror
Ashbery, John The Tennis Court Oath
Ashbery, John Selected Poems
Beckett, Lucy Wallace Stevens
Bellit, Ben The Enemy Joy
Benedikt, Michael The Poetry of Surrealism
Benet, Stephen Vincent John Brown’s Body
Berry, Wendell Clearing
Berryman Recovery – A Novel
Berryman, John Selected Poems
Berryman, John Henry’s Fate
Berryman, John Love and Fame
Berryman, John Delusions
Bligh, Robert ed. Neruda and Vallejo
Bly, Robert Eating the Honey of Words
Bly, Robert Poetry East – Special Double Issue
Bly, Robert (ed) Forty Poems Touching on Recent American History (two copies)
Bly, Robert Ducks
Bly, Robert Unmuzzled Ox
Bly, Robert Grass From Two Years
Bly, Robert The Sea and the Honeycomb
Bly, Robert Meditations on the Insatiable Soul (two copies)
Bly, Robert Talking All Morning
Bly, Robert Of Solitude and Silence (ed R Jones K Daniels)
Bly, Robert Mirabai Versions
Bly, Robert Tennessee Poetry Journal Winter 1969
Bly, Robert The Teeth Mother Naked at Last
Bly, Robert The Fir
Bly, Robert Issa – Ten Poems
Bly, Robert Point Reyes
Bly, Robert What the Fox Agreed to Do
Bly, Robert I Never Wanted Fame
Bly, Robert Strips of August Sun
Bly, Robert The Flute
Bly, Robert The Fish in the Sea is not Thirsty
Bly, Robert Elegy – Some October Notes (two copies)
Bly, Robert Plainsong – A Robert Bly Issue
Bly, Robert Poems in Translation
Bly, Robert The Lion’s Tail and Eyes
Bly, Robert Ten Sonnets to Orpheus (trans from Rilke)
Bly, Robert The Voices (trans from Rilke)
Bly, Robert Night and Sleep – Rumi
Bly, Robert Poems for Tennessee
Bly, Robert Jumping Out Of Bed
Bly, Robert The Man in the Black Coat Turns (two copies)
Bly, Robert News of the Universe
Bly, Robert Transtroemer
Bly, Robert Selected Poems – Lorca and Jimenez
Bly, Robert David Ignatow
Bly, Robert The Seventies (one)
Bly, Robert Friends, You Drank Some Darkness
Bly, Robert The Kabir Book
Bly, Robert The Sixties (seven)
Bly, Robert The Fifties (third issue)
Bly, Robert The Sixties (five) Fourteen Poets of France
Bly, Robert The Sixties (ten)
Bly, Robert The Morning Glory
Bly, Robert The Loon
Bly, Robert Growing Up in Minnesota
Bly, Robert The San Francisco Book Review 19 Robert Bly issue
Bly, Robert Poet In Motion – SMH 19.3.80
Bly, Robert Rolf Jacobsen (trans) (two copies)
Bly, Robert I Do Best Alone At Night
Bly, Robert This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood
Boyes, Robert (ed) Contemporary Poetry in America – Essays and Interviews
Carroll, Paul The Poem in its Skin
Cassady, Carolyn Heartbeat – Life with Jack and Neil
Cohen, J ed. The Essential Lenny Bruce
Cohen, Leonard The Spice-Box of Earth
Corso, Gregory Gasoline
Corso, Gregory Long Live Man
Corso, Gregory Elegaic Feelings American
Coxe, Lewis O Edwin Arlington Robinson – The Life of Poetry
Crane, Hart Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose
Crane, Hart Complete Poems
Creely, Robert Presences
Creely, Robert His Idea
Creely, Robert A Sense of Measure
Creely, Robert Away
Creely, Robert Selected Poems
Cummings, ee Six Non-Lectures
Cummings, ee Six Non-Lectures
Dawson, Fielding The Black Mountain Book
Dickey, James The Suspect in Poetry
Dickey, James Poems 1957-1967
Dorn, Edward Slinger
Duberman, Martin Black Mountain – An Exploration in Community
Duncan, Robert Bending the Bow
Duncan, Robert Selected poems
Ferlinghetti, L Routines
Ferlinghetti, L A Political Pamphlet
Ferlinghetti, L The Jack of Hearts
Ferlinghetti, L A Coney Island of the Mind
Ferlinghetti, L Director of Alienation
Fiction Essays Poetry New American Review #5
Fiction Essays Poetry New American Review #4
Fiction Essays Poetry New American Review #2
Fiction Essays Poetry New American Review #1
French, AL Pound’s Mauberley
Frost, Robert Selected By Himself (two copies)
Frost, Robert Poems With an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer
Ginsberg, Allen Gay Sunshine Interview
Ginsberg, Allen The Fall of America – poems of these states 1965-1971
Ginsberg, Allen The Visions of the Great Rememberer, with letters by Neal Cassady and Drawings by Basil King
Ginsberg, Allen Indian Journals
Ginsberg, Allen Empty Mirror, Early Poems
Gray, Richard (ed) American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Greenberg, R & Hepburn J Robert Frost an Introduction
Hall, Donald ed. Contemporary American Poetry – First and Second Editions
Hall, Donald ed. The New Poets of England and America
Hall, Donald ed. Selected American Poetry
Hamilton, Ian Robert Lowell – A Biography
Harper, Norman and Barry, Elaine ed. American Studies Down Under
Hazo, Samuel Hart Crane
Hockney, David The Blue Guitar
Jones, LeRoi The Moderns
Justice, Donald Night Light
Kenner, Hugh The Pound Era
Kermode, Frank Wallace Stevens
Knight, A&K ed The Beat Diary
Koch, Kenneth Ko, or A Season on Earth
Kofsky, Frank Lenny Bruce
Kostelanetz, Richard The Young American Writers
Logan, John Ghosts of the Heart
Low, Jackson Mac Representative Works 1938-1985
Lowell, Robert For The Union Dead
Lowell, Robert The Old Glory
Lowell, Robert Imitations
Lowell, Robert Lord Weary’s Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs (two copies)
Lowell, Robert Near The Ocean
Lowell, Robert The Dolphin
Lowell, Robert The Dolphin
Lowell, Robert History
Lowell, Robert Selected Poems (two copies)
Lowell, Robert Life Studies
Martin, Jay Robert Lowell
Martz, WJ A comment on Berryman
Masters, Edgar Lee Spoon River Anthology
Matthews, William Tennessee Poetry Journal
Mazzaro, Jerome Modern American poetry – Essays in Criticism
McClure, Michael Star
McDarrah, Fred W The Beat Book
McGregor, Craig ed. Bob Dylan A Retrospective
Meltzer, David ed. Golden Gate – Interviews with Five San Francisco Poets
Merton, Thomas Selected Poems
Miles, Josephine Kinds of Affection
Miller, James E Jr The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction
Mills, Ralph J Jr Contemporary American Poetry
Monroe, Harriet Poetry Magazine: A Gallery of Voices
Moore, Geoffrey (ed) The Penguin Book of Modern American Verse
Moromarco, Fred (ed) Men of Our Time – An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America
Nelson, Gary Our First Last Poets – Vision and History in Contemporary American Poetry
Nemerov, Howard New and Selected Poems
O’Hara, Frank Art Chronicles 1954-1966
O’Hara, Frank Poems Retrieved
O’Hara, Frank Early Writing
O’Hara, Frank Standing Still and Walking in New York
Olson, Charles The Maximus Poems
Olson, Charles The Fiery Hunt and other plays
Olson, Charles Selected poems
Olson, Charles Charles Olson and Ezra Pound – An Encounter at St Elizabeths
Olson, Charles The Maximus Poems Volume 3
Olson, Elder Collected Poems
Oppen, George Selected Poems
Ossman, David The Sullen Art – interviews with modern American Poets
Pack, Robert Selected Poems
Pack, Robert (ed) New Poets of England and America Second Selection
Pearson, Norman Holmes ed Decade – A Collection of Poems From the First Ten Years of the Wesleyan Poetry Program
Penguin Modern Poets 9 Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams
Peters, M Second Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals
Plath, Sylvia Crossing the Water
Plath, Sylvia Winter Trees
Pound, Ezra Confucian Analects
Pound, Ezra Confucius
Pound, Ezra Collected Shorter Poems
Prima, Diane I Dinners and Nightmares
Raban, J Robert Lowell’s Poems A Selection
Ransom, John Crowe Poems and Essays
Ransom, John Crowe By John L Stewart
Rexroth, Kenneth (translator) Poems from the Greek Anthology
Robinson, E.A. Selected Early Poems and Letters
Rodman, Selden ed. One Hundred Modern Poems
Roethke, Theodore Selected Poems
Roethke, Theodore The Collected Poems
Roethke, Theodore The Far Field
Roethke, Theodore By Ralph J Mills jr
Rollings, Alane Transparent Landscapes
Rosenthal, Irving (ed) Big Table 1 (Kerouac, Dahlberg, Burroughs)
Rosenthal, Irving (ed) Big Table 2 (Kerouac, Dahlberg, Burroughs)
Rosenthal, Irving (ed) Big Table 3
Rosenthal, Irving (ed) Big Table 4
Rosenthal, Irving (ed) Big Table 5
Rothenberg, J & Quasha G America a Prophecy
Sanders, Ed Investigative Poetry
Seng, Goh Poh Bird With One Wing
Smelcer, John E Changing Seasons
Smith, Peter The Postmodern: The New American Poetry Revised
Smith, Peter Donald Allen and George F Butterick
Smith, Vivian The Poetry of Robert Lowell
Snyder, Gary Left Out in the Rain, New Poems 1947-1985
Sorrentino, Gilbert Black and White
Spears, MK Hart Crane
Spicer, Jack The Collected Books
Stafford, William I would also like to mention aluminium
Stock, Noel A Casebook on Ezra Pound’s Pennsylvania
Sutton, Walter Ezra Pound – A Collection of Critical Essays
Swigart, Lynn Olsen’s Gloucester – an interview
Tate, Allen The Swimmers and other selected poems
Thompson, Lawrance Robert Frost
Totem Press Four Young Lady Poets
Tytell, John Naked Angels/Beat Generation
Unger, Leonard (ed) Seven Modern American Poets
Van O’Connor ed A Casebook on Ezra Pound
Van O’Connor, William Ezra Pound
Voice of America Forum Lectures Contemporary American Poetry
Williams, Bill Intrepid
Williams, William Carlos Selected Poems – Tomlinson (two copies)
Williams, William Carlos Imaginations
Williams, William Carlos In the American Grain
Williams, William Carlos A Recognisable Image – On Art and Artists
Williams, William Carlos Paterson
Williams, William Carlos Selected Poems
Williams, William Carlos Pictures from Breughel and other poems
Williams, William Carlos Autobiography
Williams, William Carlos In The American Grain
Winters, Yvor On Modern Poets
Wright, James This Journey
Wright, James The Ohio Review
Young, David ed. Field – Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 1971 #5
Zukofsky, Louis Ferdinand

Now that's a lot of poetry, Robert!

Saffron, would you mind explaining the poem you just shared? ... dumb it down for me because I don't understand the hat and ribbon reference.