Twentieth Century American Poetry

by Gioia, Dana; Mason, David; Schoerke, Meg

ISBN13: 9780071427791

ISBN10: 0071427791

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Pub. Date: 2004-01-07

Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill

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Summary

With the end of the 1900s, the time has come for a thorough assessment of one hundred years of poetry - from the widely acclaimed to the subtly influential - and with an eye to the importance and meaning of poetry in America. Compiled by three poets and poetry scholars - including 2002 American Book Award Winner Dana Gioia - this anthology presents American poetry across the twentieth century from Stephen Crane to Kevin Young. The collected works are arranged according to the major movements in American poetry, offering a valuable teaching resource for American Literature and Poetry courses.

Author Biography

Dana Gioia won the American Book Award of 2002 for his volume of poetry Interrogations at Noon. His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, and The Hudson Review.

Dave Mason is a well-known critic and poet.

Meg Shercke is a rising star at San Francisco State, respected for her scholarship on women poets and her work as a poetry critic.

Preface

xli

Realism and Naturalism

Historical and Critical Overview

(80)

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)

(6)

Black riders came from the sea

(1)

In the desert

(1)

I stood upon a high place

(1)

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

(1)

I met a seer

(1)

On the horizon the peaks assembled

(1)

I walked in a desert

(1)

A man feared that he might find an assassin

(1)

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind

(1)

The wayfarer

(1)

A man said to the universe

(1)

My Cross!

(1)

A man adrift on a slim spar

(1)

EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)

(3)

The Man with the Hoe

(1)

Outwitted

(1)

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)

(2)

An Obstacle

(1)

Whatever Is

(1)

EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)

(5)

From Spoon River Anthology

(1)

The Hill

(1)

Anne Rutledge

(1)

Editor Whedon

(1)

Knowlt Hoheimer

(1)

Lucinda Matlock

(1)

Petit, the Poet

(1)

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)

(11)

The Clerks

(1)

George Crabbe

(1)

Reuben Bright

(1)

How Annandale Went Out

(1)

Miniver Cheevy

(1)

The House on the Hill

(1)

Luke Havergal

(1)

Richard Cory

(1)

Another Dark Lady

(1)

Bewick Finzer

(1)

Eros Turannos

(2)

The Mill

(1)

Mr. Flood's Party

(2)

New England

(1)

The Sheaves

(1)

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)

(5)

O Black and Unknown Bards

(1)

The Creation

(2)

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)

(3)

We Wear the Mask

(1)

Sympathy

(1)

The Debt

(1)

The Poet

(1)

To a Captious Critic

(1)

TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874-1904)

(2)

Mnemosyna

(1)

Near Helikon

(1)

Sir, say no more

(1)

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)

(28)

Mowing

(1)

My November Guest

(1)

Storm Fear

(1)

The Tuft of Flowers

(1)

After Apple-Picking

(1)

the Death of the Hired Man

(4)

Home Burial

(3)

Mending Wall

(1)

The Wood-Pile

(1)

Birches

(1)

"Out, Out-"

(1)

The Oven Bird

(1)

The Road Not Taken

(1)

Fire and Ice

(1)

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

(1)

Nothing Gold Can Stay

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

(1)

To Earthward

(1)

Acquainted with the Night

(1)

Once by the Pacific

(1)

Desert Places

(1)

Design

(1)

Neither Out Far Nor in Deep

(1)

Provide Provide

(1)

Come In

(1)

The Gift Outright

(1)

The Silken Tent

(1)

Directive

(2)

SARAH N. CLEGHORN (1876-1959)

(1)

The Golf Links

(1)

The Survival of the Fittest

(1)

ALAN SEEGER (1888-1916)

(1)

I Have a Rendezvous with Death

(1)

JOHN ALLAN WYETH, JR. (1894-1981)

(5)

The Train from Brest

(1)

Corbie to Sailly-le-Sec

(1)

War in Heaven

(3)

Early Modernism: From Imagism to High Modernism

Historical and Critical Overview

(222)

AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)

(5)

Patterns

(3)

A Decade

102

(1)

A Lover

102

(1)

The Pond

102

(1)

Opal

102

(1)

GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)

103

(3)

From Tender Buttons

105

(1)

A Blue Coat

105

(1)

A Piano

105

(1)

A Purse

106

(1)

A Mounted Umbrella

106

(1)

A Time to Eat

106

(1)

A Fire

106

(1)

A Handkerchief

106

(1)

Red Roses

106

(1)

YONE NOGUCHI (1875-1947)

106

(2)

I Hear. You Call, Pine Tree

107

(1)

From Japanese Hokkus

107

(1)

ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (1878-1914)

108

(1)

November Night

109

(1)

Triad

109

(1)

The Warning

109

(1)

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)

109

(5)

Chicago

111

(1)

Fog

112

(1)

Limited

112

(1)

Window

112

(1)

Cool Tombs

112

(1)

Grass

113

(1)

Cahoots

113

(1)

VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931)

114

(4)

General William Booth Enters into Heaven

115

(2)

Factory Windows Are Always Broken

117

(1)

The Voyage

117

(1)

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)

118

(24)

The Snow Man

122

(1)

Nuances of a Theme by Williams

122

(1)

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

122

(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

123

(1)

Tea at the Palaz of Hoon

124

(1)

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

124

(1)

Sunday Morning

124

(4)

Bantams in Pine-Woods

128

(1)

Anecdote of the Jar

128

(1)

To the One of Fictive Music

128

(1)

Peter Quince at the Clavier

129

(2)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

131

(2)

To the Roaring Wind

133

(1)

The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad

133

(1)

Evening without Angels

134

(1)

The Idea of Order at Key West

135

(1)

A Postcard from the Volcano

136

(1)

From Notes toward a Supreme Fiction

137

(3)

The Course of a Particular

140

(1)

Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

140

(1)

Of Modern Poetry

141

(1)

The Plain Sense of Things

141

(1)

Of Mere Being

142

(1)

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)

142

(26)

Aux Imagister

146

(1)

Danse Russe

147

(1)

Dedication for a Plot of Ground

147

(1)

El Hombre

148

(1)

Tract

149

(1)

Portrait of a Lady

150

(1)

The Great Figure

151

(1)

Queen-Anne's-Lace

151

(1)

To Waken an Old Lady

152

(1)

The Widow's Lament in Springtime

152

(1)

Spring and All

153

(1)

The Right of Way

154

(1)

To Elsie

155

(1)

The Red Wheelbarrow

156

(1)

The Last Words of My English Grandmother

157

(1)

This is Just to Say

158

(1)

Flowers by the Sea

158

(1)

The Yachts

158

(1)

The Dance

159

(1)

The Descent

159

(2)

From Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

161

(7)

EZRA POUND (1885-1972)

168

(35)

Sestina: Altaforte

172

(2)

Portrait D'une Femme

174

(1)

The Return

175

(1)

Alba

175

(1)

Coda

175

(1)

The Coming of War: Actæon

175

(1)

The Garden

176

(1)

The Garret

176

(1)

Papyrus

177

(1)

In a Station of the Metro

177

(1)

The Jewel Stairs' Grievance

177

(1)

Lament of the Frontier Guard

177

(1)

The Rest

178

(1)

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

179

(1)

Salutation

179

(1)

A Pact

180

(1)

From Homage to Sextus Properties

180

(3)

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

183

(9)

Mauberley

192

(5)

From The Cantos

197

(6)

Canto I ("And then went down to the ship")

197

(2)

Canto XLV ("With Usura")

199

(2)

Canto LXXXI (Libretto: "Yet I Ere the season died a-cold")

201

(2)

H.D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE] (1886-1961)

203

(14)

Oread 205 Garden

206

(1)

fear Tree

206

(1)

The Pool

207

(1)

Sea Rose

207

(1)

Sea Violet

207

(1)

Storm

208

(1)

Eurydice

208

(4)

At Baia

212

(1)

Belen

213

(1)

From The Walls Do Not Fall

213

(3)

1 ("An incident here and there")

213

(2)

2 ("Evil was active in the land")

215

(1)

From The Flowering of the Rod

216

(1)

6 ("So I would rather drown, remembering-")

216

(1)

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)

217

(9)

To the Stone-Cutters

220

(1)

Boats in a Fog

220

(1)

Shine, Perishing Republic

221

(1)

Fawn's Foster-Mother

221

(1)

Hurt Hawks

222

(1)

Hands

223

(1)

Shane O'Neill's Cairn

223

(1)

New Mexican Mountain

224

(1)

November Surf

224

(1)

Ave Caesar

225

(1)

Love the Wild Swan

225

(1)

Rock and Hawk

225

(1)

Carmel Point

226

(1)

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)

226

(22)

The Fish

229

(1)

Poetry

230

(1)

Poetry (Revised Version)

231

(1)

Those Various Scalpels

231

(1)

To a Steam Roller

232

(1)

Marriage

232

(8)

An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish

240

(1)

A Graveyard

240

(1)

New York

241

(1)

Silence

242

(1)

The Steeple-Jack

242

(2)

What Are Years?

244

(1)

In Distrust of Merits

245

(2)

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

247

(1)

T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)

248

(40)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

251

(4)

Preludes

255

(1)

The Boston Evening Transcript

256

(1)

Hysteria

256

(1)

La Figlia the Piange

257

(1)

Sweeney Among the Nightingales

257

(2)

The Waste Land

259

(14)

The Hollow Men

273

(3)

Journey of the Magi

276

(1)

Ash-Wednesday

277

(6)

From Four Quartets

283

(1)

Burnt Norton

283

(5)

E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)

288

(10)

in Just-

290

(1)

Buffalo Bill's

290

(1)

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls

291

(1)

next to of course god america i

291

(1)

i sing of Olaf glad and big

291

(1)

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

292

(1)

may i feel said he

293

(1)

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r

294

(1)

you shall above all things be glad and young

294

(1)

anyone lived in a pretty how town

295

(1)

my father moved through dooms of love

295

(2)

pity this busy monster, manunkind

297

(1)

o purple finch

298

(1)

WITTER BYNNER (1881-1968) and ARTHUR DAMSON FICKE (1883-1945)

298

(6)

Opus 181 (Anne Knish)

299

(1)

Opus 104 (Emanuel Morgan)

300

(1)

Opus 40 (Emanuel Morgan)

300

(1)

Opus 15 (Emanuel Morgan)

301

(3)

The Harlem Renaissance

Historical and Critical Overview

304

(46)

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ (1880-1958)

311

(3)

The Black Finger

312

(1)

Tenebris

312

(1)

A Mona Lisa

313

(1)

Fragment

313

(1)

CLAUDE McKAY (1889-1948)

314

(4)

If We Must Die

315

(1)

The Lynching

315

(1)

America

316

(1)

My Mother

316

(1)

The White City

317

(1)

Outcast

317

(1)

JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)

318

(3)

Seventh Street

319

(1)

November Cotton Flower

320

(1)

Georgia Dusk

320

(1)

Reapers

321

(1)

STERLING A. BROWN (1901-1989)

321

(7)

Memphis Blues

323

(1)

Mose

324

(1)

Slim Greer

325

(2)

Slim in Atlanta

327

(1)

GWENDOLYN BENNETT (1902-1981)

328

(2)

Hatred

329

(1)

To a Dark Girl

329

(1)

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)

330

(11)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

333

(1)

I, Too

333

(1)

Negro 334 Cross

334

(1)

The Weary Blues

335

(1)

Dream Variations

335

(1)

Song for a Dark Girl

336

(1)

Mother to Son

336

(1)

Park Bench

337

(1)

50-50

337

(1)

Ku Klux

338

(1)

Madam's Past History

338

(1)

Island

339

(1)

Harlem

339

(1)

Theme for English B

339

(1)

Homecoming

340

(1)

Dinner Guest: Me

341

(1)

COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)

341

(9)

For a Lady I Know

343

(1)

For Paul Laurence Dunbar

343

(1)

Heritage

344

(3)

Incident

347

(1)

Yet Do I Marvel

347

(1)

To Certain Critics

347

(3)

Modern Alternatives: Romantics and Neoclassicists

Historical and Critical Overview

350

(90)

SARA TEASDALE (1884-1933)

360

(4)

Over the Roofs

361

(1)

There Will Come Soft Rains

362

(1)

Since There Is No Escape

363

(1)

Water Lilies

363

(1)

In a Darkening Garden

363

(1)

ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)

364

(4)

The Eagle and the Mole

365

(1)

Wild Peaches

366

(1)

From the Wall

367

(1)

Let No Charitable Hope

368

(1)

Prophecy

368

(1)

JOHN CROWS RANSOM (1888-1974)

368

(5)

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

370

(1)

Winter Remembered

371

(1)

Blue Girls

371

(1)

Dead Boy

372

(1)

Piazza Piece

372

(1)

CONRAD AIKEN (1889-1973)

373

(3)

Morning Song of Senlin

374

(1)

From Priapus and the Pool

375

(1)

III ("When trout swim down Great Ormond Street")

375

(1)

JOHN PEALE BISHOP (1892-1944)

376

(2)

Perspectives Are Precipices

377

(1)

My Grandfather Kept Peacocks

378

(1)

ARCHIBALD MacLEISH (1892-1982)

378

(6)

Ars Poetica

381

(1)

The End of the World

382

(1)

The Silent Slain

382

(1)

You, Andrew Marvell

383

(1)

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)

384

(5)

Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied

386

(1)

First Fig

386

(1)

Second Fig

386

(1)

I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear

386

(1)

Recuerdo

387

(1)

Passer Mortuus Est

387

(1)

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

388

(1)

Love Is Not All

388

(1)

Hearing Your Words, and Not a Word among Them

388

(1)

DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)

389

(3)

Comment

390

(1)

One Perfect Rose

391

(1)

Résumé

391

(1)

Unfortunate Coincidence

391

(1)

Sanctuary

391

(1)

LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)

392

(7)

The Alchemist

394

(1)

The Crows

394

(1)

Medusa

394

(1)

Memory

395

(1)

Women

395

(1)

Knowledge

396

(1)

Cassandra

396

(1)

Henceforth, from the Mind

396

(1)

The Sleeping Fury

397

(1)

Song for the Last Act

398

(1)

Night

399

(1)

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1898-1943)

399

(2)

American Names

400

(1)

1936

401

(1)

MELVIN B. TOLSON (1898-1966)

401

(8)

From A Gallery of Harlem Portraits

404

(1)

Sootie Joe

404

(1)

An Ex-Judge at the Bar

404

(1)

Dark Symphony

405

(4)

HART CRANE (1899-1932)

409

(16)

Praise for an Urn

413

(1)

Garden Abstract

413

(1)

At Melville's Tomb

414

(1)

Black Tambourine

415

(1)

Chaplinesque

415

(1)

My Grandmother's Love Letters

416

(1)

Voyages

417

(4)

The Wine Menagerie

421

(1)

From The Bridge

422

(2)

To Brooklyn Bridge

422

(2)

Royal Palm

424

(1)

The Broken Tower

424

(1)

ALLEN TATE (1899-1979)

425

(5)

Ode to the Confederate Dead

427

(2)

The Subway

429

(1)

ROBERT FRANCIS (1901-1987)

430

(2)

Hallelujah: A Sestina

430

(1)

Catch

431

(1)

Yes, What?

432

(1)

RICHARD EBERHART (b. 1904)

432

(1)

The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

433

(1)

ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)

433

(7)

Bearded Oaks

435

(1)

Evening Hawk

436

(1)

What Voice at Moth-Hour

436

(4)

Mid-Century Poets

Historical and Critical Overview

440

(132)

THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)

448

(12)

Cuttings

450

(1)

Cuttings [later version]

450

(1)

Root Cellar

450

(1)

Dolor

451

(1)

My Papa's Waltz

451

(1)

Elegy for Jane

451

(1)

The Waking

452

(1)

I Knew a Woman

453

(1)

In a Dark Time

453

(1)

From "North American Sequence"

454

(6)

The Longing

454

(2)

Journey to the Interior

456

(1)

The Far Field

457

(3)

ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)

460

(17)

The Fish

462

(1)

The Map

463

(1)

At the Fishhouses

464

(2)

The Armadillo

466

(1)

Questions of Travel

467

(2)

Visits to St. Elizabeths

469

(2)

In the Waiting Room

471

(2)

The Moose

473

(4)

One Art

477

(1)

J.V. CUNNINGHAM (1911-1985)

477

(9)

For My Contemporaries

478

(1)

In the Thirtieth Year

479

(1)

To My Wife

479

(1)

To What Strangers, What Welcome

480

(4)

Ten Epigrams

484

(1)

On Doctor Drink

485

(1)

JOSEPHINE MILES (1911-1985)

486

(2)

Reason

487

(1)

Riddle

487

(1)

Conception

488

(1)

Album

488

(1)

ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)

488

(12)

The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield

490

(2)

Frederick Douglas

492

(1)

Middle Passage

492

(5)

Night, Death, Mississippi

497

(1)

Those Winter Sundays

498

(1)

The Whipping

499

(1)

A Plague of Starlings

499

(1)

JOHN FREDERICK NIMS (1913-1999)

500

(2)

Dedication: Love Poem

501

(1)

Epigrams

501

(1)

MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)

502

(4)

Effort at Speech between Two People

504

(1)

To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century

504

(1)

Double Dialogue

505

(1)

The Poem as Mask

505

(1)

Poem

506

(1)

JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)

506

(5)

Desires of Men and Women

508

(1)

From The Dream Songs

509

(2)

1 ("Huffy Henry hid the day")

509

(1)

14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.")

510

(1)

29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart")

510

(1)

384 ("The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done")

510

(1)

RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)

511

(6)

Losses

512

(1)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

513

(1)

90 North

513

(1)

The Woman at the Washington Zoo

514

(1)

Next Day

515

(2)

WELDON KEES (1914-1955)

517

(7)

For My Daughter

520

(1)

Crime Club

520

(1)

River Song

520

(1)

Robinson

521

(1)

Aspects of Robinson

522

(1)

1926

522

(1)

Round

523

(1)

DUDLEY RANDALL (1914-2000)

524

(3)

Ballad of Birmingham

525

(1)

Booker T. and W.E.B.

526

(1)

A Different Image

527

(1)

WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993)

527

(4)

The Farm on the Great Plains

528

(1)

Traveling through the Dark

529

(1)

Ask Me

530

(1)

At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border

530

(1)

Our Kind

530

(1)

THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968)

531

(2)

For My Brother: Reported Missing in Action, 1943

532

(1)

The Reader

533

(1)

MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998)

533

(2)

For Malcolm X

534

(1)

JOHN CIARDI (1916-1986)

535

(3)

Most Like an Arch This Marriage

536

(1)

Firsts

537

(1)

THOMAS McGRATH (1916-1990)

538

(4)

Jig Tune: Not for Love

539

(1)

Ars Poetica: or: Who Lives in the Ivory Tower?

540

(1)

The Buffalo Coat

540

(1)

Remembering the Children of Auschwitz

541

(1)

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)

542

(7)

The Mother

544

(1)

Sadie and Maud

544

(1)

Southeast Corner

545

(1)

From Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood

545

(1)

The Rites for Cousin Vit

546

(1)

The Bean Eaters

546

(1)

We Real Cool

547

(1)

The Blackstone Rangers

547

(2)

The Coora Flower

549

(1)

ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)

549

(15)

Concord

552

(1)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket

553

(4)

Memories of West Street and Lepke

557

(1)

Skunk Hour

558

(1)

For the Union Dead

559

(2)

Waking Early Sunday Morning

561

(2)

History

563

(1)

Epilogue

564

(1)

WILLIAM JAY SMITH (b. 1918)

564

(3)

A Note on the Vanity Dresser

565

(1)

Galileo Galilei

566

(1)

American Primitive

566

(1)

MAY SWENSON (1919-1989)

567

(5)

Question

568

(1)

Four-Word Lines

569

(1)

Strawberrying

569

(3)

Open Form: Objectivists, Black Mountain Poets, San Francisco Renaissance, and Beats

Historical and Critical Overview

572

(92)

LAURA RIDING (1901-1991)

579

(3)

Helen's Burning

581

(1)

The Map of Places

581

(1)

The World and I

581

(1)

KENNETH FEARING (1902-1961)

582

(3)

Dirge

583

(1)

Literary

584

(1)

LORINE NIEDECKER (1903-1970)

585

(5)

The Element Mother

587

(1)

Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves

588

(1)

Poet's Work

588

(1)

I Knew a Clean Man

588

(1)

[Autumn Sequence]

589

(1)

"Autumn"

589

(1)

"Ice"

589

(1)

"Last night the trash barrel"

589

(1)

"The boy tossed the news"

589

(1)

"Popcorn-can cover"

589

(1)

"Truth"

589

(1)

"Lights, lifts"

589

(1)

"O late fall"

590

(1)

He Lived-Childhood Summers

590

(1)

LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (1904-1978)

590

(4)

Non Ti Fidar

592

(1)

A Song for the Year's End

593

(1)

Starglow

594

(1)

KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982)

594

(6)

A Very Early Morning Exercise

596

(1)

Andrée Rexroth

597

(1)

Vitamins and Roughage

598

(1)

The Signature of All Things

598

(2)

GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984)

600

(6)

From Discrete Series

602

(1)

The knowledge not of sorrow, you were

602

(1)

Leviathan

603

(1)

The Bicycles and the Apex

603

(1)

Psalm

604

(1)

The Building of the Skyscraper

605

(1)

From "Of Being Numerous"

605

(1)

Strange That the Youngest People I Know

605

(1)

CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970)

606

(3)

Maximus, to himself

607

(2)

La Chute

609

(1)

WILLIAM EVERSON [BROTHER ANTONINUS] (1912-1994)

609

(4)

These Are the Ravens

611

(1)

The Making of the Cross

612

(1)

Advent

613

(1)

ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)

613

(7)

The Temple of the Animals

615

(1)

Poetry, a Natural Thing

616

(1)

This Place Rumored to Have Been Sodom

617

(1)

Roots and Branches

618

(1)

The Torso (Passages 18)

618

(2)

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (b. 1919)

620

(2)

In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem to See

621

(1)

DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)

622

(6)

"... Else a great Prince in prison lies"

625

(1)

The Ache of Marriage

625

(1)

Hypocrite Women

625

(1)

O Taste and See

626

(1)

Our Bodies

627

(1)

Prisoners

627

(1)

SAMUEL MENASHE (b. 1925)

628

(3)

O Many Named Beloved

629

(1)

The Shrine Whose Shape I Am

630

(1)

Self Employed

630

(1)

At a Standstill

631

(1)

Curriculum Vitae

631

(1)

SACK SPICER (1925-1965)

631

(3)

Conspiracy

633

(1)

A Rook of Music

634

(1)

A.R. AMMONS (1926-2001)

634

(5)

Gravelly Run

636

(1)

The City Limits

636

(1)

The Constant

637

(1)

Cut the Grass

638

(1)

Viable

638

(1)

ROBERT CREELEY (b. 1926)

639

(6)

I Know a Man

641

(1)

Heroes

641

(1)

Oh No

642

(1)

For Love

642

(2)

The Rain

644

(1)

"I Keep to Myself Such Measures ..."

644

(1)

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)

645

(12)

America

647

(2)

Howl

649

(7)

A Supermarket in California

656

(1)

GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)

657

(7)

Riprap

659

(1)

Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout

659

(1)

Water

660

(1)

Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen

660

(1)

Axe Handles

660

(4)

Postwar Formalism and Its Discontents: From Formalism to Feminism and the Confessional Mode

Historical and Critical Overview

664

(112)

HOWARD NEMEROV (1920-1991)

671

(5)

A Primer of the Daily Round

672

(1)

The Blue Swallows

673

(1)

The Western Approaches

674

(1)

Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry

675

(1)

The Makers

675

(1)

The War in the Air

675

(1)

MONA VAN DUYN (b. 1921)

676

(2)

Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri

677

(1)

Causes

678

(1)

RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921)

678

(9)

The Beautiful Changes

680

(1)

The Pardon

681

(1)

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

682

(1)

Cottage Street, 1953

682

(1)

Piccola Commedia

683

(2)

To the Etruscan Poets

685

(1)

The Writer

685

(1)

Hamlen Brook

686

(1)

The Ride

686

(1)

HOWARD MOSS (1922-1987)

687

(3)

The Pruned Tree

688

(1)

Tourists

689

(1)

JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)

690

(6)

The Performance

691

(2)

The Heaven of Animals

693

(1)

The Lifeguard

694

(1)

The Sheep Child

695

(1)

ANTHONY HECHT (b. 1923)

696

(9)

Adam

699

(1)

The Dover Bitch-A Criticism of Life?

700

(1)

A Hill

701

(1)

The Book of Yolek

702

(1)

The Mysteries of Caesar

703

(1)

Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-seven

704

(1)

RICHARD HUGO (1923-1982)

705

(3)

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg

706

(1)

Driving Montana

707

(1)

LOUIS SIMPSON (b. 1923)

708

(7)

Early in the Morning

709

(1)

The Man Who Married Magdalene

710

(1)

To the Western World

711

(1)

American Poetry

711

(1)

My Father in the Night Commanding No

711

(1)

The Unwritten Poem

712

(1)

A Clearing

713

(2)

DONALD JUSTICE (b. 1925)

715

(6)

Counting the Mad

717

(1)

In Bertram's Garden

718

(1)

On the Death of Friends in Childhood

718

(1)

But That Is Another Story

718

(1)

Men at Forty

719

(1)

Variations on a Text by Vallejo

720

(1)

Psalm and Lament

720

(1)

CAROLYN KIZER (b. 1925)

721

(6)

From Pro Femina

723

(3)

I. ("From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women.")

723

(1)

II. ("I take as my theme 'The Independent Woman.")

724

(1)

III. ("I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket.")

725

(1)

Bitch

726

(1)

MAXINE KUMILA (b. 1925)

727

(4)

At the End of the Affair

728

(1)

How It Is

728

(1)

The Retrieval System

729

(1)

Noted in the New York Times

730

(1)

W.D. SNODGRASS (b. 1926)

731

(4)

April Inventory

732

(1)

Leaving the Motel

733

(1)

Disposal

734

(1)

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)

735

(6)

The Broken Home

737

(3)

The Mad Scene

740

(1)

Last Words

740

(1)

Casual Wear

741

(1)

DONALD HALL (b. 1928)

741

(3)

My Son My Executioner

742

(1)

Names of Horses

743

(1)

Ox Cart Man

744

(1)

ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)

744

(4)

Her Kind

746

(1)

The Abortion

746

(1)

The Truth the Dead Know

747

(1)

Wanting to Die

748

(1)

X.J. KENNEDY (b. 1929)

748

(4)

In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day

750

(1)

Little Elegy

751

(1)

Loose Woman

751

(1)

The Waterbury Cross

751

(1)

ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)

752

(9)

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

754

(1)

The Diamond Cutters

754

(1)

Living in Sin

755

(1)

Diving into the Wreck

755

(3)

From a Survivor

758

(1)

Rape

758

(1)

Power

759

(1)

Dedications

759

(1)

Tattered Kaddish

760

(1)

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)

761

(10)

The Colossus

764

(1)

Metaphors

764

(1)

Blackberrying

765

(1)

Mirror

765

(1)

Daddy

766

(2)

Morning Song

768

(1)

Lady Lazarus

768

(2)

Edge

770

(1)

ANNE STEVENSON (b. 1933)

771

(5)

The Victory

772

(1)

Generations

773

(1)

The Marriage

773

(1)

Making Poetry

773

(1)

Alas

774

(2)

American Internationalism: Surrealism, Deep Image Poetry, and the New York School

Historical and Critical Overview

776

(66)

BARBARA GUEST (b. 1920)

784

(2)

Green Revolutions

785

(1)

Poem

785

(1)

EDWARD FIELD (b. 1924)

786

(4)

Curse of the Cat Woman

787

(1)

Roaches

788

(2)

JOHN HAINES (b. 1924)

790

(4)

Winter News

791

(1)

The Flight

792

(1)

The Ghost Towns

792

(1)

Night

793

(1)

ROBERT BLY (b. 1926)

794

(4)

Waking from Sleep

796

(1)

The Busy Man Speaks

796

(1)

Counting Small-Boned Bodies

797

(1)

Johnson's Cabinet Watched by Ants

797

(1)

Romans Angry about the Inner World

797

(1)

FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)

798

(6)

Today

800

(1)

Poem ("The eager note on my door said 'Call me,)

800

(1)

To the Harbormaster

800

(1)

The Day Lady Died

801

(1)

Autobiographic Literaria

802

(1)

Homosexuality

802

(1)

Why I Am Not a Painter

803

(1)

JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)

804

(5)

Some Trees

806

(1)

These Lacustrine Cities

807

(1)

My Erotic Double

807

(1)

Paradoxes and Oxymorons

808

(1)

At North Farm

808

(1)

Just Walking Around

809

(1)

W.S. MERWIN (b. 1927)

809

(6)

Air

811

(1)

The Animals

811

(1)

For a Coming Extinction

812

(1)

For the Anniversary of My Death

812

(1)

The Last One

813

(1)

Some Last Questions

814

(1)

Rain Travel

815

(1)

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)

815

(6)

Complaint

817

(1)

Saint Judas

818

(1)

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

818

(1)

A Blessing

819

(1)

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

819

(1)

Twilights

820

(1)

The life

820

(1)

PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)

821

(5)

On the Edge

822

(1)

Animals Are Passing from Our Lives

822

(1)

To a Child Trapped in a Barber Shop

823

(1)

They Feed They Lion

824

(1)

You Can Have It

825

(1)

MARK STRAND (b. 1934)

826

(2)

Keeping Things Whole

827

(1)

Eating Poetry

827

(1)

CHARLES WRIGHT (b. 1935)

828

(5)

The New Poem

830

(1)

Clear Night

830

(1)

Stone Canyon Nocturne

830

(1)

California Dreaming

831

(2)

CHARLES SIMIC (b. 1938)

833

(3)

Fear

834

(1)

My Shoes

834

(1)

Fork

835

(1)

Eyes Fastened with Pins

835

(1)

Classic Ballroom Dances

836

(1)

JAMES TATE (b. 1943)

836

(6)

The Lost Pilot

837

(2)

Teaching the Ape to Write Poems

839

(1)

The Chaste Stranger

839

(3)

Return to Realism: Regionalism and Cultural Identity

Historical and Critical Overview

842

(54)

MILLER WILLIAMS (b. 1930)

847

(3)

On a Photograph of My Mother at Seventeen

848

(1)

Ruby Tells All

848

(2)

ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (1931-1991)

850

(5)

Haiku

851

(1)

Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane

852

(1)

The Idea of Ancestry

853

(1)

The Warden Said to Me the Other Day

854

(1)

A Poem for Myself

854

(1)

RHINA ESPAILLAT (b. 1932)

855

(2)

Agua

855

(1)

Bilingual/Bilingue

856

(1)

Bra

857

(1)

LINDA PASTAN (b. 1932)

857

(2)

Journey's End

858

(1)

Ethics

858

(1)

1932-

859

(1)

AMIRI BARAKA/LeROI JONES (b. 1934)

859

(4)

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

861

(1)

Legacy

862

(1)

Black Bourgeoisie

862

(1)

AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)

863

(4)

Father Son and Holy Ghost

864

(1)

Coal

865

(1)

October

866

(1)

N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934)

867

(3)

Simile

868

(1)

Carriers of the Dream Wheel

868

(1)

The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

869

(1)

The Eagle-Feather Fan

870

(1)

Headwaters

870

(1)

FRED CHAPPELL (b. 1936)

870

(2)

Narcissus and Echo

871

(1)

The Epigrammatist

872

(1)

Televangelist

872

(1)

Overheard in the Tearoom

872

(1)

LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936)

872

(3)

good times

873

(1)

homage to my hips

874

(1)

to my last period

874

(1)

C.K. WILLIAMS (b. 1936)

875

(4)

Hood

876

(1)

From My Window

877

(1)

Elms

878

(1)

BERNICE ZAMORA (b. 1938)

879

(1)

Penitents

879

(1)

ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)

880

(4)

I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra

881

(2)

Oakland Blues

883

(1)

JARED CARTER (b. 1939)

884

(2)

Work, for the Night Is Coming

885

(1)

The Gleaning

885

(1)

STEPHEN DUNLA (b. 1939)

886

(4)

Beautiful Women

887

(2)

Decorum

889

(1)

TED KOOSER (b. 1939)

890

(6)

Abandoned Farmhouse

891

(1)

The Blind Always Come as Such a Surprise

892

(1)

Tom Ball's Barn

892

(1)

Spring Plowing

893

(1)

Carrie

893

(3)

Contemporary Voices

Historical and Critical Overview

896

(148)

ROBERT PINSKY (b. 1940)

906

(2)

Shirt

906

(2)

ABC

908

(1)

BILLY COLLINS (b. 1941)

908

(3)

Embrace

909

(1)

Lowell, Mass.

910

(1)

The Dead

910

(1)

ROBERT HASS (b. 1941)

911

(3)

Black Mountain, Los Altos

912

(1)

Heroic Simile

912

(1)

Meditation at Lagunitar

913

(1)

LYN HEJINIAN (b. 1941)

914

(3)

From My Life

915

(1)

It was only a coincidence

915

(1)

Nostalgia is the elixir drained

916

(1)

CHARLES MARTIN (b. 1942)

917

(4)

Taken Up

918

(1)

E.S.L.

919

(1)

Metaphor of Grass in California

920

(1)

SHARON OLDS (b. 1942)

921

(4)

The Language of the Brag

922

(1)

The One Girl at the Boys' Party

923

(1)

Rites of Passage

924

(1)

Sex Without Love

924

(1)

LOUISE GLÜCK (b. 1943)

925

(3)

The School Children

926

(1)

The Gift

926

(1)

Mock Orange

927

(1)

The Gold Lily

927

(1)

Circe's Power

928

(1)

MICHAEL PALMER (b. 1943)

928

(3)

Autobiography

929

(1)

All those words we once used ...

930

(1)

Of this cloth doll which

931

(1)

MARY KINZIE (b. 1944)

931

(2)

The Tattooer

932

(1)

The Same Love

933

(1)

SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM (b. 1944)

933

(2)

To Li Po

934

(1)

My Father's Sadness

934

(1)

Learning to Love America

935

(1)

B.H. FAIRCHILD (b. 1945)

935

(3)

The Death of a Small Town

936

(1)

A Starlit Night

937

(1)

KAY RYAN (b. 1945)

938

(3)

Paired Things

939

(1)

Turtle

939

(1)

Bestiary

939

(1)

Chemise

940

(1)

Don't Look Back

940

(1)

Mockingbird

941

(1)

ADRIAN C. LOUIS (b. 1946)

941

(2)

Without Words

942

(1)

Looking for Judas

943

(1)

MARILYN NELSON (b. 1946)

943

(5)

The Ballad of Aunt Geneva

944

(1)

How I Discovered Poetry

945

(1)

Thus Far by Faith

945

(3)

RON SILLIMAN (b. 1946)

948

(3)

From The Chinese Notebook

949

(2)

AI (b. 1947)

951

(1)

Child Beater

951

(1)

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947)

952

(5)

Facing It

953

(1)

Starlight Scope Myopia

954

(1)

Tu Do Street

955

(1)

Banking Potatoes

956

(1)

AMY UYEMATSU (b. 1947)

957

(2)

Deliberate

957

(1)

The Ten Million Flames of Los Angeles

958

(1)

DAVID LEHMAN (b. 1948)

959

(2)

Rejection Slip

960

(1)

First Lines

961

(1)

R.S. GWYNN (b. 1948)

961

(4)

Untitled

963

(1)

Body Bags

963

(1)

1-800

964

(1)

HEATHER McHUGH (h. 1948)

965

(3)

The Trouble with "In"

967

(1)

Earthmoving Malediction

968

(1)

TIMOTHY STEELS (b. 1948)

968

(3)

Sapphics Against Anger

969

(1)

The Sheets

970

(1)

Summer

971

(1)

WENDY ROSE (b. 1948)

971

(2)

Vanishing Point: Urban Indian

972

(1)

For the White Poets Who Would Be Indian

972

(1)

CAROLYN FORCHÉ (b. 1950)

973

(2)

The Morning Baking

974

(1)

The Colonel

975

(1)

DANA GIOIA (b. 1950)

975

(3)

The Next Poem

977

(1)

Planting a Sequoia

978

(1)

WILLIAM LOGAN (b. 1950)

978

(2)

After a Line by F. Scott Fitzgerald

979

(1)

Small Bad Town

980

(1)

JOKIE GRAHAM (b. 1951)

980

(4)

Mind

982

(1)

Over and Over Stitch

983

(1)

Erosion

983

(1)

JOY HARDO (b. 1951)

984

(3)

She Had Some Horses

985

(2)

Sang for the Deer and Myself to Return On

987

(1)

ANDREW HUDGINS (b. 1951)

987

(3)

The Hereafter

988

(1)

Dead Christ

989

(1)

Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead

989

(1)

JUDITH ORTIZ COFEK (b. 1952)

990

(2)

Quinceañera

991

(1)

The Lesson of the Sugarcane

991

(1)

RITA DOVE (b. 1952)

992

(3)

Adolescence-I

993

(1)

Adolescence-II

993

(1)

Adolescence-III

993

(1)

Daystar

994

(1)

ALICE FULTON (b. 1952)

995

(1)

What I Like

995

(1)

The Expense of Spirit

996

(1)

MARK JARMAN (b. 1952)

996

(3)

Ground Swell

997

(2)

Hands Folded

999

(1)

After the Praying

999

(1)

NAOMI SHIHAB NYE (b. 1952)

999

(2)

Famous

1000

(1)

The Traveling Onion

1001

(1)

MARK DOTY (b. 1953)

1001

(6)

Fog

1002

(2)

Homo Will Not Inherit

1004

(3)

GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG (b. 1953)

1007

(3)

The Paperweight

1008

(1)

Supernatural Love

1009

(1)

KIM ADDONIZIO (b. 1954)

1010

(2)

First Poem for You

1011

(1)

Stolen Moments

1011

(1)

FRANCISCO X. ALARCÓN (b. 1954)

1012

(1)

The X in My Name

1012

(1)

Frontera Border

1013

(1)

DAVID MASON (b. 1954)

1013

(5)

Spooning

1014

(4)

Song of the Powers

1018

(1)

BENJAMIN ALTRE SÁENZ (b. 1954)

1018

(3)

To the Desert

1019

(1)

Resurrections

1020

(1)

MARY JO SALTER (b. 1954)

1021

(3)

Welcome to Hiroshima

1022

(1)

The Age of Reason

1023

(1)

CATHY SONG (b. 1955)

1024

(3)

Beauty and Sadness

1025

(1)

Stamp Collecting

1026

(1)

JACQUELINE OSHEROW (b. 1956)

1027

(2)

Song for the Music in the Warsaw Ghetto

1028

(1)

Ghazal: Comet

1028

(1)

H.L. HIX (b. 1960)

1029

(2)

No Less Than Twenty-Six Distinct Necronyms

1030

(1)

Reasons

1030

(1)

RAFAEL CAMPO (b. 1964)

1031

(2)

My Childhood in Another Part of the World

1032

(1)

What the Body Told

1033

(1)

SHERMAN ALEXIS (b. 1966)

1033

(2)

Indian Boy Love Song (#2)

1034

(1)

From "The Native American Broadcasting System"

1034

(1)

("I am the essence of powwow, I am")

1034

(1)

The Powwow at the End of the World

1035

(1)

MARISA DE LOS SANTOS (b. 1966)

1035

(2)

Perfect Dress

1036

(1)

CHRISTIAN WIMAN (b. 1966)

1037

(1)

What I Know

1037

(1)

LARISSA SZPORLUK (b. 1967)

1038

(1)

Vertigo

1038

(1)

DIANE THIEL (b. 1967)

1039

(2)

Memento Mori in Middle School

1040

(1)

KEVIN YOUNG (b. 1970)

1041

(3)

Quivira City Limits

1042

(2)

Selected Bibliographies

1044

(128)

Acknowledgments

1172

Index of Authors and Titles

1134

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