New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
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- Includes index.
- Spoon River anthology : Hill Fiddler Jones Petit, the poet / Edgar Lee Masters — Miniver Cheevy Mr. Flood’s party / Edwin Arlington Robinson — Creation / James Weldon Johnson — Poet Life’s tragedy / Paul Laurence Dunbar — Death of the hired man Mending wall Birches Stopping by woods on a snowy evening Tree at my window Directive / Robert Frost — Patterns / Amy Lowell — Susie Asado Tender buttons : Box Plate / Gertrude Stein — I sit and sew / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson — Grass Cahoots / Carl Sandburg — Peter Quince at the Clavier Disillusionment of ten o’clock Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird Anecdote of the jar Emperor of ice-cream Of mere being / Wallace Stevens — Fragment / Angelina Weld Grimké — Tract Danse Russe Red wheelbarrow Yachts Asphodel, that greeny flower (Book I, lines 1-92) / William Carlos Williams — Moonlight There will come soft rains / Sara Teasdale –
- Jewel stairs’ grievance River-merchants’ wife : a letter In a station of the metro Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Canto LXXXI : (Libretto: Yet/Ere the season died a-cold ) / Ezra Pound — Sea rose Helen Walls do not fall : 1 ( An incident here and there ) Hermetic definition : Red rose and a beggar : 1 ( Why did you come ) 2 ( Take me anywhere– ) 5 ( Venice–Venus? ) / Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) — Gale in April Shine, perishing republic Clouds at evening Credo / Robinson Jeffers — Fish Poetry Poetry / Marianne Moore — Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes Waste land / T.S. Eliot — If we must die Harlem dancer / Claude McKay — Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish — First fig Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay — in Just- Buffalo Bill’s Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls next to of course god america i somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / E.E. Cummings — Reapers November cotton flower Portrait in Georgia / Jean Toomer — Medusa New moon / Louise Bogan — Dark symphony Harlem gallery : Psi ( Black boy, / let me get up from the white man’s table– ) / Melvin B. Tolson — Bridge [excerpts] : Proem : To Brooklyn Bridge II : Powhatan’s daughter : The river / Hart Crane — Silent poem / Robert Francis –
- Negro speaks of rivers I, too Dream boogie Harlem / Langston Hughes — Incident To John Keats, poet, at spring time Yet do I marvel From the dark tower / Countee Cullen — Father and son Portrait Touch me / Stanley Kunitz — Musée des Beaux Arts Epitaph on a tyrant / W.H. Auden — My papa’s waltz Waking In a dark time / Theodore Roethke — Maximus poems : I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you Distances / Charles Olson — Fish Sestina First death in Nova Scotia Visits to St. Elizabeths One art / Elizabeth Bishop — Mourning poem for the queen of Sunday Those winter Sundays Frederick Douglass Middle passage / Robert Hayden — Effort at speech between two people Then I saw what the calling was Poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser — Heavy bear who goes with me / Delmore Schwartz — Dream songs : 4 ( Filling her compact & delicious body ) 14 ( Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so ) 29 ( There sat down, once ) 149 ( This world is gradually becoming a place ) Henry’s understanding / John Berryman — 90 north Death of the ball turret gunner Woman at the Washington Zoo Next day / Randall Jarrell — For my daughter / Weldon Kees — Different image / Dudley Randall — Traveling through the dark At the bomb testing site / William Stafford –
- Scars / Ruth Stone — For my people / Margaret Walker — Mother Song in the front yard Bean eaters Lovers of the poor We real cool Blackstone rangers / Gwendolyn Brooks — To speak of woe that is in marriage Skunk hour For the Union dead / Robert Lowell — Often I am permitted to return to a meadow My mother would be a falconress / Robert Duncan — Populist manifesto / Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Parents / William Meredith — Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry / Howard Nemerov — Hyacinth garden in Brooklyn August 1945 / Hayden Carruth — Love calls us to the things of this world Cottage Street, 1953 Writer / Richard Wilbur — Sheep child / James Dickey — Love song : I and thou / Alan Dugan — More light! More light! / Anthony Hecht — Degrees of gray in Philipsburg Freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Richard Hugo — Poem unwritten Caedmon Swan in falling snow / Denise Levertov — American poetry / Louis Simpson — Muse of water / Carolyn Kizer — Fresh air Permanently / Kenneth Koch –
- Morning swim How it is / Maxine Kumin — Behaving like a Jew Dancing Another insane devotion / Gerald Stern — City limits Corsons Inlet / A.R. Ammons — Snowfall in the afternoon Driving to town late to mail a letter Waking from sleep / Robert Bly — Flower I know a man Language Rain Bresson’s movies / Robert Creeley — Victor dog / James Merrill — Steps Poem ( Lana Turner has collapsed! ) Day Lady died / Frank O’Hara — Some trees Self-portrait in a convex mirror What is poetry / John Ashbery — Bear After making love we hear footsteps Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell — Air For the anniversary of my death Yesterday Chord / W.S. Merwin — Blessing Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Lying in a hammock at William Duffy’s farm in Pine Island, Minnesota In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been condemned / James Wright — My son my executioner Digging / Donald Hall — Animals are passing from our lives They feed they lion You can have it Simple truth / Philip Levine — Her kind Abortion Wanting to die In celebration of my uterus Rowing / Anne Sexton — Orion Planetarium Valediction forbidding mourning Twenty-one love poems : XIII ( The rules break like a thermometer– ) / Adrienne Rich –
- Marriage / Gregory Corso — Hay for the horses Riprap Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Gary Snyder — Far cry from Africa Sea grapes Schooner : Flight (part 11, After the storm : There’s a fresh light that follows– ) Light of the world Omeros, Book VII, LXIV, i ( I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe’s son– ) / Derek Walcott — Let me tell you / Miller Williams — Idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight — Preface to a twenty volume suicide note Agony. As now. SOS Black art / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) — Wrong train Final sonnet / Ted Berrigan — Power / Audre Lorde — poem at thirty / Sonia Sanchez — Prediction Night, the porch / Mark Strand — Stone is nobody’s / Russell Edson — Singapore Summer day / Mary Oliver — Reunion Dead color California dreaming / Charles Wright — homage to my hips [at last we killed the roaches] death of fred clifton to my last period / Lucille Clifton — Poem about my rights / June Jordan — 1968 / Frederick Seidel –
- From my window Blades / C.K. Williams — Mechanic / Diane Wakoski — Dear John, dear Coltrane Last affair : Bessie’s blues song Grandfather Nightmare begins responsibility / Michael S. Harper — Stone Fork Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic — Grandmother / Paula Gunn Allen — Ellen West / Frank Bidart — Spring letter Two or three wishes / Carl Dennis — Allegory of the cave Tucson / Stephen Dunn — History of my heart Questions Samurai song / Robert Pinsky — Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat / James Welch — Introduction to poetry Dead / Billy Collins — Allen Ginsberg Weakness / Toi Derricotte — How to like it Lullaby / Stephen Dobyns — Song Pornographer Return of Robinson Jeffers / Robert Hass — My life : A name trimmed with colored ribbons / Lyn Hejinian — Machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano / B.H. Fairchild — But he was cool or: he even stopped for green lights Poem to complement other poems / Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) — In memory of the Utah stars The accompanist / William Matthews –
- Language of the brag Lifting / Sharon Olds — Barbed wire / Henry Taylor — Black silk Under stars / Tess Gallagher — I do not / Michael Palmer — Lost pilot / James Tate — Elizabeth’s war with the Christmas bear Funeral / Norman Dubie — August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Carol Muske-Dukes — Turtle Bestiary / Kay Ryan — Childhood ideogram Winter stars / Larry Levis — Looking for Judas / Adrian C. Louis — People of the other village / Thomas Lux — Ballad of Aunt Geneva Star-fix / Marilyn Nelson — Albany / Ron Silliman — Cuba, 1962 Kid Finished / Ai — Thanks Tu Do Street Facing it Nude interrogation / Yusef Komonyakaa — Song of the Andoumboulou : 21 / Nathaniel Mackey — Gathering the bones together Two lines from the Brothers Grimm Origin of the marble forest / Gregory Orr — Reaching Yellow River / Roberta Hill Whiteman — Away / Albert Goldbarth –
- Language lesson 1976 What he thought / Heather McHugh — In cold storm light / Leslie Marmon Silko — Calypso / Olga Broumas — Latin & soul / Victor Hernández Cruz — Miami heart / Jane Miller — Iris / David St. John — Why Ralph refuses to dance Girl friend poem #3 Crescent / C.D. Wright — Taking off my clothes / Carolyn Forché — San Sepolcro / Jorie Graham — What the living do / Marie Howe — She had some horses My house is the red earth / Joy Harjo — Legend / Garrett Hongo — Begotten We were simply talking / Andrew Hudgins — Imagining their own hymns Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly — Meeting the British Errata Throwback / Paul Muldoon — Quinceañera / Judith Ortiz Cofer — Parsley Daystar After reading Mickey in the night kitchen for the third time before bed Claudette Colvin goes to work / Rita Dove — Our calling / Alice Fulton — Thinking of Galileo Hatred / Barbara Hamby –
- Unholy sonnet 13 / Mark Jarman — Traveling onion Arabic Wedding cake / Naomi Shihab Nye — Nani England finally, like my mother always said we would / Alberto Ríos — Nocturne : Blue waves Unfinished / Laurie Sheck — Field poem Oranges Black hair / Gary Soto — Yellow stars and ice Forest / Susan Stewart — Brilliance Esta noche Bill’s story / Mark Doty — Black Nikes / Harryette Mullen — Alcohol / Franz Wright — To my brother Love of my flesh, living death / Lorna Dee Cervantes — My wicked wicked ways Little clown, my heart / Sandra Cisneros — Jack Johnson does the eagle rock Crows in a strong wind I’m a fool to love you / Cornelius Eady — Indian boarding school : The runaways / Louise Erdrich — Spooning / David Mason — How I got that name Composed near the Bay Bridge Survivor / Marilyn Chin — Youngest daughter / Cathy Song — Another reluctance Insect / Annie Finch — Gift Eating together / Li-young Lee –
- Our lady As from a quiver of arrows / Carl Phillips — Bag of mice Cartoon physics, part 1 / Nick Flynn — Venus Hottentot Affirmative action blues (1993) Equinox / Elizabeth Alexander — White elephants : Million balconies Train windows / Reetika Vazirani — What the orphan inherits Powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie — Hot combs Amateur fighter Flounder / Natasha Trethewey — Tantrum / A.E. Stallings — Spare / Joanna Klink — Postfeminism Your one good dress / Brenda Shaughnessy — Quivira city limits Everywhere is out of town Whatever you want / Kevin Young — At Pegasus Lady sings the blues / Terrance Hayes.
- An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.
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