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The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry V2

ISBN: 9780393977929 | 0393977927
Edition: 3rd
Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 1/17/2003

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SummaryTable of Contents
Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry '”now available in two paperback volumes'”includes 1,596 poems by 195 poets (half of the poems are new), from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late nineteenth century to Anne Carson and Sherman Alexie in the twenty-first. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry continues to be... MORE
Preface to the Third Editionxxxiii
Acknowledgmentsxxxix
Introductionxliii
Charles Olson (1910--1970)
1(14)
... MORE
Pacific Lament
3(1)
The Thing Was Moving
4(2)
The Maximus Poems
6(9)
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
6(3)
Maximus, to Himself
9(2)
Maximus, to Gloucester, Letter 19 (A Pastoral Letter
11(1)
Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [Withheld]
12(2)
[Sun / Right in My Eye]
14(1)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)
15(30)
The Map
17(1)
The Man-Moth
18(1)
The Monument
19(2)
The Fish
21(2)
Roosters
23(3)
At the Fishhouses
26(2)
Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
28(2)
Sestina
30(1)
The Armadillo
31(1)
Brazil, January 1, 1502
32(2)
In the Waiting Room
34(2)
Crusoe in England
36(4)
Poem
40(1)
The End of March
41(2)
One Art
43(1)
North Haven
44(1)
May Swenson (1913--1989)
45(7)
Question
46(1)
The Centaur
46(2)
A Couple
48(1)
Unconscious Came a Beauty
49(1)
Staring at the Sea on the Day of the Death of Another
49(1)
Last Day
50(1)
Strawberrying
50(1)
In Love Made Visible
51(1)
Robert Hayden (1913--1980)
52(16)
Middle Passage
54(5)
Homage to the Empress of the Blues
59(1)
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
59(1)
Witch Doctor
60(2)
Those Winter Sundays
62(1)
Night, Death, Mississippi
62(2)
Elegies for Paradise Valley
64(3)
Bone-Flower Elegy
67(1)
Karl Shapiro (1913--2000)
68(4)
The Fly
69(1)
The First Time
70(1)
Manhole Covers
71(1)
The Piano Tuner's Wife
71(1)
Delmore Schwartz (1913--1966)
72(3)
In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave
73(1)
The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me
74(1)
The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital
74(1)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980)
75(8)
The Book of the Dead
76(3)
Absolom
76(2)
Alloy
78(1)
Boy with His Hair Cut Short
79(1)
Night Feeding
80(1)
The Conjugation of the Paramecium
80(2)
The Poem as Mask
82(1)
Poem
82(1)
William Stafford (1914--1993)
83(2)
Traveling through the Dark
83(1)
At the Bomb Testing Site
84(1)
For the Grave of Daniel Boone
84(1)
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)
85(7)
90 North
86(1)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
87(1)
Eighth Air Force
87(1)
Next Day
88(2)
Thinking of the Lost World
90(2)
John Berryman (1914--1972)
92(9)
The Dream Songs
93(7)
1 (``Huffy Henry hid the day'')
93(1)
4 (``Filling her compact & delicious body'')
94
14 (``Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.'')
14(81)
29 (``There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart'')
95(1)
37 Three around the Old Gentleman
95(1)
76 Henry's Confession
96(1)
145 (``Also I love him: me he's done no wrong'')
97(1)
149 (``This world is gradually becoming a place'')
97(1)
153 (``I'm cross with god who has wrecked this generation.'')
98(1)
219 So Long? Stevens
98(1)
312 (``I have moved to Dublin to have it out with you'')
99(1)
384 (``The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done'')
100(1)
Henry's Understanding
100(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)
101(10)
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
102(1)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
103(1)
The Hand That Signed the Paper
103(1)
When All My Five and Country Senses See
104(1)
Twenty-Four Years
104(1)
The Hunchback in the Park
105(1)
Poem in October
106(1)
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
107(1)
Fern Hill
108(2)
In My Craft or Sullen Art
110(1)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
110(1)
Judith Wright (1915--2000)
111(4)
Bora Ring
112(1)
Drought Year
112(1)
Flood Year
113(1)
Ishtar
113(1)
Request to a Year
114(1)
``Dove---Love''
114(1)
P. K. Page (b. 1916)
115(4)
The Stenographers
116(1)
Photos of a Salt Mine
117(1)
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree
118(1)
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)
119(21)
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
121(4)
After the Surprising Conversions
125(1)
Grandparents
126(1)
Commander Lowell
127(2)
Waking in the Blue
129(1)
Memories of West Street and Lepke
130(2)
``To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage''
132(1)
Skunk Hour
132(2)
For the Union Dead
134(2)
Waking Early Sunday Morning
136(2)
Reading Myself
138(1)
Dolphin
139(1)
Epilogue
139(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000)
140(10)
A Song in the Front Yard
141(1)
Sadie and Maud
142(1)
Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery
143(1)
The Vacant Lot
143(1)
The Rites for Cousin Vit
144(1)
The Bean Eaters
144(1)
We Real Cool
145(1)
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
145(1)
Boy Breaking Glass
145(1)
The Blackstone Rangers
146(2)
The Boy Died in My Alley
148(2)
Robert Duncan (1919--1988)
150(8)
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
151(1)
Poetry, a Natural Thing
152(1)
Passage over Water
153(1)
What I Saw
153(1)
Up Rising, Passages 25
154(2)
Childhood's Retreat
156(1)
Rites of Passage
156(1)
II (``Something is taking place.'')
156(1)
A Little Language
157(1)
William Meredith (b. 1919)
158(4)
Last Things
159(1)
Parents
160(1)
Dying Away
161(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
162(5)
[In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem to See]
163(1)
Dog
164(2)
Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West
166(1)
Louise Bennett (b. 1919)
167(11)
South Parade Peddler
168(1)
Pass fi White
169(1)
No Lickle Twang
170(2)
Dry-Foot Bwoy
172(1)
Colonization in Reverse
173(1)
Independance
174(1)
Independence Dignity
175(2)
Jamaica Oman
177(1)
Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)
178(5)
The Goose Fish
179(1)
The Icehouse in Summer
180(1)
Snowflakes
181(1)
Gyroscope
181(1)
Reading Pornography in Old Age
182(1)
Amy Clampitt (1920--1994)
183(13)
Beach Glass
184(1)
Meridian
185(1)
A Procession at Candlemas
186(4)
Beethoven, Opus 111
190(3)
Hispaniola
193(1)
Syrinx
194(2)
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
196(6)
The Death of a Toad
196(1)
Ceremony
197(1)
Boy at the Window
197(1)
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
198(1)
Playboy
199(1)
The Writer
200(1)
A Finished Man
201(1)
A Barred Owl
201(1)
Kingsley Amis (1922--1995)
202(3)
Against Romanticism
202(1)
An Ever-Fixed Mark
203(1)
Science Fiction
204(1)
Donald Davie (1922--1995)
205(5)
Remembering the Thirties
206(1)
Across the Bay
207(1)
In California
208(1)
In the Stopping Train
209(1)
(``The things he has been spared . . .'')
209(1)
(``Time and again he gave battle'')
209(1)
Philip Larkin (1922--1985)
210(17)
Reasons for Attendance
211(1)
Water
212(1)
Church Going
212(2)
An Arundel Tomb
214(1)
The Whitsun Weddings
215(2)
Faith Healing
217(1)
MCMXIV
218(1)
Talking in Bed
218(1)
Here
219(1)
Sunny Prestatyn
220(1)
Solar
220(1)
High Windows
221(1)
Sad Steps
221(1)
Homage to a Government
222(1)
The Explosion
223(1)
This Be The Verse
223(1)
Forget What Did
224(1)
Going, Going
224(2)
Aubade
226(1)
Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)
227(7)
Birdwatchers of America
228(1)
A Hill
229(1)
``It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It.''
230(1)
The Deodand
231(2)
The Book of Yolek
233(1)
James Dickey (1923--1997)
234(6)
The Hospital Window
235(1)
The Heaven of Animals
236(1)
Buckdancer's Choice
237(1)
The Sheep Child
238(2)
Alan Dugan (b. 1923)
240(3)
Love Song: I and Thou
240(1)
Fabrication of Ancestors
241(1)
On Being a Householder
242(1)
Internal Migration: On Being on Tour
242(1)
For Euthanasia and Pain-Killing Drugs
243(1)
Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
243(4)
The Battle
224(21)
My Father in the Night Commanding No
245(1)
American Poetry
246(1)
White Oxen
246(1)
Denise Levertov (1923--1997)
247(9)
Pleasures
248(1)
The Dog of Art
249(1)
Song for Ishtar
249(1)
The Ache of Marriage
250(1)
September 1961
250(1)
Olga Poems
251(2)
i (``By the gas-fire, kneeling'')
251(1)
iv (``On your hospital bed you lay'')
252(1)
vi (``Your eyes were the brown gold of pebbles under water.'')
252(1)
A Time Past
253(1)
Caedmon
254(1)
Celebration
255(1)
[Scraps of Moon]
255(1)
Aware
255(1)
Richard Hugo (1923--1982)
256(5)
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
257(1)
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
258(1)
White Center
259(2)
Kenneth Koch (1925--2002)
261(8)
Mending Sump
261(1)
Geography
262(2)
Variations on a Theme
264(1)
William Carlos Williams
Days and Nights
265(2)
The Stones of Time
265(2)
One Train May Hide Another
267(1)
To the Roman Forum
268(1)
Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)
269(5)
How It Is
270(1)
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief
270(1)
In the Absence of Bliss
271(2)
The Bangkok Gong
273(1)
Letters
274(1)
(``Your laugh, your scarves, the gloss of your makeup'')
274(1)
Donald Justice (b. 1925)
274(6)
On the Death of Friends in Childhood
275(1)
The Grandfathers
275(1)
After a Phrase Abandoned
276(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Tourist from Syracuse
276(1)
Men at Forty
277(1)
Variations on a Text by Vallejo
278(1)
In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn
279(1)
Nostalgia and Complaint of the Grandparents
279(1)
W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)
280(8)
April Inventory
281(2)
Heart's Needle
283(2)
3 (``The child between them on the street'')
283(1)
8 (``I thumped on you the best I could'')
284(1)
A Flat One
285(3)
A. R. Ammons (1926--2001)
288(17)
So I Said I Am Ezra
290(1)
Corsons Inlet
290(3)
Gravelly Run
293(1)
Laser
294(1)
Love Song
295(1)
Small Song
295(1)
The City Limits
295(1)
Easter Morning
296(2)
Motion's Holdings
298(1)
Tombstones
299(1)
1 (``the chisel, chipping in'')
299(1)
11 (``the grooves fill with moss'')
299(1)
19 (``the things of earth are not objects'')
299(1)
27 (``a flock of'')
299(1)
29 (``the letters'')
300(1)
Garbage
300(4)
2 (``garbage has to be the poem of our time because'')
300(4)
Strip
304(1)
43 (``sometimes I get the feeling I've never'')
304(1)
James Merrill (1926--1995)
305(20)
The Broken Home
307(2)
Days of 1964
309(2)
The Victor Dog
311(2)
Lost in Translation
313(5)
The Changing Light at Sandover
318(2)
The Book of Ephraim
318(1)
Z
318(2)
b o d y
320(1)
Self-Portrait in Tyvek(™) Windbreaker
320(4)
An Upward Look
324(1)
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)
325(9)
Naughty Boy
326(1)
A Wicker Basket
327(1)
The Door
327(3)
I Know a Man
330(1)
For Love
330(2)
``I Keep to Myself Such Measures . . .''
332(1)
Again
333(1)
Mother's Voice
333(1)
Life & Death
333(1)
[The Long Road of It All]
333(1)
[When It Comes]
334(1)
Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)
334(24)
Howl
337(7)
A Supermarket in California
344(1)
Sunflower Sutra
345(2)
America
347(2)
From Kaddish
349(3)
To Aunt Rose
352(1)
Last Night in Calcutta
353(1)
Mugging
354(3)
Sphincter
357(1)
Personals Ad
357(1)
David Wagoner (b. 1926)
358(3)
The Man of the House
358(1)
Elegy for a Forest Clear-Cut by the Weyerhaeuser Company
359(1)
A Young Girl with a Pitcher Full of Water
360(1)
By a Waterfall
360(1)
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
361(9)
Poem (``The eager note on my door said 'Call me'')
362(1)
Poem (``At night Chinamen jump'')
363(1)
A Step Away from Them
363(2)
The Day Lady Died
365(1)
Rhapsody
366(1)
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
367(2)
Why I Am Not a Painter
369(1)
Les Luths
370(1)
Robert Bly (b. 1926)
370(5)
Johnson's Cabinet Watched by Ants
371(1)
The Great Society
372(1)
My Father's Wedding
373(1)
Kneeling Down to Peer into a Culvert
374(1)
A Week after Your Death
375(1)
Charles Tomlinson (b. 1927)
375(6)
Cezanne at Aix
376(1)
Mr Brodsky
377(1)
Two Views of Two Ghost Towns
378(1)
Swimming Chenango Lake
379(1)
Snapshot
380(1)
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)
381(3)
First Song
382(1)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
382(1)
On the Oregon Coast
383(1)
Sheffield Ghazal 4: Driving West
384(1)
John Ashbery (b. 1927)
384(24)
Some Trees
386(1)
The Instruction Manual
387(2)
The Tennis Court Oath
389(1)
These Lacustrine Cities
390(1)
Soonest Mended
391(2)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
393(1)
As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat
394(1)
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
395(11)
Wet Casements
406(1)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
407(1)
At North Farm
407(1)
Of the Light
408(1)
W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)
408(6)
The Drunk in the Furnace
410(1)
The Hydra
411(1)
Some Last Questions
411(1)
For the Anniversary of My Death
412(1)
The Asians Dying
412(1)
For a Coming Extinction
413(1)
A Given Day
414(1)
James Wright (1927--1980)
414(8)
Saint Judas
416(1)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
416(1)
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
417(1)
A Blessing
417(1)
The Minneapolis Poem
418(2)
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned
420(1)
Small Frogs Killed on the Highway
420(1)
A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862
421(1)
Philip Levine (b. 1928)
422(5)
They Feed They Lion
423(1)
Belle Isle, 1949
424(1)
You Can Have It
424(2)
Drum
426(1)
Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928)
427(4)
Baggot Street Deserta
427(2)
Je t'adore
429(1)
Mirror in February
429(1)
Songs of the Psyche
430(1)
1 (``A character, indistinct, entered'')
430(1)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
431(7)
Her Kind
432(1)
The Truth the Dead Know
433(1)
All My Pretty Ones
433(2)
The Starry Night
435(1)
The Death of the Fathers
435(1)
How We Danced
435(1)
The Death Baby
436(1)
Dreams
436(1)
The Room of My Life
437(1)
A. K. Ramanujan (1929--1993)
438(11)
Self-Portrait
439(1)
Elements of Composition
440(2)
Alien
442(1)
Drafts
442(2)
Extended Family
444(2)
Chicago Zen
446(1)
Foundlings in the Yukon
447(2)
Richard Howard (b. 1929)
449(7)
``Man Who Beat Up Homosexuals Reported to Have AIDS Virus''
449(6)
My Last Hustler
455(1)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
456(28)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
459(1)
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
459(4)
Face to Face
463(1)
Orion
464(1)
Planetarium
465(1)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
466(1)
Diving into the Wreck
467(2)
Power
469(1)
Twenty-One Love Poems
470(9)
Grandmothers
479(2)
Seven Skins
481(2)
Fox
483(1)
Thom Gunn (b. 1929)
484(6)
My Sad Captains
485(1)
Moly
485(1)
Still Life
486(1)
The Missing
487(1)
A Blank
488(1)
The Problem
489(1)
John Hollander (b. 1929)
490(4)
Under Cancer
490(1)
Adam's Task
491(1)
Back to Town
492(1)
Variations on a Fragment
492(1)
Trumbull Stickney
By Heart
493(1)
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
494(40)
A Far Cry from Africa
496(1)
Laventille
497(3)
The Sea Is History
500(2)
The Schooner Flight
502(12)
The Fortunate Traveller
514(5)
The Season of Phantasmal Peace
519(1)
Omeros
520(14)
(`` 'This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them canoes.''')
520(2)
(`` 'Mais qui ca qui rivait-'ous, Philoctete?''')
522(1)
(``The Cyclone, howling because one of the lances'')
523(3)
(`` `Walk me down to the wharf.''')
526(2)
(``He remembered this sunburnt river with its spindly'')
528(3)
(``She bathed him in the brew of the root. The basin'')
531(2)
(``I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son'')
533(1)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
534(8)
Milton by Firelight
536(1)
Above Pate Valley
537(1)
Riprap
537(1)
Burning the Small Dead
538(1)
The Wild Edge
539(1)
The Bath
539(2)
Axe Handles
541(1)
Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930)
542(13)
The Arrivants
544(7)
Wings of a Dove
544(4)
Calypso
548(1)
Ogun
549(2)
Trane
551(1)
Stone
551(3)
Irae
554(1)
Christopher Okigbo (1930?--1967)
555(3)
Heavensgate
556(2)
[Before You, Mother Idoto]
556(1)
[Dark Waters of the Beginning.]
556(1)
[Bright]
557(1)
[I Am Standing above the Noontide]
557(1)
Come Thunder
558(1)
Ted Hughes (1930--1998)
558(13)
The Horses
559(2)
The Thought-Fox
561(1)
An Otter
561(1)
Pike
562(2)
Thistles
564(1)
Second Glance at a Jaguar
564(1)
Gog
565(1)
Out
566(1)
Wodwo
567(1)
Crow's First Lesson
568(1)
Roe Deer
569(1)
Orf
569(1)
Orts
570(1)
17. Buzz in the Window
570(1)
Okot p'Bitek (1931--1982)
571(10)
Song of Lawino
573(8)
1. My Husband's Tongue Is Bitter
573(2)
2. The Woman with Whom I Share My Husband
575(6)
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)
581(12)
In Memory of Jane Fraser
582(1)
Two Formal Elegies
583(1)
Ovid in the Third Reich
584(1)
September Song
584(1)
Funeral Music
585(1)
6 (``My little son, when you could command marvels'')
585(1)
8 (``Not as we are but as we must appear'')
585(1)
Mercian Hymns
586(5)
I-II
586(1)
IV-VII
587(1)
X-XI
588(1)
XVI
589(1)
XXV
590(1)
XXIX-XXX
590(1)
The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy
591(1)
1 (``Crack of a starting-pistol. Jean Jaures'')
591(1)
To the High Court of Parliament
592(1)
The Triumph of Love
592(1)
CXXI (``So what is faith if it is not'')
592(1)
Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)
593(22)
The Disquieting Muses
595(2)
Metaphors
597(1)
The Colossus
597(1)
Morning Song
598(1)
In Plaster
599(1)
Tulips
600(2)
Blackberrying
602(1)
Elm
602(2)
The Arrival of the Bee Box
604(1)
The Applicant
605(1)
Daddy
606(2)
Fever 103°
608(1)
Cut
609(2)
Poppies in October
611(1)
Ariel
611(1)
Lady Lazarus
612(2)
Edge
614(1)
Audre Lorde (1934--1992)
615(5)
Coal
616(1)
Now that I Am Forever with Child
617(1)
Love Poem
617(1)
From the House of Yemanja
618(1)
Hanging Fire
619(1)
A Question of Climate
620(1)
Mark Strand (b. 1934)
620(6)
Keeping Things Whole
621(1)
Eating Poetry
621(1)
The Prediction
622(1)
In Celebration
622(1)
Elegy for My Father
623(1)
6. The New Year
623(1)
Poor North
624(1)
The Idea
624(1)
Dark Harbor
625(1)
XX (``Is it you standing among the olive trees'')
625(1)
XXX (``There is a road through the canyon'')
625(1)
Wole Soyinka (b. 1934)
626(6)
Telephone Conversation
627(1)
Death in the Dawn
628(1)
Around Us, Dawning
629(1)
Massacre, October '66
630(1)
Dragonfly at My Windowpane
631(1)
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
632(8)
An Agony. As Now
634(1)
A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
635(1)
A Poem for Black Hearts
635(1)
Legacy
636(1)
A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie!
636(2)
Wise, Why's, Y's
638(1)
Wise I
638(1)
Y The Link Will Not Always Be ``Missing'' #40
638(1)
In the Funk World
639(1)
Monk's World
639(1)
Charles Wright (b. 1935)
640(12)
Blackwater Mountain
642(1)
Stone Canyon Nocturne
643(1)
Clear Night
643(1)
Homage to Paul Cezanne
644(4)
Laguna Blues
648(1)
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
648(3)
I (``How soon we come to road's end---'')
648(3)
Stray Paragraphs in February, Year of the Rat
651(1)
Mary Oliver (b. 1935)
652(3)
The Black Snake
653(1)
August
653(1)
Hawk
654(1)
Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
655(3)
The Cyclist
656(1)
Learning Experience
656(1)
The Cast Off
657(1)
Moonburn
658(1)
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
658(6)
[still]
659(1)
cutting greens
660(1)
homage to my hips
660(1)
[i am accused of tending to the past]
661(1)
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
661(1)
poem to my uterus
662(1)
to my last period
663(1)
cain
663(1)
leda 3
663(1)
the mississippi river empties into the gulf
664(1)
June Jordan (1936-2002)
664(5)
Notes on the Peanut
665(1)
July 4, 1984: For Buck
666(1)
DeLiza Spend the Day in the City
667(1)
The Reception
668(1)
Tony Harrison (b. 1937)
669(19)
The School of Eloquence
670(6)
Heredity
671(1)
On Not Being Milton
671(1)
Book Ends
672(1)
Turns
673(1)
Marked with D.
674(1)
Timer
674(1)
Self Justification
675(1)
History Classes
675(1)
v.
676(12)
Susan Howe (b. 1937)
688(10)
Thorow
689(3)
[Elegiac Western Imagination]
689(1)
[Cannot Be]
690(1)
[Gabion]
691(1)
Ruckenfigur
692(6)
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
698(7)
American History
699(1)
We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper
699(1)
Reuben, Reuben
700(1)
Deathwatch
700(2)
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
702(1)
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
703(1)
Double Elegy
704(1)
Charles Simic (b. 1938)
705(7)
Fork
706(1)
Watch Repair
706(1)
A Wall
707(1)
Prodigy
708(1)
Classic Ballroom Dances
709(1)
Spoons with Realistic Dead Flies on Them
709(1)
Eastern European Cooking
710(1)
Northern Exposure
710(1)
Cameo Appearance
711(1)
Head of a Doll
711(1)
Les Murray (b. 1938)
712(8)
The Powerline Incarnation
713(1)
The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle
714(3)
3 (``It is good to come out after driving and walk on bare grass;'')
714(1)
6 (``Barbecue smoke is rising at Legge's Camp; it is steaming into the midday air'')
715(1)
8 (``Forests and State Forests, all down off the steeper country; mosquitoes are always living in there:'')
715(1)
12 (``Now the sun is an applegreen blindness through the swells, a white blast on the sea face, flaking and shoaling;'')
716(1)
The Milk Lorry
717(1)
On Removing Spiderweb
718(1)
Mollusc
718(1)
Corniche
718(1)
Cotton Flannelette
719(1)
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
720(30)
Digging
723(1)
Death of a Naturalist
724(1)
Requiem for the Croppies
725(1)
Bogland
725(1)
The Tollund Man
726(2)
Bog Queen
728(1)
The Grauballe Man
729(2)
Punishment
731(1)
The Strand at Lough Beg
732(1)
Casualty
733(3)
In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge
736(2)
Station Island
738(3)
VIII (``Black water. White waves. Furrows snowcapped.'')
738(1)
XII (``Like a convalescent, I took the hand'')
739(2)
Alphabets
741(2)
Terminus
743(1)
The Stone Verdict
744(1)
Clearances
745(3)
At Toomebridge
748(1)
Electric Light
748(2)
Frank Bidart (b. 1939)
750(10)
Ellen West
750(9)
If I Could Mourn Like a Mourning Dove
759(1)
A Coin for Joe, with the Image of a Horse; c. 350--325 BC
760(1)
Michael Longley (b. 1939)
760(5)
Casualty
761(1)
Wounds
762(1)
Detour
763(1)
Ceasefire
763(1)
The Comber
764(1)
Death of a Horse
764(1)
The Beech Tree
765(1)
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
765(9)
This Is a Photograph of Me
766(1)
[You Fit into Me]
767(1)
They Eat Out
767(1)
Circe / Mud Poems
768(1)
[Men with the Heads of Eagles]
768(1)
Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture
769(1)
Miss July Grows Older
770(2)
Manet's Olympia
772(1)
Morning in the Burned House
773(1)
Eunice de Souza (b. 1940)
774(4)
Sweet Sixteen
775(1)
De Souza Prabhu
775(1)
Conversation Piece
776(1)
Women in Dutch Painting
776(1)
For Rita's Daughter, Just Born
776(1)
Landscape
777(1)
Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)
778(7)
The Figured Wheel
779(1)
The Questions
780(2)
The Uncreation
782(1)
ABC
783(1)
The Haunted Ruin
784(1)
Robert Hass (b. 1941)
785(3)
Song
785(1)
Meditation at Lagunitas
786(1)
Privilege of Being
787(1)
Forty Something
788(1)
Sonnet
788(1)
Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941)
788(10)
My Life
789(4)
A pause, a rose, a something on paper
789(1)
As for we who ``love to be astonished''
790(1)
It seemed that we had hardly begun and we were already there
791(2)
Oxota: A Short Russian Novel
793(1)
Chapter Seven
793(1)
Chapter 203
793(1)
The Cell
794(1)
[It Is the Writer's Object]
794(1)
[Yesterday I Saw the Sun]
794(1)
From Happily
795(3)
Derek Mahon (b. 1941)
798(8)
Afterlives
799(1)
The Snow Party
800(1)
The Last of the Fire Kings
801(1)
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
802(2)
An Bonnan Bui
804(1)
A Swim in Co. Wicklow
805(1)
Sharon Olds (b. 1942)
806(5)
Photograph of the Girl
807(1)
The Pope's Penis
807(1)
The Moment the Two Worlds Meet
808(1)
The Exact Moment of His Death
808(1)
My Father Speaks to Me from the Dead
809(1)
Once
810(1)
Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)
811(4)
Rondeau after a Transatlantic Telephone Call
811(1)
Taking Notice
812(1)
13 (``No better lost than any other woman'')
812(1)
Almost Aubade
812(1)
Year's End
813(1)
Twelfth Floor West
814(1)
Dave Smith (b. 1942)
815(3)
Leafless Trees, Chickahominy Swamp
815(1)
Fiddlers
816(1)
Wreck in the Woods
817(1)
Blowfish and Mudtoad
817(1)
Black Silhouettes of Shrimpers
817(1)
Louise Gluck (b. 1943)
818(8)
The School Children
819(1)
The Drowned Children
819(1)
Descending Figure
820(1)
Mock Orange
821(1)
A Fantasy
822(1)
The Wild Iris
823(1)
Penelope's Song
823(1)
Quiet Evening
824(1)
Vita Nova
824(1)
Earthly Love
825(1)
Michael Palmer (b. 1943)
826(5)
Song of the Round Man
827(1)
This Time
828(1)
Sun (``Write this. We have burned all their villages'')
829(2)
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943)
831(6)
Biography
832(1)
Letters & Other Worlds
832(2)
(Inner Tube)
834(1)
Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province We See Hints of the Circus
835(1)
Buried
835(1)
(``To be buried in times of war'')
835(1)
Buried 2
836(1)
vii (``The heat of explosions'')
836(1)
James Tate (b. 1943)
837(7)
Stray Animals
837(1)
The Blue Booby
838(1)
The Wheelchair Butterfly
839(1)
The Lost Pilot
840(1)
The Motorcyclists
841(1)
Poem
842(1)
Where Babies Come From
843(1)
Eavan Boland (b. 1944)
844(8)
Anorexic
845(1)
Domestic Interior
846(1)
Night Feed
846(1)
Mise Eire
847(1)
Fever
848(1)
The Women
849(1)
Fond Memory
850(1)
The Pomegranate
851(1)
Craig Raine (b. 1944)
852(3)
The Onion, Memory
853(1)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
854(1)
Norman Dubie (b. 1945)
855(3)
Elizabeth's War with the Christmas Bear
856(1)
The Funeral
857(1)
Last Poem, Snow Tree
857(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
858(6)
Starlight Scope Myopia
859(1)
Tu Do Street
860(1)
Facing It
861(1)
February in Sydney
862(1)
My Father's Love Letters
863(1)
Lorna Goodison (b. 1947)
864(11)
On Becoming a Mermaid
865(1)
Guinea Woman
866(1)
Nanny
867(1)
Annie Pengelly
868(3)
Turn Thanks to Miss Mirry
871(2)
Hungry Belly Kill Daley
873(1)
Bam Chi Chi Lala
873(2)
Ai (b. 1947)
875(4)
Twenty-Year Marriage
876(1)
Killing Floor
876(2)
Sleeping Beauty
878(1)
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)
879(8)
[Long Time Ago]
880(4)
Prayer to the Pacific
884(1)
Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story
885(2)
Agha Shahid Ali (1949--2001)
887(11)
Postcard from Kashmir
889(1)
The Dacca Gauzes
889(1)
Leaving Sonora
890(1)
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror
891(2)
Ghazal
893(1)
The Country without a Post Office
894(2)
Lenox Hill
896(2)
James Fenton (b. 1949)
898(7)
A German Requiem
899(2)
Dead Soldiers
901(2)
God, a Poem
903(1)
For Andrew Wood
904(1)
Grace Nichols (b. 1950)
905(4)
Epilogue
906(1)
Invitation
906(1)
Tropical Death
907(1)
Wherever I Hang
908(1)
Charles Bernstein (b. 1950)
909(6)
Autonomy Is Jeopardy
910(1)
The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree
910(1)
From The Lives of the Toll Takers
911(3)
Have Pen, Will Travel
914(1)
Carolyn Forche (b. 1950)
915(4)
Taking Off My Clothes
916(1)
The Memory of Elena
916(1)
Reunion
917(1)
The Colonel
918(1)
Jorie Graham (b. 1950)
919(14)
At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body
920(3)
Fission
923(4)
The Dream of the Unified Field
927(4)
The Surface
931(1)
The Swarm
932(1)
Anne Carson (b. 1950)
933(10)
From The Glass Essay
934(5)
TV Men
939(1)
XI (``TV is presocial, like Man.'')
939(1)
Epitaph: Zion
940(1)
Lazarus Standup: Shooting Script
940(2)
Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions
942(1)
Medbh McGuckian (b. 1950)
943(4)
Slips
944(1)
The Dream-Language of Fergus
945(1)
The War Ending
946(1)
Captain Lavender
946(1)
Mantilla
947(1)
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
947(5)
Deer Dancer
948(2)
Mourning Song
950(1)
Insomnia and the Seven Steps to Grace
950(1)
The Path to the Milky Way Leads through Los Angeles
951(1)
Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)
952(17)
Hedgehog
953(1)
Lunch with Pancho Villa
954(2)
Anseo
956(1)
Why Brownlee Left
957(1)
Quoof
957(1)
Meeting the British
957(1)
7, Middagh Street
958(6)
Wystan
958(4)
Salvador
962(2)
The Briefcase
964(1)
Cauliflowers
965(1)
The Sonogram
966(1)
Aftermath
967(1)
The Grand Conversation
967(2)
Gary Soto (b. 1952)
969(5)
After Tonight
969(1)
The Drought
970(1)
Graciela
971(1)
Oranges
971(2)
How Things Work
973(1)
Practicing Eulogies
973(1)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
974(13)
Geometry
976(1)
The House Slave
976(1)
Adolescence---II
976(1)
Agosta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove
977(2)
Parsley
979(2)
Thomas and Beulah
981(5)
The Event
981(1)
Dusting
982(1)
Weathering Out
983(1)
The Great Palaces of Versailles
984(1)
Wingfoot Lake
985(1)
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time before Bed
986(1)
Claudette Colvin Goes to Work
986(1)
Alberto Rios (b. 1952)
987(6)
Madre Sofia
988(2)
Mi Abuelo
990(1)
A Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving
991(1)
Anselmo's Moment with God
992(1)
The Death of Anselmo Luna
992(1)
Mark Doty (b. 1953)
993(6)
A Green Crab's Shell
994(1)
Homo Will Not Inherit
995(3)
The Embrace
998(1)
Thylias Moss (b. 1954)
999(5)
Lunchcounter Freedom
1000(1)
Interpretation of a Poem by Frost
1001(1)
The Rapture of Dry Ice Burning off Skin as the Moment of the Soul's Apotheosis
1001(2)
Crystals
1003(1)
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
1004(5)
Family Reunion
1005(1)
Captivity
1006(2)
Windigo
1008(1)
The Fence
1009(1)
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
1009(4)
Cannery Town in August
1010(1)
The Body as Braille
1011(1)
Refugee Ship
1011(1)
Poema para los Californios Muertos
1012(1)
Marilyn Chin (b. 1955)
1013(5)
How I Got That Name
1013(3)
Altar
1016(1)
Autumn Leaves
1016(1)
Chinese Quatrains (The Woman in Tomb 44)
1017(1)
Cathy Song (b. 1955)
1018(7)
Beauty and Sadness
1019(1)
Lost Sister
1020(2)
Sunworshippers
1022(1)
Ghost
1023(2)
Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955)
1025(5)
Warming Her Pearls
1026(1)
The Good Teachers
1027(1)
Medusa
1028(1)
Mrs Lazarus
1029(1)
Dionisio D. Martinez (b. 1956)
1030(4)
Hysteria
1031(1)
Temporary Losses
1032(1)
Moto Perpetuo
1033(1)
The Prodigal Son in His Own Words: Bees
1034(1)
Henri Cole (b. 1956)
1034(5)
Harvard Classics
1035(1)
Buddha and the Seven Tiger Cubs
1036(1)
White Spine
1037(1)
Folly
1038(1)
Childlessness
1039(1)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
1039(6)
The Gift
1040(1)
Persimmons
1041(2)
Eating Alone
1043(1)
Eating Together
1044(1)
Pillow
1044(1)
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
1045(88)
Evolution
1046(1)
On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
1046(1)
Tourists
1047(2)
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
1049(1)
Crow Testament
1050(3)
POETICS
Charles Olson
Projective Verse (1950)
1053(8)
Dylan Thomas
Poetic Manifesto (w. 1951)
1061(6)
Philip Larkin
The Pleasure Principle (1957)
1067(2)
From Introduction to All What Jazz (1970)
1069(3)
Frank O'Hara
Personism: A Manifesto (w. 1959)
1072(2)
Allen Ginsberg
Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl (1959)
1074(3)
Amiri Baraka
From The Myth of a ``Negro Literature'' (1963)
1077(4)
Denise Levertov
Some Notes on Organic Form (1965)
1081(5)
Adrienne Rich
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision (1971)
1086(10)
Seamus Heaney
Feeling into Words (w. 1974)
1096(13)
Louise Bennett
Jamaica Language (w. 1979--81)
1109(2)
Charles Bernstein
Semblance (1980)
1111(4)
A. K. Ramanujan
From Where Mirrors Are Windows: Toward an Anthology of Reflections (1989)
1115(4)
Derek Walcott
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory (1992)
1119(14)
Selected Bibliographies1133(48)
Permissions Acknowledgments1181(14)
Index1195


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