Twentieth-Century American Poetry / Edition 1

Twentieth-Century American Poetry / Edition 1

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0072400196
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Pub. Date:
12/24/2003
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Companies, The
ISBN-10:
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Overview

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.


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ISBN-13: 9780072400199
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 12/24/2003
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 1192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range: 11 - 17 Years

About the Author

Born in Los Angeles in 1950, Dana Gioia attended Stanford University and did graduate work at Harvard, where he studied with Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Fitzgerald. He left Harvard to attend Stanford Business School. For fifteen years he worked in New York for general Foods (eventually becoming a Vice President) while writing nights and weekends, In 1992 he became a full-time writer. Currently he lives in California.

Gioia has published three books of poems, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award. He is also the author of Can Poetry Matter? (1992; reprinted 2002). He has edited a dozen anthologies of poetry and fiction. A prolific critic and reviewer, he is also a frequent commentator on American culture for BBC Radio. He recently completed Nosferatu (2001), an opera libretto for composer Alva Henderson.

David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, and received degrees from The Colorado College and the University of Rochester. He spent most of his twenties traveling and working as a manual laborer, with a brief stint working for a film company. He has taught at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, and is now on the faculty of The Colorado College. He lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs.

Mason’s two prize-winning books of poems are The Buried Houses (1991) and The Country I Remember (1996). With Mark Jarman he co-edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (1996; reprinted 1998) and with the late John Frederick Nims Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (2000). His collection of literary essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, appeared in 2000. Mason is also a memoirist, fiction writer and frequent book reviewer.

Meg Schoerke was raised in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas. She did undergraduate work at Northwestern University and earned M.A. M. F. A. and Ph. D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poems and reviews have appeared in journals such as The American Scholar, TriQuarterly, and The Hudson Review. She has also published a poetry chapbook, Beyond Mourning, and contributed essays to a variety of books on twentieth century American poetry. She lives in San Francisco, where she works as an Associate Professor of English at San Francisco State University.

Table of Contents

Preface
REALISM AND NATURALISM

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

Black riders came from the sea

In the desert

I stood upon a high place

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

I met a seer

On the horizon the peaks assembled

I walked in a desert

A man feared that he might find an assassin

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind

The wayfarer

A man said to the universe

My cross!

A man adrift on a slim spar

Edwin Markham (1852-1940)

The Man with the Hoe

Outwitted

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

An Obstacle

Whatever Is

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)

from Spoon River Anthology

The Hill

Anne Rutledge

Editor Whedon

Knowlt Hoheimer

Lucinda Matlock

Petit, the Poet

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

The Clerks

George Crabbe

The House on the Hill

Luke Havergal

Richard Cory

Reuben Bright

How Annandale Went Out

Miniver Cheevy

Another Dark Lady

Bewick Finzer

Eros Turannos

The Mill

Mr. Flood's Party

New England

The Sheaves

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

O Black and Unknown Bards

The Creation

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

We Wear the Mask

Sympathy

The Debt

The Poet

To a Captious Critic

Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)

Mnemosyne

Near Helikon

Sir, say no more

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Mowing

My November Guest

Storm Fear

The Tuft of Flowers

After Apple-Picking

The Death of the Hired Man

Home Burial

Mending Wall

The Wood-Pile

Birches

"Out, Out—"

The Oven Bird

The Road Not Taken

Fire and Ice

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

To Earthward

The Witch of Cošs

Acquainted With the Night

Once by the Pacific

Desert Places

Design

Neither Out Far Nor in Deep

Provide Provide

Come In

The Gift Outright

The Silken Tent

Directive

Sara Cleghorn (1876-1959)

The Golf Links

The Survival of the Fittest

Alan Seeger (1888-1916)

I Have a Rendezvous with Death

John Allan Wyeth Jr. (1894-1980)

The Train from Brest

Corbie to Sailly-Le-Sec

War in Heaven
EARLY MODERNISM: FROM IMAGISM TO HIGH MODERNISM

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Patterns

A Decade

A Lover

The Pond

1 Opal

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

from Tender Buttons

A Blue Coat

A Piano

A Purse

A Mounted Umbrella

A Time to Eat

A Fire

A Handkerchief

Red Roses

Yone Noguchi (1875-1947)

I Hear You Call, Pine Tree

from Japanese Hokkus

Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)

November Night

Triad

The Warning

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Chicago

Fog

Limited

Window

Cool Tombs

Grass

Cahoots

Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

General William Booth Enters into Heaven

Factory Windows Are Always Broken

The Voyage

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

The Snow Man

Nuances of a Theme by Williams

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Tea at the Palaz of Hoon

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

Sunday Morning

Bantams in Pine-Woods

Anecdote of the Jar

To the One of Fictive Music

Peter Quince at the Clavier

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

To the Roaring Wind

The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad

Evening Without Angels

The Idea of Order at Key West

A Postcard from the Volcano

from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction

The Course of a Particular

Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

Of Modern Poetry

The Plain Sense of Things

Of Mere Being

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Aux Imagistes

Danse Russe

Dedication for a Plot of Ground

El Hombre

Tract

Portrait of a Lady

The Great Figure

Queen-Anne's-Lace

To Waken An Old Lady

The Widow's Lament in Springtime

Spring and All

The Right of Way

To Elsie

The Red Wheelbarrow

The Last Words of My English Grandmother

This is Just to Say

Flowers by the Sea

The Yachts

The Dance

The Descent

from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Sestina: Altaforte

Portrait D'une Femme

The Return

Alba

Coda

The Coming of War: Acton

The Garden

The Garret

Papyrus

In a Station of the Metro

The Jewel Stairs' Grievance

Lament of the Frontier Guard

The Rest

The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter

Salutation

A Pact

from Homage to Sextus Propertius

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

from The Cantos

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

Canto XLV ("With Usura")

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

H. D. (1886-1961)

Oread

Garden

Pear Tree

The Pool

Sea Rose

Sea Violet

Storm

Eurydice

At Baia

Helen

from The Walls Do Not Fall

I ("An incident here and there")

II ("Evil was active in the land")

from The Flowering of the Rod

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

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

To the Stone-Cutters

Boats in a Fog

Shine, Perishing Republic

Fawn's Foster-Mother

Hurt Hawks

Hands

Shane O'Neill's Cairn

New Mexican Mountain

November Surf

Ave Caesar

Love the Wild Swan

Rock and Hawk

The Purse-Seine

Carmel Point

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

The Fish

Poetry

Poetry (Revised Version)

Those Various Scalpels

To a Steam Roller

Marriage

An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish

A Graveyard

New York

The Steeple-Jack

What Are Years?

In Distrust of Merits

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Preludes

The Boston Evening Transcript

Hysteria

La Figlia che Piange

Sweeney Among the Nightingales

The Waste Land

The Hollow Men

Journey of the Magi

Ash-Wednesday

from Four Quartets

Burnt Norton

e. e. cummings (1894-1962)

in Just-

Buffalo Bill 's

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls

next to of course god america i

i sing of Olaf glad and big

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

may i feel said he

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

you shall above all things be glad and young

anyone lived in a pretty how town

my father moved through dooms of love

pity this busy monster,manunkind

o purple finch

Witter Bynner (1881-1968) and Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945)

The Spectra Hoax

Opus 181 (Anne Knish)

Opus 104 (Emanuel Morgan)

Opus 40 (Emanuel Morgan)

Opus 15 (Emanuel Morgan)
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958)

The Black Finger

Tenebris

A Mona Lisa

Fragment

Claude McKay (1889-1948)

If We Must Die

The Lynching

America

My Mother

The White City

Outcast

Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

Seventh Street

November Cotton Flower

Georgia Dusk

Reapers

Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)

Memphis Blues

Mose

Slim Greer

Slim in Atlanta

Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)

Hatred

To a Dark Girl

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I, Too

Negro

Cross

The Weary Blues

Dream Variations

Song for a Dark Girl

Mother to Son

Park Bench

50—50

Ku Klux

Morning After

Madam's Past History

Madam and the Census Man

Island

Harlem [Dream Deferred]

Theme for English B

Homecoming

Dinner Guest: Me

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

For a Lady I Know

For Paul Laurence Dunbar

Heritage

Incident

Yet Do I Marvel

From the Dark Tower

To Certain Critics
MODERNIST ALTERNATIVES: ROMANTICS AND NEO-CLASSICISTS

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Over the Roofs

There Will Come Soft Rains

Since There Is No Escape

Water Lilies

In a Darkening Garden

Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)

The Eagle and the Mole

Wild Peaches

From the Wall

Let No Charitable Hope

Prophecy

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

Winter Remembered

Blue Girls

Dead Boy

Piazza Piece

Conrad Aiken (1889-1978)

from Senlin: A Biography

Morning Song of Senlin

from Priapus and the Pool

"When trout swim down Great Ormond Street"

John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)

Perspectives are Precipices

My Grandfather Kept Peacocks

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)

Ars Poetica

The End of the World

The Silent Slain

You, Andrew Marvell

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied

First Fig

Second Fig

I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear

Recuerdo

Passer Mortuus Est

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

Love Is Not All

Hearing Your Words, and Not a Word Among Them

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Comment

One Perfect Rose

Résumé

Unfortunate Coincidence

Sanctuary

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

The Alchemist

The Crows

Medusa

Memory

Women

Knowledge

Cassandra

Henceforth, from the Mind

The Sleeping Fury

Spirit's Song

Song for the Last Act

The Dream

Night

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)

American Names

1936

Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966)

from A Gallery of Harlem Portraits

Sootie Joe

An Ex-Judge at the Bar

Dark Symphony

Hart Crane (1899-1932)

Praise for an Urn

Garden Abstract

At Melville's Tomb

Black Tambourine

Chaplinesque

My Grandmother's Love Letters

Voyages

The Wine Menagerie

from The Bridge

To Brooklyn Bridge

Royal Palm

The Broken Tower

Allen Tate (1899-1979)

Ode to the Confederate Dead

The Subway

Robert Francis (1901-1987)

Hallelujah: A Sestina

Catch

Yes, What?

Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)

The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

Bearded Oaks

Evening Hawk

What Voice at Moth-Hour
MID-CENTURY POETS

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

Cuttings

Cuttings (later version)

Root Cellar

Dolor

My Papa's Waltz

Elegy for Jane

The Waking

I Knew a Woman

In a Dark Time

from North American Sequence:

The Longing

Journey to the Interior

The Far Field

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

The Fish

The Map

At the Fishhouses

The Armadillo

Filling Station

Questions of Travel

Visits to St. Elizabeths

In the Waiting Room

The Moose

One Art

J. V. Cunningham (1911-1985)

For My Contemporaries

In the Thirtieth Year

To My Wife

To What Strangers, What Welcome

Epigrams

Josephine Miles (1911-1985)

Reason

Riddle

Conception

Album

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield

Frederick Douglass

Middle Passage

Night, Death, Mississippi

Those Winter Sundays

The Whipping

A Plague of Starlings

John Frederick Nims (1913-1999)

Dedication: Love Poem

Epigrams

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)

Effort at Speech Between Two People

To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century

Double Dialogue

The Poem as Mask

Poem

John Berryman (1914-1972)

Desires of Men and Women

from The Dream Songs

Huffy Henry hid the day (1)

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

I am the little man who smokes & smokes (22)

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

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

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

Losses

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

90 North

The Woman at the Washington Zoo

Next Day

Weldon Kees (1914-1955)

For My Daughter

Crime Club

River Song

Robinson

Aspects of Robinson

1926

Round

Dudley Randall (1914-2000)

Ballad of Birmingham

Booker T. and W. E. B.

A Different Image

William Stafford (1914-1993)

The Farm on the Great Plains

Traveling through the Dark

Ask Me

At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border

Our Kind

Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

For my Brother: Reported Missing in Action, 1943

The Reader

Margaret Walker (1915-1998)

For Malcolm X

John Ciardi (1916-1986)

Most Like an Arch This Marriage

Firsts

Thomas McGrath (1916-1990)

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

Jig Tune: Not for Love

The Buffalo Coat

Remembering the Children of Auschwitz

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

The Mother

Sadie and Maud

Southeast Corner

But Can See Better There, and Laughing There

The Rites for Cousin Vit

The Bean Eaters

We Real Cool

The Blackstone Rangers

The Coora Flower

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Concord

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket

Memories of West Street and Lepke

Skunk Hour

For the Union Dead

Waking Early Sunday Morning

History

Epilogue

William Jay Smith (b. 1918)

A Note on the Vanity Dresser

Galileo Galilei

American Primitive

May Swenson (1919-1989)

Question

Four-Word Lines

Strawberrying
OPEN FORM: OBJECTIVISTS, BEATS, BLACK MOUNTAIN POETS

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Laura Riding (1901-1991)

Helen's Burning

The Map of Places

The World and I

Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)

Dirge

1938

Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)

The Element Mother

Sorrow moves in wide waves

Poet's work

I knew a clean man

Autumn Sequence

Autumn

Last night the trash barrel

The boy tossed the news

Popcorn-can cover

Truth

Lights, lifts

O late fall

He lived—childhood summers

Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)

Non Ti Fidar

A Song for the Year's End

Starglow

Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)

A Very Early Morning Exercise

Andree Rexroth

Vitamins and Roughage

The Signature of All Things

George Oppen (1908-1984)

from Discrete Series:

The knowledge not of sorrow, you were

Leviathan

The Bicycles and the Apex

The Building of the Skyscraper

Psalm

from Of Being Numerous

Strange that the youngest people I know

Charles Olson (1910-1970)

Maximus, to himself

La Chute

William Everson / Brother Antoninus (1912-1944)

These Are the Ravens

Advent

The Making of the Cross

Robert Duncan (1919-1988)

The Temple of the Animals

Poetry, a Natural Thing

This Place Rumored to Have Been Sodom

Roots and Branches

The Torso (Passages 18)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)

In Goya's Greatest Scenes

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

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

The Ache of Marriage

Hypocrite Women

O Taste and See

Our Bodies

Prisoners

Samuel Menashe (b. 1925)

O Many Named Beloved

The Shrine Whose Shape I Am

Self Employed

At a Standstill

Curriculum Vitae

Jack Spicer (1925-1965)

Conspiracy

A Book of Music

A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)

Gravelly Run

The Constant

The City Limits

Cut the Grass

Viable

Robert Creeley (b. 1926)

I Know a Man

Heroes

Oh No

For Love

The Rain

"I Keep to Myself Such Measures . . ."

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

America

Howl

A Supermarket in California

Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout

Riprap

Water

Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen

Axe Handles
POST-WAR FORMALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: FROM FORMALISM TO FEMINISM AND THE CONFESSIONAL MODE

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)

A Primer of the Daily Round

The Blue Swallows

The Western Approaches

Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry

The Makers

The War in the Air

Mona Van Duyn (b. 1921)

Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri

Causes

Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

The Beautiful Changes

The Pardon

Love Calls Us to Things of This World

Cottage Street, 1953

Piccola Commedia

To the Etruscan Poets

The Writer

Hamlen Brook

The Ride

Howard Moss (1922-1987)

The Pruned Tree

Tourists

James Dickey (1923-1997)

The Performance

The Heaven of Animals

The Lifeguard

The Sheep Child

Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

Adam

The Dover Bitch

A Hill

The Book of Yolek

The Mysteries of Caesar

Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-seven

Richard Hugo (1923-1982)

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg

Driving Montana

Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

Early in the Morning

The Man Who Married Magdalene

To the Western World

American Poetry

My Father in the Night Commanding No

The Unwritten Poem

A Clearing

Donald Justice (b. 1925)

Counting the Mad

n Bertram's Garden

On the Death of Friends in Childhood

But That Is Another Story

Men at Forty

Variations on a Text by Vallejo

Psalm and Lament

Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)

from Pro Femina:

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

II. I take as my theme "The Independent Woman"

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

Bitch

Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)

At the End of the Affair

How It Is

The Retrieval System

Noted in The New York Times

W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)

April Inventory

Leaving the Motel

Disposal

James Merrill (1926-1995)

The Broken Home

The Mad Scene

Last Words

Casual Wear

Donald Hall (b. 1928)

My Son My Executioner

Names of Horses

Ox Cart Man

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

Her Kind

The Abortion

The Truth the Dead Know

Wanting to Die

X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929)

In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day

Little Elegy

Loose Woman

The Waterbury Cross

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

The Diamond Cutters

Living in Sin

Peeling Onions

Diving into the Wreck

From a Survivor

Rape

Power

from An Atlas of the Difficult World

Dedications

Tattered Kaddish

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

The Colossus

Metaphors

Blackberrying

Mirror

Daddy

Morning Song

Lady Lazarus

Edge

Anne Stevenson (b. 1933)

The Victory

Generations

The Marriage

Making Poetry

Alas
AMERICAN INTERNATIONALISM: SURREALISM, DEEP IMAGE, AND NEW YORK SCHOOL

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Barbara Guest (b. 1920)

Green Revolutions

Poem

Edward Field (b. 1924)

Curse of the Cat Woman

Roaches

John Haines (b. 1924)

Winter News

The Flight

Night

The Ghost Towns

Robert Bly (b. 1926)

Waking from Sleep

The Busy Man Speaks

Counting Small-Boned Bodies

Johnson's Cabinet Watched by Ants

Romans Angry About the Inner World

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

Today

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

To the Harbormaster

The Day Lady Died

Autobiographia Literaria

Homosexuality

Why I Am Not a Painter

John Ashbery (b. 1927)

Some Trees

My Erotic Double

Paradoxes and Oxymorons

At North Farm

Just Walking Around

W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)

Air

The Animals

For a Coming Extinction

For the Anniversary of My Death

The Last One

Some Last Questions

Rain Travel

James Wright (1927-1980)

Complaint

Saint Judas

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

A Blessing

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

Twilights

The Life

Philip Levine (b. 1928)

On the Edge

Animals are Passing from Our Lives

To a Child Trapped in a Barber Shop

They Feed They Lion

You Can Have it

Mark Strand (b. 1934)

Keeping Things Whole

Eating Poetry

Charles Wright (b. 1935)

The New Poem

Clear Night

Stone Canyon Nocturne

California Dreaming

Charles Simic (b. 1938)

Fear

My Shoes

Fork

Eyes Fastened with Pins

Classic Ballroom Dances

James Tate (b. 1942)

The Lost Pilot

Teaching the Ape to Write Poems

The Chaste Stranger
RETURN TO REALISM: REGIONALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Miller Williams (b. 1930)

On a Photograph of my Mother at Seventeen

Ruby Tells All

Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)

Haiku

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

The Idea of Ancestry

The Warden Said to Me the Other Day

A Poem for Myself

Rhina Espaillat (b. 1932)

Agua

Bilingual / Bilingüe

1 Bra

Linda Pastan (b. 1932)

Journey's End

Ethics

1932-

Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Legacy

Black Bourgeoisie

Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

Coal

Father Son and Holy Ghost

October

N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)

Simile

Carriers of the Dream Wheel

The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

The Eagle-Feather Fan

Headwaters

Fred Chappell (b. 1936)

Narcissus and Echo

Epigrams

Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)

Good Times

Homage to my hips

to my last period

C. K. Williams (b. 1936)

Hood

From My Window

Elms

Bernice Zamora (b. 1938)

Penitents

Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra

Oakland Blues

Jared Carter (b. 1939)

Work, for the Night Is Coming

The Gleaning

Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)

Beautiful Women

Decorum

Ted Kooser (b. 1939)

Abandoned Farmhouse

The Blind Always Come as Such a Surprise

Tom Ball's Barn

Spring Plowing

Carrie
CONTEMPORARY VOICES

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)

Shirt

2000

Billy Collins (b. 1941)

Embrace

Lowell, Mass.

The Dead

Robert Hass (b. 1941)

Black Mountain, Los Altos

Heroic Simile

Meditation at Lagunitas

Lyn Hejinian (b. 1942)

from My Life

from Redo, 1-5

Nostalgia is the elixir drained

Charles Martin (b. 1942)

Taken Up

E. S. L.

Metaphor of Grass in California

Sharon Olds (b. 1942)

The Language of the Brag

The One Girl at the Boys' Party

Rites of Passage

Sex Without Love

Louise Glück (b. 1943)

The School Children

The Gift

Elms

Mock Orange

The Gold Lily

Circe's Power

Michael Palmer (b. 1943)

All those words we once used . . .

Of this cloth doll which

Autobiography

Mary Kinzie (b. 1944)

The Tattooer

The Same Love

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (b. 1944)

To Li Po

My Father's Sadness

Learning to love America

B. H. Fairchild (b. 1945)

The Death of a Small Town

A Starlit Night

Kay Ryan (b. 1945)

Paired Things

Turtle

Bestiary

Chemise

Don't Look Back

Mockingbird

Adrian C. Louis (b. 1946)

Without Words

Looking for Judas

Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946)

1990 The Ballad of Aunt Geneva

1990 How I Discovered Poetry

1990 Thus Far by Faith

Ron Silliman (b. 1946)

from The Chinese Notebook, Sections 1-25

AI (b. 1947)

Child Beater

Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)

Facing It

Starlight Scope Myopia

Tu Do Street

Banking Potatoes

Amy Uyematsu (b. 1947)

Deliberate

The Ten Million Flames of Los Angeles

R. S. Gwynn (b. 1948)

Untitled

Body Bags

1-800

David Lehman (b. 1948)

Rejection Slip

First Lines

Heather McHugh (b. 1948)

The Trouble with "In"

Earthmoving Malediction

Timothy Steele (b. 1948)

Sapphics Against Anger

The Sheets

Summer

Wendy Rose (b. 1948)

Vanishing Point: Urban Indian

For the White Poets Who Would Be Indian

Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)

The Morning Baking

The Colonel

Dana Gioia (b. 1950)

The Next Poem

Planting a Sequoia

William Logan (b. 1950)

After a Line by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Small Bad Town

Jorie Graham (b. 1951)

Mind

Over and Over Stitch

Erosion

Joy Harjo (b. 1951)

She Had Some Horses

Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On

Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951)

The Hereafter

Dead Christ

Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead

Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)

Quincea—era

The Lesson of the Sugarcane

Rita Dove (b. 1952)

Adolescence- I

Adolescence- II

Adolescence - III

Daystar

Alice Fulton (b. 1952)

What I Like

The Expense Of Spirit

Mark Jarman (b. 1952)

Ground Swell

from Unholy Sonnets:

Hands Folded

After the Praying

Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)

Famous

The Traveling Onion

Mark Doty (b. 1953)

Fog

Homo Will Not Inherit

Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. 1953)

The Paperweight

Supernatural Love

Kim Addonizio (b. 1954)

First Poem for You

Stolen Moments

Francisco X. Alarcón (b. 1954)

The X in my Name

Border

David Mason (b. 1954)

Spooning

Song of the Powers

Benjamin Alire Sáenz (b. 1954)

Resurrections

To the Desert

Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954)

Welcome to Hiroshima

The Age of Reason

Cathy Song (b. 1955)

Beauty and Sadness

Stamp Collecting

Jacqueline Osherow (b. 1956)

Song for the Music in the Warsaw Ghetto

Ghazal: Comet

H. L. Hix (b. 1960)

No Less Than Twenty-Six Distinct Necronyms

Reasons

Rafael Campo (b. 1964)

My Childhood in Another Part of the World

What the Body Told

Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)

Indian Boy Love Song (#2)

from The Native American Broadcasting System:

I am the essence of powwow, I am

The Powwow at the End of the World

Marisa de los Santos (b. 1966)

Perfect Dress

Christian Wiman (b. 1966)

What I Know

Larissa Szporluk (b. 1967)

Vertigo

Diane Thiel (b. 1967)

Memento Mori in Middle School

Kevin Young (b. 1970)

Quivira City Limits

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