Contemporary American Poetry : Revised and Expanded Second Edition,9780140586183

Contemporary American Poetry : Revised and Expanded Second Edition

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780140586183
ISBN10: 0140586180
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1989-01-18
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary

An anthology of works by modern American poets

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 20(5)
Introduction 25(10)
Preface to the Second Edition 35(234)
Index of Poets 269(2)
Index of Titles 271(4)
Index of First Lines 275
William Stafford
Travelling through the Dark
39(1)
Returned to Say
39(1)
At Cove on the Crooked River
40(1)
Strokes
41(1)
Near
41(1)
With My Crowbar Key
42(1)
Dudley Randall
Roses and Revolutions
43(1)
Black Poet, White Critic
44(1)
George
44(1)
Old Witherington
45(1)
David Ignatow
The Bagel
46(1)
Rescue the Dead
46(1)
Ritual Three
47(1)
East Bronx
48(1)
All Quiet
49(1)
Robert Lowell
Christmas Eve under Hooker's Statue
50(1)
The Holy Innocents
51(1)
New Year's Day
51(1)
Katherine's Dream
52(1)
After the Surprising Conversions
53(2)
Memories of West Street and Lepke
55(1)
For Sale
56(1)
Man and Wife
57(1)
Skunk Hour
58(2)
Robert Duncan
A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
60(9)
Reed Whittemore
Still Life
69(1)
A Day with the Foreign Legion
70(3)
On the Suicide of a Friend
73(1)
The Party
73(1)
The Walk Home
74(1)
Howard Nemerov
Storm Windows
75(1)
The Statues in the Public Gardens
75(2)
A Singular Metamorphosis
77(1)
The View from an Attic Window
78(2)
The Fall Again
80(1)
Richard Wilbur
Tywater
81(1)
`A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness'
82(1)
Museum Piece
83(1)
After the Last Bulletins
83(2)
She
85(1)
The Undead
86(1)
In the Smoking Car
87(1)
Shame
88(2)
Anthony Hecht
Alceste in the Wilderness
90(1)
Samuel Sewall
91(1)
The Vow
92(1)
The End of the Weekend
93(1)
`More Light! More Light!'
94(2)
James Dickey
The Performance
96(1)
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek
97(3)
Denise Levertov
Overland to the Islands
100(1)
Sunday Afternoon
100(1)
The Springtime
101(1)
The Grace-note
102(1)
The World Outside
102(1)
Six Variations
103(3)
A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England
106(2)
John Logan
The Picnic
108(2)
A Trip to Four or Five Towns
110(5)
Louis Simpson
Early in the Morning
115(1)
The Ash and the Oak
116(1)
To the Western World
117(1)
The Riders Held Back
117(2)
Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain
119(1)
There Is
120(2)
My Father in the Night Commanding No
122(2)
Edgar Bowers
The Mountain Cemetery
124(1)
The Prince
125(2)
The Centaur Overheard
127(1)
Adam's Song to Heaven
128(1)
Le Reve
129(1)
John Haines
And When the Green Man Comes
130(1)
The Tundra
131(1)
Foreboding
131(1)
If the Owl Calls Again
132(1)
To Turn Back
133(1)
Donald Justice
Beyond the Hunting Woods
134(1)
On the Death of Friends in Childhood
135(1)
Here in Katmandu
135(1)
Another Song
136(1)
Counting the Mad
137(1)
On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane
137(2)
Robert Bly
Where We Must Look for Help
139(1)
Sunday in Glastonbury
139(1)
Awakening
140(1)
Poem Against the British
141(1)
Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River
141(1)
Hunting Pheasants in a Cornfield
142(1)
A Busy Man Speaks
143(1)
Poem in Three Parts
144(1)
The Possibility of New Poetry
144(1)
After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once
145(1)
Sleet Storm on the Merritt Parkway
145(1)
Andrew Jackson's Speech
146(1)
Robert Creeley
After Lorca
147(1)
I Know a Man
147(1)
The Hill
148(1)
The Signboard
148(1)
The Cracks
149(1)
For Love
150(2)
Kore
152(1)
The Rain
153(2)
James Merrill
The Power Station
155(1)
Angel
155(1)
Childlessness
156(2)
After Greece
158(2)
W. D. Snodgrass
from Heart's Needle
160(4)
The Examination
164(2)
Monet: `Les Nympheas'
166(2)
A. R. Ammons
Hymn
168(1)
Terrain
169(1)
Prospecting
170(1)
Loss
171(1)
Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket in California
172(1)
Dream Record: June 8 1955
173(1)
To Lindsay
174(1)
Message
175(1)
The End
176(1)
First Party at Ken Keseys with Hell's Angels
177(1)
John Woods
Lie Closed, My Lately Loved
178(1)
What Do You Do When It's Spring?
178(2)
Looking Both Ways Before Crossing
180(3)
Frank O'Hara
Why I am not a Painter
183(1)
A Step Away from Them
184(1)
Steps
185(2)
John Ashbery
Some Trees
187(1)
The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers
188(1)
A Vase of Flowers
189(1)
Thoughts of a Young Girl
190(1)
Our Youth
190(2)
The Young Prince and the Young Princess
192(1)
Galway Kinnell
from The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World
193(2)
Flower-herding Pictures on Mount Monadnock
195(3)
W. S. Merwin
Leviathan
198(1)
Low Fields and Light
199(1)
The Bones
200(1)
Small Woman on Swallow Street
201(1)
Grandfather in the Old Men's Home
202(1)
Views from the High Camp
203(1)
Departure's Girl-friend
204(2)
James Wright
A Gesture by a Lady with an Assumed Name
206(1)
At Thomas Hardy's Birthplace, 1953
207(1)
Saint Judas
208(1)
Confession to J. Edgar Hoover
209(1)
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
210(1)
Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me
210(1)
The Blessing
211(1)
Miners
212(1)
Anne Sexton
Lament
213(1)
Wanting to Die
214(1)
That Day
215(2)
Donald Hall
The Long River
217(1)
The Blue Wing
217(1)
The Alligator Bride
218(2)
Gold
220(1)
Reclining Figure
220(1)
X. J. Kennedy
First Confession
221(1)
Nude Descending a Staircase
222(1)
Little Elegy
222(1)
B Negative
223(2)
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
225(2)
Adrienne Rich
The Insusceptibles
227(1)
Readings of History
227(6)
Edward Dorn
Home on the Range, February 1962
233(1)
On the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck
234(1)
A Song
235(1)
Mourning Letter, March 29 1963
236(1)
Gary Snyder
All through the Rains
237(1)
Piute Creek
237(1)
Above Pate Valley
238(1)
Milton by Firelight
239(1)
Hay for the Horses
240(2)
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus
242(2)
Death & Co.
244(2)
Words
246(1)
Etheridge Knight
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
247(1)
He Sees Through Stone
248(1)
The Idea of Ancestry
249(2)
As You Leave Me
251(1)
Michael Benedikt
The European Shoe
252(1)
The Eye
253(1)
Divine Love
254(1)
Some Feelings
254(1)
Thoughts
255(1)
Tom Clark
Poem
256(1)
Going to School in France or America
256(1)
Doors
257(2)
Eyeglasses
259(1)
Poem
260(1)
Ron Padgett
After the Broken Arm
261(1)
The Sandwich Man
261

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