The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2 Volume Box),9780393324297

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2 Volume Box)

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780393324297
ISBN10: 039332429X
Format: Two-Volume Set
Pub. Date: 2003-04-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

A new edition of the acclaimed anthology-the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English available.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition xxvii
Acknowledgments xxxiii
Introduction xxxvii
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
1(29)
One's-Self I Sing
3(1)
Song of Myself
4(14)
1--14
4(9)
46--52
13(5)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
18(4)
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
22(1)
A Hand-Mirror
22(1)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
23(1)
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
23(1)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
23(7)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)
30(11)
49 (``I never lost as much but twice'')
32(1)
214 (``I taste a liquor never brewed---'')
33(1)
249 (``Wild Nights---Wild Nights!'')
33(1)
258 (``There's a certain Slant of light'')
34(1)
280 (``I felt a Funeral, in my Brain'')
34(1)
303 (``The Soul selects her own Society---'')
35(1)
328 (``A Bird came down the Walk---'')
35(1)
341 (``After great pain, a formal feeling comes---'')
36(1)
435 (``Much Madness is divinest Sense---'')
36(1)
465 (``I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---'')
36(1)
585 (``I like to see it lap the Miles---'')
37(1)
632 (``The Brain---is wider than the Sky---'')
38(1)
657 (``I dwell in Possibility---'')
38(1)
712 (``Because I could not stop for Death---'')
38(1)
754 (``My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---'')
39(1)
986 (``A narrow Fellow in the Grass'')
40(1)
1129 (``Tell all the Truth but tell it slant'')
40(1)
1732 (``My life closed twice before its close---'')
41(1)
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)
41(22)
Hap
44(1)
Neutral Tones
44(1)
I Look into My Glass
45(1)
In Tenebris
45(2)
I (``Wintertime nighs;'')
45(1)
II (``When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong'')
46(1)
Drummer Hodge
47(1)
The Darkling Thrush
48(1)
A Broken Appointment
48(1)
The Self-Unseeing
49(1)
Bereft
49(1)
Shut Out That Moon
50(1)
New Year's Eve
51(1)
Channel Firing
51(2)
The Convergence of the Twain
53(1)
Poems of 1912--13
54(3)
The Going
54(1)
Your Last Drive
55(1)
I Found Her Out There
56(1)
The Voice
57(1)
A Poet
57(1)
In the Moonlight
58(1)
The Oxen
58(1)
In Time of `The Breaking of Nations'
59(1)
For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly
59(1)
I Looked Up from My Writing
60(1)
Afterwards
61(1)
Going and Staying
62(1)
Nobody Comes
62(1)
He Never Expected Much
63(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)
63(19)
The Habit of Perfection
66(1)
The Wreck of the Deutschland
67(9)
God's Grandeur
76(1)
[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame]
76(1)
Spring
77(1)
The Windhover
77(1)
Pied Beauty
78(1)
Binsey Poplars
78(1)
Felix Randal
79(1)
[I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day]
79(1)
[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief]
80(1)
Spring and Fall
80(1)
[Carrion Comfort]
81(1)
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
81(1)
[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend]
82(1)
A. E. Housman (1859--1936)
82(8)
[Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now]
84(1)
[When I Was One-and Twenty]
84(1)
To an Athlete Dying Young
85(1)
[Is My Team Ploughing]
86(1)
[On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble]
87(1)
[With Rue My Heart Is Laden]
87(1)
[Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff]
88(1)
Eight O'Clock
89(1)
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
90(1)
[They Say My Verse Is Sad: No Wonder]
90(1)
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)
90(54)
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
94(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
94(1)
The Sorrow of Love
95(1)
When You Are Old
95(1)
[Who Goes with Fergus?]
96(1)
To Ireland in the Coming Times
96(1)
The Hosting of the Sidhe
97(1)
The Song of the Wandering Aengus
98(1)
The Cap and Bells
99(1)
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
100(1)
Adam's Curse
100(1)
No Second Troy
101(1)
The Fascination of What's Difficult
101(1)
The Cold Heaven
102(1)
A Coat
102(1)
September 1913
102(1)
The Magi
103(1)
The Fisherman
104(1)
Easter, 1916
105(2)
The Wild Swans at Coole
107(1)
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
108(2)
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
110(1)
The Second Coming
111(1)
A Prayer for My Daughter
112(2)
To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee
114(1)
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
114(4)
Leda and the Swan
118(1)
The Tower
118(5)
Sailing to Byzantium
123(1)
Among School Children
124(2)
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz
126(1)
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
127(2)
Byzantium
129(1)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
130(1)
Vacillation
131(2)
Meru
133(1)
The Gyres
134(1)
Lapis Lazuli
135(1)
An Acre of Grass
136(1)
The Spur
137(1)
Long-Legged Fly
137(1)
Under Ben Bulben
138(3)
Man and the Echo
141(1)
The Circus Animals' Desertion
142(1)
Politics
143(1)
Rudyard Kipling (1865--1930)
144(13)
Danny Deever
145(1)
Shillin' a Day
146(1)
Recessional
147(1)
Harp Song of the Dane Women
148(1)
A Pict Song
148(1)
The Way through the Woods
149(1)
Epitaphs of the War
150(6)
We and They
156(1)
Edgar Lee Masters (1868--1950)
157(5)
Spoon River Anthology
158(4)
The Hill
158(1)
Amanda Barker
159(1)
Fiddler Jones
159(1)
Petit, the Poet
160(1)
Elsa Wertman
160(1)
Hamilton Greene
161(1)
Anne Rutledge
161(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)
162(9)
Luke Havergal
163(1)
Richard Cory
163(1)
Reuben Bright
164(1)
Calverly's
164(1)
How Annandale Went Out
165(1)
Miniver Cheevy
166(1)
For a Dead Lady
167(1)
Eros Turannos
167(1)
The Mill
168(1)
The Dark Hills
169(1)
Mr. Flood's Party
169(2)
The Sheaves
171(1)
James Weldon Johnson (1871--1938)
171(5)
O Black and Unknown Bards
172(1)
Down by the Carib Sea
173(1)
VI. Sunset in the Tropics
173(1)
The Creation
174(2)
Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)
176(22)
Picasso
178(2)
Tender Buttons
180(5)
Objects
180(1)
A carafe, that is a blind glass.
180(1)
A piece of coffee.
180(1)
A waist.
181(1)
A little bit of a tumbler.
181(1)
A brown.
181(1)
A little called Pauline.
181(1)
A dog.
181(1)
A white hunter.
182(1)
Peeled pencil, choke
182(1)
Food
182(1)
Mutton.
182(1)
Sugar.
183(1)
Eggs.
184(1)
Chicken.
184(1)
Chicken.
184(1)
Chicken.
184(1)
Chicken.
184(1)
A centre in a table.
184(1)
From Rooms
184(1)
Susie Asado
185(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
186(1)
Preciosilla
186(1)
Sacred Emily
186(8)
Idem the Same. A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson
194(3)
George Hugnet
197(1)
Stanzas in Meditation
197(1)
Stanza LXXXIII
197(1)
Amy Lowell (1874--1925)
198(3)
The Pike
198(1)
Venus Transiens
199(1)
A Decade
200(1)
Shore Grass
200(1)
New Heavens for Old
200(1)
Robert Frost (1874--1963)
201(25)
Mending Wall
203(1)
Home Burial
204(3)
After Apple-Picking
207(1)
The Wood-Pile
208(1)
The Road Not Taken
209(1)
An Old Man's Winter Night
210(1)
Hyla Brook
210(1)
The Oven Bird
211(1)
Birches
211(2)
Putting in the Seed
213(1)
``Out, Out---''
213(1)
Fire and Ice
214(1)
Dust of Snow
214(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
214(1)
For Once, Then, Something
215(1)
To Earthward
215(1)
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
216(1)
Tree at My Window
217(1)
Acquainted with the Night
217(1)
Two Tramps in Mud Time
218(2)
Desert Places
220(1)
Neither Out Far nor In Deep
220(1)
Design
221(1)
Unharvested
221(1)
Provide, Provide
222(1)
The Silken Tent
222(1)
The Most of It
223(1)
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
223(1)
The Gift Outright
224(1)
Directive
224(2)
Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)
226(4)
Chicago
227(1)
The Harbor
228(1)
Subway
228(1)
Cool Tombs
228(1)
Grass
229(1)
Gargoyle
229(1)
Edward Thomas (1878--1917)
230(5)
Adlestrop
231(1)
The Gypsy
231(1)
The Owl
232(1)
Rain
232(1)
February Afternoon
233(1)
The Green Roads
233(1)
The Gallows
234(1)
Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)
235(33)
Sunday Morning
237(3)
Peter Quince at the Clavier
240(2)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
242(1)
Domination of Black
243(1)
The Worms at Heaven's Gate
244(1)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
244(2)
The Death of a Soldier
246(1)
Anecdote of the Jar
246(1)
The Snow Man
247(1)
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
247(1)
Bantams in Pine-Woods
248(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
248(1)
The Idea of Order at Key West
249(1)
A Postcard from the Volcano
250(1)
The Man with the Blue Guitar
251(1)
I (``The man bent over his guitar'')
251(1)
XXII (``Poetry is the subject of the poem'')
251(1)
A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
252(1)
The Poems of Our Climate
252(1)
Study of Two Pears
253(1)
The Man on the Dump
254(1)
Of Modern Poetry
255(1)
Notes toward a Supreme Fiction
256(2)
I.I (``Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea'')
256(1)
II.V (``On a blue island in a sky-wide water'')
256(1)
III.III (``A lasting visage in a lasting bush'')
257(1)
The Motive for Metaphor
258(1)
The Auroras of Autumn
258(2)
I (``This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless.'')
258(1)
II (``Farewell to an idea . . . A cabin stands'')
259(1)
III (``Farewell to an idea . . . The mother's face'')
260(1)
Large Red Man Reading
260(1)
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
261(1)
XXX (``The last leaf that is going to fall has fallen.'')
261(1)
The Rock
261(1)
I. Seventy Years Later
261(1)
To an Old Philosopher in Rome
262(2)
The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain
264(1)
The Planet on the Table
265(1)
The River of Rivers in Connecticut
265(1)
The Plain Sense of Things
266(1)
Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination
267(1)
Of Mere Being
267(1)
Mina Loy (1882--1966)
268(15)
Songs to Joannes
269(4)
I (``Spawn of Fantasies'')
269(1)
II (``The skin-sack'')
270(1)
III (``We might have coupled'')
270(1)
XIII (``Come to me There is something'')
270(1)
XIV (``Today'')
271(1)
XXVI (``Shedding our petty pruderies'')
271(1)
XXIX (``Evolution fall foul of'')
272(1)
Brancusi's Golden Bird
273(1)
Der Blinde Junge
274(1)
Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose
275(6)
English Rose
275(6)
Gertrude Stein
281(1)
The Widow's Jazz
282(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)
283(35)
The Young Housewife
286(1)
Tract
286(2)
Danse Russe
288(1)
Sympathetic Portrait of a Child
288(1)
Portrait of a Lady
289(1)
Queen-Ann's-Lace
290(1)
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
290(1)
The Great Figure
291(1)
Spring and All
291(1)
The Farmer
292(1)
To Elsie
293(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow
294(1)
This Is Just to Say
295(1)
Death
295(1)
Flowers by the Sea
296(1)
The Botticellian Trees
297(1)
The Yachts
298(1)
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
299(1)
The Dance
300(1)
Burning the Christmas Greens
300(2)
Paterson
302(5)
Preface
302(2)
Book I. The Delineaments of the Giants
304(1)
From I (``Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls'')
304(3)
From III (``Thought clambers up'')
307(1)
The Ivy Crown
307(3)
Pictures From Bruegel
310(1)
II. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
310(1)
VI. Haymaking
310(1)
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
311(7)
Book I
311(7)
Elinor Wylie (1885--1928)
318(3)
Wild Peaches
318(2)
Incantation
320(1)
Let No Charitable Hope
320(1)
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)
321(24)
The Wild Common
323(1)
Love on the Farm
324(2)
Aware
326(1)
The Bride
326(1)
Sorrow
327(1)
The Enkindled Spring
327(1)
Gloire de Dijon
328(1)
A Youth Mowing
328(1)
Piano
329(1)
Medlars and Sorb-Apples
329(2)
Southern Night
331(1)
Sicilian Cyclamens
331(2)
Snake
333(2)
Lui et Elle
335(3)
Humming-Bird
338(1)
You
338(1)
The English Are So Nice!
339(1)
Andraitx---Pomegranate Flowers
339(1)
Whales Weep Not!
340(1)
Butterfly
341(1)
Bavarian Gentians
341(1)
The Ship of Death
342(3)
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)
345(42)
Portrait d'une Femme
349(1)
The Return
350(1)
A Pact
350(1)
The Rest
351(1)
In a Station of the Metro
351(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
352(1)
Lament of the Frontier Guard
353(1)
The Temperaments
353(1)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
354(12)
(Life and Contacts)
354(8)
1920 (Mauberley)
362(4)
The Cantos
366(21)
I (``And then went down to the ship'')
368(2)
II (``Hang it all, Robert Browning'')
370(4)
VII (``Eleanor [she spoiled in a British climate]'')
374(4)
From XIV (``The slough of unamiable liars'')
378(1)
XLV (``With Usura)
378(2)
LXXXI (``Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom'')
380(5)
CXVI (``Came Neptunus'')
385(2)
CXX (``I have tried to write Paradise'')
387(1)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)
387(6)
To His Dead Body
388(1)
`Blighters'
389(1)
The Rear-Guard
389(1)
Dreamers
390(1)
The General
390(1)
Repression of War Experience
391(1)
Everyone Sang
392(1)
On Passing the New Menin Gate
392(1)
H. D. (1886--1961)
393(21)
Oread
395(1)
The Pool
395(1)
Sea Rose
395(1)
Mid-Day
396(1)
Garden
396(1)
Sea Violet
397(1)
Helen
398(1)
Fragment Sixty-Eight
398(2)
Epitaph
400(1)
The Walls Do Not Fall
401(4)
[1] (``An incident here and there'')
401(1)
[4] (``There is a spell, for instance'')
402(2)
[6] (``In me [the worm] clearly'')
404(1)
[39] (``We have had too much consecration'')
405(1)
Tribute to the Angels
405(9)
[24] (``Every hour, every moment'')
405(1)
[25] (``. . . of the no need'')
406(1)
[26] (``One of us said, how odd'')
406(1)
[27] (``And yet in some very subtle way'')
407(1)
[28] (``I had been thinking of Gabriel'')
407(1)
[29] (``We have seen her'')
408(1)
[30] (``We see her hand in her lap'')
409(1)
[31] (``But none of these, none of these'')
410(1)
[36] (``Ah [you say], this is Holy Wisdom'')
410(1)
[37] (``This is a symbol of beauty [you continue]'')
411(1)
[38] (``O yes---you understand, I say'')
411(1)
[39] (``But nearer than Guardian Angel'')
412(1)
[40] (``This is no rune nor symbol'')
413(1)
[41] (``She carried a book, either to imply'')
413(1)
Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)
414(6)
Shine, Perishing Republic
415(1)
Fawn's Foster-Mother
416(1)
Hurt Hawks
416(1)
Rock and Hawk
417(1)
Ave Caesar
418(1)
The Purse-Seine
418(1)
Carmel Point
419(1)
Vulture
420(1)
Edwin Muir (1887--1959)
420(5)
Ballad of Hector in Hades
421(1)
The Wheel
422(1)
The Absent
423(1)
The Horses
424(1)
Edith Sitwell (1887--1964)
425(5)
Facade
426(2)
Aubade
426(1)
Country Dance
427(1)
Still Falls the Rain
428(1)
The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age
429(1)
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)
430(25)
To a Steam Roller
433(1)
Critics and Connoisseurs
433(1)
Black Earth
434(2)
The Fish
436(1)
In the Days of Prismatic Colour
437(1)
Poetry
438(1)
England
439(1)
A Grave
440(1)
An Octopus
441(5)
To a Snail
446(1)
The Steeple-Jack
446(2)
The Pangolin
448(3)
The Paper Nautilus
451(1)
What Are Years?
452(1)
He ``Digesteth Harde Yron''
453(2)
John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974)
455(5)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
456(1)
Here Lies a Lady
457(1)
Piazza Piece
457(1)
Dead Boy
458(1)
Painted Head
459(1)
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)
460(35)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
463(3)
Preludes
466(2)
Whispers of Immortality
468(1)
Sweeney among the Nightingales
469(1)
Gerontion
470(2)
The Waste Land
472(15)
Journey of the Magi
487(1)
Little Gidding
488(7)
Ivor Gurney (1890--1937)
495(3)
To His Love
496(1)
First Time In
496(1)
Laventie
497(1)
The Silent One
498(1)
Claude McKay (1890--1948)
498(6)
A Midnight Woman to the Bobby
500(1)
The Harlem Dancer
501(1)
If We Must Die
501(1)
The Lynching
502(1)
The Tropics in New York
502(1)
America
503(1)
The White City
503(1)
Outcast
503(1)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918)
504(5)
The Mirror
505(1)
Break of Day in the Trenches
505(1)
Louse Hunting
506(1)
Returning, We Hear the Larks
506(1)
Dead Man's Dump
507(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)
509(5)
First Fig
510(1)
Recuerdo
510(1)
Grown-Up
511(1)
Spring
511(1)
[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed]
512(1)
[Gazing upon Him Now, Severe and Dead]
512(1)
[Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink]
512(1)
The Return
513(1)
To a Calvinist in Bali
513(1)
Archibald MacLeish (1892--1982)
514(3)
Ars Poetica
515(1)
The End of the World
516(1)
You, Andrew Marvell
516(1)
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892--1978)
517(6)
The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
519(1)
In the Pantry
520(1)
Cloudburst and Soaring Moon
520(1)
Parley of Beasts
521(1)
O Wha's the Bride?
521(1)
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
522(1)
British Leftish Poetry, 1930--40
522(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)
523(12)
Anthem for Doomed Youth
525(1)
Apologia pro Poemate Meo
525(1)
Miners
526(1)
Dulce et Decorum Est
527(1)
Strange Meeting
528(1)
Futility
529(1)
S.I.W.
530(1)
Greater Love
531(1)
Mental Cases
532(1)
Disabled
532(2)
Exposure
534(1)
Dorothy Parker (1893--1967)
535(2)
Resume
536(1)
One Perfect Rose
536(1)
Observation
536(1)
Oscar Wilde
537(1)
George Sand
537(1)
Charles Reznikoff (1894--1976)
537(8)
[On Brooklyn Bridge I Saw a Man Drop Dead.]
538(1)
[The Shopgirls Leave Their Work]
538(1)
[I Walked through the Lonely Marsh]
538(1)
[It Had Long Been Dark, though Still an Hour Before Supper-Time.]
539(1)
[Walk about the Subway Station]
539(1)
[About an Excavation]
540(1)
Heart and Clock
540(1)
Epitaphs
540(2)
Te Deum
542(1)
From Early History of a Writer
542(1)
Holocaust
543(2)
IX. Entertainment
543(2)
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)
545(11)
[in Just-]
546(1)
[Buffalo Bill's]
547(1)
[O sweet spontaneous]
547(1)
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
548(1)
[i was sitting in mcsorley's]
549(1)
[''next to of course god america i]
550(1)
[my sweet old etcetera]
550(1)
[i sing of Olaf glad and big]
551(1)
[r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r]
552(1)
[may i feel said he]
552(1)
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
553(1)
[my father moved through dooms of love]
554(2)
[pity this busy monster, manunkind]
556(1)
Jean Toomer (1894--1967)
556(6)
Her Lips Are Copper Wire
558(1)
Gum
558(1)
Reapers
559(1)
November Cotton Flower
559(1)
Portrait in Georgia
560(1)
Song of the Son
560(1)
Georgia Dusk
561(1)
Robert Graves (1895--1985)
562(7)
The Cool Web
563(1)
Ogres and Pygmies
563(1)
Down, Wanton, Down!
564(1)
Recalling War
565(1)
To Juan at the Winter Solstice
566(1)
The Persian Version
567(1)
The Blue-Fly
568(1)
David Jones (1895--1974)
569(11)
In Parenthesis
570(5)
Part 4. King Pellam's Launde (lines 1--41)
570(2)
Part 7. The Five Unmistakable Marks (lines 283--422)
572(3)
The Anathemata
575(5)
Part III. Angle-Land
575(5)
Austin Clarke (1896--1974)
580(7)
The Planter's Daughter
581(1)
The Young Woman of Beare
582(5)
Louise Bogan (1897--1970)
587(3)
Medusa
587(1)
Knowledge
588(1)
Women
588(1)
The Alchemist
589(1)
Cassandra
589(1)
Night
590(1)
Melvin Tolson (1898--1966)
590(14)
Harlem Gallery
592(12)
Lambda
592(2)
Mu
594(4)
Nu
598(2)
From Xi
600(4)
Hart Crane (1899--1932)
604(45)
Black Tambourine
607(1)
Chaplinesque
607(1)
Repose of Rivers
608(1)
At Melville's Tomb
609(1)
Voyages
609(4)
The Bridge
613(34)
Royal Palm
647(1)
The Broken Tower
647(2)
Allen Tate (1899--1979)
649(6)
Mr. Pope
649(1)
Ode to the Confederate Dead
650(2)
The Swimmers
652(3)
Basil Bunting (1900--1985)
655(6)
On the Fly-Leaf of Pound's Cantos
656(1)
Briggflatts
656(4)
I (``Brag, sweet tenor bull'')
656(4)
What the Chairman Told Tom
660(1)
Yvor Winters (1900--1968)
661(4)
The Slow Pacific Swell
662(1)
By the Road to the Air-Base
663(1)
John Sutter
663(2)
Laura Riding (1901--1991)
665(4)
The Map of Places
666(1)
Footfalling
666(1)
Death as Death
667(1)
The Troubles of a Book
667(1)
Ding-Donging
668(1)
With the Face
669(1)
Sterling Brown (1901--1989)
669(15)
Odyssey of Big Boy
671(2)
Southern Road
673(1)
Ma Rainey
674(1)
Strong Men
675(2)
Memphis Blues
677(2)
Slim Greer
679(1)
Slim in Atlanta
680(2)
Sporting Beasley
682(1)
Old Lem
683(1)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)
684(21)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
687(1)
When Sue Wears Red
688(1)
The Weary Blues
688(1)
Suicide's Note
689(1)
Cross
689(1)
Lament over Love
690(1)
Po' Boy Blues
690(1)
Song for a Dark Girl
691(1)
Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover
691(1)
Bad Man
692(1)
Hard Daddy
692(1)
Drum
693(1)
Sylvester's Dying Bed
693(1)
The Bitter River
694(2)
Morning After
696(1)
Madam's Past History
697(1)
Madam and Her Madam
697(1)
Blue Bayou
698(1)
Silhouette
699(1)
Life Is Fine
699(1)
Montage of a Dream Deferred
700(5)
Dream Boogie
700(1)
Motto
701(1)
Dead in There
701(1)
125th Street
702(1)
Theme for English B
702(1)
Boogie: 1 A.M.
703(1)
Nightmare Boogie
703(1)
Dream Boogie: Variation
704(1)
Harlem
704(1)
Stevie Smith (1902--1971)
705(11)
Sunt Leones
706(1)
This Englishwoman
707(1)
Souvenir de Monsieur Poop
707(1)
Our Bog Is Dood
708(1)
God the Eater
709(1)
Not Waving but Drowning
710(1)
Thoughts about the Person from Porlock
711(1)
A House of Mercy
712(1)
Exeat
713(1)
To Carry the Child
714(1)
Pretty
715(1)
Lorine Niedecker (1903--1970)
716(10)
[Well, Spring Overflows the Land]
717(1)
[Swept Snow, Li Po]
717(1)
[What Horror to Awake at Night]
717(1)
[New-Sawed]
718(1)
Poet's Work
718(1)
[Something in the Water]
719(1)
[Popcorn-Can Cover]
719(1)
My Life by Water
719(1)
Thomas Jefferson
720(6)
Countee Cullen (1903--1946)
726(6)
Yet Do I Marvel
727(1)
Atlantic City Waiter
727(1)
Incident
728(1)
For a Lady I Know
728(1)
Heritage
729(3)
Louis Zukofsky (1904--1978)
732(8)
Poem Beginning ``The''
733(5)
[Dedication]
733(1)
First Movement: ``And out of olde bokes, in good feith''
734(2)
Fifth Movement: Autobiography
736(2)
To My Wash-Stand
738(2)
Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
740(2)
The Groundhog
740(1)
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
741(1)
C. Day Lewis (1904--1972)
742(3)
Two Songs
743(1)
Where Are the War Poets?
744(1)
Almost Human
744(1)
Patrick Kavanagh (1904--1967)
745(6)
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
746(1)
The Great Hunger
746(3)
I (``Clay is the word and clay is the flesh'')
746(3)
Epic
749(1)
Canal Bank Walk
749(1)
Come Dance with Kitty Stobling
749(1)
In Memory of My Mother
750(1)
Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)
751(7)
Bearded Oaks
752(1)
Where the Slow Fig's Purple Sloth
753(1)
Audubon: A Vision
754(1)
I. Was Not the Lost Dauphin
754(1)
There's a Grandfather's Clock in the Hall
755(1)
Evening Hawk
756(1)
Fear and Trembling
757(1)
Muted Music
757(1)
Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)
758(7)
The War against the Trees
759(1)
The Portrait
760(1)
The Magic Curtain
760(3)
The Catch
763(1)
Day of Foreboding
763(1)
The Round
763(1)
Touch Me
764(1)
Kenneth Rexroth (1905--1982)
765(9)
Delia Rexroth
766(1)
Andree Rexroth
767(1)
Blues
767(1)
Homer in Basic
768(1)
Proust's Madeleine
769(1)
The Wheel Revolves
770(1)
The Love Poems of Marichiko
771(3)
IV (``You ask me what I thought about'')
771(1)
VII (``Making love with you'')
772(1)
IX (``You wake me'')
772(1)
XXV (``Your tongue thrums and moves'')
772(1)
XXVII (``As I came from the'')
772(1)
XXXI (``Some day in six inches of'')
772(1)
XXXII (``I hold your head tight between'')
773(1)
XXXIII (``I cannot forget'')
773(1)
XXXIV (``Every morning, I'')
773(1)
LVIII (``Half in a dream'')
773(1)
LIX (``I hate this shadow of a ghost'')
773(1)
LX (``Chilled through, I wake up'')
774(1)
John Betjeman (1906--1984)
774(7)
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
775(1)
Slough
776(1)
An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828
777(2)
In Westminster Abbey
779(1)
The Cottage Hospital
780(1)
William Empson (1906--1984)
781(2)
Villanelle
781(1)
Ignorance of Death
782(1)
Missing Dates
783(1)
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)
783(34)
The Secret Agent
787(1)
This Lunar Beauty
787(1)
The Wanderer
788(1)
Who's Who
789(1)
On This Island
789(1)
Lullaby
790(1)
Spain
791(2)
As I Walked Out One Evening
793(2)
In Time of War
795(1)
XIV (``Yes, we are going to suffer, now; the sky'')
795(1)
XVII (``They are and suffer; that is all they do:'')
795(1)
XVIII (``Far from the heart of culture he was used:'')
796(1)
The Capital
796(1)
Musee des Beaux Arts
797(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
798(2)
The Unknown Citizen
800(1)
September 1, 1939
801(2)
In Memory of Sigmund Freud
803(3)
In Praise of Limestone
806(2)
The Shield of Achilles
808(2)
Horae Canonicae
810(1)
I. Prime
810(1)
Prologue at Sixty
811(3)
A New Year Greeting
814(1)
A Lullaby
815(2)
A. D. Hope (1907--2000)
817(5)
Australia
817(1)
Observation Car
818(1)
Advice to Young Ladies
819(2)
Beware of Ruins
821(1)
Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)
822(11)
Nature Morte
823(1)
An Eclogue for Christmas
823(4)
Snow
827(1)
Bagpipe Music
827(1)
The Sunlight on the Garden
828(1)
Carrickfergus
829(1)
Brother Fire
830(1)
The Libertine
831(1)
Variation on Heraclitus
832(1)
Charon
832(1)
George Oppen (1908--1984)
833(8)
Solution
834(1)
From Disaster
835(1)
Survival: Infantry
835(1)
Pedestrian
835(1)
Psalm
836(1)
Of Being Numerous
836(5)
1--9
836(4)
18--19
840(1)
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)
841(14)
Cuttings
842(1)
Cuttings (later)
842(1)
Weed Puller
843(1)
My Papa's Waltz
843(1)
Dolor
844(1)
The Minimal
844(1)
The Lost Son
844(5)
Elegy for Jane
849(1)
The Waking
849(1)
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
850(1)
I Knew a Woman
851(1)
Wish for a Young Wife
851(1)
The Far Field
852(2)
In a Dark Time
854(1)
Stephen Spender (1909--1995)
855(5)
The Funeral
856(1)
What I Expected
857(1)
The Truly Great
858(1)
The Express
858(1)
The Landscape near an Aerodrome
859(1)
The Pylons
860(1)
Keith Douglas (1920--1944)
860(151)
Soissons
861(1)
Simplify Me When I'm Dead
862(1)
Gallantry
862(1)
Vergissmeinnicht
863(1)
Aristocrats
864(1)
POETICS
From Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)
865(5)
Walt Whitman
Letters
870(3)
Emily Dickinson
[Letter 261: Thank You for the Surgery] 25 April 1862
870(1)
[Letter 265: Will You Be My Preceptor?] 7 June 1862
871(1)
[Letter 268: My Business Is Circumference] July 1862
872(1)
Letters
873(4)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
[Sprung Rhythm] August 21, 1877
874(1)
[Sprung Rhythm] October 5, 1878
874(2)
[My Poetry Errs on the Side of Oddness] February 15, 1879
876(1)
[The Current Language Heightened] August 14, 1879
876(1)
The Symbolism of Poetry (1900)
877(6)
W. B. Yeats
From Introduction [A General Introduction for My Work] (w. 1937)
883(6)
From Romanticism and Classicism (w. 1911--12)
889(8)
T. E. Hulme
Blast (1914)
Long Live the Vortex!
897(2)
Manifesto---1
899(13)
Manifesto---2
912(9)
Feminist Manifesto (w. 1914)
921(5)
Mina Loy
Preface to Some Imagist Poets (1915)
926(2)
Amy Lowell, ed.
Preface (w. 1918)
928(1)
Wilfred Owen
A Retrospect (1918)
928(11)
Ezra Pound
From How to Read (1929, 1931)
939(2)
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
941(6)
T. S. Eliot
From Hamlet (1919)
947(2)
From The Metaphysical Poets (1921)
949(5)
From Prologue to Kora in Hell (1919)
954(6)
William Carlos Williams
The Poetry of the Present [Preface to the American Edition of New Poems] (1919)
960(4)
D. H. Lawrence
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926)
964(4)
Langston Hughes
A Letter to Harriet Monroe (1926)
968(3)
Hart Crane
Aphorisms
971(5)
Wallace Stevens
From Adagia (w. 1934--40?)
972(3)
From Miscellaneous Notebooks (w. 1948--55?)
975(1)
From The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words (1942)
976(8)
The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
984(2)
Robert Frost
From A Transatlantic Interview (w. 1946)
986(8)
Gertrude Stein
Humility, Concentration, and Gusto (1949)
994(6)
Marianne Moore
Writing (1962)
1000(11)
W. H. Auden
Selected Bibliographies 1011(30)
Permissions Acknowledgments 1041(8)
Index 1049(84)
Preface to the Third Edition xxxiii
Acknowledgments xxxix
Introduction xliii
Charles Olson (1910--1970)
1(14)
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)
Independence
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)
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
332(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)
2. How We Danced
435(1)
The Death Baby
436(1)
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 by Trumbull Stickney
492(1)
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)
1.1.1 (```This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them canoes.''')
520(2)
1.3.3 (``'Mais qui ca qui rivait-'ous, Philoctete?''')
522(1)
1.9.3 (``The Cyclone, howling because one of the lances'')
523(3)
1.13.2--3 (```Walk me down to the wharf.''')
526(2)
3.25.2--3 (``He remembered this sunburnt river with its spindly'')
528(3)
6.49.1--2 (``She bathed him in the brew of the root. The basin'')
531(2)
7.64.1 (``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)
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)
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
Projective Verse (1950)
1053(8)
Charles Olson
Poetic Manifesto (w. 1951)
1061(6)
Dylan Thomas
The Pleasure Principle (1957)
1067(2)
Philip Larkin
From Introduction to All What Jazz (1970)
1069(3)
Personism: A Manifesto (w. 1959)
1072(2)
Frank O'Hara
Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl (1959)
1074(3)
Allen Ginsberg
From The Myth of a ``Negro Literature'' (1963)
1077(4)
Amiri Baraka
Some Notes on Organic Form (1965)
1081(5)
Denise Levertov
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision (1971)
1086(10)
Adrienne Rich
Feeling into Words (w. 1974)
1096(13)
Seamus Heaney
Jamaica Language (w. 1979--81)
1109(2)
Louise Bennett
Semblance (1980)
1111(4)
Charles Bernstein
From Where Mirrors Are Windows: Toward an Anthology of Reflections (1989)
1115(4)
A. K. Ramanujan
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory (1992)
1119(14)
Derek Walcott
Selected Bibliographies 1133(48)
Permissions Acknowledgments 1181(14)
Index 1195

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