Anthology of Modern American Poetry

by Nelson, Cary

• ISBN13: 9780195122718
• ISBN10: 0195122712
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Anthology of Modern American Poetry contains more than 750 poems by 161 American poets, including many who have not been anthologized before. Spanning a period from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie, this collection is the first to review the twentieth century comprehensively. It presents notonly the canonical poetry of the last hundred years but also numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. Uniquely comprehensive, Anthology of Modern American Poetry represents Robert Frost with 23 poems, Wallace Stevens with 22, and Marianne Moore with 14, including her most ambitious long poems. William Carlos Williams is represented not only by his exquisite short lyrics, but also with anexperimental combination of poetry and prose. With 29 poems, Langston Hughes is given full treatment for the first time in any comprehensive anthology. Substantial selections by contemporary poets like John Ashbery, Sylvia Plath, Frank O'Hara, Philip Levine, Lucille Clifton, Judy Grahn, AdrianLouis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Martin Espada, and Sherman Alexie are also included. Anthology of Modern American Poetry is the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poem sequences. T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry," William Carlos Williams's The Descent of Winter, Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Sonnets from an UngraftedTree," Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead," Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia, Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence," Gwendolyn Brooks's "Gay Chaps at the Bar," Kenneth Rexroth's "The Love Poems of Marichiko," both Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and his "Wichita VortexSutra," and both Adrienne Rich's "Shooting Script" and her "Twenty-One Love Poems" are all included in their entirety. Anthology of Modern American Poetry offers the most detailed annotations available in an anthology of this type. Many works benefit from specially commissioned research that provides students with such help as the identification of the inventive references in Melvin Tolson's poetry, translation ofall foreign language passages, and illumination of obscure references. This is also the only American poetry anthology to present selected poems in the beautifully illustrated form in which they first appeared. In addition, an accompanying website featuring readings of poems and historicalbackground is available at http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps. Ideal for courses in modern American poetry, modern American literature, modern or contemporary poetry, creative writing-poetry, and American studies, Anthology of Modern American Poetry introduces students to the last 100 years of our poetic heritage in a uniquely rich and provocativeformat.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxix
Acknowledgments	xxxiii
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)	1	(8)
One's-Self I Sing	1	(1)
I Hear America Singing	2	(1)
As Adam Early in the Morning	2	(1)
For You O Democracy	2	(1)
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me	3	(1)
A Glimpse	3	(1)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	3	(1)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	4	(5)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)	9	(9)
(There's a certain Slant of light,)	9	(1)
(I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)	10	(1)
(The Soul selects her own Society)	10	(1)
(After great pain, a formal feeling comes---)	11	(1)
(I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---)	11	(1)
(I'm ceded---I've stopped being Theirs)	12	(1)
(I started Early---Took my Dog---)	12	(1)
(I like to see it lap the Miles---)	13	(1)
(A still---Volcano---Life---)	13	(1)
(They shut me up in Prose---)	14	(1)
(I dwell in Possibility---)	14	(1)
(Because I could not stop for Death)	15	(1)
(My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun---)	15	(1)
(Title divine---is mine!)	16	(1)
(Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---)	17	(1)
(Volcanoes be in Sicily)	17	(1)
Edwin Markham (1852--1940)	18	(3)
The Man With the Hoe	19	(2)
Sadakichi Hartmann (1867--1944)	21	(1)
Cyanogen Seas Are Surging	21	(1)
Tanka I	21	(1)
Tanka III	21	(1)
Edgar Lee Masters (1868--1950)	22	(3)
Lucinda Matlock	22	(1)
Petit, the Poet	23	(1)
Seth Compton	23	(1)
Trainor, the Druggist	24	(1)
Cleanthus Trilling	24	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)	25	(6)
The House on the Hill	25	(1)
Richard Cory	26	(1)
The Clerks	26	(1)
Miniver Cheevy	27	(1)
The Mill	28	(1)
Mr. Flood's Party	28	(2)
The Tree in Pamela's Garden	30	(1)
James Weldon Johnson (1871--1938)	31	(6)
O Black and Unknown Bards	31	(1)
The Creation	32	(2)
The White Witch	34	(3)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)	37	(5)
We Wear the Mask	37	(1)
When Malindy Sings	38	(1)
Sympathy	39	(1)
The Haunted Oak	40	(2)
Lola Ridge (1873--1941)	42	(2)
Stone Face	42	(1)
from Ice Heart	43	(1)
Amy Lowell (1874--1925)	44	(10)
September, 1918	44	(1)
The Letter	45	(1)
Venus Transiens	45	(1)
Madonna of the Evening Flowers	46	(1)
The Weather-Cock Points South	47	(1)
Opal	47	(1)
Wakefulness	48	(1)
Grotesque	48	(1)
The Sisters	48	(5)
New Heavens for Old	53	(1)
Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)	54	(30)
Patriarchal Poetry	55	(29)
Robert Frost (1874--1963)	84	(22)
Mending Wall	84	(1)
Home Burial	85	(3)
After Apple-Picking	88	(1)
The Wood-Pile	89	(1)
The Road Not Taken	90	(1)
Birches	90	(2)
The Oven Bird	92	(1)
An Old Man's Winter Night	92	(1)
The Hill Wife	93	(2)
Fire and Ice	95	(1)
Good-by and Keep Cold	95	(1)
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things	95	(1)
Design	96	(1)
The Witch of Coos	97	(3)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	100	(1)
Gathering Leaves	100	(1)
In a Disused Graveyard	101	(1)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	102	(1)
Desert Places	102	(1)
Two Tramps in Mud Time	102	(2)
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep	104	(1)
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same	104	(1)
The Gift Outright	105	(1)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875--1935)	106	(1)
I Sit and Sew	106	(1)
Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)	107	(7)
Chicago	107	(1)
Subway	108	(1)
Muckers	108	(1)
Child of the Romans	109	(1)
Nigger	109	(1)
Buttons	109	(1)
Planked Whitefish	110	(1)
Cool Tombs	111	(1)
Grass	111	(1)
Fog	112	(1)
Elizabeth Umpstead	112	(1)
Man, The Man-Hunter	112	(1)
Two Humpties	113	(1)
Vachel Lindsay (1879--1931)	114	(10)
The Congo	115	(4)
The Child-Heart in the Mountains	119	(1)
Celestial Flowers of Glacier Park	119	(1)
The Virginians Are Coming Again	120	(4)
Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)	124	(21)
Sea Surface Full of Clouds	125	(2)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	127	(2)
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon	129	(1)
Floral Decorations for Bananas	130	(1)
Anecdote of the Jar	130	(1)
Disillusionment of Ten O'clock	131	(1)
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman	131	(1)
The Snow Man	132	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	132	(1)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	133	(2)
Sunday Morning	135	(3)
The Death of a Soldier	138	(1)
The Idea of Order at Key West	138	(1)
Mozart, 1935	139	(1)
A Postcard from the Volcano	140	(1)
Study of Two Pears	141	(1)
Of Modern Poetry	142	(1)
The Course of a Particular	142	(1)
The Plain Sense of Things	143	(1)
As You Leave the Room	143	(1)
A Clear Day and No Memories	144	(1)
Of Mere Being	144	(1)
Angelina Weld GrimkE (1880--1958)	145	(2)
The Black Finger	145	(1)
Tenebris	145	(1)
A Mona Lisa	146	(1)
Fragment	146	(1)
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880--1966)	147	(2)
The Heart of a Woman	147	(1)
Common Dust	147	(1)
Motherhood	148	(1)
Mina Loy (1882--1966)	149	(13)
Songs to Joannes	150	(12)
Anne Spencer (1882--1975)	162	(2)
White Things	162	(1)
Lady, Lady	163	(1)
(God never planted a garden)	163	(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)	164	(38)
The Young Housewife	165	(1)
Portrait of a Lady	165	(1)
Queen-Anne's-Lace	166	(1)
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	166	(1)
The Great Figure	167	(1)
Spring and All	167	(1)
To Elsie	168	(2)
The Red Wheelbarrow	170	(1)
Young Sycamore	170	(1)
The Descent of Winter	171	(20)
This is Just to Say	191	(1)
Proletarian Portrait	192	(1)
The Yachts	192	(1)
The Descent	193	(1)
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower, Book I	194	(6)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus	200	(2)
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)	202	(30)
A Pact	204	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	204	(1)
Portrait d'une Femme	205	(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	205	(1)
from The Cantos:
(And then went down to the ship)	206	(3)
(One year floods rose)	209	(9)
(With Usura)	218	(2)
(Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom)	220	(6)
(Came Neptunus)	226	(3)
(For the blue flash and the moments)	229	(3)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886--1961)	232	(12)
Oread	233	(1)
Mid-day	233	(1)
Sea Rose	234	(1)
Garden	234	(1)
The Helmsman	235	(1)
Eurydice	236	(4)
Helen	240	(1)
from The Walls Do Not Fall
(An incident here and there)	240	(2)
(In me (the worm) clearly)	242	(2)
Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)	244	(6)
Shine, Perishing Republic	244	(1)
Hurt Hawks	245	(1)
November Surf	246	(1)
The Purse-Seine	246	(1)
Fantasy	247	(1)
Cassandra	248	(1)
Vulture	248	(1)
Birds and Fishes	249	(1)
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)	250	(27)
Poetry	251	(1)
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish	252	(1)
The Fish	252	(1)
Sojourn in the Whale	253	(1)
A Grave	254	(1)
Silence	255	(1)
Peter	255	(1)
Marriage	256	(8)
An Octopus	264	(5)
No Swan So Fine	269	(1)
The Pangolin	269	(3)
Bird-Witted	272	(1)
The Paper Nautilus	273	(1)
Spenser's Ireland	274	(3)
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)	277	(35)
The Love Song of	278	(4)
J. Alfred Prufrock
Gerontion	282	(3)
The Waste Land	285	(17)
The Hollow Men	302	(3)
Journey of the Magi	305	(1)
from Four Quartets: Burnt Norton	306	(6)
John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974)	312	(2)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	312	(1)
Dead Boy	313	(1)
Claude McKay (1889--1948)	314	(6)
The Harlem Dancer	315	(1)
To the White Fiends	315	(1)
If We Must Die	315	(1)
The Lynching	316	(1)
The Tropics in New York	316	(1)
The White City	317	(1)
America	317	(1)
Outcast	318	(1)
Mulatto	318	(1)
The Negro's Tragedy	318	(1)
Look Within	319	(1)
Tiger	319	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)	320	(11)
First Fig	320	(1)
I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed	320	(1)
Love is not blind	321	(1)
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!	321	(1)
Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree	321	(6)
Well, I Have Lost You	327	(1)
Love is not all	327	(1)
Justice Denied in Massachusetts	328	(1)
Say that We Saw Spain Die	329	(1)
I Forgot for a Moment	330	(1)
Archibald MacLeish (1892--1982)	331	(2)
Ars Poetica	331	(1)
The End of the World	332	(1)
Dorothy Parker (1893--1967)	333	(2)
Unfortunate Coincidence	333	(1)
Resume	333	(1)
One Perfect Rose	334	(1)
Genevieve Taggard (1894--1948)	335	(8)
Everyday Alchemy	336	(1)
With Child	336	(1)
Up State---Depression Summer	336	(2)
Mill Town	338	(1)
Ode in Time of Crisis	339	(1)
To the Negro People	340	(2)
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade	342	(1)
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)	343	(9)
Thy fingers make early flowers of	344	(1)
in Just-	344	(1)
O sweet spontaneous	345	(1)
Buffalo Bill's	346	(1)
Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal	346	(2)
``next to of course god america i	348	(1)
my sweet old etcetera	348	(1)
i sing of Olaf glad and big	349	(1)
Space being(don't forget to remember) Curved	350	(1)
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	350	(1)
anyone lived in a pretty how town	351	(1)
Jean Toomer (1894--1967)	352	(2)
from Cane:
Reapers	352	(1)
November Cotton Flower	353	(1)
Portrait in Georgia	353	(1)
Her Lips Are Copper Wire	353	(1)
Charles Reznikoff (1894--1976)	354	(17)
from Testimony: The United States (1885--1915): Recitative Negroes	355	(9)
from Holocaust: Massacres	364	(7)
Herman Spector (1895--1959)	371	(1)
Wiseguy Type	371	(1)
V. J. Jerome (1896--1965)	372	(1)
A Negro Mother to Her Child	372	(1)
John Wheelwright (1897--1940)	373	(2)
Plantation Drouth	373	(2)
Joseph Freeman (1897--1965)	375	(1)
Our Age Has Caesars	375	(1)
Lucia Trent (1897--1977)	376	(2)
Breed, Women, Breed	376	(1)
Black Men	377	(1)
Parade the Narrow Turrets	377	(1)
Louise Bogan (1897--1970)	378	(4)
Medusa	379	(1)
The Crows	379	(1)
Women	380	(1)
Cassandra	380	(1)
The Dragonfly	380	(2)
Harry Crosby (1898--1929)	382	(2)
Photoheliograph (For Lady A.)	382	(1)
Pharmacie Du Soleil	383	(1)
Tattoo	383	(1)
from Short Introduction to the Word	383	(1)
Hart Crane (1899--1932)	384	(25)
October-November	385	(1)
Black Tambourine	385	(1)
Chaplinesque	386	(1)
Episode of Hands	387	(1)
Porphyro in Akron	387	(2)
Voyages I	389	(1)
from The Bridge
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge	390	(2)
Ave Maria	392	(3)
The River	395	(4)
Cape Hatteras	399	(6)
Atlantis	405	(2)
The Mango Tree	407	(2)
Allen Tate (1899--1979)	409	(3)
Ode to the Confederate Dead	409	(3)
Melvin B. Tolson (1900?--1966)	412	(59)
Dark Symphony	413	(5)
Libretto for the Republic of Liberia	418	(53)
Yvor Winters (1900--1968)	471	(2)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	471	(2)
Sterling A. Brown (1901--1989)	473	(13)
Scotty Has His Say	473	(2)
Memphis Blues	475	(1)
Slim in Atlanta	476	(2)
Slim in Hell	478	(3)
Rent Day Blues	481	(1)
Old Lem	482	(1)
Sharecroppers	483	(1)
Southern Cop	484	(1)
Choices	485	(1)
Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901--1991)	486	(5)
Helen's Burning	487	(1)
The Wind Suffers	487	(1)
Elegy in a Spider's Web	488	(3)
Angel Island: Poems By Chinese Immigrants, 1910--1940	491	(3)
(As a traveller in wind and dust)	491	(1)
(Instead of remaining a citizen of China)	492	(1)
(I am distressed that we Chinese are detained)	492	(1)
(America has power, but not justice)	492	(1)
(The low building with three beams)	492	(1)
(The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants)	492	(1)
(The silvery red shirt is half covered with dust)	493	(1)
Poem by One Named Xu, From Xiangshan, Consoling Himself	493	(1)
Leaving behind my writing brush	493	(1)
Kenneth Fearing (1902--1961)	494	(8)
Dear Beatrice Fairfax	495	(1)
$2.50	495	(2)
Dirge	497	(1)
Denouement	498	(4)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)	502	(24)
Negro	503	(1)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	503	(1)
The Weary Blues	504	(1)
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 a.m.)	505	(1)
To the Dark Mercedes of ``El Palacio de Amor''	506	(1)
Mulatto	506	(1)
Justice	507	(1)
Fire	507	(1)
White Shadows	508	(1)
Christ in Alabama	508	(1)
Three Songs About Lynching:
Silhouette	509	(1)
Flight	509	(1)
Lynching Song	509	(1)
Come to the Waldorf-Astoria	510	(2)
Goodbye Christ	512	(1)
Ballad of Roosevelt	513	(1)
Park Bench	514	(1)
Let America Be America Again	515	(2)
Letter from Spain	517	(1)
The Bitter River	518	(2)
Ku Klux	520	(1)
Shakespeare in Harlem	521	(1)
Madam and the Phone Bill	521	(1)
Ballad of the Landlord	522	(1)
Harlem	523	(1)
Late Corner	523	(1)
Dinner Guest: Me	524	(1)
The Backlash Blues	524	(1)
Bombings in Dixie	525	(1)
Arna Bontemps (1902--1973)	526	(2)
A Black Man Talks of Reaping	526	(1)
Southern Mansion	526	(2)
Gwendolyn Bennett (1902--1981)	528	(2)
To a Dark Girl	528	(1)
Heritage	528	(1)
Street Lamps in Early Spring	529	(1)
Countee Cullen (1903--1946)	530	(6)
Incident	530	(1)
For a Lady I Know	531	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	531	(1)
Near White	531	(1)
Tableau	531	(1)
Heritage	532	(3)
From the Dark Tower	535	(1)
Lorine Niedecker (1903--1970)	536	(6)
Paean to Place	536	(5)
Poet's work	541	(1)
Kay Boyle (1903--1993)	542	(5)
A Communication to Nancy Cunard	542	(5)
Carl Rakosi (B. 1903)	547	(3)
The Menage	547	(3)
Aqua Laluah (1904--1950)	550	(1)
The Serving Girl	550	(1)
Lullaby	550	(1)
Louis Zukofsky (1904--1978)	551	(6)
To My Wash-stand	551	(2)
Mantis	553	(1)
A Song for the Year's End	554	(1)
from Light Because Tarzan Triumphs	555	(1)
Non Ti Fidar	556	(1)
John Beecher (1904--1980)	557	(5)
Report to the Stockholders	557	(2)
Beaufort Tides	559	(1)
Engagement at the Salt Fork	560	(2)
Kenneth Rexroth (1905--1982)	562	(13)
The Love Poems of Marichiko	562	(13)
Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)	575	(3)
Bearded Oaks	575	(1)
Evening Hawk	576	(1)
Heart of Autumn	577	(1)
Stanley Kunitz (B. 1905)	578	(5)
The Wellfleet Whale	578	(4)
The Snakes of September	582	(1)
Joseph Kalar (1906--1972)	583	(1)
Papermill	583	(1)
Richard Wright (1908--1960)	584	(1)
We of the Streets	584	(1)
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)	585	(18)
Cuttings	585	(1)
Cuttings (later)	586	(1)
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze	586	(1)
from The Lost Son:
The Flight	587	(2)
I Knew a Woman	589	(1)
North American Sequence:
The Longing	589	(2)
Meditation at Oyster River	591	(2)
Journey to the Interior	593	(2)
The Long Waters	595	(2)
The Far Field	597	(2)
The Rose	599	(4)
George Oppen (1908--1984)	603	(5)
Image of the Engine	603	(2)
In Alsace	605	(1)
Exodus	606	(2)
Edwin Rolfe (1909--1954)	608	(12)
Asbestos	609	(1)
Season of Death	609	(1)
First Love	610	(1)
Elegia	611	(4)
After Tu Fu (A. D. 713-770)	615	(1)
Now the Fog	615	(1)
A Letter to the Denouncers	615	(1)
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been	616	(1)
A Poem to Delight My Friends Who Laugh at Science-Fiction	617	(1)
In Praise Of	618	(1)
Little Ballad for Americans---1954	619	(1)
Charles Olson (1910--1970)	620	(6)
Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele	620	(3)
Cole's Island	623	(3)
Sol Funaroff (1911--1942)	626	(5)
The Man at the Factory Gate	626	(1)
The Bull in the Olive Field	627	(2)
Goin Mah Own Road	629	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)	631	(17)
The Fish	631	(2)
The Man-Moth	633	(1)
At the Fishhouses	634	(2)
Filling Station	636	(1)
Questions of Travel	637	(1)
The Armadillo	638	(1)
In the Waiting Room	639	(3)
Pink Dog	642	(1)
Crusoe in England	643	(4)
One Art	647	(1)
William Everson (1912--1994)	648	(4)
A Canticle to the Waterbirds	648	(4)
Tille Lerner Olsen (B. 1912)	652	(3)
I Want You Women Up North to Know	652	(3)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980)	655	(36)
The Book of the Dead	656	(32)
The Minotaur	688	(1)
(To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century)	688	(1)
Rite	689	(1)
The Poem as Mask	689	(1)
Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)	690	(1)
Poem White Page/White Page Poem	690	(1)
Robert Hayden (1913--1980)	691	(15)
Middle Passage	691	(5)
Runagate Runagate	696	(3)
A Letter from Phillis Wheatley	699	(1)
Night, Death, Mississippi	700	(1)
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves	701	(2)
from Elegies for Paradise Valley I (My shared bedroom's window)	703	(1)
The Dogwood Trees	704	(1)
O Daedalus, Fly Away Home	704	(2)
Charles Henri Ford (B. 1913)	706	(3)
Plaint	706	(1)
Flag of Ecstasy	707	(2)
Weldon Kees (1914--1955)	709	(4)
Travels in North America	709	(4)
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)	713	(4)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	713	(1)
A Front	714	(1)
Losses	714	(1)
Second Air Force	715	(1)
Protocols	716	(1)
Japanese American Concentration Camp Haiku, 1942--1944	717	(4)
Shiho Okamoto (Being arrested)	718	(1)
Sadayo Taniguchi (Hand-cuffed and taken away)	718	(1)
Kyotaro Komuro (Lingering summer heat)	718	(1)
Komuro (Passed guard tower)	718	(1)
S. Okamoto (In the shade of summer sun)	718	(1)
Shonan Suzuki (Withered grass on ground)	718	(1)
Hakuro Wada (Young grass red and shriveled)	718	(1)
Hyakuissei Okamoto (Dandelion has bloomed)	718	(1)
Shizuku Uyemaruko (On certain days)	718	(1)
Wada (Released seagull)	719	(1)
Ryokuin Matsui (Sprinkling water outside)	719	(1)
Komuro (Want to be with children)	719	(1)
Wada (Even the croaking of frogs)	719	(1)
Hangetsu Tsunekawa (Sentry at main gate)	719	(1)
Shokoshi Saga (Thin shadow of tule reed)	719	(1)
Tokuji Hirai (Looking at summer moon)	719	(1)
Suzuki (Moon shadows on internment camp)	719	(1)
Hirai (Early moon has set)	719	(1)
Suiko Matsushita (Rain shower from mountain)	719	(1)
Neiji Ozawa (Desert rain falling)	719	(1)
Senbinshi Takaoka (Frosty morning)	719	(1)
Jyosha Yamada (Black clouds instantly shroud)	719	(1)
Takaoka (Winter wind)	720	(1)
Hekisamei Matsuda (Doll without a head)	720	(1)
Sei Sagara (Suddenly awakened)	720	(1)
H. Okamoto (Jeep patrolling slowly)	720	(1)
Shizuku Uyemaruko (Grieving within)	720	(1)
S. Okamoto (In the sage brush)	720	(1)
Matsushita (Oh shells---)	720	(1)
John Berryman (1914--1972)	721	(8)
from The Dream Songs
Huffy Henry	721	(1)
Filling her compact & delicious body	722	(1)
Henry sats	722	(1)
Life, friends	723	(1)
Of 1826	723	(1)
There sat down, once	724	(1)
I'm scared a lonely.	725	(1)
He stared at ruin.	725	(1)
I am, outside.	726	(1)
Peter's not friendly.	726	(1)
Henry's Confession	727	(1)
At Henry's bier	727	(1)
The marker slants	728	(1)
William Stafford (1914--1993)	729	(2)
Traveling Through the Dark	729	(1)
At the Bomb Testing Site	730	(1)
The Indian Cave Jerry Ramsey Found	730	(1)
Dudley Randall (B. 1914)	731	(2)
Ballad of Birmingham	731	(2)
Joy Davidman (1915--1960)	733	(2)
This Woman	733	(1)
For the Nazis	734	(1)
Margaret Walker (1915--1998)	735	(2)
For My People	735	(2)
Ruth Stone (B. 1915)	737	(5)
In an Iridescent Time	737	(1)
I Have Three Daughters	737	(1)
Pokeberries	738	(1)
American Milk	739	(1)
From the Arboretum	739	(1)
Drought in the Lower Fields	739	(1)
Some Things You'll Need to Know Before You Join the Union	740	(2)
Thomas McGrath (1916--1990)	742	(9)
Deep South	742	(1)
Crash Report	743	(1)
First Book of Genesis According to the Diplomats	744	(1)
Ars Poetica: or: Who Lives in the Ivory Tower?	745	(1)
A Little Song About Charity	746	(1)
Against the False Magicians	747	(1)
After the Beat Generation	748	(1)
Ode for the American Dead in Asia	749	(2)
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)	751	(15)
Inauguration Day: January 1953	751	(1)
A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich	752	(1)
Commander Lowell	753	(2)
``To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage''	755	(1)
Man and Wife	755	(1)
Memories of West Street and Lepke	756	(1)
Skunk Hour	757	(2)
For the Union Dead	759	(2)
The Mouth of the Hudson	761	(1)
July in Washington	762	(1)
The March I	763	(1)
The March II	763	(1)
Central Park	763	(3)
Gwendolyn Brooks (B. 1917)	766	(16)
a song in the front yard	766	(1)
of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery	767	(1)
Gay Chaps at the Bar	768	(4)
We Real Cool	772	(1)
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed	773	(1)
The Blackstone Rangers	774	(2)
Young Afrikans	776	(1)
The Boy Died in My Alley	777	(1)
To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals	778	(1)
To the Diaspora	779	(3)
William Bronk (1918--1999)	782	(3)
At Tikal	782	(1)
The Mayan Glyphs Unread	783	(1)
I Thought It Was Harry	783	(1)
Where It Ends	784	(1)
Robert Duncan (1919--1988)	785	(7)
Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow	785	(1)
My Mother Would Be a Falconress	786	(2)
The Torso (Passages 18)	788	(2)
Up Rising (Passages 25)	790	(2)
Richard Wilbur (B. 1921)	792	(5)
A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra	792	(2)
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	794	(1)
Advice to a Prophet	795	(2)
Mona Van Duyn (B. 1921)	797	(3)
Toward a Definition of Marriage	797	(3)
James Dickey (1923--1997)	800	(7)
The Sheep Child	800	(2)
Falling	802	(5)
Denise Levertov (1923--1997)	807	(8)
The Ache of Marriage	807	(1)
Olga Poems	808	(5)
What Were They Like?	813	(1)
Life at War	813	(2)
Anthony Hecht (B. 1923)	815	(3)
A Hill	815	(1)
``More Light! More Light!''	816	(2)
Bob Kaufman (1925--1986)	818	(3)
The Biggest Fisherman	819	(1)
Crootey Songo	819	(1)
No More Jazz at Alcatraz	819	(2)
Maxine Kumin (B. 1925)	821	(3)
Voices from Kansas	821	(1)
Saga	822	(2)
Paul Blackburn (1926--1971)	824	(3)
At the Well	824	(3)
Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)	827	(8)
Poem (The eager note on my door)	827	(1)
Today	828	(1)
A Step Away From Them	828	(1)
The Day Lady Died	829	(1)
Why I Am Not a Painter	830	(1)
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island	831	(2)
On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware At The Museum of Modern Art	833	(1)
Thinking of James Dean	834	(1)
James Merrill (1926--1995)	835	(12)
An Urban Convalescence	835	(2)
The Broken Home	837	(3)
Willowware Cup	840	(1)
Lost in Translation	841	(6)
Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)	847	(28)
Love Poem on Theme by Whitman	848	(1)
Howl	848	(9)
Wichita Vortex Sutra	857	(16)
Father Death Blues	873	(2)
Robert Creeley (B. 1926)	875	(6)
After Lorca	875	(1)
I Know a Man	876	(1)
The Flower	876	(1)
For Love	877	(1)
America	878	(1)
Age	879	(2)
Robert Bly (B. 1926)	881	(3)
Looking at New-Fallen Snow from a Train	881	(1)
Counting Small-Boned Bodies	882	(1)
The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach	882	(2)
A. R. Ammons (B. 1926)	884	(6)
Corsons Inlet	884	(3)
Gravelly Run	887	(1)
Coon Song	888	(2)
James Wright (1927--1980)	890	(4)
Saint Judas	890	(1)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	891	(1)
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota	891	(1)
A Blessing	891	(1)
A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862	892	(2)
John Ashbery (B. 1927)	894	(12)
``They Dream Only of America''	894	(1)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape	895	(1)
Mixed Feelings	896	(1)
Hop o' My Thumb	897	(1)
Street Musicians	898	(1)
Syringa	899	(2)
Daffy Duck in Hollywood	901	(4)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons	905	(1)
Galway Kinnell (B. 1927)	906	(6)
The Porcupine	906	(3)
The Bear	909	(3)
W. S. Merwin (B. 1927)	912	(9)
The Drunk in the Furnace	912	(1)
It is March	913	(1)
Caesar	914	(1)
The Room	914	(1)
December Among the Vanished	914	(1)
For the Anniversary of My Death	915	(1)
When the War is Over	915	(1)
The Asians Dying	915	(1)
For A Coming Extinction	916	(1)
Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise	917	(1)
The Gardens of Zuni	917	(1)
Beginning	918	(1)
The Horse	918	(1)
Sun and Rain	919	(1)
Berryman	919	(2)
Anne Sexton (1928--1974)	921	(4)
Her Kind	921	(1)
The Truth the Dead Know	922	(1)
And One for My Dame	922	(2)
The Room of My Life	924	(1)
Philip Levine (B. 1928)	925	(9)
The Horse	925	(1)
Animals Are Passing From Our Lives	926	(1)
Belle Isle, 1949	927	(1)
They Feed They Lion	927	(1)
Francisco, I'll Bring You Red Carnations	928	(3)
Fear and Fame	931	(1)
On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane	932	(2)
Adrienne Rich (B. 1929)	934	(21)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	934	(1)
from Shooting Script
Part I: 1-6	935	(3)
Part II: 9-14	938	(4)
Trying to Talk with a Man	942	(1)
Diving into the Wreck	943	(2)
Twenty-one Love Poems	945	(8)
Power	953	(1)
from An Atlas of the Difficult World XIII. (Dedications) I know you are reading this poem	954	(1)
Gary Snyder (B. 1930)	955	(5)
Riprap	955	(1)
Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body	956	(1)
I Went into the Maverick Bar	957	(1)
Straight-Creek---Great Burn	957	(2)
Axe Handles	959	(1)
Gregory Corso (B. 1930)	960	(8)
Marriage	960	(3)
Bomb	963	(5)
Etheridge Knight (1931--1991)	968	(5)
Haiku	968	(1)
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	968	(1)
The Idea of Ancestry	969	(1)
A Poem for Myself	970	(1)
For Malcolm, a Year After	971	(1)
Television Speaks	971	(1)
For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide	972	(1)
Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)	973	(18)
Black Rook in Rainy Weather	974	(1)
The Colossus	975	(1)
Tulips	975	(2)
The Bee Meeting	977	(2)
The Arrival of the Bee Box	979	(1)
Stings	980	(1)
The Swarm	981	(2)
Wintering	983	(1)
Daddy	984	(3)
Ariel	987	(1)
Lady Lazarus	988	(3)
Henry Dumas (1934--1968)	991	(6)
Son of Msippi	991	(1)
Kef 24	992	(1)
Kef 16	993	(1)
Fish	993	(1)
Knees of a Natural Man	994	(1)
Low Down Dog Blues	994	(1)
Black Star Line	995	(2)
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (B. 1934)	997	(5)
SOS	997	(1)
Black Art	998	(1)
When We'll Worship Jesus	999	(3)
N. Scott Momaday (B. 1934)	1002	(5)
Plainview: 3	1002	(1)
Buteo Regalis	1002	(1)
Crows in a Winter Composition	1003	(1)
Carriers of the Dream Wheel	1003	(1)
Rings of Bone	1004	(1)
The Stalker from The Colors of Night Purple	1004	(1)
The Burning	1005	(1)
December 29, 1890	1005	(1)
The Shield That Came Back	1006	(1)
Mark Strand (B. 1934)	1007	(2)
Where Are the Waters of Childhood?	1007	(2)
Audre Lorde (1934--1992)	1009	(9)
Coal	1009	(1)
Sisters in Arms	1010	(1)
Outlines	1011	(4)
Call	1015	(3)
Charles Wright (B. 1935)	1018	(5)
Homage to Paul Cezanne	1018	(5)
Mary Oliver (B. 1935)	1023	(3)
The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water	1023	(1)
Black Snake This Time	1024	(2)
Jayne Cortez (B. 1936)	1026	(3)
I Am New York City	1026	(1)
Do You Think	1027	(2)
Lucille Clifton (B. 1936)	1029	(7)
I Am Accused of Tending To the Past	1029	(1)
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989	1030	(1)
Reply	1031	(1)
the message of crazy horse	1031	(1)
poem to my uterus	1032	(1)
to my last period	1032	(1)
brothers	1033	(3)
Susan Howe (B. 1937)	1036	(7)
from Articulation of Sound Forms in Time The Falls Fight	1036	(2)
Hope Atherton's Wanderings	1038	(5)
Michael S. Harper (B. 1938)	1043	(7)
Song: I Want a Witness	1043	(1)
Blue Ruth: America	1044	(1)
Brother John	1044	(1)
American History	1045	(1)
We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper	1046	(1)
Reuben, Reuben	1046	(1)
Deathwatch	1047	(1)
Dear John, Dear Coltrane	1048	(2)
Ishmael Reed (B. 1938)	1050	(4)
I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra	1050	(4)
Lawson Fusao Inada (B. 1938)	1054	(4)
Listening Images	1054	(4)
Robert Pinsky (B. 1940)	1058	(4)
The Unseen	1058	(1)
Shirt	1059	(3)
Welton Smith (B. 1940)	1062	(6)
Malcolm	1062	(6)
Judy Grahn (B. 1940)	1068	(7)
I Have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe's Body	1068	(1)
Vietnamese Woman Speaking to an American Soldier	1069	(1)
Carol	1070	(1)
Plainsong	1071	(2)
The Woman Whose Head Is On Fire	1073	(2)
Robert Hass (B. 1941)	1075	(3)
Rusia en 1931	1075	(1)
A Story About the Body	1076	(2)
Sharon Olds (B. 1942)	1078	(5)
Ideographs	1079	(1)
Photograph of the Girl	1080	(1)
Things That Are Worse Than Death	1080	(1)
The Waiting	1080	(1)
His Father's Cadaver	1081	(2)
Louise Gluck (B. 1943)	1083	(5)
Penelope's Song	1083	(1)
Quiet Evening	1084	(1)
Parable of the King	1084	(1)
Parable of the Hostages	1085	(1)
Circe's Power	1085	(1)
Circe's Grief	1086	(1)
Reunion	1087	(1)
Michael Palmer (B. 1943)	1088	(5)
Song of the Round Man	1088	(1)
All Those Words	1089	(1)
I Have Answers to All of Your Questions	1089	(1)
Fifth Prose	1090	(1)
Autobiography	1091	(2)
Paul Violi (B. 1944)	1093	(2)
Index	1093	(2)
Carolyn M. Rodgers (B. 1945)	1095	(3)
how i got ovah	1095	(1)
and when the revolution came	1096	(1)
mama's God	1097	(1)
Ron Silliman (B. 1946)	1098	(27)
from Ketjak	1098	(3)
from Sunset Debris	1101	(1)
The Chinese Notebook	1102	(19)
from Toner	1121	(4)
Adrian C. Louis (B. 1946)	1125	(17)
Dust World	1125	(2)
Wakinyan	1127	(1)
Without Words	1128	(1)
Coyote Night	1128	(1)
How Verdell and Dr. Zhivago Disassembled the Soviet Union	1129	(1)
Wanbli Gleska Win	1130	(1)
Looking for Judas	1131	(1)
A Colossal American Copulation	1131	(3)
Petroglyphs of Serena	1134	(8)
Yusef Komunyakaa (B. 1947)	1142	(7)
Tu Do Street	1142	(1)
Prisoners	1143	(1)
Communique	1144	(1)
The Dog Act	1145	(1)
The Nazi Doll	1146	(1)
Fog Galleon	1147	(1)
Work	1147	(2)
AI (B. 1947)	1149	(7)
Twenty-Year Marriage	1149	(1)
The German Army, Russia, 1943	1150	(1)
The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer	1150	(2)
The Priest's Confession	1152	(4)
Wendy Rose (B. 1948)	1156	(2)
Truganinny	1156	(2)
C. D. Wright (B. 1949)	1158	(2)
Obedience of the Corpse	1158	(1)
Over Everything	1159	(1)
Song of the Gourd	1159	(1)
Jessica Hagedorn (B. 1949)	1160	(2)
Ming the Merciless	1160	(2)
Ray A. Young Bear (B. 1950)	1162	(6)
In Viewpoint: Poem for 14 Catfish and The Town of Tama, Iowa	1162	(3)
It Is The Fish-faced Boy Who Struggles	1165	(3)
Carolyn Forche (B. 1950)	1168	(1)
The Colonel	1168	(1)
Garrett Kaoru Hongo (B. 1951)	1169	(3)
Ancestral Graves, Kahuku	1169	(3)
Rita Dove (B. 1952)	1172	(3)
Parsley	1172	(3)
Jimmy Santiago Baca (B. 1952)	1175	(3)
Mi Tio Baca El Poeta De Socorro	1175	(3)
Anita Endrezze (B. 1952)	1178	(3)
Return of the Wolves	1178	(1)
Birdwatching at Fan Lake	1179	(2)
Ana Castillo (B. 1953)	1181	(2)
Seduced by Natassja Kinski	1181	(2)
Mark Doty (B. 1953)	1183	(4)
Homo Will Not Inherit	1183	(4)
Harryette Mullen (B. 1953)	1187	(2)
from Trimmings	1187	(1)
from S*PeRM**K*T	1188	(1)
Louise Erdrich (B. 1954)	1189	(3)
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways	1189	(1)
Dear John Wayne	1190	(2)
Sandra Cisneros (B. 1954)	1192	(1)
Little Clown, My Heart	1192	(1)
Thylias Moss (B. 1954)	1193	(5)
Fullness	1193	(1)
There Will Be Animals	1193	(1)
Ambition	1194	(2)
Crystals	1196	(2)
Patricia Smith (B. 1955)	1198	(4)
What It's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)	1198	(1)
Blond White Women	1198	(2)
Skinhead	1200	(2)
Marilyn Chin (B. 1955)	1202	(3)
How I Got That Name	1202	(3)
Sesshu Foster (B. 1957)	1205	(5)
We're caffinated by rain inside concrete underpasses	1205	(1)
You'll be fucked up	1206	(1)
Look and look again, will he glance up all of a sudden	1206	(1)
I'm always grateful no one hears this terrible racket	1207	(1)
The Japanese man would not appear riding a horse	1207	(1)
Life Magazine, December, 1941	1208	(1)
I try to pee but I can't	1209	(1)
Martin Espada (B. 1957)	1210	(7)
Bully	1210	(1)
The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive	1211	(1)
Federico's Ghost	1212	(1)
The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp	1213	(1)
Fidel in Ohio	1213	(1)
The Skull Beneath the Skin of the Mango	1214	(1)
Imagine the Angels of Bread	1214	(3)
Sherman Alexie (B. 1966)	1217	(18)
Indian Boy Love Song (#2)	1217	(1)
from The Native American Broadcasting System 9 (I am the essence of powwow, I am)	1218	(1)
Evolution	1219	(1)
Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians	1219	(1)
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel	1220	(2)
Tourists	1222	(2)
Graphic Interpretations
The Man With the Hoe	1224	(2)
Edwin Markham
The Virginians Are Coming Again	1226	(2)
Vachel Lindsay
Come to the Waldorf-Astoria	1228	(2)
Langston Hughes
Christ in Alabama	1230	(1)
We Real Cool	1231	(4)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Index of Poem Titles	1235	(10)
Index of Poets	1245	(4)
About the Editor	1249