Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast 120 Poems from the Subways and Buses

by Lauer, Brett Fletcher; Paschen, Elise; Paschen, Elise

• ISBN13: 9780393323764
• ISBN10: 0393323765
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Originated in 1992 in New York City, the Poetry in Motion'„¢ program traveled to Chicago and now appears in eleven cities nationwide, from Baltimore to Houston; Portland, Oregon; and Los Angeles. The wonderfully diverse poets represented include Sherman Alexie, William Blake, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, and Joy Harjo, among many others.Read this volume and re-create the feeling of being captured unexpectedly'”for a special moment'”by the truth or wit of these brief poems. As in the previous edition, the editors spent countless hours selecting out of hundreds of possibilities from the varied voices of poets ranging from the ancients up to the present time. Elise Paschen introduces the collection; William Louis-Dreyfus contributes its preface.Poetry in Motion'„¢ is in these cities: New York; Washington, D.C.; Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts; Portland, Oregon; Chicago; Dallas; Los Angeles; Austin, Texas; Baltimore; Philadelphia; Iowa City; Des Moines.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
from Emergence	p. 3
Naming the Animals	p. 4
Ceres Looks at the Morning	p. 6
The Sonogram	p. 7
Blackberries	p. 8
First Early Mornings Together	p. 9
from Art: African-American Woman Guild, or The Spider Explains Her Art to the Blind	p. 10
Sonnet XXIX	p. 12
Red Rooster, Yellow Sky	p. 13
Beautiful Days	p. 14
from Sympathy	p. 15
False Spring	p. 16
from Eruption: Pu'u O'o	p. 17
from Foreign Exchange	p. 18
Espresso	p. 19
Peaches	p. 21
Walking to School, 1964	p. 22
Lilac Time	p. 24
from The World Is Round	p. 25
Riddle	p. 26
A Tin Roof Song	p. 27
from The Choice	p. 29
from Avalanche	p. 30
Days of Our Years	p. 31
At Noon	p. 32
El Chicle	p. 33
I Ask My Mother to Sing	p. 35
The Cure	p. 37
A Poem for Jesse	p. 39
from Praise the Tortilla, Praise Menudo, Praise Chorizo	p. 40
Wrong Side of the River	p. 41
Ventanas Pintadas/Painted Windows	p. 42
Cow Worship	p. 44
The Loon on Oak-Head Pond	p. 45
The Eagle	p. 46
from A Chorus of Horizontals	p. 47
from Of Pairs	p. 48
Keeping Things Whole	p. 49
Milkweed	p. 51
The Bears	p. 52
from Poppies	p. 54
In Between	p. 55
The Tree House	p. 56
On the Patio, Dallas	p. 57
from Untitled	p. 59
from Brotherly Love	p. 60
We Real Cool	p. 61
I Finally Managed to Speak to Her	p. 62
from My Grandmother's New York Apartment	p. 63
Hanging the Wash	p. 64
Instruction	p. 66
Lineage	p. 68
The Courage of Women	p. 69
The Hands	p. 70
Open House	p. 71
Too Much Heat, Too Much Work	p. 72
The Potter's Wheel	p. 73
from Mending Wall	p. 75
from Heavy Tells a Story	p. 76
The Mill Back Home	p. 77
Confusion	p. 78
from Auburn	p. 79
Epigram V, xxxvi	p. 81
The Door	p. 82
The Grade-School Angels	p. 83
from Daily Horoscope	p. 84
The Whistle	p. 85
Whose side are you on?	p. 86
Hunger	p. 87
from Men at Forty	p. 88
from Commuter Marriage	p. 89
Sonnet	p. 90
Paper Matches	p. 91
from Fences	p. 92
from Crazy Horse Speaks	p. 93
Communicacion/Communication	p. 94
Love Like Salt	p. 96
from Misgivings	p. 98
from Happy Family	p. 99
Primitive	p. 101
Harmonie du Soir	p. 103
Sent on a Sheet of Paper with a Heart Shape Cut Out of the Middle of It	p. 104
Scaffolding	p. 105
Delight in Disorder	p. 106
Separation	p. 107
from Those Who Come After	p. 108
Hysteria	p. 110
The Gift	p. 111
Tides	p. 112
The Ideal	p. 113
This Is Just to Say	p. 114
from Little L. A. Villanelle	p. 115
Tower Suite	p. 116
The Taxi	p. 117
from The Starlight Night	p. 118
from Fireflies	p. 119
from In Spite of Everything, the Stars	p. 120
from The Heavy Light of Shifting Stars	p. 121
The moonless night	p. 122
from In February	p. 124
White Towels	p. 126
The Good Old Dog	p. 127
from Rumors	p. 129
Quies, or Rest	p. 130
Lullaby for a Daughter	p. 131
0[degree]	p. 132
I Know	p. 133
Exile	p. 135
from Let Me Think	p. 136
Meeting at Night	p. 137
Water Can Only Wrap Me, but Life Must Hold Me	p. 138
from Variation on the Word Sleep	p. 140
Sonnet XVII	p. 141
from Watch Repair	p. 143
The Poem	p. 145
Say Uncle	p. 146
The Well Dressed Man with a Beard	p. 147
from The Tyger	p. 149
from They Feed They Lion	p. 150
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	p. 151
Acknowledgments	p. 153
About the Editors	p. 159
Permissions	p. 161
Index of Poets and Translators	p. 171
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