Contemporary American Poetry : Revised and Expanded Second Edition

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780140586183
• ISBN10: 0140586180
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-01-18
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

An anthology of works by modern American poets

Table of Contents

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