A Gathering of Poets

by Anderson, Maggie; Gildzen, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780873384742
• ISBN10: 0873384741
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Tomorrow	p. 15
The War Effort, 1943	p. 16
Soldier Stories	p. 17
The Planet Krypton	p. 18
Saint Cow	p. 20
Learning to Fish	p. 21
Blue Is for Fish	p. 23
The Lilac Age	p. 24
Why We Are Truly a Nation	p. 26
A Reminder to the Current President	p. 31
Brief Wyoming Meditation	p. 33
Thunder After Thunder, Returning Like Rhyme	p. 34
An Awful Lot Was Happening	p. 35
Five Views of the New History
The American	p. 39
Soldier	p. 40
The Silence	p. 41
Burning Oneself to Death	p. 42
Reverend	p. 43
"You and I Are Disappearing"	p. 44
from Hard Country:
Sometimes I Understand The Hatred Against Women	p. 45
Sleeping With The Enemy/I Don't Want To Talk About It	p. 46
The Protestor	p. 50
Two Poems Written in April, 1970	p. 51
Allison	p. 55
To Jeffrey Miller	p. 56
Enough	p. 57
May 4, 1970	p. 59
Kent State	p. 60
The Commons	p. 62
May '70	p. 63
The War At Home	p. 64
History Lesson	p. 66
May 4	p. 68
from Kent 25: starting that rhythm again	p. 69
The Discovery of Fire	p. 71
In the Heart of the Beast	p. 72
The Odessa Steps	p. 78
Cambodia	p. 80
The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me and Why	p. 84
after Kent State	p. 86
The Teacher	p. 87
Our Town	p. 91
The Three Suns	p. 95
Prayer for the Time of Advent	p. 96
The Language of the Dead	p. 97
Crossing into West Germany	p. 98
Kathe Kollwitz, After a Visit to the New Russia, 1927	p. 99
394	p. 100
Red Carnations	p. 102
The Torches	p. 104
Lombardo at Midnight, New Year's Eve, 1972	p. 105
Liberty and Ten Years of Return	p. 107
Portraits	p. 109
A Real Comedian: The True Genius of Bob Hope	p. 111
Considering the Source	p. 114
the fbi files on	p. 116
The Scream	p. 117
Oh, By the Way	p. 118
Trace Elements Around the Saylor Creek Bombing Range	p. 120
For a Gathering of Poets	p. 125
From Ancient to Present: Homage to Kent State	p. 126
May 1990	p. 127
White Deer	p. 129
Spring: Kent	p. 131
Letter to a Friend	p. 132
the gathering approaches	p. 134
May Four	p. 136
The Surface of Murder	p. 139
Green	p. 140
In a recent letter...	p. 141
May 4, 1990	p. 142
May 4th	p. 144
We Myopic	p. 145
Contemplation on Blanket Hill	p. 146
The Silence of One Hand Clapping	p. 148
Instant Recall	p. 150
Freeze-Frame	p. 151
Going to Bed Whole: Kent State Prayer	p. 153
Kent State	p. 156
Encounter	p. 158
For the Dead at Jackson State	p. 159
The Hardest Thing	p. 160
Bedtime Story	p. 167
On the Infanticide	p. 168
The Fate of the Children	p. 172
The Sky	p. 174
Maud Harris	p. 180
Arrows	p. 181
"Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C."	p. 182
Dead Baby	p. 183
Rising To Meet It	p. 186
The Olive Wood Fire	p. 187
Heart Fire	p. 188
"Sometimes I See Angels"	p. 190
Daddy, What Color is Thunder	p. 192
from The Niobe Poems:
The Little King	p. 193
The Gods Are Optional	p. 194
Afterwards Apollo	p. 195
But Artemis	p. 196
The Death of the Niobids	p. 198
The Children Jump Over the Trenches	p. 200
"Teach Us to Number Our Days"	p. 205
The Grave Creek Inscribed Stone	p. 206
Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia	p. 207
Asking the Dead for Help	p. 208
Hovering at a Low Altitude	p. 209
Captivity: The Minks	p. 211
The Legend of Hell	p. 213
The Reprieve	p. 215
Three Lakes, Wisconsin	p. 216
Crossing	p. 217
Three Steel Mill Pins	p. 218
i've never told	p. 219
Specific Nouns	p. 221
A Matter of Trees	p. 227
The Desert	p. 228
Inland Sea	p. 229
Birch Trees	p. 230
Listening and Telling	p. 231
from Spuyten Duyvil: 9	p. 233
On Living	p. 235
Be Nobody's Darling	p. 241
Determination	p. 242
The Cell	p. 243
Cosmopolitan Greetings	p. 247
Hold Still	p. 250
Changing Places	p. 253
Kumbha Thoughts	p. 254
Every Year	p. 255
While It Has You	p. 256
Isis Again	p. 258
Facing It	p. 261
Thanks	p. 262
The Heart	p. 264
Going into Moonlight	p. 265
The Poets' Garden	p. 267
As If He Were Free	p. 269
Lucky Life	p. 272
The Flashboat	p. 274
Art in America	p. 276
After Elegies	p. 277
How Birds Should Die	p. 278
Night Sauna	p. 279
Cedar Waxwing on Scarlet Firethorn	p. 280
Eagle Poem	p. 282
If Only	p. 283
Contributors	p. 285
Acknowledgments	p. 297
Author Index	p. 307
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