The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry

by Collier, Michael; Plumly, Stanley; Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College

• ISBN13: 9780874519495
• ISBN10: 0874519497
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Middlebury College

Summary

Gathers poems by more than eighty contemporary writers

Table of Contents

Preface	xix
Agha Shahid Ali
Ghazal:``A language of loss...''	1	(1)
Ghazal:``But first the screened mirror...''	2	(1)
Lenox Hill	3	(2)
Rooms Are Never Finished	5	(3)
David Baker
Midwest: Ode	8	(1)
Ohio Fields After Rain	9	(1)
Pulp Fiction	10	(1)
Romanticism	11	(3)
Marvin Bell
The Book of the Dead Man (#35)	14	(1)
The Book of the Dead Man (#61)	15	(2)
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man's Footsteps (#6)	17	(2)
Stephen Berg
In a New Leaf	19	(2)
Legacy	21	(2)
Frank Bidart
For the Twentieth Century	23	(1)
Legacy	24	(2)
Linda Bierds
Grand Forks: 1997	26	(1)
The Ponds: Franz Kafka, June 1, 1924	27	(2)
Lucille Clifton
the times	29	(1)
what i think when i ride the train	29	(2)
Michael Collier
Brave Sparrow	31	(2)
Pay-Per-View	33	(1)
The Swimmer	34	(2)
Alfred Corn
Bloodwork	36	(1)
New York Three Decades On	37	(2)
A Walrus Tusk from Alaska	39	(2)
Peter Davison
Falling Water	41	(1)
Little Death	42	(1)
On Mount Timpanogos, 1935	43	(2)
Deborah Digges
Guillotine Windows	45	(2)
Lilacs	47	(2)
Winter Barn	49	(2)
Stuart Dischell
Days of Me	51	(1)
A Fugitive Heart	52	(3)
Wayne Dodd
October Notes	55	(2)
Mark Doty
Elizabeth Bishop, Croton, Watercolor, 9"x5¾, n.d.	57	(1)
Fish-R-Us	58	(2)
Sea Grape Valentine	60	(2)
Rita Dove
Against Flight	62	(1)
Evening Primrose	63	(1)
Lullaby	64	(1)
Sic Itur ad Astra	65	(1)
Vacation	66	(1)
Cornelius Eady
Hope	67	(1)
Hummingbird	68	(1)
Speed	69	(1)
Nancy Eimers
Arlington Street	70	(1)
Crossroads Mall	71	(2)
Lunar Eclipse	73	(1)
Roland Flint
Tributaries	74	(1)
Wake	75	(2)
Carol Frost
Burdock	77	(1)
Flicker	77	(1)
Waking	78	(2)
Tess Gallagher
Laughter and Stars	80	(2)
Owl-Spirit Dwelling	82	(1)
Urgent Story	83	(3)
Forrest Gander
Downstroke	86	(1)
Travelers	87	(2)
Louise Gluck
Vita Nova	89	(1)
The Burning Heart	90	(2)
Formaggio	92	(1)
Vita Nova	93	(2)
Linda Gregerson
Eyes Like Leeks	95	(2)
Noah's Wife	97	(2)
Marilyn Hacker
The Boy	99	(1)
Invocation	100	(1)
Daniel Hall
The Birds of the Holy Land	101	(1)
Neoclassical	102	(2)
Daniel Halpern
Desperados	104	(1)
Her Body	105	(4)
Michael S. Harper
How to Forgive the Father Who Screams at His Son	109	(1)
Matchbook: The Spinnaker (Sausalito)	110	(2)
Paradise	112	(2)
Jeffrey Harrison
Arrangement	114	(1)
Family Dog	115	(1)
My Grandfather's Necktie	116	(2)
Brenda Hillman
A Geology	118	(10)
Edward Hirsch
Heinrich Heine	128	(1)
The Magic Mirror	129	(1)
Ocean of Grass	130	(1)
Portrait of a Writer	131	(2)
Richard Jackson
Filling in the Graves at a Cherokee Site	133	(1)
Reincarnation of a Lovebird	134	(2)
Mark Jarman
Fox Night	136	(1)
George Herbert	137	(1)
The World	137	(3)
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
The Garden of the Trumpet Tree	140	(1)
The Orchard	141	(4)
Galway Kinnell
How Could She Not	145	(1)
Why Regret?	146	(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Eclogue at Twilight	148	(1)
Kosmos	149	(2)
Nude Interrogation	151	(1)
The Song Thief	152	(1)
Li-Young Lee
The Hammock	153	(1)
The Lily	154	(1)
Phillis Levin
Cumulus	155	(1)
Part	156	(1)
A Portrait	156	(2)
Philip Levine
``He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do''	158	(1)
If You Are Here	159	(1)
Keats in California	160	(2)
Pasadena Elegy	162	(1)
The Unknowable	163	(2)
Larry Levis
Anastasia & Sandman	165	(3)
In 1967	168	(2)
The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.	170	(1)
The Two Trees	170	(3)
Thomas Lux
From Gradeschool Window Watching Local Bookie Arrested	173	(1)
The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball	174	(1)
Marine Snow at Mid-Depths and Down	175	(1)
Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City	176	(1)
Campbell McGrath
A Dove	177	(1)
El Balserito	178	(1)
Las Vegas	179	(2)
Manitoba	181	(1)
Heather McHugh
Etymological Dirge	182	(1)
The Father of the Predicaments	182	(1)
A Salt: Three Variations on Five Senses	183	(2)
James Mcmichael
Above the Red Deep-Water Clays	185	(1)
Posited	186	(4)
William Matthews
The Bar at The Andover Inn, 1995	190	(1)
Big Tongue	190	(2)
Manners	192	(2)
Mingus in Shadow	194	(1)
W. S. Merwin
227 Waverly Place	195	(1)
Another River	196	(1)
Night Turn	197	(1)
Sheep Passing	197	(1)
What Is a Garden	198	(1)
Carol Muske
Oblique Muscle (Meditation on a Famous Blindness)	199	(2)
Our Kitty	201	(2)
Marilyn Nelson
Live Jazz, Franklin Park Zoo	203	(1)
The Perceiving Self	204	(1)
Washboard Wizard	205	(1)
William Olsen
Face	206	(2)
On Plans to Decimate the Entire British Herd	208	(1)
Steve Orlen
The Great Wheel	209	(2)
Onomastics & the Falling Snow	211	(3)
Gregory Orr
The Excavation	214	(2)
If There's a God...	216	(1)
The Talk	217	(1)
Jacqueline Osherow
Analfabeta	218	(2)
Phantom Haiku/Silent Film	220	(2)
Jay Parini
Ice	222	(2)
The Trees Are Gone	224	(1)
Linda Pastan
Another Autumn	225	(1)
Armonk	226	(1)
To Penelope	227	(2)
Carl Phillips
Interior: The Kill	229	(2)
Interior: Retreat	231	(1)
The Truth	232	(3)
Robert Pinsky
The Green Piano	235	(1)
The Haunted Ruin	236	(1)
Ode to Meaning	237	(3)
To Television	240	(1)
Stanley Plumly
Catbird Beginning with a Cardinal	241	(1)
Cheer	242	(2)
Bin Ramke
A Little Ovid Late in the Day	244	(1)
Livery of Seisin	245	(2)
A Theory of Fantasy	247	(1)
Alberto Rios
Common Crows in a Winter Tree	248	(2)
From the Life of Don Margarito	250	(1)
Los Voladores de Papantla	251	(2)
David Rivard
Clarity	253	(1)
The Favored	254	(1)
Guests of the Wedding	255	(2)
Peter Sacks
The Ocean, Naming It	257	(1)
The Tree	258	(1)
Ira Sadoff
Honeymoon in Florence	259	(1)
Long Island	260	(1)
The Rapture	261	(2)
David St. John
Another Kiss	263	(1)
Fragment	264	(1)
Her Painting	264	(2)
Alan Shapiro
The Beach Chair	266	(1)
Feet	266	(1)
The Singer	267	(1)
Thrush in Summer	268	(1)
Jane Shore
Happiness	269	(3)
A Reminder	272	(3)
Jeffrey Skinner
Play Dead	275	(1)
Stay	276	(1)
Tom Sleigh
The Invasion	277	(1)
Joy on a Sunday	278	(2)
Spring Morning	280	(1)
Arthur Smith
``Come Back, or Send Somebody''	281	(1)
Lights from a Pier	282	(1)
My Mother's Name in English	283	(2)
Dave Smith
Black Silhouettes of Shrimpers	285	(1)
Mussel Work	286	(1)
St. Augustine's Goldfinch	286	(3)
Marcia Southwick
A Portrait of Larry with Trogons	289	(1)
A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog	290	(1)
Elizabeth Spires
1999	291	(1)
``In Heaven It Is Always Autumn''	292	(1)
Two Chairs on a Hillside	293	(3)
Gerald Stern
About Women	296	(1)
Larry Levis Visits Easton, Pa., During a November Freeze	297	(1)
Last Blue	298	(3)
Susan Stewart
Apple	301	(3)
Bees	304	(2)
Mark Strand
Here	306	(1)
I Will Love the Twenty-First Century	307	(1)
James Tate
An Afternoon Stroll	308	(1)
Scattered Reflections	309	(1)
The Workforce	310	(2)
Henry Taylor
Commuter Marriage: Homecoming	312	(1)
For William Matthews	312	(2)
Arthur Vogelsang
The Line	314	(1)
Liquids in Quantities	315	(1)
Which Way?	316	(2)
Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Art of Distance, I	318	(1)
Plaza del Sol	319	(1)
What I Remember of Larry's Dream of Yeats	320	(3)
Diane Wakoski
The French Toy	323	(1)
Silver Shoes	324	(2)
Rosanna Warren
E.R.	326	(1)
Island in the Charles	327	(1)
L'Oiseau de nuit	328	(2)
C.K. Williams
Depths	330	(1)
The Lie	331	(1)
Shoe	332	(1)
Tree	333	(2)
David Wojahn
After Propertius	335	(2)
Word Hoard Against the Gnostics	337	(3)
C.D. Wright
Cervical Jazz: A Girlfriend Poem	340	(1)
Girlfriends	341	(1)
The Revolving House or or Another Girlfriend Poem	342	(1)
Spring Street Girlfriend	342	(2)
Charles Wright
The Appalachian Book of the Dead VI	344	(1)
Opus Posthumous III	345	(1)
Sky Diving	345	(1)
St. Augustine and the Arctic Bear	346	(3)
Contributor Notes	349	(10)
Editor Notes	359