The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry V2

by Ramazani, Jahan; Ellmann, Richard; O'Clair, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780393977929
• ISBN10: 0393977927
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-02
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry '”now available in two paperback volumes'”includes 1,596 poems by 195 poets (half of the poems are new), from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late nineteenth century to Anne Carson and Sherman Alexie in the twenty-first. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry continues to be the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English. It richly represents the major figures, while also giving full voice to ethnic American poetries, experimental traditions, postcolonial poetry, and the long poem, eclipsing all other anthologies in scope, clarity, and balance.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	xxxiii
Acknowledgments	xxxix
Introduction	xliii
Charles Olson (1910--1970)	1	(14)
Pacific Lament	3	(1)
The Thing Was Moving	4	(2)
The Maximus Poems	6	(9)
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You	6	(3)
Maximus, to Himself	9	(2)
Maximus, to Gloucester, Letter 19 (A Pastoral Letter	11	(1)
Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [Withheld]	12	(2)
[Sun / Right in My Eye]	14	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)	15	(30)
The Map	17	(1)
The Man-Moth	18	(1)
The Monument	19	(2)
The Fish	21	(2)
Roosters	23	(3)
At the Fishhouses	26	(2)
Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance	28	(2)
Sestina	30	(1)
The Armadillo	31	(1)
Brazil, January 1, 1502	32	(2)
In the Waiting Room	34	(2)
Crusoe in England	36	(4)
Poem	40	(1)
The End of March	41	(2)
One Art	43	(1)
North Haven	44	(1)
May Swenson (1913--1989)	45	(7)
Question	46	(1)
The Centaur	46	(2)
A Couple	48	(1)
Unconscious Came a Beauty	49	(1)
Staring at the Sea on the Day of the Death of Another	49	(1)
Last Day	50	(1)
Strawberrying	50	(1)
In Love Made Visible	51	(1)
Robert Hayden (1913--1980)	52	(16)
Middle Passage	54	(5)
Homage to the Empress of the Blues	59	(1)
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday	59	(1)
Witch Doctor	60	(2)
Those Winter Sundays	62	(1)
Night, Death, Mississippi	62	(2)
Elegies for Paradise Valley	64	(3)
Bone-Flower Elegy	67	(1)
Karl Shapiro (1913--2000)	68	(4)
The Fly	69	(1)
The First Time	70	(1)
Manhole Covers	71	(1)
The Piano Tuner's Wife	71	(1)
Delmore Schwartz (1913--1966)	72	(3)
In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave	73	(1)
The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me	74	(1)
The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital	74	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980)	75	(8)
The Book of the Dead	76	(3)
Absolom	76	(2)
Alloy	78	(1)
Boy with His Hair Cut Short	79	(1)
Night Feeding	80	(1)
The Conjugation of the Paramecium	80	(2)
The Poem as Mask	82	(1)
Poem	82	(1)
William Stafford (1914--1993)	83	(2)
Traveling through the Dark	83	(1)
At the Bomb Testing Site	84	(1)
For the Grave of Daniel Boone	84	(1)
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)	85	(7)
90 North	86	(1)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	87	(1)
Eighth Air Force	87	(1)
Next Day	88	(2)
Thinking of the Lost World	90	(2)
John Berryman (1914--1972)	92	(9)
The Dream Songs	93	(7)
1 (``Huffy Henry hid the day'')	93	(1)
4 (``Filling her compact & delicious body'')	94
14 (``Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.'')	14	(81)
29 (``There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart'')	95	(1)
37 Three around the Old Gentleman	95	(1)
76 Henry's Confession	96	(1)
145 (``Also I love him: me he's done no wrong'')	97	(1)
149 (``This world is gradually becoming a place'')	97	(1)
153 (``I'm cross with god who has wrecked this generation.'')	98	(1)
219 So Long? Stevens	98	(1)
312 (``I have moved to Dublin to have it out with you'')	99	(1)
384 (``The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done'')	100	(1)
Henry's Understanding	100	(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)	101	(10)
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	102	(1)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion	103	(1)
The Hand That Signed the Paper	103	(1)
When All My Five and Country Senses See	104	(1)
Twenty-Four Years	104	(1)
The Hunchback in the Park	105	(1)
Poem in October	106	(1)
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	107	(1)
Fern Hill	108	(2)
In My Craft or Sullen Art	110	(1)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	110	(1)
Judith Wright (1915--2000)	111	(4)
Bora Ring	112	(1)
Drought Year	112	(1)
Flood Year	113	(1)
Ishtar	113	(1)
Request to a Year	114	(1)
``Dove---Love''	114	(1)
P. K. Page (b. 1916)	115	(4)
The Stenographers	116	(1)
Photos of a Salt Mine	117	(1)
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree	118	(1)
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)	119	(21)
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket	121	(4)
After the Surprising Conversions	125	(1)
Grandparents	126	(1)
Commander Lowell	127	(2)
Waking in the Blue	129	(1)
Memories of West Street and Lepke	130	(2)
``To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage''	132	(1)
Skunk Hour	132	(2)
For the Union Dead	134	(2)
Waking Early Sunday Morning	136	(2)
Reading Myself	138	(1)
Dolphin	139	(1)
Epilogue	139	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000)	140	(10)
A Song in the Front Yard	141	(1)
Sadie and Maud	142	(1)
Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery	143	(1)
The Vacant Lot	143	(1)
The Rites for Cousin Vit	144	(1)
The Bean Eaters	144	(1)
We Real Cool	145	(1)
The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till	145	(1)
Boy Breaking Glass	145	(1)
The Blackstone Rangers	146	(2)
The Boy Died in My Alley	148	(2)
Robert Duncan (1919--1988)	150	(8)
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow	151	(1)
Poetry, a Natural Thing	152	(1)
Passage over Water	153	(1)
What I Saw	153	(1)
Up Rising, Passages 25	154	(2)
Childhood's Retreat	156	(1)
Rites of Passage	156	(1)
II (``Something is taking place.'')	156	(1)
A Little Language	157	(1)
William Meredith (b. 1919)	158	(4)
Last Things	159	(1)
Parents	160	(1)
Dying Away	161	(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)	162	(5)
[In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem to See]	163	(1)
Dog	164	(2)
Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West	166	(1)
Louise Bennett (b. 1919)	167	(11)
South Parade Peddler	168	(1)
Pass fi White	169	(1)
No Lickle Twang	170	(2)
Dry-Foot Bwoy	172	(1)
Colonization in Reverse	173	(1)
Independance	174	(1)
Independence Dignity	175	(2)
Jamaica Oman	177	(1)
Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)	178	(5)
The Goose Fish	179	(1)
The Icehouse in Summer	180	(1)
Snowflakes	181	(1)
Gyroscope	181	(1)
Reading Pornography in Old Age	182	(1)
Amy Clampitt (1920--1994)	183	(13)
Beach Glass	184	(1)
Meridian	185	(1)
A Procession at Candlemas	186	(4)
Beethoven, Opus 111	190	(3)
Hispaniola	193	(1)
Syrinx	194	(2)
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)	196	(6)
The Death of a Toad	196	(1)
Ceremony	197	(1)
Boy at the Window	197	(1)
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	198	(1)
Playboy	199	(1)
The Writer	200	(1)
A Finished Man	201	(1)
A Barred Owl	201	(1)
Kingsley Amis (1922--1995)	202	(3)
Against Romanticism	202	(1)
An Ever-Fixed Mark	203	(1)
Science Fiction	204	(1)
Donald Davie (1922--1995)	205	(5)
Remembering the Thirties	206	(1)
Across the Bay	207	(1)
In California	208	(1)
In the Stopping Train	209	(1)
(``The things he has been spared . . .'')	209	(1)
(``Time and again he gave battle'')	209	(1)
Philip Larkin (1922--1985)	210	(17)
Reasons for Attendance	211	(1)
Water	212	(1)
Church Going	212	(2)
An Arundel Tomb	214	(1)
The Whitsun Weddings	215	(2)
Faith Healing	217	(1)
MCMXIV	218	(1)
Talking in Bed	218	(1)
Here	219	(1)
Sunny Prestatyn	220	(1)
Solar	220	(1)
High Windows	221	(1)
Sad Steps	221	(1)
Homage to a Government	222	(1)
The Explosion	223	(1)
This Be The Verse	223	(1)
Forget What Did	224	(1)
Going, Going	224	(2)
Aubade	226	(1)
Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)	227	(7)
Birdwatchers of America	228	(1)
A Hill	229	(1)
``It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It.''	230	(1)
The Deodand	231	(2)
The Book of Yolek	233	(1)
James Dickey (1923--1997)	234	(6)
The Hospital Window	235	(1)
The Heaven of Animals	236	(1)
Buckdancer's Choice	237	(1)
The Sheep Child	238	(2)
Alan Dugan (b. 1923)	240	(3)
Love Song: I and Thou	240	(1)
Fabrication of Ancestors	241	(1)
On Being a Householder	242	(1)
Internal Migration: On Being on Tour	242	(1)
For Euthanasia and Pain-Killing Drugs	243	(1)
Louis Simpson (b. 1923)	243	(4)
The Battle	224	(21)
My Father in the Night Commanding No	245	(1)
American Poetry	246	(1)
White Oxen	246	(1)
Denise Levertov (1923--1997)	247	(9)
Pleasures	248	(1)
The Dog of Art	249	(1)
Song for Ishtar	249	(1)
The Ache of Marriage	250	(1)
September 1961	250	(1)
Olga Poems	251	(2)
i (``By the gas-fire, kneeling'')	251	(1)
iv (``On your hospital bed you lay'')	252	(1)
vi (``Your eyes were the brown gold of pebbles under water.'')	252	(1)
A Time Past	253	(1)
Caedmon	254	(1)
Celebration	255	(1)
[Scraps of Moon]	255	(1)
Aware	255	(1)
Richard Hugo (1923--1982)	256	(5)
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir	257	(1)
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg	258	(1)
White Center	259	(2)
Kenneth Koch (1925--2002)	261	(8)
Mending Sump	261	(1)
Geography	262	(2)
Variations on a Theme	264	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Days and Nights	265	(2)
The Stones of Time	265	(2)
One Train May Hide Another	267	(1)
To the Roman Forum	268	(1)
Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)	269	(5)
How It Is	270	(1)
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief	270	(1)
In the Absence of Bliss	271	(2)
The Bangkok Gong	273	(1)
Letters	274	(1)
(``Your laugh, your scarves, the gloss of your makeup'')	274	(1)
Donald Justice (b. 1925)	274	(6)
On the Death of Friends in Childhood	275	(1)
The Grandfathers	275	(1)
After a Phrase Abandoned	276	(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Tourist from Syracuse	276	(1)
Men at Forty	277	(1)
Variations on a Text by Vallejo	278	(1)
In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn	279	(1)
Nostalgia and Complaint of the Grandparents	279	(1)
W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)	280	(8)
April Inventory	281	(2)
Heart's Needle	283	(2)
3 (``The child between them on the street'')	283	(1)
8 (``I thumped on you the best I could'')	284	(1)
A Flat One	285	(3)
A. R. Ammons (1926--2001)	288	(17)
So I Said I Am Ezra	290	(1)
Corsons Inlet	290	(3)
Gravelly Run	293	(1)
Laser	294	(1)
Love Song	295	(1)
Small Song	295	(1)
The City Limits	295	(1)
Easter Morning	296	(2)
Motion's Holdings	298	(1)
Tombstones	299	(1)
1 (``the chisel, chipping in'')	299	(1)
11 (``the grooves fill with moss'')	299	(1)
19 (``the things of earth are not objects'')	299	(1)
27 (``a flock of'')	299	(1)
29 (``the letters'')	300	(1)
Garbage	300	(4)
2 (``garbage has to be the poem of our time because'')	300	(4)
Strip	304	(1)
43 (``sometimes I get the feeling I've never'')	304	(1)
James Merrill (1926--1995)	305	(20)
The Broken Home	307	(2)
Days of 1964	309	(2)
The Victor Dog	311	(2)
Lost in Translation	313	(5)
The Changing Light at Sandover	318	(2)
The Book of Ephraim	318	(1)
Z	318	(2)
b o d y	320	(1)
Self-Portrait in Tyvek(™) Windbreaker	320	(4)
An Upward Look	324	(1)
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)	325	(9)
Naughty Boy	326	(1)
A Wicker Basket	327	(1)
The Door	327	(3)
I Know a Man	330	(1)
For Love	330	(2)
``I Keep to Myself Such Measures . . .''	332	(1)
Again	333	(1)
Mother's Voice	333	(1)
Life & Death	333	(1)
[The Long Road of It All]	333	(1)
[When It Comes]	334	(1)
Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)	334	(24)
Howl	337	(7)
A Supermarket in California	344	(1)
Sunflower Sutra	345	(2)
America	347	(2)
From Kaddish	349	(3)
To Aunt Rose	352	(1)
Last Night in Calcutta	353	(1)
Mugging	354	(3)
Sphincter	357	(1)
Personals Ad	357	(1)
David Wagoner (b. 1926)	358	(3)
The Man of the House	358	(1)
Elegy for a Forest Clear-Cut by the Weyerhaeuser Company	359	(1)
A Young Girl with a Pitcher Full of Water	360	(1)
By a Waterfall	360	(1)
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)	361	(9)
Poem (``The eager note on my door said 'Call me'')	362	(1)
Poem (``At night Chinamen jump'')	363	(1)
A Step Away from Them	363	(2)
The Day Lady Died	365	(1)
Rhapsody	366	(1)
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island	367	(2)
Why I Am Not a Painter	369	(1)
Les Luths	370	(1)
Robert Bly (b. 1926)	370	(5)
Johnson's Cabinet Watched by Ants	371	(1)
The Great Society	372	(1)
My Father's Wedding	373	(1)
Kneeling Down to Peer into a Culvert	374	(1)
A Week after Your Death	375	(1)
Charles Tomlinson (b. 1927)	375	(6)
Cezanne at Aix	376	(1)
Mr Brodsky	377	(1)
Two Views of Two Ghost Towns	378	(1)
Swimming Chenango Lake	379	(1)
Snapshot	380	(1)
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)	381	(3)
First Song	382	(1)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	382	(1)
On the Oregon Coast	383	(1)
Sheffield Ghazal 4: Driving West	384	(1)
John Ashbery (b. 1927)	384	(24)
Some Trees	386	(1)
The Instruction Manual	387	(2)
The Tennis Court Oath	389	(1)
These Lacustrine Cities	390	(1)
Soonest Mended	391	(2)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape	393	(1)
As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat	394	(1)
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror	395	(11)
Wet Casements	406	(1)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons	407	(1)
At North Farm	407	(1)
Of the Light	408	(1)
W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)	408	(6)
The Drunk in the Furnace	410	(1)
The Hydra	411	(1)
Some Last Questions	411	(1)
For the Anniversary of My Death	412	(1)
The Asians Dying	412	(1)
For a Coming Extinction	413	(1)
A Given Day	414	(1)
James Wright (1927--1980)	414	(8)
Saint Judas	416	(1)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	416	(1)
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota	417	(1)
A Blessing	417	(1)
The Minneapolis Poem	418	(2)
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned	420	(1)
Small Frogs Killed on the Highway	420	(1)
A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862	421	(1)
Philip Levine (b. 1928)	422	(5)
They Feed They Lion	423	(1)
Belle Isle, 1949	424	(1)
You Can Have It	424	(2)
Drum	426	(1)
Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928)	427	(4)
Baggot Street Deserta	427	(2)
Je t'adore	429	(1)
Mirror in February	429	(1)
Songs of the Psyche	430	(1)
1 (``A character, indistinct, entered'')	430	(1)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)	431	(7)
Her Kind	432	(1)
The Truth the Dead Know	433	(1)
All My Pretty Ones	433	(2)
The Starry Night	435	(1)
The Death of the Fathers	435	(1)
How We Danced	435	(1)
The Death Baby	436	(1)
Dreams	436	(1)
The Room of My Life	437	(1)
A. K. Ramanujan (1929--1993)	438	(11)
Self-Portrait	439	(1)
Elements of Composition	440	(2)
Alien	442	(1)
Drafts	442	(2)
Extended Family	444	(2)
Chicago Zen	446	(1)
Foundlings in the Yukon	447	(2)
Richard Howard (b. 1929)	449	(7)
``Man Who Beat Up Homosexuals Reported to Have AIDS Virus''	449	(6)
My Last Hustler	455	(1)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)	456	(28)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	459	(1)
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law	459	(4)
Face to Face	463	(1)
Orion	464	(1)
Planetarium	465	(1)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	466	(1)
Diving into the Wreck	467	(2)
Power	469	(1)
Twenty-One Love Poems	470	(9)
Grandmothers	479	(2)
Seven Skins	481	(2)
Fox	483	(1)
Thom Gunn (b. 1929)	484	(6)
My Sad Captains	485	(1)
Moly	485	(1)
Still Life	486	(1)
The Missing	487	(1)
A Blank	488	(1)
The Problem	489	(1)
John Hollander (b. 1929)	490	(4)
Under Cancer	490	(1)
Adam's Task	491	(1)
Back to Town	492	(1)
Variations on a Fragment	492	(1)
Trumbull Stickney
By Heart	493	(1)
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)	494	(40)
A Far Cry from Africa	496	(1)
Laventille	497	(3)
The Sea Is History	500	(2)
The Schooner Flight	502	(12)
The Fortunate Traveller	514	(5)
The Season of Phantasmal Peace	519	(1)
Omeros	520	(14)
(`` 'This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them canoes.''')	520	(2)
(`` 'Mais qui ca qui rivait-'ous, Philoctete?''')	522	(1)
(``The Cyclone, howling because one of the lances'')	523	(3)
(`` `Walk me down to the wharf.''')	526	(2)
(``He remembered this sunburnt river with its spindly'')	528	(3)
(``She bathed him in the brew of the root. The basin'')	531	(2)
(``I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son'')	533	(1)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)	534	(8)
Milton by Firelight	536	(1)
Above Pate Valley	537	(1)
Riprap	537	(1)
Burning the Small Dead	538	(1)
The Wild Edge	539	(1)
The Bath	539	(2)
Axe Handles	541	(1)
Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930)	542	(13)
The Arrivants	544	(7)
Wings of a Dove	544	(4)
Calypso	548	(1)
Ogun	549	(2)
Trane	551	(1)
Stone	551	(3)
Irae	554	(1)
Christopher Okigbo (1930?--1967)	555	(3)
Heavensgate	556	(2)
[Before You, Mother Idoto]	556	(1)
[Dark Waters of the Beginning.]	556	(1)
[Bright]	557	(1)
[I Am Standing above the Noontide]	557	(1)
Come Thunder	558	(1)
Ted Hughes (1930--1998)	558	(13)
The Horses	559	(2)
The Thought-Fox	561	(1)
An Otter	561	(1)
Pike	562	(2)
Thistles	564	(1)
Second Glance at a Jaguar	564	(1)
Gog	565	(1)
Out	566	(1)
Wodwo	567	(1)
Crow's First Lesson	568	(1)
Roe Deer	569	(1)
Orf	569	(1)
Orts	570	(1)
17. Buzz in the Window	570	(1)
Okot p'Bitek (1931--1982)	571	(10)
Song of Lawino	573	(8)
1. My Husband's Tongue Is Bitter	573	(2)
2. The Woman with Whom I Share My Husband	575	(6)
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)	581	(12)
In Memory of Jane Fraser	582	(1)
Two Formal Elegies	583	(1)
Ovid in the Third Reich	584	(1)
September Song	584	(1)
Funeral Music	585	(1)
6 (``My little son, when you could command marvels'')	585	(1)
8 (``Not as we are but as we must appear'')	585	(1)
Mercian Hymns	586	(5)
I-II	586	(1)
IV-VII	587	(1)
X-XI	588	(1)
XVI	589	(1)
XXV	590	(1)
XXIX-XXX	590	(1)
The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy	591	(1)
1 (``Crack of a starting-pistol. Jean Jaures'')	591	(1)
To the High Court of Parliament	592	(1)
The Triumph of Love	592	(1)
CXXI (``So what is faith if it is not'')	592	(1)
Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)	593	(22)
The Disquieting Muses	595	(2)
Metaphors	597	(1)
The Colossus	597	(1)
Morning Song	598	(1)
In Plaster	599	(1)
Tulips	600	(2)
Blackberrying	602	(1)
Elm	602	(2)
The Arrival of the Bee Box	604	(1)
The Applicant	605	(1)
Daddy	606	(2)
Fever 103°	608	(1)
Cut	609	(2)
Poppies in October	611	(1)
Ariel	611	(1)
Lady Lazarus	612	(2)
Edge	614	(1)
Audre Lorde (1934--1992)	615	(5)
Coal	616	(1)
Now that I Am Forever with Child	617	(1)
Love Poem	617	(1)
From the House of Yemanja	618	(1)
Hanging Fire	619	(1)
A Question of Climate	620	(1)
Mark Strand (b. 1934)	620	(6)
Keeping Things Whole	621	(1)
Eating Poetry	621	(1)
The Prediction	622	(1)
In Celebration	622	(1)
Elegy for My Father	623	(1)
6. The New Year	623	(1)
Poor North	624	(1)
The Idea	624	(1)
Dark Harbor	625	(1)
XX (``Is it you standing among the olive trees'')	625	(1)
XXX (``There is a road through the canyon'')	625	(1)
Wole Soyinka (b. 1934)	626	(6)
Telephone Conversation	627	(1)
Death in the Dawn	628	(1)
Around Us, Dawning	629	(1)
Massacre, October '66	630	(1)
Dragonfly at My Windowpane	631	(1)
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)	632	(8)
An Agony. As Now	634	(1)
A Poem for Speculative Hipsters	635	(1)
A Poem for Black Hearts	635	(1)
Legacy	636	(1)
A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie!	636	(2)
Wise, Why's, Y's	638	(1)
Wise I	638	(1)
Y The Link Will Not Always Be ``Missing'' #40	638	(1)
In the Funk World	639	(1)
Monk's World	639	(1)
Charles Wright (b. 1935)	640	(12)
Blackwater Mountain	642	(1)
Stone Canyon Nocturne	643	(1)
Clear Night	643	(1)
Homage to Paul Cezanne	644	(4)
Laguna Blues	648	(1)
Apologia Pro Vita Sua	648	(3)
I (``How soon we come to road's end---'')	648	(3)
Stray Paragraphs in February, Year of the Rat	651	(1)
Mary Oliver (b. 1935)	652	(3)
The Black Snake	653	(1)
August	653	(1)
Hawk	654	(1)
Marge Piercy (b. 1936)	655	(3)
The Cyclist	656	(1)
Learning Experience	656	(1)
The Cast Off	657	(1)
Moonburn	658	(1)
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)	658	(6)
[still]	659	(1)
cutting greens	660	(1)
homage to my hips	660	(1)
[i am accused of tending to the past]	661	(1)
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989	661	(1)
poem to my uterus	662	(1)
to my last period	663	(1)
cain	663	(1)
leda 3	663	(1)
the mississippi river empties into the gulf	664	(1)
June Jordan (1936-2002)	664	(5)
Notes on the Peanut	665	(1)
July 4, 1984: For Buck	666	(1)
DeLiza Spend the Day in the City	667	(1)
The Reception	668	(1)
Tony Harrison (b. 1937)	669	(19)
The School of Eloquence	670	(6)
Heredity	671	(1)
On Not Being Milton	671	(1)
Book Ends	672	(1)
Turns	673	(1)
Marked with D.	674	(1)
Timer	674	(1)
Self Justification	675	(1)
History Classes	675	(1)
v.	676	(12)
Susan Howe (b. 1937)	688	(10)
Thorow	689	(3)
[Elegiac Western Imagination]	689	(1)
[Cannot Be]	690	(1)
[Gabion]	691	(1)
Ruckenfigur	692	(6)
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)	698	(7)
American History	699	(1)
We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper	699	(1)
Reuben, Reuben	700	(1)
Deathwatch	700	(2)
Dear John, Dear Coltrane	702	(1)
Nightmare Begins Responsibility	703	(1)
Double Elegy	704	(1)
Charles Simic (b. 1938)	705	(7)
Fork	706	(1)
Watch Repair	706	(1)
A Wall	707	(1)
Prodigy	708	(1)
Classic Ballroom Dances	709	(1)
Spoons with Realistic Dead Flies on Them	709	(1)
Eastern European Cooking	710	(1)
Northern Exposure	710	(1)
Cameo Appearance	711	(1)
Head of a Doll	711	(1)
Les Murray (b. 1938)	712	(8)
The Powerline Incarnation	713	(1)
The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle	714	(3)
3 (``It is good to come out after driving and walk on bare grass;'')	714	(1)
6 (``Barbecue smoke is rising at Legge's Camp; it is steaming into the midday air'')	715	(1)
8 (``Forests and State Forests, all down off the steeper country; mosquitoes are always living in there:'')	715	(1)
12 (``Now the sun is an applegreen blindness through the swells, a white blast on the sea face, flaking and shoaling;'')	716	(1)
The Milk Lorry	717	(1)
On Removing Spiderweb	718	(1)
Mollusc	718	(1)
Corniche	718	(1)
Cotton Flannelette	719	(1)
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)	720	(30)
Digging	723	(1)
Death of a Naturalist	724	(1)
Requiem for the Croppies	725	(1)
Bogland	725	(1)
The Tollund Man	726	(2)
Bog Queen	728	(1)
The Grauballe Man	729	(2)
Punishment	731	(1)
The Strand at Lough Beg	732	(1)
Casualty	733	(3)
In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge	736	(2)
Station Island	738	(3)
VIII (``Black water. White waves. Furrows snowcapped.'')	738	(1)
XII (``Like a convalescent, I took the hand'')	739	(2)
Alphabets	741	(2)
Terminus	743	(1)
The Stone Verdict	744	(1)
Clearances	745	(3)
At Toomebridge	748	(1)
Electric Light	748	(2)
Frank Bidart (b. 1939)	750	(10)
Ellen West	750	(9)
If I Could Mourn Like a Mourning Dove	759	(1)
A Coin for Joe, with the Image of a Horse; c. 350--325 BC	760	(1)
Michael Longley (b. 1939)	760	(5)
Casualty	761	(1)
Wounds	762	(1)
Detour	763	(1)
Ceasefire	763	(1)
The Comber	764	(1)
Death of a Horse	764	(1)
The Beech Tree	765	(1)
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)	765	(9)
This Is a Photograph of Me	766	(1)
[You Fit into Me]	767	(1)
They Eat Out	767	(1)
Circe / Mud Poems	768	(1)
[Men with the Heads of Eagles]	768	(1)
Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture	769	(1)
Miss July Grows Older	770	(2)
Manet's Olympia	772	(1)
Morning in the Burned House	773	(1)
Eunice de Souza (b. 1940)	774	(4)
Sweet Sixteen	775	(1)
De Souza Prabhu	775	(1)
Conversation Piece	776	(1)
Women in Dutch Painting	776	(1)
For Rita's Daughter, Just Born	776	(1)
Landscape	777	(1)
Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)	778	(7)
The Figured Wheel	779	(1)
The Questions	780	(2)
The Uncreation	782	(1)
ABC	783	(1)
The Haunted Ruin	784	(1)
Robert Hass (b. 1941)	785	(3)
Song	785	(1)
Meditation at Lagunitas	786	(1)
Privilege of Being	787	(1)
Forty Something	788	(1)
Sonnet	788	(1)
Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941)	788	(10)
My Life	789	(4)
A pause, a rose, a something on paper	789	(1)
As for we who ``love to be astonished''	790	(1)
It seemed that we had hardly begun and we were already there	791	(2)
Oxota: A Short Russian Novel	793	(1)
Chapter Seven	793	(1)
Chapter 203	793	(1)
The Cell	794	(1)
[It Is the Writer's Object]	794	(1)
[Yesterday I Saw the Sun]	794	(1)
From Happily	795	(3)
Derek Mahon (b. 1941)	798	(8)
Afterlives	799	(1)
The Snow Party	800	(1)
The Last of the Fire Kings	801	(1)
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford	802	(2)
An Bonnan Bui	804	(1)
A Swim in Co. Wicklow	805	(1)
Sharon Olds (b. 1942)	806	(5)
Photograph of the Girl	807	(1)
The Pope's Penis	807	(1)
The Moment the Two Worlds Meet	808	(1)
The Exact Moment of His Death	808	(1)
My Father Speaks to Me from the Dead	809	(1)
Once	810	(1)
Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)	811	(4)
Rondeau after a Transatlantic Telephone Call	811	(1)
Taking Notice	812	(1)
13 (``No better lost than any other woman'')	812	(1)
Almost Aubade	812	(1)
Year's End	813	(1)
Twelfth Floor West	814	(1)
Dave Smith (b. 1942)	815	(3)
Leafless Trees, Chickahominy Swamp	815	(1)
Fiddlers	816	(1)
Wreck in the Woods	817	(1)
Blowfish and Mudtoad	817	(1)
Black Silhouettes of Shrimpers	817	(1)
Louise Gluck (b. 1943)	818	(8)
The School Children	819	(1)
The Drowned Children	819	(1)
Descending Figure	820	(1)
Mock Orange	821	(1)
A Fantasy	822	(1)
The Wild Iris	823	(1)
Penelope's Song	823	(1)
Quiet Evening	824	(1)
Vita Nova	824	(1)
Earthly Love	825	(1)
Michael Palmer (b. 1943)	826	(5)
Song of the Round Man	827	(1)
This Time	828	(1)
Sun (``Write this. We have burned all their villages'')	829	(2)
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943)	831	(6)
Biography	832	(1)
Letters & Other Worlds	832	(2)
(Inner Tube)	834	(1)
Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province We See Hints of the Circus	835	(1)
Buried	835	(1)
(``To be buried in times of war'')	835	(1)
Buried 2	836	(1)
vii (``The heat of explosions'')	836	(1)
James Tate (b. 1943)	837	(7)
Stray Animals	837	(1)
The Blue Booby	838	(1)
The Wheelchair Butterfly	839	(1)
The Lost Pilot	840	(1)
The Motorcyclists	841	(1)
Poem	842	(1)
Where Babies Come From	843	(1)
Eavan Boland (b. 1944)	844	(8)
Anorexic	845	(1)
Domestic Interior	846	(1)
Night Feed	846	(1)
Mise Eire	847	(1)
Fever	848	(1)
The Women	849	(1)
Fond Memory	850	(1)
The Pomegranate	851	(1)
Craig Raine (b. 1944)	852	(3)
The Onion, Memory	853	(1)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	854	(1)
Norman Dubie (b. 1945)	855	(3)
Elizabeth's War with the Christmas Bear	856	(1)
The Funeral	857	(1)
Last Poem, Snow Tree	857	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)	858	(6)
Starlight Scope Myopia	859	(1)
Tu Do Street	860	(1)
Facing It	861	(1)
February in Sydney	862	(1)
My Father's Love Letters	863	(1)
Lorna Goodison (b. 1947)	864	(11)
On Becoming a Mermaid	865	(1)
Guinea Woman	866	(1)
Nanny	867	(1)
Annie Pengelly	868	(3)
Turn Thanks to Miss Mirry	871	(2)
Hungry Belly Kill Daley	873	(1)
Bam Chi Chi Lala	873	(2)
Ai (b. 1947)	875	(4)
Twenty-Year Marriage	876	(1)
Killing Floor	876	(2)
Sleeping Beauty	878	(1)
Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)	879	(8)
[Long Time Ago]	880	(4)
Prayer to the Pacific	884	(1)
Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story	885	(2)
Agha Shahid Ali (1949--2001)	887	(11)
Postcard from Kashmir	889	(1)
The Dacca Gauzes	889	(1)
Leaving Sonora	890	(1)
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror	891	(2)
Ghazal	893	(1)
The Country without a Post Office	894	(2)
Lenox Hill	896	(2)
James Fenton (b. 1949)	898	(7)
A German Requiem	899	(2)
Dead Soldiers	901	(2)
God, a Poem	903	(1)
For Andrew Wood	904	(1)
Grace Nichols (b. 1950)	905	(4)
Epilogue	906	(1)
Invitation	906	(1)
Tropical Death	907	(1)
Wherever I Hang	908	(1)
Charles Bernstein (b. 1950)	909	(6)
Autonomy Is Jeopardy	910	(1)
The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree	910	(1)
From The Lives of the Toll Takers	911	(3)
Have Pen, Will Travel	914	(1)
Carolyn Forche (b. 1950)	915	(4)
Taking Off My Clothes	916	(1)
The Memory of Elena	916	(1)
Reunion	917	(1)
The Colonel	918	(1)
Jorie Graham (b. 1950)	919	(14)
At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body	920	(3)
Fission	923	(4)
The Dream of the Unified Field	927	(4)
The Surface	931	(1)
The Swarm	932	(1)
Anne Carson (b. 1950)	933	(10)
From The Glass Essay	934	(5)
TV Men	939	(1)
XI (``TV is presocial, like Man.'')	939	(1)
Epitaph: Zion	940	(1)
Lazarus Standup: Shooting Script	940	(2)
Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions	942	(1)
Medbh McGuckian (b. 1950)	943	(4)
Slips	944	(1)
The Dream-Language of Fergus	945	(1)
The War Ending	946	(1)
Captain Lavender	946	(1)
Mantilla	947	(1)
Joy Harjo (b. 1951)	947	(5)
Deer Dancer	948	(2)
Mourning Song	950	(1)
Insomnia and the Seven Steps to Grace	950	(1)
The Path to the Milky Way Leads through Los Angeles	951	(1)
Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)	952	(17)
Hedgehog	953	(1)
Lunch with Pancho Villa	954	(2)
Anseo	956	(1)
Why Brownlee Left	957	(1)
Quoof	957	(1)
Meeting the British	957	(1)
7, Middagh Street	958	(6)
Wystan	958	(4)
Salvador	962	(2)
The Briefcase	964	(1)
Cauliflowers	965	(1)
The Sonogram	966	(1)
Aftermath	967	(1)
The Grand Conversation	967	(2)
Gary Soto (b. 1952)	969	(5)
After Tonight	969	(1)
The Drought	970	(1)
Graciela	971	(1)
Oranges	971	(2)
How Things Work	973	(1)
Practicing Eulogies	973	(1)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)	974	(13)
Geometry	976	(1)
The House Slave	976	(1)
Adolescence---II	976	(1)
Agosta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove	977	(2)
Parsley	979	(2)
Thomas and Beulah	981	(5)
The Event	981	(1)
Dusting	982	(1)
Weathering Out	983	(1)
The Great Palaces of Versailles	984	(1)
Wingfoot Lake	985	(1)
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time before Bed	986	(1)
Claudette Colvin Goes to Work	986	(1)
Alberto Rios (b. 1952)	987	(6)
Madre Sofia	988	(2)
Mi Abuelo	990	(1)
A Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving	991	(1)
Anselmo's Moment with God	992	(1)
The Death of Anselmo Luna	992	(1)
Mark Doty (b. 1953)	993	(6)
A Green Crab's Shell	994	(1)
Homo Will Not Inherit	995	(3)
The Embrace	998	(1)
Thylias Moss (b. 1954)	999	(5)
Lunchcounter Freedom	1000	(1)
Interpretation of a Poem by Frost	1001	(1)
The Rapture of Dry Ice Burning off Skin as the Moment of the Soul's Apotheosis	1001	(2)
Crystals	1003	(1)
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)	1004	(5)
Family Reunion	1005	(1)
Captivity	1006	(2)
Windigo	1008	(1)
The Fence	1009	(1)
Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)	1009	(4)
Cannery Town in August	1010	(1)
The Body as Braille	1011	(1)
Refugee Ship	1011	(1)
Poema para los Californios Muertos	1012	(1)
Marilyn Chin (b. 1955)	1013	(5)
How I Got That Name	1013	(3)
Altar	1016	(1)
Autumn Leaves	1016	(1)
Chinese Quatrains (The Woman in Tomb 44)	1017	(1)
Cathy Song (b. 1955)	1018	(7)
Beauty and Sadness	1019	(1)
Lost Sister	1020	(2)
Sunworshippers	1022	(1)
Ghost	1023	(2)
Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955)	1025	(5)
Warming Her Pearls	1026	(1)
The Good Teachers	1027	(1)
Medusa	1028	(1)
Mrs Lazarus	1029	(1)
Dionisio D. Martinez (b. 1956)	1030	(4)
Hysteria	1031	(1)
Temporary Losses	1032	(1)
Moto Perpetuo	1033	(1)
The Prodigal Son in His Own Words: Bees	1034	(1)
Henri Cole (b. 1956)	1034	(5)
Harvard Classics	1035	(1)
Buddha and the Seven Tiger Cubs	1036	(1)
White Spine	1037	(1)
Folly	1038	(1)
Childlessness	1039	(1)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)	1039	(6)
The Gift	1040	(1)
Persimmons	1041	(2)
Eating Alone	1043	(1)
Eating Together	1044	(1)
Pillow	1044	(1)
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)	1045	(88)
Evolution	1046	(1)
On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City	1046	(1)
Tourists	1047	(2)
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel	1049	(1)
Crow Testament	1050	(3)
POETICS
Charles Olson
Projective Verse (1950)	1053	(8)
Dylan Thomas
Poetic Manifesto (w. 1951)	1061	(6)
Philip Larkin
The Pleasure Principle (1957)	1067	(2)
From Introduction to All What Jazz (1970)	1069	(3)
Frank O'Hara
Personism: A Manifesto (w. 1959)	1072	(2)
Allen Ginsberg
Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl (1959)	1074	(3)
Amiri Baraka
From The Myth of a ``Negro Literature'' (1963)	1077	(4)
Denise Levertov
Some Notes on Organic Form (1965)	1081	(5)
Adrienne Rich
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision (1971)	1086	(10)
Seamus Heaney
Feeling into Words (w. 1974)	1096	(13)
Louise Bennett
Jamaica Language (w. 1979--81)	1109	(2)
Charles Bernstein
Semblance (1980)	1111	(4)
A. K. Ramanujan
From Where Mirrors Are Windows: Toward an Anthology of Reflections (1989)	1115	(4)
Derek Walcott
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory (1992)	1119	(14)
Selected Bibliographies	1133	(48)
Permissions Acknowledgments	1181	(14)
Index	1195