Outsiders: Poems About Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades

by Bosselaar, Laure-Anne

• ISBN13: 9781571314093
• ISBN10: 1571314091
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

"Every last one of us is someone else's Outsider, " AI Young says in the introductory notes for this collection. The poets Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, Joy Harjo, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz, among others, address the guises of alienation and loneliness and celebrate the stranger in society.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Al Young
Preface	xxiii
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Broken Sonnets	3	(4)
Kim Addonizio
Cuando el tecolote canta, el Indio muere	7	(2)
Consuelo de Aerenlund
Leaving Eden	9	(1)
Nadya Aisenberg
The Double	10	(2)
Joan Aleshire
Boston Year	12	(1)
Elizabeth Alexander
Herbie	13	(1)
David Alpaugh
Itinerary	14	(2)
Doug Anderson
No Tool or Rope or Pail	16	(1)
Bob Arnold
Corporeal	17	(1)
Robert Ayres
Heading Out West	18	(2)
John Balaban
The Anorexic	20	(4)
Ruth Anderson Barnett
The Crypto-Jews	24	(1)
Robin Becker
The Book of the Dead Man (#58)	25	(2)
Marvin Bell
Nostalgia	27	(1)
Stephen Berg
Without	28	(2)
Bruce Berger
Sea World	30	(1)
Eric Berlin
When You Are Grown, Amanda Rose	31	(2)
Laura Boss
How to Approach Your Lover's Wife	33	(2)
Amy Bottke
Radiating Naivete	35	(2)
Lucie Brock-Broido
The Good Devil	37	(2)
Kurt Brown
Ellis Island, September 1907	39	(1)
Andrea Hollander Budy
Little Citizen, Little Survivor	40	(1)
Hayden Carruth
Soul Make a Path Through Shouting	41	(2)
Cyrus Cassells
We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra	43	(1)
Marilyn Chin
Show Biz Parties	44	(1)
Elizabeth Claman
Poem for the Man Who Said Shit	45	(2)
David Clewell
slaveships	47	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Robert Wilson	48	(1)
Michael Collier
Going Out for Cigarettes	49	(1)
Billy Collins
Brother Body	50	(2)
Peter Cooley
Leaving the Country	52	(2)
Wyn Cooper
The Old Neighborhood	54	(2)
Gerald Costanzo
The Barbells of the Gods	56	(1)
Mark Cox
Downtown Sunday	57	(1)
Robert Crawford
Among Strangers	58	(1)
Silvia Curbelo
Canciones	59	(2)
Kenneth Zamora Damacion
The Mark	61	(3)
Robert Dana
The Murderer	64	(1)
Christopher Davis
Exiles	65	(1)
Diana Der-Hovanessian
Passing	66	(2)
Toi Derricotte
In the Elementary School Choir	68	(3)
Gregory Djanikian
Exile	71	(2)
Stephen Dobyns
Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded	73	(2)
Lynn Domina
Homo Will Not Inherit	75	(4)
Mark Doty
Pathologist	79	(1)
Ellen Dudley
Letters from an Exile	80	(1)
Valerie Duff
The Guardian Angel	81	(3)
Stephen Dunn
At Present I Am Working as a Security Guard	83
Edison Dupree
The Lady in the Pink Mustang	84	(2)
Louise Erdirch
Beloved Spic	86	(1)
Martin Espada
In the Barn	87	(1)
Roger Fanning
Everthing I Need to know I Learned in Kindergarten	88	(1)
Martin Jude Farawell
The Party	89	(1)
Donald Finkel
Unrepentant	90	(3)
Brandel France de Bravo
Consent	93	(1)
Carol Frost
Deflection Toward the Relative Minor	94	(1)
Forrest Gander
Nobody Here but Us	95	(2)
Richard Garcia
The Walk	97	(2)
Ethan Gilsdorf
Magnificat!	99	(1)
Michael S. Glaser
Star-Spangled	100	(3)
Michele Glazer
On TV the face of the slaughtered	103	(1)
Lyle Glazier
The Book of Human Anomalies	104	(2)
Albert Goldbarth
the man in the moon	106	(2)
Alvin Greenberg
On a Certain Field in Auvers	108	(3)
John Haines
Line up	111	(1)
Forrest Hamer
Anchorage	112	(2)
Joy Harjo
The Tennessee Waltz	114	(2)
James Haug
Poem for Natalia Ginzburg	116	(1)
Anita Helle
The Day Lily and the Fox	117	(2)
Emily Hiestand
Song	119	(1)
Edward Hirsch
Saturday Afternoon, October	120	(1)
Jonathan Holden
Depressive Episode	121	(1)
Janet Holmes
Current ``Now, Voyager'' Fantasy	122	(1)
Remy Holzer
Six Small Fires	123	(1)
Paul Jenkins
Poem	124	(1)
Denis Johnson
On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person	125	(3)
Allison Joseph
Sand Nigger	128	(3)
Lawrence Joseph
Poets	131	(1)
X. J. Kennedy
The Elm Tree on Lafayette Street	132	(1)
Rod Kessler
Restaurant	133	(1)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Memory of Wilmington	134	(2)
Galway Kinnell
To an Unknown Poet	136	(2)
Carolyn Kizer
Christmas at the Orphanage	138	(1)
Bill Knott
Lazarus	139	(1)
Ron Koertge
Tsuneko---Psychiatric Medications Clinic	140	(2)
Susan Kolodny
Salt	142	(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store	144	(1)
Ted Kooser
The Riddle of Noah	145	(2)
Maxine Kumin
The Flight of Apollo	147	(1)
Stanley Kunitz
Learning the War	148	(2)
Wendy Wilder Larsen
Prayer	150	(2)
Dorianne Laux
The Autobiography of John Doe	152	(2)
Jon Lavieri
Gwendolyn Brooks	154	(2)
Don L. Lee
Persimmons	156	(4)
Li-Young Lee
Soloing	160	(2)
Philip Levine
The Morning After My Death	162	(2)
Larry Levis
Thoreau	164	(1)
Timothy Liu
The Simplest and the Hardest	165	(2)
Margaret Lloyd
The Stranger	167	(1)
Gerald Locklin
Insomnia Litany	168	(2)
Joan Logghe
The Conspiracy	170	(2)
Robert Hill Long
Bodo	172	(2)
Thomas Lux
Mal' Occhio	174	(1)
Jennifer Martelli
Pain	175	(1)
Dionisio D. Martinez
Old Folsom Prison	176	(1)
William Matthews
Leaving the Old Gods	177	(2)
Janet McAdams
The Knife-Thrower's Wife	179	(1)
Mekeel McBride
The People at the Pay Telephone	180	(1)
Victoria McCabe
After the Noise of Saigon	181	(2)
Walter McDonald
Black Irish Blues	183	(3)
Joe-Anne McLaughlin
The Exile	186	(1)
Pablo Medina
The Usual Immigrant Uncle Poem	187	(1)
Askold Melnyczuk
Erosion	188	(2)
Christopher Merrill
Enduring Witness, the Mosques of Kattankudi	190	(2)
Peter Michelson
Midlife	192	(2)
Joseph Millar
The Blueness of the Day	194	(7)
David Mura
The New Boy	201	(1)
Peter E. Murphy
Olmos	202	(2)
D. Nurkse
At Mother Teresa's	204	(2)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Androgyny	206	(2)
Steve Orlen
On late-night television.../The Possibility	208	(1)
Simon J. Ortiz
Two Standards	209	(2)
Elise Paschen
Paredon	211	(2)
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Under Her Crib	213	(1)
Marcia Pelletiere
Jewish	214	(1)
Harvey M. Plotnick
Red Clock	215	(1)
A. Poulin, Jr.
Being a Monster	216	(1)
Lawrence Raab
Paul Verlaine at the Grave of Lucien Letinois	217	(2)
Bin Ramke
In the New Country	219	(2)
Barbara Ras
Living in at least two worlds	221	(2)
C. L. Rawlins
David's Rumor	223	(4)
Liam Rector
Parading with the Veterans of Foreign Wars	227	(2)
Carter Revard
Why She Hurries Out, Then Home	229	(1)
Martha Rhodes
Summons	230	(1)
David Rivard
The Assignment	231	(5)
Len Roberts
Long Division: A tribal history	236	(1)
Wendy Rose
Shame	237	(2)
Vern Rutsala
Nazis	239	(2)
Ira Sadoff
Cajun	241	(2)
Sheryl St. Germain
Name the Oldest Member of Your Family	243	(1)
Kalamu ya Salaam
Mute Prophets	244	(2)
Nicholas Samaras
Weight	246	(2)
Jay Schneiders
New Netherland, 1654	248	(2)
Grace Schulman
Lines Started Outside Filene's Basement	250	(1)
James R. Scrimgeour
The One Polar Bear	251	(1)
Peter Sears
Manic: A Conversation with Jimi Hendrix	252	(5)
Tim Seibles
To Jerusalem, 1990	257	(4)
Myra Shapiro
Divorced	261	(1)
Don Share
The One Secret That Has Carried	262	(2)
Jason Shinder
Falling for Jesus	264	(2)
Enid Shomer
The Inner Man	266	(2)
Charles Simic
A Comment on My Host	268	(2)
Mark Solomon
Space	270	(2)
Maura Stanton
Diary	272	(3)
Gerald Stern
Portrait	275	(1)
Constance Urdang
Woman Who Weeps	276	(2)
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Upstate	278	(2)
Derek Walcott
On Being Kicked Out of the Harold Washington Library Center for Napping on the Floor	280	(1)
Thom Ward
Max Jacob at Saint Benoit	281	(1)
Rosanna Warren
Battered Toddler, Page B6	282	(1)
Ellen Dore Watson
Beggars	283	(2)
Charles Harper Webb
Everyone Who Wants to Work Can	285	(1)
Brooke Wiese
The Cure	286	(2)
Eugene Wildman
The Critic	288	(1)
C. K. Williams
She-Who-Watches...The Names Are Prayer	289	(2)
Elizabeth Woody
In and Out of Check Points	291	(2)
Wai-Lim Yip
The Example	293	(1)
Paul Zimmer
Evolution of Appetite	294	(3)
Kelleen Zubick
Acknowledgments	297
Subject Index	315