The Poetry Anthology: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine

by Parisi, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781566636049
• ISBN10: 1566636043
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Publishing monthly without interruption, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	xxiii
Ezra Pound
To Whistler, American	1	(1)
Richard Aldington
XOPIKOΣ	2	(2)
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
General William Booth Enters into Heaven	4	(1)
H.D.
Epigram	5	(1)
Ezra Pound
From CONTEMPORANIA Tenzone	6	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	6	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Proof of Immortality	6	(1)
Joyce Kilmer
Trees	7	(1)
Ezra Pound
From LUSTRA: I, III	7	(2)
John Gould Fletcher
From IRRADIATIONS: I, II,VI, X, XI	9	(2)
D.H. Lawrence
Illicit	11	(1)
Robert Frost
The Code-Heroics	11	(3)
Carl Sandburg
From CHICAGO POEMS
Chicago	14	(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Eros Turannos	16	(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Magi	17	(1)
Ezra Pound
TO KAΛÒN	17	(1)
Ezra Pound
The Coming of War: Actaeon	18	(1)
H.D.
Moonrise	18	(1)
Rupert Brooke
From NINETEEN-FOURTEEN
Peace	19	(1)
The Soldier	19	(1)
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	20	(4)
Conrad Aiken
From DISCORDANTS: IV	24	(1)
Sara Teasdale
The Answer	24	(1)
John Hall Wheelock
Beethoven	25	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Sunday Morning	25	(3)
William Butler Yeats
The Scholars	28	(1)
Edgar Lee Masters
In Memory of Bryan Lathrop	28	(1)
Ezra Pound
The Lake Isle	29	(1)
Rabindranath Tagore
From Epigrams	30	(1)
T.S. Eliot
From OBSERVATIONS
La Figlia the Piange	30	(1)
Mr. Apollinax	31	(1)
Morning at the Window	32	(1)
Arthur Davison Ficke
The Wave Symphony	32	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Marriage	33	(1)
Isaac Rosenberg
From TRENCH POEMS
Break of Day in the Trenches	33	(1)
Carl Sandburg
From MY PEOPLE
In Tall Grass	34	(1)
Sherwood Anderson
Evening Song	34	(1)
John Drinkwater
Reciprocity	35	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
From FIGS FROM THISTLES
First Fig	35	(1)
Second Fig	35	(1)
Thursday	35	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Le Médecin Malgré Lui	36	(1)
D.H. Lawrence
Nostalgia	36	(1)
Ezra Pound
From PROPERTIUS: IV	37	(1)
Emanuel Carnevali
Walt Whitman	38	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo	39	(1)
Louis Untermeyer
End of the Comedy	39	(1)
Vachel Lindsay
The Horrid Voice of Science	40	(1)
Sara Teasdale
Song	40	(1)
Wallace Stevens
From PECKSNIFFIANA
Fabliau of Florida	41	(1)
The Weeping Burgher	41	(1)
The Indigo Glass in the Grass	42	(1)
Anecdote of the Jar	42	(1)
The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician	42	(1)
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	43	(1)
Malcolm Cowley
Danny	44	(1)
Alfred Kreymborg
To W.C.W.M.D.	44	(1)
Elinor Wylie
Atavism	45	(1)
Marjorie Allen Selert
Cubist Portrait	45	(1)
Oscar Williams
The Golden Fleece	45	(1)
Glenway Wescott
The Poet at Night-Fall	46	(1)
Wallace Stevens
From SUR MA GUZZLA GRACILE
The Snow Man	47	(1)
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon	47	(1)
Another Weeping Woman	48	(1)
Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds	48	(1)
Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb	49	(1)
Robert Frost
The Witch of Coos	49	(5)
William Carlos Williams
Wild Orchard	54	(1)
Harriet Monroe
In High Places	55	(1)
Louise Bogan
From BEGINNING AND END
Knowledge	55	(1)
Kay Boyle
Monody to the Sound of Zithers	55	(1)
Ernest M. Hemingway
From WANDERINGS
Champs d'Honneur	56	(1)
Chapter Heading	56	(1)
Marion Strobel
Pastoral	57	(1)
Yvor Winters
Static Autumn	57	(1)
Robert Frost
The Flower-Boat	58	(1)
Lola Ridge
Chicago	58	(1)
Winfred Bryher
From THREE SONGS
Thessalian	59	(1)
Robert McAlmon
From CONTRIBUTIONS
For Instance	59	(1)
Laura Riding Gottschalk
From BODY'S HEAD
Head Itself	60	(1)
Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica	61	(1)
John Dos Passos
Crimson Tent	62	(2)
Hart Crane
At Melville's Tomb	64	(1)
Malcolm Cowley
From BLUE JUNIATA
The Streets of Air	64	(1)
Kay Boyle
To a Seaman Dead on Land	65	(1)
Robert Graves
In the Beginning Was a Word	66	(1)
Hortense Flexner
Contemporary	66	(1)
Hart Crane
O Carib Isle!	67	(1)
Richard Eberhart
From THINGS KNOWN
Under the Hill	68	(1)
Morton Dauwen Zabel
Hoar Frost	69	(1)
H.D.
Birds in Snow	69	(1)
Archibald MacLeish
From PUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE
Epistle to the Rapalloan	70	(1)
George Dillon
Marching Song	71	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet [Women have loved before ...]	71	(1)
May Sarton
From WORDS ON THE WIND
Fruit of Loneliness	72	(1)
Edward Dahlberg
Kansas City West Bottoms	72	(1)
Louise Bogan
Hypocrite Swift	73	(1)
Langston Hughes
Sailor	74	(1)
Allen Tate
From SONNETS OF THE BLOOD
I, II, IV, VII, IX	74	(3)
Ruth Lechlitner
Kansas Boy	77	(1)
Paul Frederic Bowles
Extract	77	(1)
Cecil Day Lewis
Winter Night	78	(1)
Basil Bunting
Fearful Symmetry	78	(1)
Robert Penn Warren
Watershed	79	(1)
Marianne Moore
From PART OF A NOVEL, PART OF A POEM, PART OF A PLAY
The Steeple Jack	80	(2)
The Hero	82	(2)
Hart Crane
From THE URN
Reliquary	84	(1)
Purgatorio	84	(1)
The Sad Indian	85	(1)
Reply	85	(1)
Enrich My Resignation	86	(1)
Charles Reznikoff
Winter Sketches	86	(2)
Cecil Day Lewis
From THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN
Condemned	88	(1)
William Carlos Williams
From "THAT'S THE AMERICAN STYLE": 4th of July	89	(1)
Kenneth Patchen
Empty Dwelling Places	90	(1)
Josephine Miles
From LOCAL HABITATION
On Inhabiting an Orange	90	(1)
Robert Frost
At Woodward's Gardens	91	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Night-Music	92	(1)
Theodore Roethke
"Long Live the Weeds"	93	(1)
Harriet Monroe
A Farewell	94	(1)
W.H. Auden
Journey to Iceland	94	(2)
Dylan Thomas
We Lying by Seasand	96	(1)
Delmore Schwartz
Poem [You, my photographer]	96	(1)
Thomas Lanier Williams
My Love Was Light	97	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
From TWO MORNINGS AND TWO EVENINGS
Paris, 7 A.M.	98	(1)
A Miracle for Breakfast	99	(1)
From the Country to the City	100	(1)
Song	101	(1)
Edmund Wilson
Past Midnight	101	(1)
Robert Penn Warren
Bearded Oaks	101	(2)
Janet Lewis
At Carmel Highlands	103	(1)
Delmore Schwartz
[In the naked bed, in Plato's cave]	103	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Four Poems	104	(2)
Stephen Spender
The Marginal Field	106	(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man	107	(1)
Roy Fuller
Sonnet [The crumbled rock of London]	107	(1)
Gertrude Stein
From STANZAS IN MEDITATION
I, IV,V,VI	108	(1)
Louis MacNeice
Perdita	109	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Raleigh Was Right	109	(1)
E.E. Cummings
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]	110	(1)
Walter de la Mare
Things	111	(1)
Antiques	112	(1)
Edwin Muir
Then...	112	(1)
Kull Shapiro
University	113	(1)
Robinson Jeffers
The Bloody Sire	114	(1)
Babette Deutsch
Memory	114	(1)
Walter de la Mare
Immanent	115	(1)
Peter De Vries
From CONSCRIPT: III	115	(2)
Basil Bunting
To Violet	117	(1)
Weldon Kees
Henry James at Newport	117	(1)
A.M. Klein
Upon the Heavenly Scarp	118	(2)
Thomas James Merton
The Dark Morning	120	(1)
Louis MacNeice
The Springboard	120	(1)
E.E. Cummings
[what if a much of a which of a wind]	121	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Sigmund Freud	122	(1)
Randall Jarrell
The Emancipators	122	(1)
John Frederick Nims
Tennis Trophy	123	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Dolor	124	(1)
Mary Barnard
Fable of the Ant and the Word	124	(1)
John Ciardi
First Snow on an Airfield	125	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Losses	125	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Poem in October	126	(2)
John Ciardi
Journal	128	(1)
Robert Francis
Part for the Whole	129	(1)
Francis C. Going
The Higher Empiricism	130	(1)
Kenneth Koch
Poem for My Twentieth Birthday	130	(1)
James Merrill
From "THEORY OF VISION"
The Green Eye	130	(1)
Theodore Roethke
The Return	131	(1)
Robert Lowell
The Ghost	132	(2)
Yvor Winters
Night of Battle	134	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Motive	135	(1)
James Merrill
The Broken Bowl	135	(1)
John Frederick Nims
Love Poem	136	(1)
Alan Dugan
Niagara Falls	137	(1)
Kenneth Koch
Schoolyard in April	137	(1)
Paul Goodman
"Dreams Are the Royal Road to the Unconscious"	138	(1)
Karl Shapiro
The Dirty Word	139	(1)
Robert Lowell
The Fat Man in the Mirror	140	(1)
E.E. Cummings
[if(touched by love's own secret)we, like homing]	141	(1)
Margaret Avison
The Party	141	(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract	142	(1)
Weldon Kees
Small Prayer	143	(1)
Robert Graves
Return of the Goddess Artemis	143	(1)
Richard Wilbur
The Death of a Toad	144	(1)
Henry Rago
From THE METAPHOR
4. Terror and Love as Fugitives	144	(1)
John Berryman
The Traveler	145	(1)
William Carlos
Williams Lear	146	(1)
Randall Jarrell
The Sleeping Beauty: Variation of the Prince	147	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Children of the Poor	148	(1)
Wallace Stevens
From THINGS OF AUGUST: 1, 3, 8	149	(2)
John Berryman
The Cage	151	(1)
Delmore Schwartz
The Self Unsatisfied Runs Everywhere	152	(1)
Babette Deutsch
The Poem	152	(1)
Paul Goodman
Little Ode	153	(1)
Richard Wilbur
"A World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness"	154	(1)
Anthony Hecht
Alceste in the Wilderness	155	(1)
Robinson Jeffers
The Beauty of Things	156	(1)
Theodore Roethke
To an Anthologist	156	(1)
James Merrill
Hôtel de L'Univers et Portugal	157	(1)
Robert Graves
The Foreboding	158	(1)
Kathleen Raine
The Instrument	158	(1)
Parker Tyler
Nijinsky	159	(1)
W.H. Auden
The Shield of Achilles	160	(2)
Louise Bogan
After the Persian	162	(1)
Marianne Moore
Then the Ermine:	163	(1)
William Carlos Williams
From PATERSON, BOOK V
The River of Heaven	164	(1)
Patrick Anderson
Sestina in Time of Winter	165	(1)
Robert Graves
From the Embassy	166	(1)
William Meredith
The Illiterate	166	(1)
Alan Dugan
Prison Song	166	(1)
E.L. Mayo
The Word of Water	167	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Marginalia	167	(1)
Karl Shapiro
The Alphabet	168	(1)
Joseph Warren Beach
Horatian Ode	169	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Aging	169	(1)
Frank O'Hara
Chez Jane	170	(1)
Faield Porter
The Island in the Evening	171	(1)
Thom Gunn
High Fidelity	172	(1)
Richard Howard
Landed: A Valentine	172	(1)
Frank O'Hara
Radio	173	(1)
William Meredith
Bachelor	174	(1)
George Barker
From CYCLE OF SIX LYRICS
O Pearl and Breasted World	174	(1)
Kenneth Koch
Permanently	175	(1)
Constance Urdang
Birth of Venus	175	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Metamorphosis	176	(1)
Witter Bynner
From INSCRIPTIONS ON CHINESE PAINTINGS	177	(1)
Robert Fitzgerald
Metaphysical	178	(1)
Stanley Kunitz
The Approach to Thebes	179	(1)
Thom Gunn
The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of His Death	180	(1)
Howard Moss
From KING MIDAS
The King's Speech	181	(2)
Geoffrey Hill
Wreaths	183	(1)
Adrienne Rich
A Mark of Resistance	183	(1)
Robert Duncan
A Morning Letter	184	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Holding the Mirror Up to Nature	185	(1)
H.D.
In Time of Gold	186	(1)
William Stafford
Shepherd	186	(1)
James Merrill
Mirror	187	(1)
Vernon Watkins
Demands of the Muse	188	(1)
Denise Levertov
To the Snake	189	(1)
Richard F. Hugo
Skykomish River Running	189	(1)
A.R. Ammons
Close-Up	190	(1)
Josephine Miles
Dream	191	(1)
T. Weiss
The Fire at Alexandria	191	(2)
Sylvia Plath
The Death of Myth-Making	193	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
From THE BEAN EATERS
We Real Cool	193	(1)
Richard Eberhart
The Spider	194	(1)
Robert Duncan
Returning to Roots of First Feeling	195	(1)
X.J. Kennedy
Nude Descending a Staircase	195	(1)
Robert Creeley
Song	196	(1)
Frank O'Hara
In Favor of One's Time	196	(1)
George Oppen
Population	197	(1)
A.R. Ammons
Gravelly Run	198	(1)
James Dickey
Inside the River	199	(1)
E.E. Cummings
[how many moments must(amazing each]	200	(1)
Denise Levertov
The Illustration-A Footnote	201	(1)
James Wright
The Blessing	201	(1)
John Hollander
For the Passing of Groucho's Pursuer	202	(1)
David Daiches
Notes for a History of Poetry	203	(1)
Edgar Bowers
The Astronomers of Mont Blanc	204	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Stars over the Dordogne	204	(1)
Anne Sexton
The Black Art	205	(1)
John Berryman
From FOUR DREAM SONGS
[The high ones die, die]	206	(1)
John Ciardi
Death's the Classic Look	207	(1)
Alan Dugan
From Heraclitus	208	(1)
William Meredith
For His Father	208	(1)
James Merrill
The Mad Scene	209	(1)
John Ashbery
If the Birds Knew	209	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Fever 103°	210	(2)
John Berryman
From NINE DREAM SONGS
Snow Line	212	(1)
Ted Hughes
After Lorca	212	(1)
David Wagoner
The Words	213	(1)
Philip Booth
Seeing Auden Off	214	(1)
Stevie Smith
Here Lies ...	214	(1)
LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Like Rousseau	215	(1)
Donald Justice
About My Poems	215	(1)
Donald Finkel
Metaphysic of Snow	216	(1)
Marvin Bell
Things We Dreamt We Died For	216	(1)
Gary Snyder
From THROUGH THE SMOKE HOLE	217	(1)
Mona Van Duyn
"The Wish To Be Believed"	218	(1)
Galway Kinnell
The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students	218	(2)
John Hollander
Swan and Shadow	220	(1)
W.S. Graham
The Beast in the Space	221	(1)
Winfield Townley Scott
Uses of Poetry	221	(1)
Mark Van Doren
Slowly, Slowly Wisdom Gathers	222	(1)
Vernon Watkins
Cwmrhydyceirw Elegiacs	222	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Implosions	223	(1)
Hayden Carruth
The Cows at Night	224	(1)
Hugh Seidman
Demonstration	225	(1)
William Heyen
The King's Men	225	(1)
May Swenson
Fire Island	226	(1)
Denise Levertov
Invocation	226	(1)
Stanley Kunitz
The Game	227	(1)
Gilbert Sorrentino
Handbook of Versification	227	(1)
Stephen Dobyns
Counterparts	228	(1)
Thom Gunn
The Messenger	229	(1)
Frank O'Hara
Homosexuality	229	(1)
F.D. Reeve
Hope	230	(1)
Mark Strand
Black Maps	231	(1)
Charles Wright
Nightletter	232	(1)
A.R. Ammons
Play	233	(1)
Louise Gluck
The Magi	233	(1)
Erica Jong
Climbing You	234	(1)
David Wagoner
Lost	234	(1)
John N. Morris
The Life Beside This One	235	(1)
John Betjeman
Crematorium	236	(1)
Greg Kuzma
Poetry	236	(1)
Tom Disch
The Vowels of Another Language	236	(1)
Kathleen Spivack
Dido: Swarming	237	(1)
Charles Wright
Negatives	237	(1)
Howard Nemerov
To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand	238	(1)
William Dickey
The Poet's Farewell to His Teeth	239	(1)
A.D. Hope
Parabola	240	(1)
Richard Hugo
On Hearing a New Escalation	241	(1)
James Schuyler
May, 1972	242	(1)
James McAuley
Winter Drive	243	(1)
May Swenson
July 4th	243	(1)
Mark Jarman
The Desire of Water	244	(1)
Horace Gregory
Death & Empedocles 444 B.C.	244	(1)
John Frederick Nims
Verse Translator	245	(1)
Richard Hugo
Last Days	245	(1)
Jay Macpherson
From THE WAY DOWN: They Return	246	(1)
David Wagoner
Elegy for Yards, Pounds, and Gallons	246	(1)
Margaret Atwood
From SONGS OF THE TRANSFORMED: Siren Song	247	(1)
Jack Anderson
Ode to Pornography	248	(2)
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Signs	250	(1)
J.D. McClatchy
The Pleasure of Ruins	250	(1)
Jane Shore
An Astronomer's Journal	251	(1)
Robert Pinsky
From ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS
XIV. Their Speech, Compared with Wisdom and Poetry	252	(1)
Peter Schjeldahl
A Younger Poet	253	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Waiting Rooms	254	(1)
James Schuyler
"Can I Tempt You to a Pond Walk?"	255	(1)
Rika Lesser
Translation	256	(1)
Ezra Pound
Fragmenti	256	(1)
John Achbery
The Ice-Cream Wars	257	(1)
Jayanta Mahapatra
Ash	258	(1)
Frank O'Hara
Poem [Green things are flowers]	259	(1)
Brenda Hillman
On the Pier	259	(1)
Robert Siegel
Hog Heaven	260	(1)
Diane Wakoski
The Ring	261	(1)
Gary Soto
Antigua	262	(1)
Alfred Corn
Photographs of Old New York	262	(2)
William Logan
A Valentine for Matthew Arnold	264	(1)
Timothy Steele
From THREE NOTES TOWARD DEFINITIONS: Of Faith	264	(1)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Elegy	265	(1)
Daryl Hine
After the Solstice	266	(1)
Mary Kinzie
The Muse of Satire	266	(1)
John N. Morris
Man and Boy	267	(1)
Miller Williams
Love and How It Becomes Important in Our Day to Day Lives	267	(1)
Anthony Hecht
From THE VENETIAN VESPERS: III	268	(4)
Sharon Olds
The Guild	272	(1)
A.R. Ammons
Strolls	273	(1)
Carole Oles
One Page in The American Heritage Dictionary	274	(1)
Tom Disch
Poems	274	(1)
Dannie Abse
X Ray	275	(1)
Lawrence Raab
The Rest	276	(1)
Donald Hall
Poem Beginning with a Line of Wittgenstein	277	(1)
For an Early Retirement	277	(1)
A.R. Ammons
Easter Morning	277	(3)
John Ashbery
Late Echo	280	(1)
Gerald Stern
Waving Goodbye	280	(1)
Linda Pastan
After Minor Surgery	281	(1)
Barton Sutter
Static	281	(1)
Michael Ryan
A Shape for It	282	(1)
Albert Goldbarth
Closer	282	(1)
Gerald Stern
June Fourth	283	(1)
Robert Pinsky
Dying	284	(1)
Barry Spacks
The Poetry Bug	285	(1)
Katha Pollitt
A Poet of Our Climate	286	(1)
Stephen Sandy
Survivor, Walking	286	(2)
David Ignatow
A Cloud Creates	288	(1)
Richard Moore
On Coming to Nothing	288	(1)
John N. Morris
A Schedule of Benefits	289	(1)
Baron Wormser
A History of Photography	289	(2)
Mary Karr
Diogenes Tries To Forget	291	(1)
Richmond Lattimore
Flesh Tones	291	(1)
Paul Engle
From IMAGES OF CHINA
Torture	292	(1)
Chinese Courtesy	292	(1)
Thomas P Lynch
A Death	292	(1)
Linda Pastan
I Am Learning to Abandon the World	293	(1)
Rita Dove
Dusting	293	(1)
Lisel Mueller
What Is Left to Say	294	(1)
Gary Soto
Failing in the Presence of Ants	295	(1)
Albert Goldbarth
Edgewater Hospital	296	(1)
Sandra McPherson
Wings and Seeds: For My Birth Mother	297	(1)
William Stafford
How to Regain Your Soul	298	(1)
Stephen Dunn
Corners	298	(1)
Rita Dove
Flirtation	299	(1)
Anthony Hecht
Anthem	300	(1)
Daryl Hine
Sapphics	300	(1)
David Wagoner
Their Bodies	301	(1)
Pattiann Rogers
The Origin of Order	302	(1)
David Bottoms
The Boy Shepherds' Simile	303	(1)
Jack Matthews
Inverse Proportions	303	(1)
Alice Fulton
Doing the Evolution Shuffle	304	(1)
Robert B. Shaw
From CHRONOMETRICS
IV. Hourglass	305	(1)
Timothy Steele
Chanson Philosophique	305	(1)
Fred Chappell
Narcissus and Echo	306	(1)
Dana Gioia
My Confessional Sestina	306	(1)
Carolyn Kizer
Bitch	307	(1)
Edward Hirsch
Poor Angels	308	(1)
Amy Clampitt
Dodona: Asked of the Oracle	309	(1)
Wesley McNair
Big Cars	310	(1)
Robert Morgan
Rearview Mirror	311	(1)
Michael Blumenthal
The Disappointments of Childhood	312	(1)
Laurence Perrine
Janus	312	(1)
Limerick	312	(1)
Jane Flanders
Cloud Painter	313	(1)
John N. Morris
Reading the Writing	314	(1)
Stephen Corey
Preparing to Live Among the Old	314	(1)
B.H. Fairchild
Flight	315	(1)
Dick Allen
The Poet at Eighteen	316	(1)
Raymond Carver
Happiness	317	(1)
Philip Levine
Sweet Will	318	(2)
Amy Clampitt
Athene	320	(1)
Alice Fulton
Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch	321	(1)
Turner Cassity
Why Fortune Is the Empress of the World	321	(1)
Dana Gioia
Cruising with the Beach Boys	322	(1)
John Dickson
Fossil Fuel	323	(1)
Bin Ramke
According to Ovid	324	(1)
Reynolds Price
Hawk Hill	325	(1)
J.W. Rivers
Illinois: At Night, Black Hawk's Statue Broods	325	(1)
Maxine Kumin
A Calling	326	(1)
Thomas Carper
Oh Keep the Poet Hence	327	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
Written in My Dream by W.C. Williams	328	(2)
Michael McFee
Cold Quilt	330	(1)
Mona Van Duyn
In Bed with a Book	331	(1)
Gibbons Ruark
Postscript to an Elegy	331	(1)
Ernest Sandeen
My Two Lives	332	(1)
Robert Cording
Elegy for John, My Student Dead of AIDS	333	(1)
Ralph Angel
And the Grass Did Grow	334	(1)
Maura Stanton
Pole Vaulting	335	(1)
Jeanne Murray Walker
Coming into History	336	(1)
John Ashbery
Morning Jitters	336	(1)
Gregory Orr
Available Now: Archaic Torsos Both Sexes	337	(1)
Randy Biasing
Refuge	338	(1)
Wendell Berry
To My Mother	338	(1)
Robert Bly
Prayer for My Father	339	(1)
David Bottoms
Armored Hearts	340	(1)
Christopher Buckley
The Inverse Square Law of the Propagation of Light	341	(1)
Hayden Carruth
The Bearer	342	(1)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Against Poetry	343	(1)
John Hollander
Coordinating Conjunction	344	(1)
David Ignatow
Witness	345	(1)
Maxine Kumin
Nurture	346	(1)
James Laughlin
My Ambition	346	(1)
W.S. Merwin
After the Alphabets	347	(1)
Lisel Mueller
When I Am Asked	348	(1)
Joyce Carol Oates
Waiting on Elvis, 1956	348	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Dreamwood	349	(1)
Robert B. Shaw
To His Pulse	350	(1)
Charles Simic
The Immortal	350	(2)
Mark Strand
To Himself	352	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Trolling for Blues	352	(1)
Diane Ackerman
We Are Listening	353	(1)
George Starbuck
Reading the Facts about Frost in The Norton Anthology	354	(1)
Turner Cassity
Other-Directed	355	(1)
Stanley Moss
The Lace Makers	355	(1)
Elizabeth Spires
Faberge's Egg	356	(1)
Rita Dove
The Breathing, the Endless News	357	(1)
Billy Collins
First Reader	358	(1)
Peter Porter
Sun King Sulking	359	(1)
Philip Booth
Heading Out	360	(1)
Ben Howard
For the Calvinists	361	(1)
Stephen Stepanchev
Inspiration	361	(1)
Alicia Ostriker
I Can't Speak	362	(1)
G.S. Sharat Chandra
Peasants Waiting for Rain	362	(1)
Stephen Kuusisto
Summer at North Farm	363	(1)
Stephen Dobyns
Utopian Melodies	364	(1)
Steven Cramer
For the Bullies of West Morris High	364	(2)
John Frederick Nims
From THE SIX-CORNERED SNOWFLAKE	366	(1)
Sue Owen
Written in Blood	367	(1)
Charles Wright
Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year	368	(1)
R.T. Smith
Brieves from The Book of Kells	369	(1)
Billy Collins
Forgetfulness	370	(1)
J D. McClatchy
From AN ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP:VII	371	(1)
Stephen Dunn
Little Essay on Communication	372	(1)
Kathleen Norris
Mrs. Adam	373	(1)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
The Dead Cartesian	374	(1)
Mark Doty
The Death of Antinoiis	375	(1)
Henri Goulette
Correspondence	376	(1)
Charles Simic
Evening Walk	376	(1)
Neal Bowers
Tenth-Year Elegy	377	(1)
W.D. Snodgrass
As a Child, Sleepless	378	(1)
Carl Dennis
Defining Time	378	(1)
Caroline Finkelstein
Not Responsible	379	(1)
David Jauss
Quotations for a Winter Evening	380	(1)
Jim Simmerman
Take a Hike	380	(1)
Cathy Song
Out of Our Hands	381	(1)
Robert Sargent
The Things of the World	382	(1)
Charles Wright
Chickamauga	383	(1)
Tennessee Williams
We Have Not Long To Love	384	(1)
Eamon Grennan
A Few Last Lines of Laundry	384	(1)
Margaret Holley
The Tree of Life	385	(1)
Neal Bowers
Dead Man Interview	385	(1)
Mark Scott
The Cave of AIDS	386	(1)
Marilyn Taylor
To a Young Diver	387	(1)
Daniel Hall
Winged Torso of Eros	388	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Final Notations	389	(1)
William Matthews
Mingus at The Showplace	389	(1)
Turner Cassity
Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog; or, Turner's Evil Twin	390	(1)
W.S. Merwin
Search Party	391	(1)
Elizabeth Alexander
Apollo	392	(1)
Walter McDonald
The Digs in Escondido Canyon	393	(1)
Cathryn Essinger
You Are Right	393	(1)
Jeffrey Harrison
Adirondack Moosehead	394	(1)
Jane Kenyon
Having It Out with Melancholy	395	(3)
William Matthews
Last Words	398	(1)
A Telegram from the Muse	399	(1)
William Greenway
Anniversary	400	(1)
Alan Shapiro
Soul	400	(1)
Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
The Parents They Would Be	401	(1)
Eric Pankey
The Resurrection of the Body	401	(1)
Gabriel Spera
Balkan	402	(1)
Charles Bukowski
a not so good night in the San Pedro of the world	403	(1)
Robert Morgan
Music of the Spheres	404	(1)
James Scruton
In the Age of the Radio Telescope	404	(1)
Marvin Bell
The Book of the Dead Man (#33)	405	(1)
Charlie Smith
The Essential Story	406	(1)
Carl Dennis
To Reason	407	(1)
Debora Greger
Psyche and Eros in Florida	408	(1)
Andrew Hudgins
Tools: An Ode	409	(1)
Ha Jin
Ways of Talking	410	(1)
Derick Burleson
Democracy	410	(1)
August Kleinzahler
Watching Dogwood Blossoms Fall in a Parking Lot off Route 46	411	(1)
Richard Foerster
The Failure of Similes	412	(1)
Peter Cooley
Poem on the First Day of School	412	(1)
Herbert Morris
Duesenberg, 1929	413	(1)
Barry Goldensohn
Arch of Titus	414	(1)
Willy Clay
On Me, the Imported Skies	415	(1)
Pearl Andelson Sherry
Fermi Lab: Sisyphus of Quarks	416	(1)
Deborah Pope
Getting Through	416	(1)
Elise Paschen
Angling	417	(1)
Donald Hall
Goggles and Helmet	417	(1)
Jane Kenyon
Happiness	418	(1)
Michael Chitwood
After the Missionaries	419	(1)
George Bilgere
At the Vietnam Memorial	420	(1)
Henry Taylor
For William Stafford	420	(1)
John Ashbery
A Poem of Unrest	421	(1)
Jack Turner
TV Movie	421	(1)
Christopher Bursk
Does Poetry Matter?	422	(1)
Seamus Heaney
A Dog Was Crying To-Night in Wicklow Also	423	(1)
Paul Muldoon
The Throwback	424	(1)
Eavan Boland
Mother Ireland	424	(1)
William Dickey
The Arrival of the Titanic	425	(1)
Donald Hall
Without	426	(2)
Billy Collins
Marginalia	428	(2)
Stephen Dunn
After Making Love	430	(1)
David Bottoms
Horseshoes	430	(1)
A.E. Stallings
A Postcard from Greece	431	(1)
Ronald Wallace
The Friday Night Fights	432	(1)
J. Allyn Rosser
Lover Release Agreement	432	(1)
John Kinsella
Drowning in Wheat	433	(1)
Linda Pastan
The Obligation to Be Happy	434	(1)
Rachel Hadas
Twelfth Birthday	434	(1)
David Ricks
Variation on a Theme of Baudelaire	435	(1)
Lisa Rosenberg
Introduction to Methods of Mathematical Physics	436	(1)
Tom Disch
Hooray for Hollywood	436	(1)
Julie Suk
From Ruin	437	(1)
Seamus Heaney
The Suit	438	(1)
Donald Justice
The Voice of Col. von Stauffenberg Rising from Purgatory	438	(1)
Galway Kinnell
Middle Path	439	(1)
Robin Morgan
Add-Water Instant Blues	440	(1)
Leslie Ullman
Hotwire	440	(1)
Rodney Jones
The Obsolescence of Thou	441	(1)
Ghana Bloch
Visiting Hours Are Over	442	(1)
Susan Hahn
The Baobab Tree 1996	442	(1)
Mary Karr
The Patient	443	(1)
Brad Leithauser
At an Island Farm	444	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
The Devil's Workshop	444	(1)
John Brehm
At the Poetry Reading	445	(1)
X.J. Kennedy
For Allen Ginsberg	446	(1)
David Citino
The Invention of Secrecy	447	(1)
Derek Walcott
Becune Point	448	(1)
Alan Shapiro
Natural Selection	449	(1)
Billy Collins
Sonnet	450	(1)
Philip Schultz
The Dark Between	451	(1)
Rhino P. Espaillat
"Find Work"	452	(1)
Robley Wilson
Old Movies	452	(1)
A.E. Stallings
Dead Language Lesson	453	(1)
Liz Rosenberg
The Offspring	454	(1)
Grace Schulman
Psalm for an Anniversary	455	(1)
Robert Bly
Driving West in 1970	456	(1)
Philip Levine
Detroit, Tomorrow	456	(2)
C.K. Williams
Risk	458	(1)
Stanley Plumly
Wight	459	(1)
Grace Butcher
Crow Is Walking	459	(1)
Gregory Djanikian
Immigrant Picnic	460	(2)
Dennis O'Driscoll
Tomorrow	462	(1)
David Schloss
From FIGURES IN THE CARPETS
[Kaiak]	463
Yusef Komunyakaa
Pride	464	(1)
Marilyn Hacker
From PARAGRAPHS FROM A DAY-BOOK	464	(1)
Kenneth Koch
To My Old Poems	465	(1)
Fleda Brown
Industrial Teflon Comes into Domestic Use	466	(1)
Joyce Sutphen
The Problem Was	467	(1)
Curt Anderson
Platonic Love	467	(1)
Faye George
The Charioteer	468	(1)
Mark Turcotte
Battlefield	468	(1)
John Updike
Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children	469	(1)
Kay Ryan
Test	470	(1)
Wendell Berry
Dust	470	(1)
DC Berry
After Finding a One Hundred Dollar Bill	471	(1)
Dick Allen
Zen Living	472	(1)
Agha Shahid Ali
Land	472	(1)
John Skoyles
Academic	473	(1)
Wesley McNair
What Became	474	(1)
Eavan Boland
How We Made a New Art on Old Ground	475	(1)
Stephen Dobyns
[His Life Was the Practice]	476	(1)
W.S. Merwin
To Luck	477	(1)
George Scarbrough
Han-Shan Fashions a Myth	478	(1)
Robert West
Two Evangelists	478	(1)
Catherine Tufariello
In Glass	479	(1)
Elisavietta Ritchie
How to Write a Villanelle	479	(1)
Robert Fink
For Micha's Mother, Who Signs	480	(1)
Ellen Hinsey
Update on the Last Judgment	481	(1)
W.S. Merwin
Lament for the Makers	482	(7)
EDITORS AND PRINCIPAL STAFF, 1912-2002	489	(2)
CREDITS	491	(8)
INDEX	499