Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry

by Mason, David; Nims, John Frederick

• ISBN13: 9780072819595
• ISBN10: 0072819596
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-07
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

WESTERN WINDis an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xxix
BEFORE WE BEGIN	xxxv
ONE The Senses
1 WHERE EXPERIENCE STARTS: The Image	3	(15)
THE ROLE OF THE SENSES	3	(9)
Jim Moore, The Same Life	5	(1)
Anonymous, Western Wind	6	(1)
Archibald MacLeish, Eleven	7	(1)
Sappho, There's a Man	8	(2)
T.S. Eliot, Preludes	10	(2)
Anonymous, Brief Autumnal	12	(1)
THE SPECIFIC IMAGE	12	(3)
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro; Alba ("As cool as the pale wet leaves...")	12	(1)
Anthony Hecht, The End of the Weekend	12	(2)
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens	14	(1)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	15	(2)
Brewster Ghiselin, Rattler, Alert	15	(1)
Sappho, Leaving Crete, Come Visit Again	16	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS
Jim Moore, Haiku/Touch	17	(1)
2 WHAT'S IT LIKE? Simile, Metaphor, and Other Figures	18	(28)
SIMILE AND METAPHOR	18	(12)
Robinson Jeffers, The Purse-Seine	19	(4)
Robert Frost, The Silken Tent	23	(1)
Emily Dickinson, My Life Had Stood-A Loaded Gun	23	(1)
Linda Pastan, Returning	24	(2)
Margaret Atwood, Habitation	26	(1)
William Butler Yeats, No Second Troy	27	(1)
Robert Frost, A Patch of Old Snow	28	(1)
Al Young, Up Vernon's Alley	29	(1)
Helen Chasin, City Pigeons	29	(1)
ANALOGY	30	(3)
Walter de la Mare, All But Blind	33	(1)
SYNESTHESIA	33	(2)
ALLUSION	35	(2)
Alexander Pope, Intended for Sir Isaac Newton	36	(1)
Michael Donaghy, Local 32B	36	(1)
PERSONIFICATION, MYTHOLOGY	37	(4)
Karl Shapiro, A Cut Flower	38	(2)
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan	40	(1)
Walter Savage Landor, Dirce	40	(1)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	41	(4)
Alan Shapiro, Against Poets	44	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	45	(1)
3 SYMBOLISM: The Broken Coin	46	(21)
SYNECDOCHE, METONYMY	46	(1)
Mary Jo Salter, A Poetics of Sex	47	(1)
THE SYMBOL	47	(9)
Howard Nemerov, Money	51	(1)
Jenn Habel, Another Poem About the Heart	52	(1)
George Herbert, Hope	53	(1)
William Blake, The Sick Rose	54	(1)
Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night	54	(1)
Saint John of the Cross, The Dark Night	55	(1)
THING-POEMS	56	(3)
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Merry-Go Round	56	(1)
William Carlos Williams, Nantucket	57	(1)
Frank O'Hara, Why IAm Not a Painter	58	(1)
ALLEGORY	59	(3)
Sir Thomas Wyatt, My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness	60	(1)
Kingsley Amis, A Note on Wyatt	60	(1)
Billy Collins, The Death of Allegory	61	(1)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	62	(4)
John Crowe Ransom, Good Ships	63	(2)
Carl Sandburg, A Fence	65	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	66	(1)
4 DOUBLE VISION: Antipoetry, Paradox, and Irony	67	(24)
ANTIPOETRY	67	(5)
William Shakespeare, Winter	68	(1)
Francis P. Osgood, Winter Fairyland in Vermont	69	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station	69	(2)
Walt Whitman, Beauty	71	(1)
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130	71	(1)
PARADOX	72	(4)
Robert Graves, The Face in the Mirror	73	(2)
Alexander Pope, From An Essay on Man	75	(1)
IRONY	76	(3)
Wilfred Owen, The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	78	(1)
UNDERSTATEMENT-THE WITHHELD IMAGE	79	(4)
Simonides, On the Spartan Dead at Thermopylae	80	(1)
X.J. Kennedy, Loose Woman	81	(2)
OVERSTATEMENT	83	(1)
Robert Graves, Spoils	84	(1)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	84	(4)
Rod Taylor, Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa Warrior	85	(1)
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream	86	(2)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	88	(3)
TWO The Emotions
5 THE COLOR OF THOUGHT: Emotions in Poetry	91	(24)
THE ROLE OF EMOTION	91	(7)
William Butler Yeats, The Spur	94	(1)
Dick Davis, Desire	94	(1)
Heather McHugh, Earthmoving Malediction	94	(1)
Ammianus, Epitaph of Nearchos	95	(1)
Michael McFee, Time Enough	95	(1)
W.H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles	96	(2)
SENSE AND SENTIMENTALITY	98	(9)
Anonymous, The Unquiet Grave	99	(2)
Julia Moore, Little Libbie	101	(1)
John Crowe Ransom, Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	101	(1)
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Etude Realiste (I)	102	(1)
James Wright, A Song for the Middle of the Night	103	(2)
May Swenson, Cat & the Weather	105	(1)
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark	105	(1)
Richard Wilbur, The Pardon	106	(1)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	107	(3)
Kenneth Fearing, Yes, the Agency Can Handle That	109	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	110	(5)
THREE The Words
6 MACHINE FOR MAGIC: The Fresh Usual Words	115	(30)
LIVING WORDS	115	(10)
Kenneth Patchen, Moon, Sun, Sleep, Birds, Live	118	(3)
Robert Frost, Dust of Snow; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep	121	(3)
Emily Dickinson, A Narrow Fellow in the Grass	124	(1)
LESS IS MORE	125	(12)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break	126	(1)
A.E. Housman, Along the Field as We Came By	127	(1)
William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	128	(2)
Ezra Pound, The Bath Tub	130	(2)
Hilaire Belloc, On His Books	132	(1)
William Stafford, Godiva County, Montana	132	(1)
W.H. Auden, The Wanderer	133	(3)
Roger Mitchell, The Word for Everything	136	(1)
Emily Grosholz, Remembering theArdeche	136	(1)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	137	(5)
Randall Jarrell, The Knight, Death, and the Devil	139	(3)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	142	(3)
FOUR The Sounds
7 GOLD IN THE ORE: Sound as Meaning	145	(22)
Kay Ryan, Crustacean Island	145	(2)
Gail Tremblay, Not Sense	147	(1)
VOWELS AND ASSONANCE	148	(9)
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	150	(1)
Robert Frost, Once by the Pacific	151	(4)
E.E. Cummings, Chansons Innocentes, I	155	(1)
Christian Bok, Vowels	156	(1)
CONSONANTS AND ALLITERATION	157	(8)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	163	(2)
John Milton, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	165	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	165	(2)
8 WORKING WITH GOLD: Rhyme and Music	167	(32)
LANGUAGE AS MIMICRY	167	(7)
John Updike, Player Piano	170	(3)
Anne Stevenson, Making Poetry	173	(1)
A REASON FOR RHYME?	174	(7)
Etheridge Knight, A Poem for Myself	175	(1)
Ezra Pound, Alba ("When the nightingale...")	176	(5)
OFF-RHYME OR SLANT RHYME	181	(3)
Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth; Arms and the Boy	182	(1)
Thomas McGrath, Remembering the Children of Auschwitz	183	(1)
THE MUSIC OF POETRY	184	(8)
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree	187	(2)
Anonymous, Sumer Is Icumen In	189	(1)
Ezra Pound, Ancient Music	190	(1)
Anonymous, The Streets of Laredo	190	(1)
Charles Causley, Lord Lovelace	191	(1)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	192	(3)
Timothy Murphy, Twice Cursed; Poet's Prayer	194	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Dark Hills	194	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	195	(4)
FIVE The Rhythms
9 THE DANCER AND THE DANCE: The Play of Rhythms	199	(31)
RHYTHM	199	(2)
REPETITION AS RHYTHM	201	(2)
Robert Graves, Counting the Beats	202	(1)
Walt Whitman, From Leaves of Grass	202	(1)
THE RHYTHM OF ACCENT	203	(3)
A NOTE ON SCANSION	206	(2)
IAMBIC PENTAMETER	208	(2)
VARIATIONS ON IAMBIC	210	(6)
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 66	210	(6)
METER AND RHYTHM	216	(3)
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming	218	(1)
LINE LENGTH	219	(4)
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach	220	(1)
May Swenson, Question	221	(1)
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz	221	(2)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	223	(5)
William Browne, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke	226	(2)
Katherine McAlpine, That Ghastly Night in Dover	228	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	228	(2)
10 DIFFERENT DRUMMERS: Alternative Forms of Meter	230	(1)
OTHER SYLLABLE-STRESS RHYTHMS	230	(5)
George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib	232	(2)
Timothy Murphy, Harvest of Sorrows	234	(1)
STRONG-STRESS RHYTHMS	235	(7)
Anonymous, I Have Labored Sore	236	(1)
Richard Wilbur, junk	236	(2)
Anonymous, How Many Miles to Babylon?	238	(1)
E.E. Cummings, if everything happens that can't be done	239	(2)
W.H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening	241	(1)
SPRUNG RHYTHM	242	(1)
A WORD ABOUT QUANTITY	243	(1)
Timothy Steele, Sapphics Against Anger	243	(1)
SYLLABIC METER	244	(3)
James Tate, Miss Cho Composes in the Cafeteria	245	(1)
Ron Rash, Scarecrow	246	(1)
EXERCISES AND DIVERSIONS	247	(3)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	250	(2)
11 REMOVING THE NET: "Free Verse," Concrete Poetry, Prose Poems	252	(1)
SOME BACKGROUND ON FREE VERSE	252	(5)
Hilda Doolittle, Oread	253	(1)
William Carlos Williams, Dedication for a Plot of Ground	254	(3)
LINE BREAKS	257	(3)
Stephen Crane, A Man Said to the Universe	257	(1)
Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage	258	(1)
George Oppen, Psalm	258	(1)
Suzanne Lummis, Morning After the 6.1	259	(1)
Rachel Loden, The Killer Instinct	259	(1)
THE VARIABLE FOOT	260	(3)
William Carlos Williams, The Descent	260	(3)
CONCRETE POETRY AND SHAPED POETRY	263	(3)
Emmett Williams, Like Attracts Like	263	(1)
Hansjörg Mayer, Oil	264	(1)
Jan D. Hodge, Carousel	265	(1)
THE PROSE POEM	266	(1)
Robert Hass, A Story About the Body	266	(1)
Marie Howe, Part of Eve's Discussion	266	(1)
Jay Meek, Trains in Winter	267	(1)
EXERCISES AND DIVERSIONS	267	(2)
William Carlos Williams, Iris	267	(2)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	269	(4)
SIX The Mind
12 THE SHAPE OF THOUGHT: Sentences and Structure	273	(96)
THE SENTENCE	273	(3)
Eugenio Montale, The Eel	274	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool	275	(1)
USE OF CONNECTIVES	276	(1)
Jacques Prevert, The Message	276	(1)
PARALLELISM	277	(2)
Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing	277	(1)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Learing to Love America	278	(1)
SENTENCE STRUCTURE	279	(4)
E.E. Cummings, Me up at does	280	(1)
Peter Viereck, To Helen of Troy (N.Y.)	281	(1)
Robert Frost, Beyond Words	282	(1)
Alice Fulton, What I Like	282	(1)
John Clare, Remember Dear Mary	282	(1)
THINKING ABOUT DICTION	283	(2)
Robert Graves, The Persian Version	283	(1)
Edward Field, Curse of the Cat Woman	284	(1)
CREATING NEW WORDS	285	(3)
E.E. Cummings, wherelings whenlings	286	(2)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	288	(2)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	290	(1)
COLOR PLATES
U.A. Fanthorpe, Not My Best Side
W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
Jorie Graham, San Sepolcro
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt
Lisel Mueller, Paul Delvaux: The Village of the Mermaids
13 GOLDEN NUMBERS: On Nature and Form	291	(5)
William Butler Yeats, The Statues	296	(5)
John Donne, The Anniversary	301	(2)
FIXED STANZA FORMS	303	(8)
Howard Nemerov, "Good-bye," Said the River, "I'm Going Downstream"	304	(1)
X.J. Kennedy, On a Given Book	304	(1)
Bruce Bennett, On Being Immortalized in Bronze	304	(1)
Amareh, I'll Hide Within My Poems (trans. Dick Davis)	304	(1)
Charles Martin, Taken Up	305	(1)
George Szirtes, Like a Black Bird	305	(1)
William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	306	(1)
Dick Davis, On the Iranian Diaspora	307	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen	308	(1)
Catherine Tufariello, This Child	309	(2)
FIXED FORMS FOR POEMS	311	(10)
George Meredith, Lucifer in Starlight	312	(1)
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29	312	(1)
Thomas Carper, Why Did The	313	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Rites for Cousin Vit	313	(1)
A.E. Stallings, Sine Qua Non	314	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty	314	(1)
François Villon, Ballade to His Mistress	315	(1)
Wendy Cope, Valentine	316	(1)
Frederick Morgan, 1904	316	(1)
Lady Izumi Shikibu, Lying Here Alone	317	(1)
Adelaide Crapsey, Cinquain: A Warning	317	(1)
Basho, Evening darkens. Hunched; Lightning in the clouds!	318	(1)
Richard Wilbur, Sleepless at Crown Point	318	(1)
R.S. Gwynn, Black Helicopters	318	(1)
Anonymous, Sir Isaac Newton	319	(1)
E. William Seaman, Higgledy-piggledy	320	(1)
Paul Pascal, Tact	320	(1)
Anonymous, There Was a Young Lady of Tottenham	320	(1)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	321	(2)
A.E. Housman, With Rue My Heart Is Laden	321	(2)
Thomas Hardy, I Look into My Glass	323	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	323	(2)
14 A HEAD ON ITS SHOULDERS: From Realism to Surrealism	325	(1)
COMMON SENSE	325	(8)
Miller Williams, A Poem for Emily	325	(3)
John Berryman, He Resigns	328	(1)
William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper	329	(1)
Will Allen Dromgoole, Building the Bridge	330	(3)
UNCOMMON SENSE	333	(9)
Terese Svoboda, Old God	334	(3)
Lisel Mueller, Palindrome	337	(1)
Stevie Smith, Our Bog Is Dood	337	(3)
Federico Garcia Lorca, Sleepwalker's Ballad	340	(2)
Mark Irwin, X	342	(1)
A COMPARISON	342	(2)
Li Po, Drinking Alone by Moonlight (trans. Arthur Waley)
Drinking Alone with the Moon (trans. Vikram Seth)	343	(1)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	344	(2)
Anonymous, I Never Plucked-a Bumblebee	345	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	346	(1)
15 ADAM'S CURSE: Inspiration and Effort	347	(15)
Robert W. Service, Inspiration	347	(1)
Dylan Thomas, In My Craft or Sullen Art	348	(8)
D.H. Lawrence, The Piano	356	(6)
EXERCISES & DIVERSIONS	362	(3)
A.E. Housman, I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded	363	(1)
Willian Butler Yeats, The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner	364	(1)
Walter de la Mare, The Stone; Slim Cunning Hands	365	(1)
ESSAYS AND POEMS	365	(4)
ANTHOLOGY
Anonymous
Lord Randal	369	(1)
The Wife of Usher's Well	369	(2)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
They Flee from Me	371	(1)
Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	371	(1)
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	372	(1)
Sir Edmund Spenser
One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand	373	(1)
Sir Philip Sidney
With How Sad Steps, 0 Moon	373	(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18	374	(1)
Sonnet 73	374	(1)
Sonnet 116	374	(1)
Sonnet 129	375	(1)
Thomas Campion
My Sweetest Lesbia, Let Us Live and Love	375	(1)
It Fell on a Summer's Day	376	(1)
Thomas Nashe
Idiot, Farewell Earth's Bliss	376	(1)
John Donne
The Sun Rising	377	(1)
A Valediction: Of Weeping	378	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	379	(1)
Death Be Not Proud	380	(1)
Ben Jonson
On My First Son	380	(1)
Robert Herrick
Delight in Disorder	381	(1)
George Herbert
Redemption	381	(1)
Easter-Wings	382	(1)
The Pulley	382	(1)
Edmund Waller
Go, Lovely Rose	383	(1)
John Milton
Lycidas	383	(6)
On His Blindness	389	(1)
Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband	389	(1)
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress	390	(1)
Katherine Philips
An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage	391	(1)
Aphra Behn
Song: Love Armed	391	(1)
Johathan Swift
A Description of the Morning	392	(1)
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	392	(4)
Christopher Smart
From Jubilate Agno	396	(1)
William Blake
The Tyger	397	(1)
London	397	(1)
A Poison Tree	398	(1)
William Wordsworth
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways	398	(1)
The World Is Too Much With Us	399	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge	399	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan	399	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias	401	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	401	(2)
John Clare
Autumn	403	(1)
John Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci	403	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	405	(2)
To Autumn	407	(1)
Edward FitzGerald
From The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayyam	408	(2)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ulysses	410	(2)
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess	412	(2)
Emily Bronte
Remembrance	414	(1)
Arthur Hugh Clough
The Latest Decalogue	414	(1)
Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass	415	(1)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	416	(5)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	421	(1)
Reconciliation	421	(1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Woodspurge	421	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Went Up a Year This Evening	422	(1)
I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died	422	(1)
I Started Early-Took My Dog	423	(1)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death	423	(1)
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant	424	(1)
The Bustle in a House	424	(1)
Christina Rossetti
Up-Hill	424	(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Ruined Maid	425	(1)
The Self-Unseeing	425	(1)
The Man He Killed	426	(1)
The Oxen	426	(1)
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"	427	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur	428	(1)
The Windhover	428	(1)
Felix Randal	429	(1)
Spring and Fall	429	(1)
A.E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young	430	(1)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	430	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Adam's Curse	431	(1)
The Cold Heaven	432	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	432	(1)
Among School Children	433	(2)
A Last Confession	435	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Mill	436	(1)
Mr. Flood's Party	436	(2)
Walter de la Mare
The Listeners	438	(1)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall	438	(1)
"Out, Out-"	439	(1)
For Once, Then, Something	440	(1)
To Earthward	441	(1)
Provide, Provide	441	(1)
The Subverted Flower	442	(2)
Wallace Stevens
Sunday Morning	444	(2)
The Snow Man	446	(1)
The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man	447	(1)
William Carlos Williams
To Waken an Old Lady	447	(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow	448	(1)
The Dance	448	(1)
Ezra Pound
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	448	(1)
Marianne Moore
A Grave	449	(1)
A Carriage from Sweden	450	(2)
Edwin Muir
The Horses	452	(1)
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of Y. Alfred Prufrock	453	(4)
Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica	457	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear	458	(1)
E.E. Cummings
anyone lived in a pretty how town	458	(1)
Jean Toomer
Reapers	459	(1)
Louise Bogan
Women	459	(1)
Hart Crane
My Grandmother's Love Letters	460	(1)
Robert Francis
Pitcher	460	(1)
Swimmer	461	(1)
Kenneth Fearing
Love, 20 cents the First Quarter Mile	461	(1)
Langston Hughes
Dream Variations	462	(1)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	462	(1)
Ogden Nash
Very Like a Whale	463	(1)
Stevie Smith
Not Waving but Drowning	464	(1)
Stanley Kunitz
The Abduction	464	(1)
W.H. Auden
Lullaby	465	(1)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats	466	(2)
Louis MacNeice
Snow	468	(1)
The Sunlight on the Garden	469	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Root Cellar	469	(1)
Forcing House	470	(1)
Elegy for Jane	470	(1)
The Waking	471	(1)
Robert Fitzgerald
Cobb Would Have Caught It	471	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish	472	(1)
Sandpiper	473	(1)
One Art	474	(1)
Robert Hayden
Those Winter Sundays	474	(1)
John Frederick Nims
Love Poem	475	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Effort at Speech between Two People	475	(1)
John Berryman
Dream Songs, 4, 22	476	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Next Day	477	(2)
Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill	479	(1)
John Ciardi
Faces	480	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bean Eaters	481	(1)
Robert Lowell
Skunk Hour	481	(2)
For the Union Dead	483	(2)
May Swenson
tripping and Putting On	485	(1)
Howard Nemerov
Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry	486	(1)
Richard Wilbur
The Catch	486	(1)
Hamlen Brook	487	(1)
Philip Larkin
At Grass	487	(1)
The Explosion	488	(1)
Aubade	489	(1)
James Dickey
Cherrylog Road	490	(2)
Anthony Hecht
The Dover Bitch	492	(1)
The Book of Yolek	493	(1)
Donald Justice
Variations on a Text by Vallejo	494	(1)
Psalm and Lament	495	(1)
Maxine Kumin
The Retrieval System	496	(1)
Gerald Stern
The Dog	497	(1)
A.R. Ammons
The Constant	498	(1)
Cut the Grass	499	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket in California	499	(1)
James Merrill
Charles on Fire	500	(1)
The Blue Grotto	501	(1)
W.D. Snodgrass
Leaving the Motel	501	(1)
David Wagoner
For a Man Dancing by Himself in a Tavern	502	(1)
John Ashbery
Mixed Feelings	503	(1)
W.S. Merwin
For the Anniversary of My Death	504	(1)
On the Old Way	504	(1)
James Wright
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	505	(1)
A Blessing	505	(1)
Philip Levine
Keep Talking	505	(2)
Adrienne Rich
From Twenty-one Love Poems (VI, XVI, XVIII)	507	(1)
The Slides	508	(1)
What Kind of Times Are These	508	(1)
Gary Snyder
Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen	509	(1)
Axe Handles	509	(1)
Derek Walcott
Sea Grapes	510	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Tulips	511	(1)
Blackberrying	512	(1)
Mirror	513	(1)
Vern Rutsala
Words	513	(1)
Mark Strand
The Tunnel	514	(1)
Mary Oliver
Shadows	515	(1)
The Storm	516	(1)
Lucille Clifton
homage to my hips	516	(1)
C.K. Williams
Tar	517	(1)
Charles Simic
Fear	518	(1)
Fork	519	(1)
Classic Ballroom Dances	519	(1)
Slaughterhouse Flies	519	(1)
Margaret Atwood
Siren Song	520	(1)
Stephen Dunn
At the Smithville Methodist Church	520	(2)
Seamus Heaney
Death of a Naturalist	522	(1)
Follower	522	(1)
Damson	523	(1)
Ted Kooser
Abandoned Farmhouse	524	(1)
That Was I	525	(1)
Robert Pinsky
A Woman	525	(2)
Billy Collins
Embrace	527	(1)
The Dead	527	(1)
William Matthews
Mood Indigo	527	(1)
Sharon Olds
The Death of Marilyn Monroe	528	(1)
Physics	529	(1)
Louis Glück
The School Children	530	(1)
Mock Orange	530	(1)
Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Starveling	531	(1)
Margaret Benbow
Crazy Arms: Earlene Remembers	531	(1)
Jeanne Murray Walker
Studying Physics with My Daughter	532	(1)
Wendy Cope
Some More Light Verse	533	(1)
B.H. Fairchild
Brazil	533	(1)
Kay Ryan
Blandeur	534	(1)
Thomas Lux
Cellar Stairs	534	(1)
Marilyn Nelson
Epithalamium and Shivaree	535	(1)
How I Discovered Poetry	536	(1)
Lawrence Raab
Learning How to Write	536	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Facing It	537	(1)
Robert B. Shaw
Shut In	538	(1)
Amy Uyematsu
Deliberate	539	(1)
R.S. Gwynn
Body Bags	540	(1)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Prayer to the Pacific	541	(1)
August Kleinzahler
Watching Dogwood Blossoms Fall in a Parking Lot off Route 46	542	(1)
Julia Alvarez
Old Heroines	542	(1)
Carolyn Forché
For the Stranger	543	(1)
The Garden Shukkei-en	544	(1)
Dana Gioia
Planting a Sequoia	545	(1)
Rodney Jones
A Blasphemy	546	(1)
Joy Harjo
Eagle Poem	547	(1)
Andrew Hudgins
The Persistence of Nature in Our Lives	547	(1)
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Song	548	(2)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Quinceañera	550	(1)
Rita Dove
Ö	550	(1)
Alice Fulton
News of the Occluded Cyclone	551	(1)
Mark Jarman
From Unholy Sonnets (13)	552	(1)
Ground Swell	552	(2)
David Mura
The Natives	554	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Famous	555	(1)
Jim Simmerman
Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama	555	(1)
Gary Soto
Oranges	556	(1)
Mark Irwin
The Irises	557	(1)
Gertrud Schnackenberg
Walking Home	558	(1)
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
To the Desert	559	(1)
Mary Jo Salter
Boulevard du Montparnasse	559	(1)
Mark Doty
Brilliance	560	(1)
Louise Erdrich
Jacklight	561	(1)
Carol Moldaw
Beads of Rain	562	(1)
Li-Young Lee
Eating Alone	563	(1)
Jane Hilberry
The Moment	563	(1)
Kate Light
There Comes the Strangest Moment	564	(1)
Joe Bolton
Adult Situations	565	(1)
April Lindner
Girl	565	(1)
Rafael Campo
What the Body Told	566	(1)
Sherman Alexie
The Powwow at the End of the World	567	(1)
Diane Thiel
The Minefield	567	(1)
Kevin Young
Quivira City Limits	568
APPENDIXES
A POETICS	571	(1)
B WRITING ABOUT POETRY	581	(1)
C LITERARY CRITICISM	597	(19)
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	616	(11)
INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES	627	(13)
INDEX OF FIRST LINES	640	(5)
INDEX OF PRINCIPAL TERMS AND TOPICS	645