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From Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman to Allen Ginsburg, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, here are the iconic poets of the past half-century, men and women who have used and reshaped the American language in all its vigorous, daring, tender, and intimate depth and breadth.
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and…mehr
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From Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman to Allen Ginsburg, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, here are the iconic poets of the past half-century, men and women who have used and reshaped the American language in all its vigorous, daring, tender, and intimate depth and breadth.
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings. Other poets include: Sylvia Plath James Merrill Amy clampitt Jorie Graham W. S. Merwin Charles Simic Allen Ginsberg Frank O'Hara Anne Sexton Robert Creeley Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Robert Pinsky Mark Strand Denise Levertov Richard Wilbur May Swenson Michael Palmer Mark Doty Yusef Komunyakaa
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Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings. Other poets include: Sylvia Plath James Merrill Amy clampitt Jorie Graham W. S. Merwin Charles Simic Allen Ginsberg Frank O'Hara Anne Sexton Robert Creeley Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Robert Pinsky Mark Strand Denise Levertov Richard Wilbur May Swenson Michael Palmer Mark Doty Yusef Komunyakaa
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Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Random House UK
- 2nd Revised edition
- Seitenzahl: 656
- Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2003
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 206mm x 135mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 467g
- ISBN-13: 9781400030934
- ISBN-10: 1400030935
- Artikelnr.: 21413744
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
- Verlag: Random House UK
- 2nd Revised edition
- Seitenzahl: 656
- Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2003
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 206mm x 135mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 467g
- ISBN-13: 9781400030934
- ISBN-10: 1400030935
- Artikelnr.: 21413744
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
J. D. McCLATCHY is the author of seven previous collections of poetry and of three collections of prose. He has also edited numerous books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, and has written a number of opera libretti that have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, and elsewhere. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where he served as president from 2009 to 2012. McClatchy teaches at Yale University and is editor of The Yale Review.
INTRODUCTION
A NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION, 2003
ROBERT LOWELL
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Man and Wife
Skunk Hour
The Mouth of the Hudson
For the Union Dead
Waking Early Sunday Morning
History
The Nihilist as Hero
Reading Myself
Obit
Fishnet
Dolphin
Epilogue
ELIZABETH BISHOP
The Bight
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
At the Fishhouses
The Shampoo
Brazil, January 1, 1502
Under the Window: Ouro Prêto
The Armadillo
Filling Station
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Poem
THEODORE ROETHKE
Cuttings
Root Cellar
The Shape of the Fire
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
In a Dark Time
JOHN BERRYMAN
The Moon and the Night and the Men
from The Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46,
76, 77, 143, 257, 384)
RANDALL JARRELL
90 North
Eighth Air Force
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Cinderella
Next Day
Well Water
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Masts at Dawn
Birth of Love
Rattlesnake Country
Evening Hawk
CHARLES OLSON
The Kingfishers
J. V. CUNNINGHAM
For My Contemporaries
To My Wife
from ACentury of Epigrams (29, 53, 55, 62, 76)
ROBERT HAYDEN
Night, Death, Mississippi
Frederick Douglass
Middle Passage
JEAN GARRIGUE
Amsterdam Letter
Cracked Looking Glass
After Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs
MAY SWENSON
Teleology
Unconscious Came a Beauty
Stone Gullets
Staying at Ed’s Place
Strawberrying
ROBERT DUNCAN
APoem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Styx
WILLIAM MEREDITH
The Illiterate
Thoughts on One’s Head
Consequences
Country Stars
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
HOWARD NEMEROV
Storm Windows
Writing
Money
The Dependencies
Learning the Trees
Because You Asked About the Line
Between Prose and Poetry
The War in the Air
RICHARD WILBUR
ABaroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
Looking into History
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Mind
Advice to a Prophet
Walking to Sleep
Hamlen Brook
MONA VAN DUYN
Homework
Into Mexico
The Twins
AView
The Stream
HOWARD MOSS
The Pruned Tree
The Wars
Ménage à Trois
Elegy for My Sister
Rules of Sleep
Einstein’s Bathrobe
JAMES DICKEY
The Heaven of Animals
The Hospital Window
The Sheep Child
The Strength of Fields
ANTHONY HECHT
AHill
Third Avenue in Sunlight
“More Light! More Light!”
Peripeteia
The Feast of Stephen
JAMES SCHUYLER
The Crystal Lithium
Shimmer
Korean Mums
DENISE LEVERTOV
Clouds
The Ache of Marriage
Intrusion
Seeing for a Moment
Prisoners
RICHARD HUGO
Graves at Elkhorn
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
The River Now
EDGAR BOWERS
An Afternoon at the Beach
Amor Vincit Omnia
from Autumn Shade (3, 6, 8, 9)
CAROLYN KIZER
AMuse of Water
Amusing Our Daughters
from Pro Femina (I, II)
DONALD JUSTICE
The Evening of the Mind
Men at Forty
The Tourist from Syracuse
Variations on a Text by Vallejo
The Assassination
Mule Team and Poster
FRANK O’HARA
To the Harbormaster
A Step Away from Them
Meditations in an Emergency
Why I Am Not a Painter
The Day Lady Died
Having a Coke with You
Ave Maria
DAVID WAGONER
The Best Slow Dancer
The Naval Trainees Learn How to Jump Overboard
The Excursion of the Speech and Hearing Class
Five Dawn Skies in November
Making Camp
The Source
ROBERT CREELEY
I Know a Man
The Rescue
Air: “The Love of a Woman”
For Friendship
For Love
Again
The World
ALLEN GINSBERG
from Howl (I)
Sunflower Sutra
My Sad Self
Wales Visitation
W. D. SNODGRASS
April Inventory
from Heart’s Needle (2, 6)
Mementos, 1
ALocked House
JAMES MERRILL
A Renewal
Voices from the Other World
Days of 1964
Willowware Cup
Lost in Translation
W. S. MERWIN
The Animals
Some Last Questions
The River of Bees
For the Anniversary of My Death
The Asians Dying
For a Coming Extinction
The Night of the Shirts
Bread
St Vincent’s
A. R. AMMONS
He Held Radical Light
Gravelly Run
Corsons Inlet
Reflective
Terrain
The City Limits
JOHN ASHBERY
Glazunoviana
Soonest Mended
As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat
Pyrography
And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
Syringa
My Erotic Double
JAMES WRIGHT
At the Executed Murderer’s Grave
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm
in Pine Island, Minnesota
Beginning
ABlessing
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest
Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia,
Has Been Condemned
AWinter Daybreak Above Venice
GALWAY KINNELL
Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
Last Songs
The Bear
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
The Vow
The Man on the Hotel Room Bed
ANNE SEXTON
Her Kind
Music Swims Back to Me
The Truth the Dead Know
The Starry Night
With Mercy for the Greedy
Wanting to Die
The Room of My Life
PHILIP LEVINE
The Horse
They Feed They Lion
Belle Isle, 1949
You Can Have It
Rain Downriver
Sweet Will
IRVING FELDMAN
Family History
The Dream
from All of Us Here
JOHN HOLLANDER
The Night Mirror
from Powers of Thirteen (3, 29, 69, 82, 87, 130)
Swan and Shadow
The Mad Potter
RICHARD HOWARD
Venetian Interior, 1889
At the Monument to Pierre Louÿs
ADRIENNE RICH
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Planetarium
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff
For the Record
For an Album
GARY SNYDER
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Riprap
Burning Island
The Bath
I Went into the Maverick Bar
Axe Handles
SYLVIA PLATH
The Colossus
The Hanging Man
Morning Song
Daddy
Fever 103°
Ariel
Lady Lazarus
Edge
Words
MARK STRAND
Keeping Things Whole
Coming to This
The Prediction
“The Dreadful Has Already Happened”
The Story of Our Lives
Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
CHARLES WRIGHT
Stone Canyon Nocturne
Spider Crystal Ascension
Clear Night
Homage to Paul Cézanne
The Other Side of the River
AUDRE LORDE
Coal
Movement Song
Afterimages
MARY OLIVER
Rain
When Death Comes
Whelks
Hawk
JAY WRIGHT
The Homecoming Singer
Benjamin Banneker Sends His Almanac to Thomas Jefferson
Journey to the Place of Ghosts
C. K. WILLIAMS
It Is This Way with Men
The Gas Station
Tar
Alzheimer’s: The Wife
CHARLES SIMIC
Tapestry
My Shoes
Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites
Watermelons
Eyes Fastened with Pins
Empire of Dreams
Prodigy
from The World Doesn’t End
MICHAEL S. HARPER
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Grandfather
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
The Militance of a Photograph in the Passbook
of a Bantu Under Detention
FRANK BIDART
Another Life
Happy Birthday
The Sacrifice
ROBERT PINSKY
Poem About People
Dying
The Hearts
Shirt
ROBERT HASS
Heroic Simile
Meditation at Lagunitas
Between the Wars
Misery and Splendor
AMY CLAMPITT
Beach Glass
Imago
Stacking the Straw
Medusa
DAVE SMITH
Elegy in an Abandoned Boatyard
The Roundhouse Voices
Lake Drummond Dream
MARILYN HACKER
from Taking Notice (7, 11, 14, 25)
Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found
Nights of 1964—66: The Old Reliable
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Nabokov’s Blues
Onions
107th and Amsterdam
Dire Cure
SHARON OLDS
You Kindly
The Promise
The Glass
The Feelings
LOUISE GLÜCK
Messengers
The Drowned Children
The Garden
Palais des Arts
Mock Orange
Eros
SANDRA MCPHERSON
Black Soap
The Microscope in Winter
Streamers
MICHAEL PALMER
H
“or anything resembling it”
Erolog
The White Notebook
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT
The Spire
The Lotus Flowers
Song and Story
Winter Field
KAY RYAN
Paired Things
Mirage Oases
ACat/A Future
The Old Cosmologists
That Will to Divest
Drops in the Bucket
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA
Providence
Camouflaging the Chimera
Facing It
Ode to the Maggot
Día de los Muertos
HEATHER MCHUGH
The Typewriter’s the Kind
From 20,000 Feet
Numberless
Auto
EDWARD HIRSCH
Fast Break
AShort Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties
My Father’s Back
JORIE GRAHAM
Over and Over Stitch
San Sepolcro
Orpheus and Eurydice
Ebbtide
RITA DOVE
Adolescence–II
Parsley
Canary
MARK DOTY
Broadway
Brilliance
A Display of Mackerel
Door to the River
GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG
The Paperweight
Signs
Supernatural Love
HENRI COLE
Chiffon Morning
Peonies
You Come When I Call You
Black Mane
LI-YOUNG LEE
This Hour and What Is Dead
Pillow
One Heart
Dwelling
CARL PHILLIPS
The Compass
No Kingdom
From the Devotions
Revision
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
A NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION, 2003
ROBERT LOWELL
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Man and Wife
Skunk Hour
The Mouth of the Hudson
For the Union Dead
Waking Early Sunday Morning
History
The Nihilist as Hero
Reading Myself
Obit
Fishnet
Dolphin
Epilogue
ELIZABETH BISHOP
The Bight
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
At the Fishhouses
The Shampoo
Brazil, January 1, 1502
Under the Window: Ouro Prêto
The Armadillo
Filling Station
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Poem
THEODORE ROETHKE
Cuttings
Root Cellar
The Shape of the Fire
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
In a Dark Time
JOHN BERRYMAN
The Moon and the Night and the Men
from The Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46,
76, 77, 143, 257, 384)
RANDALL JARRELL
90 North
Eighth Air Force
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Cinderella
Next Day
Well Water
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Masts at Dawn
Birth of Love
Rattlesnake Country
Evening Hawk
CHARLES OLSON
The Kingfishers
J. V. CUNNINGHAM
For My Contemporaries
To My Wife
from ACentury of Epigrams (29, 53, 55, 62, 76)
ROBERT HAYDEN
Night, Death, Mississippi
Frederick Douglass
Middle Passage
JEAN GARRIGUE
Amsterdam Letter
Cracked Looking Glass
After Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs
MAY SWENSON
Teleology
Unconscious Came a Beauty
Stone Gullets
Staying at Ed’s Place
Strawberrying
ROBERT DUNCAN
APoem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Styx
WILLIAM MEREDITH
The Illiterate
Thoughts on One’s Head
Consequences
Country Stars
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
HOWARD NEMEROV
Storm Windows
Writing
Money
The Dependencies
Learning the Trees
Because You Asked About the Line
Between Prose and Poetry
The War in the Air
RICHARD WILBUR
ABaroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
Looking into History
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Mind
Advice to a Prophet
Walking to Sleep
Hamlen Brook
MONA VAN DUYN
Homework
Into Mexico
The Twins
AView
The Stream
HOWARD MOSS
The Pruned Tree
The Wars
Ménage à Trois
Elegy for My Sister
Rules of Sleep
Einstein’s Bathrobe
JAMES DICKEY
The Heaven of Animals
The Hospital Window
The Sheep Child
The Strength of Fields
ANTHONY HECHT
AHill
Third Avenue in Sunlight
“More Light! More Light!”
Peripeteia
The Feast of Stephen
JAMES SCHUYLER
The Crystal Lithium
Shimmer
Korean Mums
DENISE LEVERTOV
Clouds
The Ache of Marriage
Intrusion
Seeing for a Moment
Prisoners
RICHARD HUGO
Graves at Elkhorn
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
The River Now
EDGAR BOWERS
An Afternoon at the Beach
Amor Vincit Omnia
from Autumn Shade (3, 6, 8, 9)
CAROLYN KIZER
AMuse of Water
Amusing Our Daughters
from Pro Femina (I, II)
DONALD JUSTICE
The Evening of the Mind
Men at Forty
The Tourist from Syracuse
Variations on a Text by Vallejo
The Assassination
Mule Team and Poster
FRANK O’HARA
To the Harbormaster
A Step Away from Them
Meditations in an Emergency
Why I Am Not a Painter
The Day Lady Died
Having a Coke with You
Ave Maria
DAVID WAGONER
The Best Slow Dancer
The Naval Trainees Learn How to Jump Overboard
The Excursion of the Speech and Hearing Class
Five Dawn Skies in November
Making Camp
The Source
ROBERT CREELEY
I Know a Man
The Rescue
Air: “The Love of a Woman”
For Friendship
For Love
Again
The World
ALLEN GINSBERG
from Howl (I)
Sunflower Sutra
My Sad Self
Wales Visitation
W. D. SNODGRASS
April Inventory
from Heart’s Needle (2, 6)
Mementos, 1
ALocked House
JAMES MERRILL
A Renewal
Voices from the Other World
Days of 1964
Willowware Cup
Lost in Translation
W. S. MERWIN
The Animals
Some Last Questions
The River of Bees
For the Anniversary of My Death
The Asians Dying
For a Coming Extinction
The Night of the Shirts
Bread
St Vincent’s
A. R. AMMONS
He Held Radical Light
Gravelly Run
Corsons Inlet
Reflective
Terrain
The City Limits
JOHN ASHBERY
Glazunoviana
Soonest Mended
As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat
Pyrography
And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
Syringa
My Erotic Double
JAMES WRIGHT
At the Executed Murderer’s Grave
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm
in Pine Island, Minnesota
Beginning
ABlessing
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest
Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia,
Has Been Condemned
AWinter Daybreak Above Venice
GALWAY KINNELL
Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
Last Songs
The Bear
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
The Vow
The Man on the Hotel Room Bed
ANNE SEXTON
Her Kind
Music Swims Back to Me
The Truth the Dead Know
The Starry Night
With Mercy for the Greedy
Wanting to Die
The Room of My Life
PHILIP LEVINE
The Horse
They Feed They Lion
Belle Isle, 1949
You Can Have It
Rain Downriver
Sweet Will
IRVING FELDMAN
Family History
The Dream
from All of Us Here
JOHN HOLLANDER
The Night Mirror
from Powers of Thirteen (3, 29, 69, 82, 87, 130)
Swan and Shadow
The Mad Potter
RICHARD HOWARD
Venetian Interior, 1889
At the Monument to Pierre Louÿs
ADRIENNE RICH
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Planetarium
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff
For the Record
For an Album
GARY SNYDER
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Riprap
Burning Island
The Bath
I Went into the Maverick Bar
Axe Handles
SYLVIA PLATH
The Colossus
The Hanging Man
Morning Song
Daddy
Fever 103°
Ariel
Lady Lazarus
Edge
Words
MARK STRAND
Keeping Things Whole
Coming to This
The Prediction
“The Dreadful Has Already Happened”
The Story of Our Lives
Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
CHARLES WRIGHT
Stone Canyon Nocturne
Spider Crystal Ascension
Clear Night
Homage to Paul Cézanne
The Other Side of the River
AUDRE LORDE
Coal
Movement Song
Afterimages
MARY OLIVER
Rain
When Death Comes
Whelks
Hawk
JAY WRIGHT
The Homecoming Singer
Benjamin Banneker Sends His Almanac to Thomas Jefferson
Journey to the Place of Ghosts
C. K. WILLIAMS
It Is This Way with Men
The Gas Station
Tar
Alzheimer’s: The Wife
CHARLES SIMIC
Tapestry
My Shoes
Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites
Watermelons
Eyes Fastened with Pins
Empire of Dreams
Prodigy
from The World Doesn’t End
MICHAEL S. HARPER
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Grandfather
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
The Militance of a Photograph in the Passbook
of a Bantu Under Detention
FRANK BIDART
Another Life
Happy Birthday
The Sacrifice
ROBERT PINSKY
Poem About People
Dying
The Hearts
Shirt
ROBERT HASS
Heroic Simile
Meditation at Lagunitas
Between the Wars
Misery and Splendor
AMY CLAMPITT
Beach Glass
Imago
Stacking the Straw
Medusa
DAVE SMITH
Elegy in an Abandoned Boatyard
The Roundhouse Voices
Lake Drummond Dream
MARILYN HACKER
from Taking Notice (7, 11, 14, 25)
Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found
Nights of 1964—66: The Old Reliable
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Nabokov’s Blues
Onions
107th and Amsterdam
Dire Cure
SHARON OLDS
You Kindly
The Promise
The Glass
The Feelings
LOUISE GLÜCK
Messengers
The Drowned Children
The Garden
Palais des Arts
Mock Orange
Eros
SANDRA MCPHERSON
Black Soap
The Microscope in Winter
Streamers
MICHAEL PALMER
H
“or anything resembling it”
Erolog
The White Notebook
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT
The Spire
The Lotus Flowers
Song and Story
Winter Field
KAY RYAN
Paired Things
Mirage Oases
ACat/A Future
The Old Cosmologists
That Will to Divest
Drops in the Bucket
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA
Providence
Camouflaging the Chimera
Facing It
Ode to the Maggot
Día de los Muertos
HEATHER MCHUGH
The Typewriter’s the Kind
From 20,000 Feet
Numberless
Auto
EDWARD HIRSCH
Fast Break
AShort Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties
My Father’s Back
JORIE GRAHAM
Over and Over Stitch
San Sepolcro
Orpheus and Eurydice
Ebbtide
RITA DOVE
Adolescence–II
Parsley
Canary
MARK DOTY
Broadway
Brilliance
A Display of Mackerel
Door to the River
GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG
The Paperweight
Signs
Supernatural Love
HENRI COLE
Chiffon Morning
Peonies
You Come When I Call You
Black Mane
LI-YOUNG LEE
This Hour and What Is Dead
Pillow
One Heart
Dwelling
CARL PHILLIPS
The Compass
No Kingdom
From the Devotions
Revision
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
A NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION, 2003
ROBERT LOWELL
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Man and Wife
Skunk Hour
The Mouth of the Hudson
For the Union Dead
Waking Early Sunday Morning
History
The Nihilist as Hero
Reading Myself
Obit
Fishnet
Dolphin
Epilogue
ELIZABETH BISHOP
The Bight
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
At the Fishhouses
The Shampoo
Brazil, January 1, 1502
Under the Window: Ouro Prêto
The Armadillo
Filling Station
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Poem
THEODORE ROETHKE
Cuttings
Root Cellar
The Shape of the Fire
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
In a Dark Time
JOHN BERRYMAN
The Moon and the Night and the Men
from The Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46,
76, 77, 143, 257, 384)
RANDALL JARRELL
90 North
Eighth Air Force
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Cinderella
Next Day
Well Water
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Masts at Dawn
Birth of Love
Rattlesnake Country
Evening Hawk
CHARLES OLSON
The Kingfishers
J. V. CUNNINGHAM
For My Contemporaries
To My Wife
from ACentury of Epigrams (29, 53, 55, 62, 76)
ROBERT HAYDEN
Night, Death, Mississippi
Frederick Douglass
Middle Passage
JEAN GARRIGUE
Amsterdam Letter
Cracked Looking Glass
After Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs
MAY SWENSON
Teleology
Unconscious Came a Beauty
Stone Gullets
Staying at Ed’s Place
Strawberrying
ROBERT DUNCAN
APoem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Styx
WILLIAM MEREDITH
The Illiterate
Thoughts on One’s Head
Consequences
Country Stars
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
HOWARD NEMEROV
Storm Windows
Writing
Money
The Dependencies
Learning the Trees
Because You Asked About the Line
Between Prose and Poetry
The War in the Air
RICHARD WILBUR
ABaroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
Looking into History
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Mind
Advice to a Prophet
Walking to Sleep
Hamlen Brook
MONA VAN DUYN
Homework
Into Mexico
The Twins
AView
The Stream
HOWARD MOSS
The Pruned Tree
The Wars
Ménage à Trois
Elegy for My Sister
Rules of Sleep
Einstein’s Bathrobe
JAMES DICKEY
The Heaven of Animals
The Hospital Window
The Sheep Child
The Strength of Fields
ANTHONY HECHT
AHill
Third Avenue in Sunlight
“More Light! More Light!”
Peripeteia
The Feast of Stephen
JAMES SCHUYLER
The Crystal Lithium
Shimmer
Korean Mums
DENISE LEVERTOV
Clouds
The Ache of Marriage
Intrusion
Seeing for a Moment
Prisoners
RICHARD HUGO
Graves at Elkhorn
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
The River Now
EDGAR BOWERS
An Afternoon at the Beach
Amor Vincit Omnia
from Autumn Shade (3, 6, 8, 9)
CAROLYN KIZER
AMuse of Water
Amusing Our Daughters
from Pro Femina (I, II)
DONALD JUSTICE
The Evening of the Mind
Men at Forty
The Tourist from Syracuse
Variations on a Text by Vallejo
The Assassination
Mule Team and Poster
FRANK O’HARA
To the Harbormaster
A Step Away from Them
Meditations in an Emergency
Why I Am Not a Painter
The Day Lady Died
Having a Coke with You
Ave Maria
DAVID WAGONER
The Best Slow Dancer
The Naval Trainees Learn How to Jump Overboard
The Excursion of the Speech and Hearing Class
Five Dawn Skies in November
Making Camp
The Source
ROBERT CREELEY
I Know a Man
The Rescue
Air: “The Love of a Woman”
For Friendship
For Love
Again
The World
ALLEN GINSBERG
from Howl (I)
Sunflower Sutra
My Sad Self
Wales Visitation
W. D. SNODGRASS
April Inventory
from Heart’s Needle (2, 6)
Mementos, 1
ALocked House
JAMES MERRILL
A Renewal
Voices from the Other World
Days of 1964
Willowware Cup
Lost in Translation
W. S. MERWIN
The Animals
Some Last Questions
The River of Bees
For the Anniversary of My Death
The Asians Dying
For a Coming Extinction
The Night of the Shirts
Bread
St Vincent’s
A. R. AMMONS
He Held Radical Light
Gravelly Run
Corsons Inlet
Reflective
Terrain
The City Limits
JOHN ASHBERY
Glazunoviana
Soonest Mended
As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat
Pyrography
And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
Syringa
My Erotic Double
JAMES WRIGHT
At the Executed Murderer’s Grave
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm
in Pine Island, Minnesota
Beginning
ABlessing
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest
Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia,
Has Been Condemned
AWinter Daybreak Above Venice
GALWAY KINNELL
Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
Last Songs
The Bear
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
The Vow
The Man on the Hotel Room Bed
ANNE SEXTON
Her Kind
Music Swims Back to Me
The Truth the Dead Know
The Starry Night
With Mercy for the Greedy
Wanting to Die
The Room of My Life
PHILIP LEVINE
The Horse
They Feed They Lion
Belle Isle, 1949
You Can Have It
Rain Downriver
Sweet Will
IRVING FELDMAN
Family History
The Dream
from All of Us Here
JOHN HOLLANDER
The Night Mirror
from Powers of Thirteen (3, 29, 69, 82, 87, 130)
Swan and Shadow
The Mad Potter
RICHARD HOWARD
Venetian Interior, 1889
At the Monument to Pierre Louÿs
ADRIENNE RICH
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Planetarium
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff
For the Record
For an Album
GARY SNYDER
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Riprap
Burning Island
The Bath
I Went into the Maverick Bar
Axe Handles
SYLVIA PLATH
The Colossus
The Hanging Man
Morning Song
Daddy
Fever 103°
Ariel
Lady Lazarus
Edge
Words
MARK STRAND
Keeping Things Whole
Coming to This
The Prediction
“The Dreadful Has Already Happened”
The Story of Our Lives
Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
CHARLES WRIGHT
Stone Canyon Nocturne
Spider Crystal Ascension
Clear Night
Homage to Paul Cézanne
The Other Side of the River
AUDRE LORDE
Coal
Movement Song
Afterimages
MARY OLIVER
Rain
When Death Comes
Whelks
Hawk
JAY WRIGHT
The Homecoming Singer
Benjamin Banneker Sends His Almanac to Thomas Jefferson
Journey to the Place of Ghosts
C. K. WILLIAMS
It Is This Way with Men
The Gas Station
Tar
Alzheimer’s: The Wife
CHARLES SIMIC
Tapestry
My Shoes
Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites
Watermelons
Eyes Fastened with Pins
Empire of Dreams
Prodigy
from The World Doesn’t End
MICHAEL S. HARPER
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Grandfather
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
The Militance of a Photograph in the Passbook
of a Bantu Under Detention
FRANK BIDART
Another Life
Happy Birthday
The Sacrifice
ROBERT PINSKY
Poem About People
Dying
The Hearts
Shirt
ROBERT HASS
Heroic Simile
Meditation at Lagunitas
Between the Wars
Misery and Splendor
AMY CLAMPITT
Beach Glass
Imago
Stacking the Straw
Medusa
DAVE SMITH
Elegy in an Abandoned Boatyard
The Roundhouse Voices
Lake Drummond Dream
MARILYN HACKER
from Taking Notice (7, 11, 14, 25)
Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found
Nights of 1964—66: The Old Reliable
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Nabokov’s Blues
Onions
107th and Amsterdam
Dire Cure
SHARON OLDS
You Kindly
The Promise
The Glass
The Feelings
LOUISE GLÜCK
Messengers
The Drowned Children
The Garden
Palais des Arts
Mock Orange
Eros
SANDRA MCPHERSON
Black Soap
The Microscope in Winter
Streamers
MICHAEL PALMER
H
“or anything resembling it”
Erolog
The White Notebook
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT
The Spire
The Lotus Flowers
Song and Story
Winter Field
KAY RYAN
Paired Things
Mirage Oases
ACat/A Future
The Old Cosmologists
That Will to Divest
Drops in the Bucket
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA
Providence
Camouflaging the Chimera
Facing It
Ode to the Maggot
Día de los Muertos
HEATHER MCHUGH
The Typewriter’s the Kind
From 20,000 Feet
Numberless
Auto
EDWARD HIRSCH
Fast Break
AShort Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties
My Father’s Back
JORIE GRAHAM
Over and Over Stitch
San Sepolcro
Orpheus and Eurydice
Ebbtide
RITA DOVE
Adolescence–II
Parsley
Canary
MARK DOTY
Broadway
Brilliance
A Display of Mackerel
Door to the River
GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG
The Paperweight
Signs
Supernatural Love
HENRI COLE
Chiffon Morning
Peonies
You Come When I Call You
Black Mane
LI-YOUNG LEE
This Hour and What Is Dead
Pillow
One Heart
Dwelling
CARL PHILLIPS
The Compass
No Kingdom
From the Devotions
Revision
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
A NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION, 2003
ROBERT LOWELL
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Man and Wife
Skunk Hour
The Mouth of the Hudson
For the Union Dead
Waking Early Sunday Morning
History
The Nihilist as Hero
Reading Myself
Obit
Fishnet
Dolphin
Epilogue
ELIZABETH BISHOP
The Bight
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
At the Fishhouses
The Shampoo
Brazil, January 1, 1502
Under the Window: Ouro Prêto
The Armadillo
Filling Station
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Poem
THEODORE ROETHKE
Cuttings
Root Cellar
The Shape of the Fire
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
In a Dark Time
JOHN BERRYMAN
The Moon and the Night and the Men
from The Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46,
76, 77, 143, 257, 384)
RANDALL JARRELL
90 North
Eighth Air Force
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Cinderella
Next Day
Well Water
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Masts at Dawn
Birth of Love
Rattlesnake Country
Evening Hawk
CHARLES OLSON
The Kingfishers
J. V. CUNNINGHAM
For My Contemporaries
To My Wife
from ACentury of Epigrams (29, 53, 55, 62, 76)
ROBERT HAYDEN
Night, Death, Mississippi
Frederick Douglass
Middle Passage
JEAN GARRIGUE
Amsterdam Letter
Cracked Looking Glass
After Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs
MAY SWENSON
Teleology
Unconscious Came a Beauty
Stone Gullets
Staying at Ed’s Place
Strawberrying
ROBERT DUNCAN
APoem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Styx
WILLIAM MEREDITH
The Illiterate
Thoughts on One’s Head
Consequences
Country Stars
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
HOWARD NEMEROV
Storm Windows
Writing
Money
The Dependencies
Learning the Trees
Because You Asked About the Line
Between Prose and Poetry
The War in the Air
RICHARD WILBUR
ABaroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
Looking into History
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Mind
Advice to a Prophet
Walking to Sleep
Hamlen Brook
MONA VAN DUYN
Homework
Into Mexico
The Twins
AView
The Stream
HOWARD MOSS
The Pruned Tree
The Wars
Ménage à Trois
Elegy for My Sister
Rules of Sleep
Einstein’s Bathrobe
JAMES DICKEY
The Heaven of Animals
The Hospital Window
The Sheep Child
The Strength of Fields
ANTHONY HECHT
AHill
Third Avenue in Sunlight
“More Light! More Light!”
Peripeteia
The Feast of Stephen
JAMES SCHUYLER
The Crystal Lithium
Shimmer
Korean Mums
DENISE LEVERTOV
Clouds
The Ache of Marriage
Intrusion
Seeing for a Moment
Prisoners
RICHARD HUGO
Graves at Elkhorn
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
The River Now
EDGAR BOWERS
An Afternoon at the Beach
Amor Vincit Omnia
from Autumn Shade (3, 6, 8, 9)
CAROLYN KIZER
AMuse of Water
Amusing Our Daughters
from Pro Femina (I, II)
DONALD JUSTICE
The Evening of the Mind
Men at Forty
The Tourist from Syracuse
Variations on a Text by Vallejo
The Assassination
Mule Team and Poster
FRANK O’HARA
To the Harbormaster
A Step Away from Them
Meditations in an Emergency
Why I Am Not a Painter
The Day Lady Died
Having a Coke with You
Ave Maria
DAVID WAGONER
The Best Slow Dancer
The Naval Trainees Learn How to Jump Overboard
The Excursion of the Speech and Hearing Class
Five Dawn Skies in November
Making Camp
The Source
ROBERT CREELEY
I Know a Man
The Rescue
Air: “The Love of a Woman”
For Friendship
For Love
Again
The World
ALLEN GINSBERG
from Howl (I)
Sunflower Sutra
My Sad Self
Wales Visitation
W. D. SNODGRASS
April Inventory
from Heart’s Needle (2, 6)
Mementos, 1
ALocked House
JAMES MERRILL
A Renewal
Voices from the Other World
Days of 1964
Willowware Cup
Lost in Translation
W. S. MERWIN
The Animals
Some Last Questions
The River of Bees
For the Anniversary of My Death
The Asians Dying
For a Coming Extinction
The Night of the Shirts
Bread
St Vincent’s
A. R. AMMONS
He Held Radical Light
Gravelly Run
Corsons Inlet
Reflective
Terrain
The City Limits
JOHN ASHBERY
Glazunoviana
Soonest Mended
As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat
Pyrography
And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
Syringa
My Erotic Double
JAMES WRIGHT
At the Executed Murderer’s Grave
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm
in Pine Island, Minnesota
Beginning
ABlessing
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest
Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia,
Has Been Condemned
AWinter Daybreak Above Venice
GALWAY KINNELL
Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
Last Songs
The Bear
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
The Vow
The Man on the Hotel Room Bed
ANNE SEXTON
Her Kind
Music Swims Back to Me
The Truth the Dead Know
The Starry Night
With Mercy for the Greedy
Wanting to Die
The Room of My Life
PHILIP LEVINE
The Horse
They Feed They Lion
Belle Isle, 1949
You Can Have It
Rain Downriver
Sweet Will
IRVING FELDMAN
Family History
The Dream
from All of Us Here
JOHN HOLLANDER
The Night Mirror
from Powers of Thirteen (3, 29, 69, 82, 87, 130)
Swan and Shadow
The Mad Potter
RICHARD HOWARD
Venetian Interior, 1889
At the Monument to Pierre Louÿs
ADRIENNE RICH
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Planetarium
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff
For the Record
For an Album
GARY SNYDER
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Riprap
Burning Island
The Bath
I Went into the Maverick Bar
Axe Handles
SYLVIA PLATH
The Colossus
The Hanging Man
Morning Song
Daddy
Fever 103°
Ariel
Lady Lazarus
Edge
Words
MARK STRAND
Keeping Things Whole
Coming to This
The Prediction
“The Dreadful Has Already Happened”
The Story of Our Lives
Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
CHARLES WRIGHT
Stone Canyon Nocturne
Spider Crystal Ascension
Clear Night
Homage to Paul Cézanne
The Other Side of the River
AUDRE LORDE
Coal
Movement Song
Afterimages
MARY OLIVER
Rain
When Death Comes
Whelks
Hawk
JAY WRIGHT
The Homecoming Singer
Benjamin Banneker Sends His Almanac to Thomas Jefferson
Journey to the Place of Ghosts
C. K. WILLIAMS
It Is This Way with Men
The Gas Station
Tar
Alzheimer’s: The Wife
CHARLES SIMIC
Tapestry
My Shoes
Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites
Watermelons
Eyes Fastened with Pins
Empire of Dreams
Prodigy
from The World Doesn’t End
MICHAEL S. HARPER
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Grandfather
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
The Militance of a Photograph in the Passbook
of a Bantu Under Detention
FRANK BIDART
Another Life
Happy Birthday
The Sacrifice
ROBERT PINSKY
Poem About People
Dying
The Hearts
Shirt
ROBERT HASS
Heroic Simile
Meditation at Lagunitas
Between the Wars
Misery and Splendor
AMY CLAMPITT
Beach Glass
Imago
Stacking the Straw
Medusa
DAVE SMITH
Elegy in an Abandoned Boatyard
The Roundhouse Voices
Lake Drummond Dream
MARILYN HACKER
from Taking Notice (7, 11, 14, 25)
Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found
Nights of 1964—66: The Old Reliable
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Nabokov’s Blues
Onions
107th and Amsterdam
Dire Cure
SHARON OLDS
You Kindly
The Promise
The Glass
The Feelings
LOUISE GLÜCK
Messengers
The Drowned Children
The Garden
Palais des Arts
Mock Orange
Eros
SANDRA MCPHERSON
Black Soap
The Microscope in Winter
Streamers
MICHAEL PALMER
H
“or anything resembling it”
Erolog
The White Notebook
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT
The Spire
The Lotus Flowers
Song and Story
Winter Field
KAY RYAN
Paired Things
Mirage Oases
ACat/A Future
The Old Cosmologists
That Will to Divest
Drops in the Bucket
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA
Providence
Camouflaging the Chimera
Facing It
Ode to the Maggot
Día de los Muertos
HEATHER MCHUGH
The Typewriter’s the Kind
From 20,000 Feet
Numberless
Auto
EDWARD HIRSCH
Fast Break
AShort Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties
My Father’s Back
JORIE GRAHAM
Over and Over Stitch
San Sepolcro
Orpheus and Eurydice
Ebbtide
RITA DOVE
Adolescence–II
Parsley
Canary
MARK DOTY
Broadway
Brilliance
A Display of Mackerel
Door to the River
GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG
The Paperweight
Signs
Supernatural Love
HENRI COLE
Chiffon Morning
Peonies
You Come When I Call You
Black Mane
LI-YOUNG LEE
This Hour and What Is Dead
Pillow
One Heart
Dwelling
CARL PHILLIPS
The Compass
No Kingdom
From the Devotions
Revision
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY