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Book SynopsisA Stanford University Press classic.

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Book SynopsisA revised and updated edition of the second volume of a work that contains all that survives and has been published of the early Greek Iambic poets. Many papyri and other manuscript sources have been re-examined, and advantage has been taken of authors who preserve fragments in quotation.

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects together a wealth of material ranging from verse parodies originally published in pamphlet form, to longer works such as P.G. Patmore''s parodies of the works of Byron, Lamb and Hazlitt.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an ideal first reader in ancient Greek. It presents a selection of extracts from a comprehensive range of Greek authors, from Homer to Plutarch, together with generous help with vocabulary and grammar. The passages have been chosen for their intrinsic interest and variety, and brief introductions set them in context. All but the commonest Greek words are glossed as they occur and a general vocabulary is included at the back. Although the book is designed to be used by students who have only completed a beginner's course in Greek, students of all ages will find that it helps them to improve their ability and confidence in reading a wide range of prose and verse texts, while at the same time providing a fascinating and copiously illustrated introduction to the riches and variety of ancient Greek literature over a period of almost a thousand years.Trade Review' … the book is handsomely produced - carefully proof read, peppered with illustrations, and sensibly priced. It is ideal for intermediate Greek courses where students need to increase reading speed and enhance their familiarity with Greek culture. JACT deserves a pat on the back for such fine work.' The Classical OutlookTable of ContentsTime chart; Map of the Greek world; 1. Homer Iliad: Zeus, fate and the death of Sarpedon; 2. Homer Odyssey: Calypso is ordered by the gods to release Odysseus; 3. Herodotus The Histories: the battle of Salamis; 4. Aeschylus Persians: the battle of Salamis; 5. Sophocles Antigone: Antigone confronts Creon; 6. Euripides Alcestis: Alcestis' farewell to Admetus; 7. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War: the revolt of Mytilene; 8. Sophocles Philoctetes: Neoptolemus tries to persuade Philoctetes; 9. Euripides Bacchae: Pentheus and Dionysus; 10. Aristophanes Frogs: Dionysus in the underworld; 11. Plato Apology of Socrates: Socrates and the nature of death; 12. Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae (Assemblywomen): power to women?; 13. Xenophon Oeconomicus (The estate manager): the duties of husband and wife; 14. Demosthenes On the Crown: news of disaster at Elatea; 15. Demosthenes Against Conon: harassment on military service; 16. Aristotle Poetics: tragic action and the tragic hero; 17. Menander Perikeiromene (The girl with the cut hair): how to get your mistress to forgive you; 18. Plutarch Life of Antony: the death of Cleopatra; 19. Plutarch On the Decline of Oracles: Great Pan is dead; 20. New Testament Acts of the Apostles: St Paul in Athens; Metrical appendix; General vocabulary.

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of a successful reader (first published in 1979) for intermediate students of ancient Greek which introduces three of ancient Greece's most important authors, Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles. Accompanying notes provide extensive help with vocabulary and translation. Extensively revised in order to better meet the needs of modern students.Table of ContentsHomer: introductory passage: Akhilleus and Hektor (Iliad 22.1-130); Target passages: the death of Hektor (Iliad 22.131-end); Hektor and Andromakhe (Iliad 6.237-end); Herodotus: introductory passages: Persian customs (Histories 1.131-140); Xerxes at Abydos (Histories 7.44-53); Target passage: the battle of Thermopylai (Histories 7.56-238); Sophocles: introductory passage: Oedipus the King (Oedipus Tyrannus 300-862); Target passage: the fall of Oedipus (Oedipus Tyrannus 950-end).

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A pretty dandy candy jar. The range of poets is wide, the tone is unpretentious, and the poems are all . . . good." (San Francisco Chronicle)"These are poems to live in comfort with all one's life." (Booklist)"[Keillor is] Will Rogers with grammar lessons, Aesop with no ax to grind, the common man's MoliFre." (The Houston Chronicle)Table of ContentsGood PoemsIntroduction1. O LordPoem in Thanks—Thomas LuxHow Many Nights—Galway KinnelWelcome Morning—Anne SextonPsalm 23—from The Bay Psalm BookAt Least—Raymond CarverAddress to the Lord—John BerrymanO Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie—Philip ApplemanPsalm—Reed WhittemorePsalm 121—Michael WigglesworthWhen one has lived a long time alone—Galway KinnellHome on the Range—AnonymousWhat I Want Is—C. G. Hanzlicek2. A DaySummer Morning—Charles SimicOtherwise—Jane KenyonPoem About Morning—William MeredithLiving—Denise LevertovAnother Spring—Kenneth RexrothMorning Person—Vassar MillerRoutine—Arthur GuitermanThe Life of a Day—Tom HennenFor My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old—Robert BlyI've known a Heaven, like a Tent—Emily DickinsonLetter to N.Y.—Elizabeth BishopDilemna—David Budbillfrom Song of Myself—Walt WhitmanNew Yorkers—Edward FieldSoaking Up Sun—Tom HennenLate Hours—Lisel Mueller3. MusicScrambled Eggs and Whiskey—Hayden CarruthMehitabel's Song—Don MarquisNightclub—Billy CollinsAlley Violinist—Robert LaxCradle Song—Jim SchleyHer Door—Mary LeaderThe Pupil—Donald JusticePiano—D. H. LawrenceInsrument of Choice—Robert PhillipsHomage: Doo-Wop—Joseph StroudThe Persistence of Song—Howard MossOoly Pop a Cow—David HuddleElevator Music—Henry TaylorThe Grain of Sound—Robert MorganI Will Make You Brooches—Robert Louis StevensonThe Dance—C. K. WilliamsThe Investment—Robert FrostThe Dumka—B. H. FairchildThe Green Street Mortuary Marching Band—Lawrence Ferlinghetti4. ScenesPoem to Be Read at 3 A.M.—Donald JusticeThe Swimming Pool—Thomas LuxDostoevsky—Charles BukowskiAfter a Movie—Henry TaylorSummer Storm—Dana GioiaWoolworth's—Mark IrwinWorked Late on a Tuesday Night—Deborah GarrisonThe Farmhouse—Reed Whittemorewrist-wrestling father—Orval LundYorkshiremen in Pub Gardens—Gavin EwartNoah—Roy Daniells5. LoversA Red, Red Rose—Robert BurnsWhen I Heard at the Close of Day—Walt WhitmanFirst Love—John ClareHe Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven—W. B. YeatsSonnet—C. B. TrailPolitics—W. B. YeatsMagellan Street, 1974—Maxine KuminAnimals—Frank O'HaraLending Out Books—Hal SirowitzThe Changed Man—Robert PhillipsThe Constant North—J. F. HendryOn the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love—Jennifer Michael HechtThe Loft—Richard JonesThis Is Just to Say—William Carlos WilliamsThis Is Just to Say—Erica-Lynn GambinoVenetian Air—Thomas MooreSummer Morning—Louis SimpsonComin thro' the Rye—Robert BurnsTopograhy—Sharon OldsSaturday Morning—Hugo WilliamsFlight—Louis JenkinsAt Twenty-Three Weeks She Can No Longer See Anything South of Her Belly—Thom WardFor the Life of Him and Her—Reed WhittemoreRomantics—Lisel MuellerDown in the Valley—AnonymousThe Middle Years—Walter McDonaldWinter Winds Cold and Blea...—John Claresince feeling is first—e. e. cummingsVergissmeinnicht—Keith DouglasSonnet XLIII What lips my lips have kissed—Edna St. Vincent MillayAfter the Argument—Stephen DunnThe Orange—Wendy CopeSusquehanna—Liz RosenbergFarm Wife—R. S. ThomasAfter Forty Years of Marriage, She Tries a New Recipe for Hamburger Hot Dish—Leo DangelThose Who Love—Sara TeasdaleQuietly—Kenneth RexrothFor C.W.B.—Elizabeth BishopShorelines—Howard MossPrayer for a Marriage—Steve ScafidiThe Master Speed—Robert FrostBonnard's Nudes—Raymond Carver6. Day's WorkHappiness—Raymond CarverHoeing—John UpdikeSome Details of Hebridean House Construction—Thomas A. ClarkRelations—Philip BoothWhat I Learned from My Mother—Julia KasdorfTo be of use—Marge PiercyNo Tool or Rope or Pail—Bob ArnoldOx Cart Man—Donald HallGirl on a Tractor—Joyce SutphenSoybeans—Thomas Alan OrrLanding Pattern—Philip ApplemanMae West—Edward FieldHay for the Horses—Gary Snyder7. Sons and DaughtersMasterworks of Ming—Kay RyanBess—Linda PastanA Little Tooth—Thomas LuxSonnet XXXVII—William ShakespeareEgg—C. G. HanzlicekRolls-Royce Dreams—Ginger AndrewsMy Life Before I Knew It—Lawrence RaabAfter Work—Richard JonesI Stop Writing the Poem—Tess GallagherFranklin Hyde—Hilaire BellocManners—Elizabeth BishopSeptember, the First Day of School—Howard NemerovFirst Lesson—Philip BoothChildhood—Barbara RasWaving Good-Bye—Gerald SternFamily Reunion—Maxine Kumin8. LanguageA Primer of the Daily Round—Howard NemerovThe Possessive Case—Lisel MuellerThe Icelandic Language—Bill HolmThe Fantastic Names of Jazz—Hayden CarruthOde to the Medieval Poets—W. H. AudenSweater Weather—Sharon Bryan9. A Good LifeWe grow accustomed to the Dark—Emily DickinsonA Ritual to Read to Each Other—William StaffordCourage—Anne SextonSometimes—Sheenagh PughLeisure—W. H. Daviesthe way it is now—Charles BukowskiA Secret Life—Stephen DunnLost—David WagonerSonnet XXV—William ShakespeareThe Eel in the Cave—Robert BlyWild Geese—Mary OliverFrom the Manifesto of the Selfish—Stephen DunnHope—Lisel MuellerThe Three Goals—David BudbillVermeer—Howard NemerovRepression—C. K. WilliamsWeather—Linda PastanModeration Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony—John TagliabueTell all the Truth but tell it slant—Emily DickinsonThe Props assist the House...—Emily Dickinson10. BeastsLittle Citizen, Little Survivor—Hayden CarruthHer First Calf—Wendell BerryBats—Randall JarrellRiding Lesson—Henry TaylorWalking the Dog—Howard NemerovThe Excrement Poem—Maxine KuminStanza IV from Coming of Age—Ursula LeguinDestruction—Joanne KygerHow to See Deer—Philip BoothDog's Death—John UpdikeNames of Horses—Donald HallBison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore—May Swenson11. FailureSuccess is counted sweetest...—Emily DickinsonSolitude—Ella Wheeler WilcoxThe first time I remember—Wendell BerryOur Lady of the Snows—Robert HassThe British Museum Reading Room—Louis MacNeiceThe Bare Arms of Trees—John TagliabueThe Sailor—Geof HewittA Place for Everything—Louis JenkinsThe Feast—Robert HassNobody Knows You—Jimmie Coxthe last song—Charles Bukowski12. ComplaintThe Forsaken Wife—Elizabeth ThomasConfession—Stephen DobynsLiving in the Body—Joyce SutphenTired As I Can Be—Bessie JacksonThe Iceberg Theory—Gerald LocklinManifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front—Wendell BerryA Bookmark—Tom Dischpoetry readings—Charles BukowskiPublication—is the Auction...—Emily Dickinson13. TripsOnce in the 40s—William Staffordlines from Moby Dick—Herman MelvilleRain Travel—W. S. Merwinwhere we are—Gerald LocklinExcelsior—Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOn a Tree Fallen Across the Road—Robert FrostA Walk Along the Old Tracks—Robert KinsleyPassengers—Billy CollinsThe Walloping Window-Blind—Charles Edward CarrylThe Vacation—Wendell BerryDirections—Joseph StroudPostscript—Seamus HeaneyNight Journey—Theodore RoethkeWaiting—Raymond Carver14. SnowNew Hampshire—Howard MossTo fight aloud...—Emily DickinsonDecember Moon—May SartonYear's End— Richard WilburThe Snow Man—Wallace StevensJanuary—Baron Wormserin celebration of surviving—Chuck MillerHer Long Illness—Donal HallRequiescat—Oscar WildeThe Sixth of January—David BudbillNot Only the Eskimos—Lisel MuellerBoy at the Window—Richard WilburWinter Poem—Frederick MorganLester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow—Paul ZimmerOld Boards—Robert BlyMarch Blizzard—John Tagliabue15. YellowElvis Kissed Me—T. S. KerriganStepping Out of Poetry—Gerald SternI shall keep singing!—Emily DickinsonSong to Onions—Roy Blount, Jr.O Luxury—Guy W. LongchampsComing—Kenneth RexrothA Light Left On—May SartonThe Yellow Slicker—Stuart DischellFirst Kiss—April LindnerThe Music One Looks Back On—Stephen Dobyns16. LivesIn a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day—X. J. KennedyWho's Who—W. H. AudenThe Portrait—Stanley KunitzParable of the Four-Poster—Erica JongEd—Louis SimpsonMemory—Hayden CarruthLazy—David LeeTestimonial—Harry Newman, Jr.Cathedral Builders—John OrmondThe Village Burglar—AnonymousThe Scandal—Robert BlyAt Last the Secret Is Out—W. H. AudenNight Light—Kate BarnesSir Patrick Spens—Anonymous17. EldersI Go Back to May 1937—Sharon OldsThose Winter Sundays—Robert HaydenThe Old Liberators—Robert HedinTo My Mother—Wendell BerryWorking in the Rain—Robert MorganBirthday Card to My Mother—Philip ApplemanYesterday—W. S. MerwinNo Map—Stephen DobynsMy Mother—Robert MezeyWhen My Dead Father Called—Robert BlyAugust Third—May SartonTerminus—Ralph Waldo Emerson18. The EndAuthorship—James B(al) NaylorYoung and Old—Charles KingsleyShifting the Sun—Diana Der-HovanessianMy Dad's Wallet—Raymond CarverWhen I Am Asked—Lisel MuellerDirge Without Music—Edna St. Vicent MillayMy mother said...—Donald HallDepartures—Linda PastanAs Befits a Man—Langston HughesSunt Leones—Stevie SmithPerfection Wasted—John UpdikeEleanor's Letters—Donald HallDeath and the Turtle—May SartonFour Poems in One—Anne PorterTitanic—David R. SlavittThe Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna—Charles WolfeKaddish—David IgnatowTwilight: After Haying—Jane KenyonFor the Anniversary of My Death—W. S. Merwinfrom The Old Italians Dying—Lawrence FerlinghettiStreet Ballad—George BarkerLet Evening Come—Jane Kenyon19. The ResurrectionForty-Five—Hayden CarruthA Blessing—James WrightHoly Thursday—William Blakelines from Walden—Henry David ThoreauThe Peace of Wild Things—Wendell BerryFrom Blossoms—Li-Young LeeThe First Green of Spring—David BudhillHere—Grace PaleyThe Lives of the Heart—Jane HirshfieldSpring—Gerard Manley HopkinsFishing in the Keep of Silence—Linda GreggBiographiesName IndexTitle Index

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Book SynopsisThe book is full of strong, memorable poems that stick with readers like a friend during a long, hard night. - The Christian Science MonitorHere, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as Such As It Is More or Less and Let It Spill. From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Mary Oliver, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress, or who simply appreciate the power of good poetry.

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Book SynopsisAnthology of Contemporary American Poetry contains poems by over 115 American poets, including many who have not been anthologized before. This collection is the first to review the twentieth century comprehensively, and is the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poem sequences.Trade ReviewThe Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry is an impressive collection, ranging in style - from traditional to experimental-and in content-from private to public concerns. It provides poetic sustenance for a variety of student hungers. * Rhonda Pettit, University of Cincinnati *Table of ContentsTopical Table of Contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; MARY CORNELIA HARTSHORNE (c. 1910-) ; --Fallen Leaves ; --Hills of Doon ; --Wind in Mexico ; CHARLES HENRI FORD (1910-2002) ; --Plaint ; --Flag of Ecstasy ; --Pastoral for Pavlik ; CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970) ; --Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele ; --Maximus, to himself ; --Cole's Island ; ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) ; --The Fish ; --The Man-Moth ; --At the Fishhouses ; --Filling Station ; --Questions of Travel ; --The Armadillo ; --In the Waiting Room ; --Pink Dog ; --Crusoe in England ; --One Art ; WILLIAM EVERSON (1912-1994) ; --The Making of the Cross ; --A Canticle to the Waterbirds ; TILLIE LERNER OLSEN (1912-2007) ; --I Want You Women Up North To Know ; ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980) ; --Middle Passage ; --Runagate Runagate ; --A Letter from Phillis Wheatley ; --Those Winter Sundays ; --Night, Death, Mississippi ; --Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves ; --from Elegies for Paradise Valley ; --No. 1 ; --The Dogwood Trees ; --O Daedalus, Fly Away Home ; WELDON KEES (1914-1955) ; --June 1940 ; --Travels in North America ; RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965) ; --The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner ; --A Front ; --Losses ; --Second Air Force ; --Protocols ; JAPANESE AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP HAIKU (1942-1944) ; --Shiho Okamoto (Being arrested-) ; --Sadayo Taniguchi (Hand-cuffed and taken away) ; --Kyotaro Komuro (Lingering summer heat-) ; --Taro Katay, (Shouldering) ; --Komuro (Passed guard tower) ; --Okamoto (In the shade of summer sun) ; --Shonan Suzuki (Withered grass on ground) ; --Hakuro Wada (Young grass red and shriveled) ; --Hyakuissei Okamoto (Dandelion has bloomed) ; --Shizuku Uyemaruko (On certain days) ; --Wada (Released seagull) ; --Ryokuin Matsui (Sprinkling water outside) ; --Komuro (Want to be with children) ; --Wada (Even the croaking of frogs) ; --Hangetsu Tsunekawa (Sentry at main gate) ; --Shokoshi Saga (Thin shadow of tule reed) ; --Tokuji Hirai (Looking at summer moon) ; --Suzuki (Moon shadows on internment camp) ; --Hirai (Early moon has set) ; --Suiko Matsushita (Rain shower from mountain) ; --Kyokusui (Thorns of the iron fence) ; --Neiji Ozawa (Desert rain falling) ; --Senbinshi Takaoka (Frosty morning) ; --Oshio (Stepping through snow) ; --Jyosha Yamada (Black clouds instantly shroud) ; --Takaoka (Winter wind) ; --Hekisamei Matsuda (Doll without a head) ; --Sei Sagara (Suddenly awakened) ; --Hyakuissei Okamoto (Jeep patrolling slowly) ; --Shizuku Uyemaruko (Grieving within) ; --Okamoto (In the sage brush) ; --Matsushita (Oh shells-) ; JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) ; --from The Dream Songs ; --1 Huffy Henry ; --4 Filling her compact & delicious body ; --5 Henry sats ; --14 Life, friends ; --22 Of 1826 ; --29 There sat down, once ; --40 I'm scared a lonely ; --45 He stared at ruin ; --46 I am, outside ; --55 Peter's not friendly ; --76 Henry's Confession ; --382 At Henry's bier ; --384 The marker slants ; WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993) ; --Traveling Through the Dark ; --At the Bomb Testing Site ; --At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border ; --The Indian Cave Jerry Ramsey Found ; DUDLEY RANDALL (1914-2000) ; --Ballad of Birmingham ; --A Different Image ; JOY DAVIDMAN (1915-1960) ; --This Woman ; --For The Nazis ; MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998) ; --For My People ; RUTH STONE (1915-2011) ; --In an Iridescent Time ; --I Have Three Daughters ; --Pokeberries ; --American Milk ; --From the Arboretum ; --Drought in the Lower Fields ; --Some Things You'll Need to Know/ Before You Join the Union ; THOMAS McGRATH (1916-1990) ; --Deep South ; --Crash Report ; --First Book of Genesis According to the Diplomats ; --Ars Poetica: Or: Who Lives in the Ivory Tower? ; --A Little Song About Charity ; --Against the False Magicians ; --After the Beat Generation ; --Ode for the American Dead in Asia ; --Poem at the Winter Solstice ; ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) ; --Inauguration Day: January 1953 ; --A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich ; --Commander Lowell ; --"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" ; --Man and Wife ; --Memories of West Street and Lepke ; --Skunk Hour ; --For the Union Dead ; --The Mouth of the Hudson ; --July in Washington ; --The March I ; --The March II ; --Central Park ; --Epilogue ; GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000) ; --A song in the front yard ; --Of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery ; --Gay Chaps at the Bar ; --We Real Cool ; --The Ballad of Rudolph Reed ; --The Blackstone Rangers ; --Malcolm X ; --Young Afrikans ; --The Boy Died in My Alley ; --To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals ; --To the Diaspora ; WILLIAM BRONK (1918-1999) ; --At Tikal ; --The Mayan Glyphs Unread ; --I Thought It Was Harry ; --Where It Ends ; --Left Alone ; ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988) ; --Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow ; --My Mother Would Be a Falconress ; --The Torso (Passages 18) ; --Up Rising (Passages 25) ; BARBARA GUEST (1920-2006) ; --from Quilts ; ---"Couch of Space" ; --Words ; --Twilight Polka Dots ; AARON KRAMER (1921-1997) ; --Denmark Vesey ; RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921) ; --The Pardon ; --A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra ; --Beasts ; --Love Calls Us to the Things of This World ; --Advice to a Prophet ; --Children of Darkness ; MONA VAN DUYN (1921-2004) ; --Toward a Definition of Marriage ; JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969) ; --The Perfect Love of Mind Essence ; -- Haiku ; JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997) ; --The Sheep Child ; --Falling ; DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997) ; --The Ache of Marriage ; --Olga Poems ; --What Were They Like? ; --Life at War ; ANTHONY HECHT (1923-2004) ; --A Hill ; --"More Light! More Light!" ; --The Book of Yolek ; BOB KAUFMAN (1925-1986) ; --The Biggest Fisherman ; --Crootey Songo ; --No More Jazz at Alcatraz ; --from Jail Poems, Nos. 1-3 ; MAXINE KUMIN (b. 1925) ; --Voices from Kansas ; --Saga ; --Oblivion ; --Pantoum, With Swan ; --With William Meredith in Bulgaria ; DONALD JUSTICE (1925-2004) ; --An Old Fashioned Devil ; --The Wall ; --Early Poems ; --Presences ; --Absences ; PAUL BLACKBURN (1926-1971) ; --At the Crossroad ; --At the Well ; FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) ; --from Alma ; --Poem (The eager note on my door) ; --A Step Away From Them ; --The Day Lady Died ; --Why I Am Not a Painter ; --A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island ; --On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art ; --Thinking of James Dean ; JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) ; --An Urban Convalescence ; --The Broken Home ; --Willowware Cup ; --Lost in Translation ; ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) ; --Love Poem on Theme By Whitman ; --Howl ; --A Supermarket in California ; --Who to Be Kind To ; --Rain-wet asphalt heat, garbage curbed cans overflowing ; --Father Death Blues ; --Sphincter ; ROBERT CREELEY (1926-2005) ; --After Lorca ; --I Know a Man ; --The Flower ; --For Love ; --America ; --Age ; ROBERT BLY (b. 1926) ; --Counting Small-Boned Bodies ; --Hearing Gary Snyder Read ; A.R. AMMONS (1926-2001) ; --Corsons Inlet ; --Gravelly Run ; --Coon Song ; JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) ; --Saint Judas ; --Beginning ; --Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio ; --Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; --A Blessing ; --A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862 ; JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927) ; --"They Dream Only of America" ; --Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape ; --Mixed Feelings ; --Street Musicians ; --Syringa ; --Daffy Duck in Hollywood ; --Paradoxes and Oxymorons ; --The Problem of Anxiety ; --Dull Mauve ; --A Kind of Chill ; --Spooks Run Wild ; --Marine Shadow ; --Words to That Effect ; GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927) ; --The Porcupine ; --The Bear ; --The Vow ; W.S. MERWIN (b. 1927) ; --The Drunk in the Furnace ; --It Is March ; --Caesar ; --The Room ; --December Among the Vanished ; --For the Anniversary of My Death ; --When The War Is Over ; --The Asians Dying ; --For a Coming Extinction ; --Looking For Mushrooms at Sunrise ; --The Gardens of Zuni ; --Beginning ; --The Horse ; --Sun and Rain ; --Berryman ; --Daylight ; --The Name of the Air ; --Far Along in the Story ; --Worn Words ; ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974) ; --Her Kind ; --The Truth the Dead Know ; --And One for My Dame ; --Jesus Asleep ; --Jesus Raises up the Harlot ; --The Room of My Life ; PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928) ; --For Fran ; --The Horse ; --Animals Are Passing From Our Lives ; --Belle Isle, 1949 ; --They Feed They Lion ; --Francisco, I'll Bring You Red Carnations ; --Fear and Fame ; --On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane ; ADRIENNE RICH (1929-2012) ; --Aunt Jennifer's Tigers ; --From Shooting Script ; --Trying to Talk With a Man ; --Diving into the Wreck ; --Twenty-One Love Poems ; --Power ; --from An Atlas of the Difficult World ; ---XIII. (Dedications) I know you are reading this poem ; --Behind the Motel ; --Hotel ; DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930) ; --A Far Cry from Africa ; --Laventille ; --The Fortunate Traveller ; --from Omeros ; ---Book One, Chapter 1 ; GARY SYNDER (b. 1930) ; --Riprap ; --Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body ; --I Went Into the Maverick Bar ; --Straight-Creek-Great Burn ; --Axe Handles ; GREGORY CORSO (1930-2001) ; --Marriage ; --Bomb ; ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (1931-1991) ; --Haiku 1, 4, 9 ; --Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane ; --The Idea of Ancestry ; --A Poem for Myself ; --For Malcolm, a Year After ; --Television Speaks ; --For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide ; SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) ; --The Colossus ; --The Bee Meeting ; --The Arrival of the Bee Box ; --Stings ; --The Swarm ; --Wintering ; --Daddy ; --Ariel ; --Lady Lazarus ; HENRY DUMAS (1934-1968) ; --Son of Msippi ; --Kef 24 ; --Kef 16 ; --Fish ; --Knees of a Natural Man ; --Low Down Dog Blues ; --Black Star Line ; --Peas ; --Yams ; AMIRI BARAKA (Leroi Jones) (b. 1934) ; --SOS ; --Black Art ; --When We'll Worship Jesus ; N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934) ; --Plainview: 3 ; --Buteo Regalis ; --Crows in a Winter Composition ; --Carriers of the Dream Wheel ; --Rings of Bone ; --The Stalker ; -- from The Colors of Night ; ---Purple ; --The Burning ; --December 29, 1890 ; --The Shield That Came Back ; --The Snow Mare ; --To an Aged Bear ; --A Benign Self-Portrait ; MARK STRAND (b. 1934) ; --The Prediction ; --Where Are the Waters of Childhood? ; AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992) ; --From Coal ; --Sisters in Arms ; --Outlines ; --Call ; KATHLEEN FRASER (b. 1935) ; --In Commemoration of the Visit of Foreign Commercial Representatives to Japan, 1947 ; CHARLES WRIGHT (b. 1935) ; --Spider Crystal Ascension ; --Clear Night ; --Homage to Paul Cezanne ; MARY OLIVER (b. 1935) ; --Morning Walk ; --At Great Pond ; --Black Snake This Time ; JAYNE CORTEZ (1936-2012) ; --I Am New York City ; --Do You Think ; LUCILLE CLIFTON (1936-2010) ; --I Am Accused of Tending To the Past ; --At the cemetery, Walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989 ; --Reply ; --The Message of Crazy Horse ; --Poem to My Uterus ; --To My Last Period ; --Brothers ; SUSAN HOWE (b. 1937) ; --From Articulation of Sound Forms in Time: ; --The Falls Fight ; --Hope Atherton's Wanderings ; MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938) ; --Song: I Want a Witness ; --Blue Ruth: America ; --Brother John ; --American History ; --We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper ; --Reuben, Reuben ; --Deathwatch ; --Dear John, Dear Coltrane ; ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938) ; --I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra ; --Oakland Blues ; LAWSON FUSAO INADA (b. 1938) ; -- Listening Images ; ROBERT PINSKY (b. 1940) ; --Dying ; --The Unseen ; --Shirt ; --Veni, Creator Spiritus ; WELTON SMITH (1940-2006) ; --Malcolm ; WILLIAM HEYEN (b. 1940) ; --Riddle ; --from Crazy Horse in Stillness: ; --Forces ; --White & Gold ; --One World ; --Bone & Velvet ; --Mother ; --The Count ; --Surveyors ; --Rot ; --V ; --Resolve, 1876 ; --Treaty ; --Snowbirds ; --The Slowing ; --The Paper It's Written On ; --The Tooth ; --Wakan Tanka ; --Disequilibrium ; --Eclipse ; JUDY GRAHN (b. 1940) ; --I Have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe's Body ; --Vietnamese Woman Speaking to an American Soldier ; --Carol ; --Plainsong ; --The Woman Whose Head is On Fire ; CAROLYN M. RODGERS (1941-2010) ; --How I Got Ovah ; --And When the Revolution Came ; --Mama's God ; ROBERT HASS (b. 1941) ; --Rusia En 1931 ; --A Story About the Body ; --Forty Something ; --Sonnet ; LYN HEJINIAN (b. 1941) ; --from My Life ; --A pause, a rose, Something on paper ; --from The Distance ; --Nos. III, XIX, XXIV, XXX, XXXII, XXXVII ; SHARON OLDS (b. 1942) ; --The Pope's Penis ; --Ideographs ; --Photograph of the Girl ; --Things That Are Worse Than Death ; --The Waiting ; --His Father's Cadaver ; --Known to Be Left ; --Left-Wife Goose ; LOUISE GLUCK (b. 1943) ; --The Drowned Children ; --Vespers (You thought we didn't know) ; --Vespers (More than you love me, very possibly) ; --The Wild Iris ; --from Meadowlands: ; --Penelope's Song ; --Quiet Evening ; --Parable of the King ; --Parable of the Hostages ; --Circe's Power ; --Circe's Grief ; --Reunion ; --Telemachus' Burden ; --Before the Storm ; --A Village Life ; MICHAEL PALMER (b. 1943) ; --Song of the Round Man ; --All those words ; --I Have Answers to All of Your Questions ; --Fifth Prose ; --Autobiography ; PAUL VIOLI (1944-2011) ; --Index ; --Tanka ; --A Moveable Snack ; THOMAS JAMES (1946-1974) ; --Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh XXI Dynasty ; --Dissecting a Pig ; RON SILLIMAN (b. 1946) ; --from Ketjak ; --from Sunset Debris ; --The Chinese Notebook ; --from Toner ; ADRIAN C. LOUIS (b. 1946) ; --Dust World ; --Wakinyan ; --Without Words ; --Coyote Night ; --How Verdell and Dr. Zhivago Disassembled the Soviet Union ; --Wanbli Gleska Win ; --Looking for Judas ; --A Colossal American Copulation ; --Petroglyphs of Serena ; --Jesus Finds His Ghost Shirt ; YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947) ; --Tu Do Street ; --Prisoners ; --Communique ; --The Dog Act ; --The Nazi Doll ; --Fog Galleon ; --Work ; Ai (1947-2010) ; --The Root Eater ; --Twenty-Year Marriage ; --The German Army, Russia, 1943 ; --The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer ; WENDY ROSE (b. 1948) ; --Truganinny ; TIMOTHY STEELE (b. 1948) ; --Daybreak, Benedict Canyon ; --April 27, 1937 ; ALBERT GOLDBARTH (b. 1948) ; --Swan ; --Coinages: A Fairy Tale ; --1400 ; C. D. WRIGHT (b. 1949) ; --Obedience of the Corpse ; --from Just Whistle: ; --THE BODY, ALIVE, NOT DEAD BUT DORMANT ; --BECAUSE CONDITIONS ARE IDEAL FOR CROWING ; --AND NOTHING ; --THE CORPSE WAS IN THE BED ; --ON THE MORN OF ; --A PARTITION SEPARATES IT FROM OTHER BODIES ; --OVER EVERYTHING ; --Song of the Gourd ; --From Cooling Time: ; --Only the crossing counts ; --Until words turn to moss ; --What Would Oppen Say, ; --DEAR DYING TOWN ; JESSICA HAGEDORN (b. 1949) ; --Ming the Merciless ; CHARLES BERNSTEIN (b. 1950) ; --You ; --from Foreign Body Sensation ; --The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree ; --Riddle of the Fat Faced Man ; --The Boy Soprano ; JORIE GRAHAM (b. 1950) ; --History ; --From the New World ; RAY A. YOUNG BEAR (b. 1950) ; --In Viewpoint: Poem for 14 Catfish and The Town of Tama, Iowa ; --It is the Fish-faced Boy Who Struggles ; CAROLYN FORCHE (b. 1950) ; --The Colonel ; --The Museum of Stones ; --The Lightkeeper ; --Morning on the Island ; ANDREW HUDGINS (b. 1951) ; --At Chancellorsville: The Battle of the Wilderness ; --The Summer of the Drought ; --He Imagines His Wife Dead ; GARRETT KAORU HONGO (b. 1951) ; --Ancestral Graves, Kahuku ; --Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942 ; RITA DOVE (b. 1952) ; --Parsley ; --Receiving the Stigmata ; JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA (b. 1952) ; --Mi Tio Baca El Poeta De Socorro ; --The Painters ; ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952) ; --Madre Sofia ; --What Happened to Me ; ANITA ENDREZZE (b. 1952) ; --Return of the Wolves ; --Birdwatching at Fan Lake ; --La Morena and Her Beehive Hairdo ; ANA CASTILLO (b. 1953) ; --Seduced by Natassja Kinski ; --Hummingbird Heart ; MARK DOTY (b. 1953) ; --Homo Will Not Inherit ; --The Embrace ; HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953) ; --from Trimmings ; --from S*PeRM**K*T ; LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954) ; --Indian Boarding School: The Runaways ; --Dear John Wayne ; --The Fence ; LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954) ; --Refugee Ship ; --Poema para los Californios Muertos ; --Starfish ; SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954) ; --Little Clown, My Heart ; THYLIAS MOSS (b. 1954) ; --Fullness ; --There Will Be Animals ; --The Lynching ; --Interpretation of a Poem by Frost ; --Ambition ; --Crystals ; PATRICIA SMITH (b. 1955) ; --Blond White Women ; --Skinhead ; --From Blood Dazzler: ; --from Tankas ; --(Never has there been) ; --(Go, they said. Go. Go.) ; --Man on the TV Say ; --Company's Coming ; --Voodoo II: Money ; --Voodoo V: Enemy Be Gone ; --from What to Tweak ; --(Stifle the Stinking, shut down the cameras) ; --Back Home ; --Motown Crown ; MARILYN CHIN (b. 1955) ; --How I Got That Name ; --Altar ; JANICE N. HARRINGTON (b. 1956) ; --Falling ; --If She Had Lived ; SESSHU FOSTER (b. 1957) ; --We're caffeinated by rain inside concrete underpasses ; --You'll be fucked up ; --Look and look again, will he glance up all of a sudden ; --I'm always grateful no one hears this terrible racket ; --The Japanese man would not appear riding a horse ; --Life Magazine, December, 1941 ; --I try to pee, but I can't ; --Game 83 ; LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957) ; --Persimmons ; --Little Father ; MARTiN ESPADA (b. 1957) ; --Bully ; --Revolutionary Spanish Lesson ; --Niggerlips ; --The New Bathroom Policy at English High School ; --Fidel in Ohio ; --Federico's Ghost ; --The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp ; --Imagine the Angels Of Bread ; --Blues for the Soldiers Who Told You ; --The Trouble Ball ; --Hard-Handed Men of Athens ; --The Right Foot of Juan de Onate ; ATSURO RILEY (b. 1960) ; --From Romey's Order ; --Picture ; --Skillet ; --Bell ; --Roses ; CLAUDIA RANKINE (b. 1963) ; --from Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric ; --pp. 7, 23, 47-48, 71, 82-83, 113 ; D. A. POWELL (b. 1963) ; --[the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office] ; --[dogs and boys can treat you like trash. And dogs do love trash] ; --[came a voice in my gullet: rise up and feast. thunderous] ; HEID E. ERDRICH (b. 1963) ; --True Myth ; --The Theft Outright ; --Some Elsie ; NATASHA TRETHEWAY (b. 1966) ; --Native Ground ; --Providence ; --Believer ; --Liturgy ; SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966) ; --Indian Boy Love Song (#2) ; --from The Native American Broadcasting System: Evolution ; --Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians ; --How to Write the Great American Indian Novel ; --Tourists ; RICHARD SIKEN (b. 1967) ; --Visible World ; --A Primer for the Small Weird Loves ; GRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS: ; CHARLES HENRI FORD ; --Serenade to Leonor ; --28 ; GWENDOLYN BROOKS ; --We Real Cool ; ALLEN GINSBERG ; --Kraj Majales ; --Moloch ; --Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening to the Fugs Sing Blake ; William Everson ; --A Canticle to the Waterbirds ; DAVID IGNATOW ; --The Form Falls in On Itself ; W. S. MERWIN ; --When The War is Over ; GARY SNYDER ; --O Mother Gaia ; RICHARD WILBUR ; --A Difference ; Index of Poem Titles ; Index of Poets ; About the Editor

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