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Tables of Contents for Illinois Voices
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xvii
Harriet Monroe (1860--1936)
The Meeting
1
1
These Two
2
1
Rubens
2
1
The Garden
3
1
Edgar Lee Masters (1868--1950)
The Hill
4
1
Trainor, the Druggist
5
1
Minerva Jones
5
1
Doctor Meyers
6
1
Mrs. Meyers
6
1
Margaret Fuller Slack
7
1
Fiddler Jones
7
1
Sexsmith the Dentist
8
1
Lucinda Matlock
9
1
Starved Rock
9
4
Vachel Lindsay (1871--1931)
An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie
13
1
To Mary Pickford---Moving Picture Actress
13
1
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
14
2
Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)
The Right to Grief
16
1
Onion Days
17
1
Happiness
18
1
A Teamster's Farewell
18
1
Halsted Street Car
19
1
I Am the People, the Mob
19
1
Murmurings in a Field Hospital
20
1
Washerwoman
20
1
Chicago
21
1
Archibald MacLeish (1892--1982)
Ars Poetica
22
1
Cook County
23
1
The Old Men in the Leaf Smoke
24
1
Autumn
24
1
Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961)
Champs d'Honneur
25
1
Valentine
25
1
The Lady Poet with Footnotes
26
1
The Age Demanded
26
1
Janet Lewis (1899--1998)
The Indians in the Woods
27
1
The Grandmother Remembers
27
1
Yuor Winters (1900--1968)
To My Infant Daughter
28
1
For My Father's Grave
29
1
Kenneth Fearing (1902--61)
Obituary
30
1
Twentieth-Century Blues
31
1
Any Man's Advice to His Son
32
1
George Dillon (1906--68)
The Hours of the Day
33
1
Snow
33
3
Elder Olson (1909--92)
The Presence
36
1
John Frederick Nims (1913--99)
Love Poem
37
1
The Young Ionia
38
1
Tide Turning
39
1
Trick or Treat
40
2
Karl Shapiro (1913--2000)
V-Letter
42
2
The Bourgeois Poet
44
1
Crossing Lincoln Park
44
1
Editing Poetry
45
2
Henry Rago (1915--69)
A Child's Birthday
47
1
The Distances
48
1
John Dickson (1916--)
The Aragon Ballroom
49
1
Poemectomy
50
2
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000)
The Coora Flower
52
1
The Lovers of the Poor
52
3
We Real Cool
55
1
The Near-Johannesburg Boy
56
1
The Mother
57
1
Gay Chaps at the Bar
58
2
To Black Women
60
1
Malcolm X
61
1
From The Blackstone Rangers
61
1
Uncle Seagram
62
1
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
63
6
Ray Bradbury (1920--)
Byzantium I Come Not From
69
2
John Knoepfle (1923--)
Harpe's Head
71
1
late winter in menard county
72
2
confluence
74
1
bath
75
1
dark spaces: thoughts on all souls day
76
2
Lisel Mueller (1924--)
Alive Together
78
1
Highway Poems
79
3
Another Version
82
1
Naming the Animals
83
1
Monet Refuses the Operation
84
1
Triage
85
1
Curriculum Vitae
86
2
Lucien Stryk (1924--)
Oeuvre
88
1
Return to DeKalb
89
1
Cormorant
90
1
From Issa: A Suite of Haiku
91
2
Paul Carroll (1927--97)
Ode on a Bicycle on Halsted Street in a Sudden Summer Thunderstorm
93
1
In the Shakespeare Garden at Northwestern University
93
1
Ode to the Angels Who Move Perpetually toward the Dayspring of Their Youth
94
4
Dave Etter (1928--)
Andy Hasselgard
98
1
Roma Higgins
98
1
Elwood Collins: Summer of 1932
99
1
Drink and Agriculture
100
2
Singing in the Toyota
102
1
Ralph J. Mills Jr. (1931--)
For Lorine Niedecker in Heaven
103
1
Water Lilies
104
1
Evening Song
104
2
James Ballowe (1933--)
Starved Rock
106
3
The Coal Miners
109
1
Laurence Lieberman (1935--)
God's Measurements
110
4
Lobsters in the Brain Coral
114
2
Compass of the Dying
116
4
Daryl Hine (1936--)
Man's Country
120
1
Lines on a Platonic Friendship
121
1
Eugene Redmond (1937--)
River of Bones and Flesh and Blood
122
2
Dennis Schmitz (1937--)
Climbing Sears Tower
124
1
Making Chicago
125
2
Michael Van Walleghen (1938--)
In the Chariot Drawn by Dragons
127
1
The Age of Reason
128
2
More Trouble with the Obvious
130
2
Crabapples
132
1
Walking the Baby to the Liquor Store
133
2
Michael Anania (1939--)
The Fall
135
2
The Judy Travaillo Variations
137
3
Interstate 80
140
1
On the Conditions of Place
141
2
Sterling Plumpp (1940--)
Billie Holiday
143
1
Saturday Night Decades
144
2
Susan Hahn (1941--)
Nijinsky's Dog
146
2
Perennial
148
1
Confession
148
3
Incontinence
151
2
Stuart Dybek (1942--)
Sleepwalking Solo
153
1
Windy City
154
1
Haki R. Madhubuti (1942--)
Killing Memory
155
4
The B Network
159
2
Carolyn M. Rodgers (1943--)
The Black Heart as Ever Green
161
1
Lucia Cordell Getsi (1944--)
Woman Hanging from Lightpole, Illinois Route 136
162
1
Washing Your Hair
163
3
Bruce Guernsey (1944--)
Maps
166
1
The Apple
166
3
Dan Guillory (1944--)
From Snowpoems
169
2
Mary Kinzie (1944--)
Summers of Vietnam
171
2
Lunar Frost
173
5
Calvin Forbes (1945--)
Killer Blues
178
1
G.E. Murray (1945--)
The Rounds
179
3
On Being Disabled by Light at Dawn in the Wilderness
182
1
American Cheese
182
1
Art of a Cold Sun
183
2
Paulette Roeske (1945--)
Preparing the Dead
185
3
Martha Vertreace (1945--)
Caged Stone
188
1
Black Tulips
189
1
Paul Hoover (1946--)
Family Romance
190
2
Theoretical People
192
2
Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert
194
3
Maura Stanton (1946--)
A Few Picnics in Illinois
197
1
Sorrow and Rapture
198
1
Little Ode for X
199
2
Reginald Gibbons (1947--)
Sparrow
201
1
``Luckies''
202
2
Maureen Seaton (1947--)
Nostradamus Predicts the Destruction of Chicago
204
1
Ice
205
1
Tagging
206
2
Albert Goldbarth (1948--)
Letter to Friends East and West
208
2
The Talk Show
210
2
Meop
212
2
David Hernandez (1949--)
Rooftop Piper
214
1
Workers
215
2
George Nikolic (1949--)
Under the Ninth Sky
217
1
Key to Dreams
217
1
Barry Silesky (1949--)
The Kingdom
218
1
Screens
219
1
Jim Elledge (1950--)
The Man I Love and I Shop at Jewel
220
1
14 Reasons Why I Mention Mario Lanza to the Man I Love Every Chance I Get Tonight
221
1
Triptych
222
2
Edward Hirsch (1950--)
Husband and Wife
224
1
For the Sleepwalkers
225
1
American Apocalypse
226
3
Wild Gratitude
229
2
Rodney Jones (1950--)
TV
231
1
Mortal Sorrows
232
1
A Blasphemy
233
1
The End of Communism
234
2
Nell
236
2
Michael David Madonick (1950--)
Settled In
238
2
Alane Rollings (1950--)
In Your Own Sweet Time
240
2
Dirty Dreams and God Smiling
242
2
Debra Bruce (1951--)
Plunder
244
1
Prognosis
245
1
Angela Jackson (1951--)
Spinster Song: African-American Woman Guild
246
1
Miz Rosa Rides the Bus
246
2
Transformable Prophecy
248
1
Brigit Pegeen Kelly (1951--)
The Leaving
249
1
Young Wife's Lament
249
2
Song
251
1
Wild Turkeys: The Dignity of the Damned
252
2
Imagining Their Own Hymns
254
2
James McManus (1951--)
From Who Needs Two
256
8
Maxine Chernoff (1952--)
Tenderitis
264
1
How Lies Grow
265
1
Lost and Found
265
1
Jeff Gundy (1952--)
For the New York City Poet Who Informed Me that Few People Live This Way
266
1
Rain
267
2
Ana Castillo (1953--)
The Toltec
269
1
Me & Baby
269
1
Women Are Not Roses
270
2
Elaine Equi (1953--)
Things to Do in the Bible
272
1
Lesbian Corn
273
1
Being Sick Together
273
2
Richard Jones (1953--)
Portrait of My Father and His Grandson
275
1
Song of the Old Man
275
1
A Beginning
276
1
David Wojahn (1953--)
The Assassination of Robert Goulet as Performed by Elvis Presley: Memphis, 1968
277
1
``It's Only Rock and Roll but I Like It'': The Fall of Saigon, 1975
277
1
Workmen Photographed inside the Reactor
278
2
Rajah in Babylon
280
2
Sandra Cisneros (1954--)
You Bring Out the Mexican in Me
282
2
I Am So in Love I Grow a New Hymen
284
1
Heart, My Lovely Hobo
285
1
Loose Woman
286
2
Luis J. Rodriguez (1954--)
Reflection on El Train Glass
288
1
Rant, Rave & Ricochet
288
2
To the Police Officer Who Refused to Sit in the Same Room as My Son because He's a ``Gang Banger'':
290
1
Kevin Stein (1954--)
Past Midnight, My Daughter Awakened by Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
291
1
Night Shift, after Drinking Dinner, Container Corporation of America, 1972
292
2
It Didn't Begin with Horned Owls Hooting at Noon
294
1
In the Kingdom of Perpetual Repair
295
2
Sheryl St. Germain (1954--)
Addiction
297
2
Dean Young (1955--)
Pleasure
299
2
Rothko's Yellow
301
1
Upon Hearing of My Friend's Marriage Breaking Up, I Envision Attack from Outer Space
302
2
White Crane
304
2
Li-Young Lee (1957--)
I Ask My Mother to Sing
306
1
This Room and Everything in It
306
2
Eating Together
308
1
The Cleaving
308
6
Carlos Cumpian (1958--)
Armadillo Charm
314
2
Estrellitas
316
1
Lucia Perillo (1958--)
Dangerous Life
317
1
The Body Mutinies
318
1
Needles
318
3
Skin
321
2
Elise Paschen (1959--)
Between the Acts
323
2
12 East Scott Street
325
2
Reginald Shepherd (1963--)
A Man Named Troy
327
2
West Willow
329
1
Allison Joseph (1964--)
Traitor
330
2
In the Bookstore
332
1
On Sidewalks, on Streetcorners, as Girls
333
3
Quraysh Ali Lansana (1964--)
The Woolworth's Poem
336
3
Contributors
339
14
Acknowledgments
353
10
Index of Poems and Poets
363