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Tables of Contents for Modern Poems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the First Edition
xxv
2
Publisher's Preface to the Second Edition
xxvii
4
Acknowledgments
xxxi
2
READING POEMS
xxxiii
 
Words and Word Order
xxxiii
4
Words
xxxiii
2
Word Order
xxxv
1
Levels of Diction
xxxvi
1
Speaker and Tone
xxxvii
4
The Speaker
xxxvii
1
The Listener
xxxviii
1
Tone
xxxix
11
Irony
xl
1
Figurative Language
xli
8
Image and Figurative Language
xli
1
Simile
xlii
1
Metaphor
xliii
1
Other Kinds of Figurative Language
xliv
1
Symbol
xliv
2
Myth and Archetype
xlvi
1
Allusion
xlvii
2
Sound and Form
xlix
12
Rhythm
xlix
1
Meter
l
2
Other Rhythmic Forms
lii
1
Free Verse
liii
4
Traditional Forms of Free Verse
liv
1
Modern Free Verse
lv
2
Rhyme
lvii
3
Sound Effects Within the Line
lx
1
Stanza and Verse Paragraph
lxi
1
Poetic Kinds, Forms, and Stanzas: A Glossary
lxii
3
Index of Terms
lxv
 
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
1
19
Song of Myself
3
13
1-14
3
8
46-52
11
5
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
16
1
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
16
1
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
17
1
Respondez!
17
2
To a Locomotive in Winter
19
1
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
20
8
I Never Lost As Much But Twice (J. 49)
23
1
Wild Nights--Wild Nights! (J. 249)
23
1
There's a Certain Slant of Light (J. 258)
23
1
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes (J. 341)
24
1
This Is My Letter to the World (J. 441)
24
1
I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died (J. 465)
24
1
The Brain--Is Wider than the Sky (J. 632)
25
1
Because I Could Not Stop for Death (J. 712)
25
1
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass (J. 986)
26
1
In Winter in My Room (J. 1670)
27
1
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close (J. 1732)
27
1
LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898)
28
10
[A Long Tale]
30
1
Jabberwocky
30
3
Jabberwocky
31
1
[Humpty Dumpty's Explication]
31
2
The Walrus and the Carpenter
33
3
The White Knight's Song
36
2
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)
38
12
Hap
40
1
Neutral Tones
40
1
Drummer Hodge
41
1
The Subalterns
41
1
The Darkling Thrush
42
1
Channel Firing
43
1
The Convergence of the Twain
44
1
I Found Her Out There
45
1
The Voice
46
1
Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony
46
1
The Oxen
47
1
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
48
1
The Harbour Bridge
48
1
He Never Expected Much
49
1
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
50
8
Heaven-Haven
52
1
The Habit of Perfection
52
1
God's Grandeur
53
1
The Windhover
53
1
Pied Beauty
54
1
Binsey Poplars
54
1
Felix Randal
55
1
Spring and Fall
55
1
[Carrion Comfort]
56
1
[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief]
56
1
[I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day]
57
1
[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend]
57
1
A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)
58
9
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
60
1
To an Athlete Dying Young
60
1
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
61
2
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
63
1
Eight O'Clock
63
1
Hell Gate
64
2
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
66
1
Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying
66
1
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)
67
31
The Song of the Happy Shepherd
69
2
Down by the Salley Gardens
71
1
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
71
1
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
72
1
When You Are Old
72
1
Who Goes with Fergus?
73
1
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
73
1
Michael Robartes Bids His Beloved Be at Peace
74
1
The Cap and Bells
75
1
Adam's Curse
76
1
No Second Troy
77
1
On Hearing that the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature
77
1
Friends
77
1
September 1913
78
1
The Magi
79
1
A Coat
79
1
The Wild Swans at Coole
80
1
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
80
1
Easter 1916
81
2
The Second Coming
83
1
A Prayer for My Daughter
83
2
Leda and the Swan
85
1
Sailing to Byzantium
86
1
Among School Children
87
2
Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
89
1
Byzantium
90
1
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
91
1
Lapis Lazuli
92
1
Long-Legged Fly
93
1
The Circus Animals' Desertion
94
1
Under Ben Bulben
95
3
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1930)
98
12
Danny Deever
100
1
The Widow at Windsor
100
1
Shillin' a Day
101
1
The Derelict
102
2
Recessional
104
1
The Prodigal Son
105
1
A Song to Mithras
106
1
The Runes on Weland's Sword
106
1
The Way through the Woods
107
1
The Nurses
108
1
The Storm Cone
109
1
EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)
110
3
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY
111
1
Elsa Wertman
111
1
Hamilton Greene
111
1
Anne Rutledge
112
1
Lucinda Matlock
112
1
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
113
7
Luke Havergal
114
1
Supremacy
115
1
Miniver Cheevy
115
1
For a Dead Lady
116
1
Eros Turannos
117
1
The Dark Hills
118
1
Mr. Flood's Party
118
1
The Sheaves
119
1
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
120
21
Mending Wall
122
1
After Apple-Picking
123
1
The Road Not Taken
124
1
An Old Man's Winter Night
125
1
The Oven Bird
126
1
Birches
126
1
Range-Finding
127
1
The Witch of Coos
128
3
Fire and Ice
131
1
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
131
1
To Earthward
132
1
Acquainted with the Night
132
1
Two Tramps in Mud Time
133
1
Desert Places
134
1
Neither Out Far nor In Deep
135
1
Design
135
1
Provide, Provide
136
1
The Bearer of Evil Tidings
136
1
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
137
1
The Subverted Flower
138
1
The Gift Outright
139
1
Directive
140
1
CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
141
4
Chicago
143
1
Grass
143
1
Cool Tombs
144
1
Gargoyle
144
1
EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)
145
4
The Owl
145
1
October
146
1
The Green Roads
146
1
The Gallows
147
1
February Afternoon
148
1
The Gypsy
148
1
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
149
19
Sunday Morning
150
3
Peter Quince at the Clavier
153
2
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
155
2
Anecdote of the Jar
157
1
The Snow Man
157
1
Bantams in Pine-Woods
158
1
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
158
1
The Idea of Order at Key West
159
1
Farewell to Florida
160
1
The Man with the Blue Guitar
161
1
I ("The man bent over his guitar")
161
1
A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
162
1
The Man on the Dump
162
2
The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man
164
1
Of Modern Poetry
164
1
A Quiet Normal Life
165
1
To an Old Philosopher in Rome
165
2
The Plain Sense of Things
167
1
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
168
31
Tract
170
2
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
172
1
The Great Figure
172
1
Spring and All
173
1
The Red Wheelbarrow
173
1
Portrait of a Lady
174
1
This Is Just to Say
174
1
The Yachts
174
1
The Young Housewife
175
1
Raleigh Was Right
176
1
The Dance
176
1
Burning the Christmas Greens
177
2
PATERSON
178
1
Book I. The Delineaments of the Giants
179
4
I ("Paterson lies in the valley...")
179
3
II ("They begin!")
182
1
III ("Thought clambers up")
183
1
Book II. Sunday in the Park
183
13
I ("Outside")
183
13
The Ivy Crown
196
2
Pictures from Breugel
198
1
II. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
198
1
VI. Haymaking
199
1
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
199
15
The Wild Common
201
1
Love on the Farm
202
2
The Bride
204
1
Gloire de Dijon
204
1
Piano
205
1
Snake
205
2
When I Read Shakespeare
207
1
Middle of the World
208
1
Red Geranium and Godly Mignonette
208
1
Whales Weep Not!
209
1
Bavarian Gentians
210
1
The Ship of Death
210
4
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
214
21
Portrait d'une Femme
216
1
The Return
217
1
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
217
1
A Pact
218
1
In a Station of the Metro
218
1
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts
219
9
THE CANTOS
226
2
I ("And then went down to the ship")
228
2
LXXXI ("Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom")
230
5
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
235
8
Sea Rose
236
1
Oread
236
1
Helen
237
1
Fragment Sixty-Eight
237
2
Tribute to the Angels
239
1
36-41 ("Ah (you say), this is Holy Wisdom")
239
4
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
243
2
"Blighters"
244
1
The General
244
1
Everyone Sang
244
1
On Passing the New Menin Gate
245
1
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
245
7
Shine, Perishing Republic
247
1
Fawn's Foster-Mother
247
1
Hurt Hawks
248
1
New Mexican Mountain
249
1
Ave Caesar
249
1
The Purse-Seine
250
1
Shiva
251
1
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
251
1
Vulture
252
1
EDWIN MUIR (1887-1959)
252
5
Ballad of Hector in Hades
254
1
One Foot in Eden
255
1
The Horses
255
2
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
257
7
The Fish
258
1
Poetry
259
1
A Grave
260
1
The Pangolin
261
2
What Are Years?
263
1
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
264
6
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
265
1
Here Lies a Lady
266
1
Captain Carpenter
266
2
Piazza Piece
268
1
Dead Boy
268
1
The Equilibrists
269
1
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
270
31
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
272
4
Whispers of Immortality
276
1
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
277
1
Gerontion
278
2
The Waste Land
280
14
Landscapes
294
1
I. New Hampshire
294
1
V. Cape Ann
295
1
Little Gidding
295
6
CLAUDE MCKAY (1890-1948)
301
2
The Tropics in New York
302
1
If We Must Die
302
1
America
303
1
The Harlem Dancer
303
1
ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918)
303
5
The Mirror
304
1
Break of Day in the Trenches
304
1
Louse Hunting
305
1
Returning, We Hear the Larks
306
1
Dead Man's Dump
306
2
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
308
3
First Fig
309
1
Recuerdo
309
1
[Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink]
309
1
[Oh, Sleep Forever in the Latmian Cave]
310
1
To a Calvinist in Bali
310
1
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)
311
5
Anthem for Doomed Youth
312
1
Dulce et Decorum Est
312
1
Strange Meeting
313
1
Greater Love
314
1
Disabled
315
1
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
316
10
[All in green went my love riding]
318
1
[O sweet spontaneous]
319
1
[the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
319
1
[a man who had fallen among thieves]
320
1
[i sing of Olaf glad and big]
320
1
[the way to hump a cow is not]
321
1
[my father moved through dooms of love]
322
2
[plato told]
324
1
[maggie and milly and molly and may]
325
1
[now comes the good rain farmers pray for (and]
325
1
[out of midsummer's blazing most not night]
326
1
ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)
326
7
The Cool Web
328
1
Ogres and Pygmies
328
1
Ulysses
329
1
Down, Wanton, Down!
330
1
The Devil's Advice to Story-Tellers
330
1
To Juan at the Winter Solstice
331
1
The Persian Version
332
1
The Blue-Fly
333
1
LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)
333
3
Medusa
334
1
Women
335
1
The Dream
335
1
The Meeting
336
1
HART CRANE (1899-1933)
336
10
Chaplinesque
338
1
At Melville's Tomb
339
1
Voyages
339
4
THE BRIDGE
343
1
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge
343
2
Royal Palm
345
1
The Broken Tower
345
1
ALLEN TATE (1899-1979)
346
9
Ode to the Confederate Dead
348
3
To the Lacedemonians
351
2
The Swimmers
353
2
YVOR WINTERS (1900-1968)
355
4
John Sutter
356
1
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
357
1
Time and the Garden
358
1
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
359
5
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
360
1
The Weary Blues
360
1
Brass Spittoons
361
1
Morning After
362
1
Madam's Past History
362
1
Theme for English B
363
1
STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971)
364
5
Not Waving But Drowning
365
1
Was He Married?
365
2
Admire Cranmer!
367
1
Thoughts about the Person from Porlock
367
1
To Carry the Child
368
1
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)
369
4
Yet Do I Marvel
370
1
Incident
370
1
Heritage
371
2
PATRICK KAVANAGH (1904-1967)
373
3
Tinker's Wife
374
1
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
375
1
Canal Bank Walk
375
1
Come Dance with Kitty Stobling
375
1
In Memory of My Mother
376
1
EARL BIRNEY (b. 1904)
376
9
The Bear on the Delhi Road
377
1
The Gray Woods Exploding
378
7
ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)
385
8
Bearded Oaks
387
1
Mexico Is a Foreign Country: Four Studies in Naturalism
388
1
IV. The Mango on the Mango Tree
388
1
Riddle in the Garden
389
1
Flaubert in Egypt
390
2
There's a Grandfather's Clock in the Hall
392
1
STANLEY KUNITZ (b. 1905)
393
5
River Road
394
1
The Wellfleet Whale
395
3
JOHN BETJEMAN (1906-1984)
398
6
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
399
1
An Incident in the Early Life of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828
400
1
A Subaltern's Love-Song
401
1
The Cottage Hospital
402
1
False Security
403
1
WILLIAM EMPSON (1906-1984)
404
4
Villanelle
405
1
Legal Fiction
406
1
Ignorance of Death
406
1
Missing Dates
407
1
W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
408
19
The Letter
409
1
Five Songs
410
1
V. ("O where are you going?")
410
1
The Wanderer
410
1
Adolescence
411
1
Our Hunting Fathers
412
1
As I Walked Out One Evening
412
2
Lullaby
414
1
Musee des Beaux Arts
415
1
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
416
2
In Memory of Sigmund Freud
418
2
Mundus et Infans
420
2
In Praise of Limestone
422
2
Their Lonely Betters
424
1
The Shield of Achilles
424
2
A Lullaby
426
1
A. D. HOPE (b. 1907)
427
7
Australia
428
1
Observation Car
429
1
The Lingam and the Yoni
430
1
Imperial Adam
431
2
Advice to Young Ladies
433
1
LOUIS MACNEICE (1907-1963)
434
4
Snow
435
1
Bagpipe Music
435
1
Brother Fire
436
1
The Libertine
437
1
Variation on Heraclitus
438
1
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)
438
8
Cuttings
439
1
Cuttings (later)
439
1
My Papa's Waltz
440
1
Dolor
440
1
The Waking
440
1
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
441
1
I Knew a Woman
442
1
Wish for a Young Wife
442
1
The Far Field
443
2
In a Dark Time
445
1
A. M. KLEIN (1909-1972)
446
5
Portrait of the Poet as Landscape
446
5
CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970)
451
7
THE MAXIMUS POEMS
452
1
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
452
3
Maximus, to Gloucester
455
3
Letter 2
455
3
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
458
10
The Man-Moth
458
1
The Fish
459
2
Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
461
2
The Armadillo
463
1
In the Waiting Room
464
2
Poem ("About the size of an old-style dollar bill")
466
1
One Art
467
1
JOSEPHINE MILES (1911-1985)
468
4
Preliminary to Classroom Lecture
468
1
Belief
469
1
Reason
469
1
[The Entrepreneur Chicken Shed His Tail Feathers, Surplus]
469
1
Fields of Learning
470
2
IRVING LAYTON (b. 1912)
472
3
The Birth of Tragedy
472
1
A Tall Man Executes a Jig
473
2
WILLIAM EVERSON (b. 1912)
475
9
Year's End
476
1
The Poet Is Dead
477
6
Tendril in the Mesh
483
1
IV. ("Daughter of earth and child of the wave")
483
1
Runoff
483
1
ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)
484
6
The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield
485
1
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
486
1
Those Winter Sundays
487
1
"Mystery Boy' Looks for Kin in Nashville"
487
1
A Plague of Starlings
488
1
A Letter from Phillis Wheatley
489
1
Bone-Flower Elegy
490
1
DUDLEY RANDALL (b. 1914)
490
5
Ballad of Birmingham
491
1
Booker T. and W. E. B.
492
1
A Poet Is Not a Jukebox
493
2
WILLIAM STAFFORD (b. 1914)
495
3
Traveling through the Dark
495
1
At the Bomb Testing Site
496
1
Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
496
1
Report to Crazy Horse
496
2
After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent
498
1
RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)
498
7
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
500
1
Eighth Air Force
500
1
A Girl in a Library
500
3
Next Day
503
2
JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)
505
4
A Professor's Song
506
1
THE DREAM SONGS
506
3
14 ("Life, friends is boring. We must not say so")
506
1
16 ("Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls")
507
1
75 ("Turning it over, considering, like a madman")
507
1
76 Henry's Confession
508
1
149 ("This world is gradually becoming a place")
508
1
312 ("I have moved to Dublin to have it out with you")
509
1
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)
509
7
The Hand That Signed the Paper
511
1
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
511
1
The Hunchback in the Park
512
1
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
513
1
Fern Hill
513
2
In My Craft or Sullen Art
515
1
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
515
1
JUDITH WRIGHT (b. 1915)
516
3
Bora Ring
516
1
Flood Year
517
1
"Dove-Love"
517
1
The Beanstalk, Meditated Later
518
1
Australia 1970
519
1
P. K. PAGE (b. 1916)
519
7
The Stenographers
520
1
Images of Angels
521
2
Photos of a Saltmine
523
1
Kaleidoscope
524
2
ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
526
13
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
528
4
Memories of West Street and Lepke
532
1
"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage"
533
1
Skunk Hour
534
1
For the Union Dead
535
2
Ezra Pound
537
1
Robert Frost
537
1
After the Convention
538
1
Dolphin
538
1
Epilogue
538
1
GWENDOLYN BROOKS (b. 1917)
539
8
A Song in the Front Yard
540
1
Sadie and Maud
540
1
The Lovers of the Poor
541
2
Boy Breaking Glass
543
1
The Blackstone Rangers
544
2
Young Africans
546
1
The Boy Died in My Alley
546
1
AL PURDY (b. 1918)
547
5
Winter Walking
548
1
The Madwoman on the Train
549
1
Lament for the Dorsets
550
2
Spinning
552
1
ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)
552
5
Poetry, a Natural Thing
554
1
Passage over Water
555
1
Childhood's Retreat
555
1
A Little Language
556
1
WILLIAM MEREDITH (b. 1919)
557
4
On Falling Asleep by Firelight
557
1
Bachelor
558
1
Crossing Over
559
1
Dying Away
560
1
KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944)
561
3
Aristocrats
561
1
Vergissmeinnicht
562
1
Soissons
563
1
Simplify Me When I'm Dead
563
1
HOWARD NEMEROV (b. 1920)
564
4
I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
565
1
Wolves in the Zoo
566
1
Reading Pornography in Old Age
566
1
More Joy in Heaven
567
1
AMY CLAMPITT (b. 1920)
568
4
Beach Glass
568
1
Gooseberry Fool
569
1
A Cure at Porlock
570
2
RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921)
572
7
The Pardon
573
1
Grasse: The Olive Trees
573
1
The Death of a Toad
574
1
Ceremony
575
1
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
575
1
Pangloss's Song
576
1
Playboy
577
1
The Writer
578
1
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)
579
8
Church Going
580
2
The Whitsun Weddings
582
2
MCMXIV
584
1
Sunny Prestatyn
585
1
High Windows
585
1
This Be the Verse
586
1
Sad Steps
586
1
The Explosion
587
1
ANTHONY HECHT (b. 1923)
587
5
"More Light! More Light!"
588
1
Sestina d'Inverno
589
1
The Deodand
590
2
An Old Malediction
592
1
JAMES DICKEY (b. 1923)
592
8
The Hospital Window
593
2
Buckdancer's Choice
595
1
Falling
596
4
DENISE LEVERTOV (b. 1923)
600
6
The Dog of Art
601
1
Matins
601
2
Song for Ishtar
603
1
Goodbye to Tolerance
604
1
Prisoners
605
1
Caedmon
605
1
RICHARD HUGO (1923-1982)
606
7
The Way a Ghost Dissolves
608
1
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
609
1
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
610
1
The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
611
1
Salt Water Story
612
1
MAXINE KUMIN (b. 1925)
613
4
Seeing the Bones
613
1
Spree
614
2
Video Cuisine
616
1
A. R. AMMONS (b. 1926)
617
8
Corsons Inlet
618
3
Small Song
621
1
The City Limits
621
1
Easter Morning
621
2
Singling & Doubling Together
623
1
Motion's Holdings
624
1
JAMES MERRILL (b. 1926)
625
13
The Broken Home
626
2
The Victor Dog
628
2
THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER
630
1
The Book of Ephraim
630
2
B
630
2
Mirabell's Books of Number
632
1
8.1 ("It starts in the small hours. An interlude")
632
1
8.2 ("7 MORE TO GO. DID THOSE FIRST VISITORS TO THE SICKROOM")
633
1
Coda: The Higher Keys
633
4
The Ballroom at Sandover
633
4
The Pier: Under Pisces
637
1
ROBERT CREELEY (b. 1926)
638
4
A Wicker Basket
639
1
The Window
640
1
"I Keep to Myself Such Measures..."
640
1
Self-Portrait
641
1
The Faces
641
1
ALLEN GINSBERG (b. 1926)
642
14
Howl
644
5
I ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...")
646
3
A Supermarket in California
649
1
America
650
2
To Aunt Rose
652
2
Mugging
654
2
FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)
656
3
Poem ("The eager note on my door said `Call me'")
657
1
The Day Lady Died
657
1
Why I Am Not a Painter
658
1
ROBERT BLY (b. 1926)
659
3
Johnson's Cabinet Watched by Ants
660
1
Evolution from the Fish
660
1
My Father's Wedding
661
1
GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927)
662
7
Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
663
2
The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
665
1
The Seekonk Woods
666
3
JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)
669
6
The Instruction Manual
670
2
The Tennis Court Oath
672
1
Knocking Around
673
1
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
674
1
Hard Times
675
1
W. S. MERWIN (b. 1927)
675
6
Leviathan
677
1
The Drunk in the Furnace
678
1
Home for Thanksgiving
678
1
Footprints on the Glacier
679
1
The Burnt Child
680
1
JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)
681
7
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
682
1
The Minneapolis Poem
682
2
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned
684
1
A Secret Gratitude
685
2
The Journey
687
1
PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)
688
3
To a Child Trapped in a Barbershop
689
1
They Feed They Lion
689
1
The Life Ahead
690
1
Genius
691
1
ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)
691
4
The Truth the Dead Know
692
1
All My Pretty Ones
693
1
The Starry Night
694
1
ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)
695
14
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
697
1
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
697
4
Orion
701
1
Diving into the Wreck
702
2
Twenty-One Love Poems
704
2
II ("I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming.")
704
1
XI ("Every peak is a crater. This is the law of volcanoes")
704
1
(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)
705
1
XX ("That conversation we were always on the edge")
705
1
XXI ("The dark lintels, the blue and foreign stones")
705
1
Yom Kippur 1984
706
3
THOM GUNN (b. 1929)
709
4
The Byrnies
710
1
My Sad Captains
710
1
Moly
711
1
Autobiography
712
1
Donahue's Sister
712
1
DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930)
713
10
A Far Cry from Africa
714
1
Codicil
715
1
Frederiksted, Dusk
716
1
Port of Spain
717
1
The Fortunate Traveller
717
6
GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)
723
7
Riprap
724
1
Four Poems for Robin
724
2
Axe Handles
726
1
Getting in the Wood
727
1
Geese Gone Beyond
728
1
The Grand Entry
728
1
Old Woman Nature
729
1
TED HUGHES (b. 1930)
730
5
The Thought-Fox
731
1
An Otter
731
1
Wodwo
732
1
Crow's First Lesson
733
1
Roe Deer
733
1
Orf
734
1
GEOFFREY HILL (b. 1932)
735
5
In Memory of Jane Fraser
735
1
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
736
1
September Song
736
1
Funeral Music
737
1
6 ("My little son, when you could command marvels")
737
1
8 ("Not as we are but as we must appear")
737
1
The Imaginative Life
738
1
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
738
2
1. Quaint Mazes
738
1
9. The Laurel Axe
739
1
11. Idylls of the King
739
1
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
740
7
Lady Lazarus
741
3
Ariel
744
1
Daddy
744
2
Blackberrying
746
1
AUDRE LORDE (b. 1934)
747
6
Coal
748
1
Love Poem
749
1
The Women of Dan Dance with Swords in Their Hands to Mark the Time When They Were Warriors
749
1
Power
750
1
Beams
751
2
IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
753
4
Political Poem
754
1
Legacy
755
1
Babylon Revisited
755
1
A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie!
756
1
JON STALLWORTHY (b. 1935)
757
6
A poem about Poems About Vietnam
758
1
A Letter from Berlin
759
1
The Almond Tree
760
3
JUNE JORDAN (b. 1936)
763
4
Onesided Dialog
764
1
You Came with Shells
764
1
Second Poem from Nicaragua Libre: War Zone
765
1
July 4, 1984: For Buck
765
1
DeLiza Spend the Day in the City
766
1
TONY HARRISON (b. 1937)
767
6
THE SCHOOL OF ELOQUENCE
768
1
Heredity
768
1
On Not Being Milton
768
1
Me Tarzan
769
1
Book Ends
770
1
Turns
771
1
Marked with D
771
1
Self Justification
772
1
Lines to My Grandfathers
772
1
DIANE WAKOSKI (b. 1937)
773
6
Belly Dancer
774
1
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
775
3
A Valentine for Ben Franklin Who Drives a Truck in California
778
1
MICHAEL HARPER (b. 1938)
779
8
American History
780
1
Debridement
780
7
SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939)
787
10
Requiem for the Croppies
788
1
Bogland
788
1
Punishment
789
2
The Strand at Lough Beg
791
1
The Otter
792
1
The Harvest Bow
793
1
Station Island
793
2
XII ("Like a convalescent, I took the hand")
793
2
Alphabets
795
2
MARGARET ATWOOD (b. 1939)
797
7
This Is a Photograph of Me
798
1
The Animals in that Country
798
1
Daguerreotype Taken in Old Age
799
1
Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture
800
2
Variations on the Word Love
802
1
Spelling
802
2
ROBERT PINSKY (b. 1940)
804
6
Doctor Frolic
804
1
The Figured Wheel
805
1
The Living
806
2
The Questions
808
2
MARILYN HACKER (b. 1942)
810
3
Canzone
810
1
Runaways Cafe II
811
1
Mythology
812
1
Coda
812
1
("Did you love well what very soon you left?")
812
1
DAVE SMITH (b. 1942)
813
4
Hole, Where Once in Passion We Swam
813
1
The Roundhouse Voices
814
2
Snapshot of a Crab-Picker Among Barrels Spilling Over, Apparently at the End of Her Shift
816
1
MICHAEL ONDAATJE (b. 1943)
817
6
Elizabeth
818
1
Letters & Other Worlds
819
2
Burning Hills
821
1
(Inner Tube)
822
1
JAMES TATE (b. 1943)
823
5
The Blue Booby
824
1
The Wheelchair Butterfly
825
1
The Lost Pilot
826
1
Poem to Some of My Recent Poems
827
1
A Wedding
828
1
CRAIG RAINE (b. 1944)
828
5
Nature Study
829
1
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
830
1
An Attempt at Jealousy
831
2
NORMAN DUBIE (b. 1945)
833
5
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals
833
2
Elizabeth's War with the Christmas Bear
835
1
Elegy for Wright & Hugo
836
1
Lamentations
837
1
LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948)
838
4
[It Was a Long Time Before]
839
1
In Cold Storm Light
840
1
Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story
840
2
MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL (b. 1949)
842
3
Inventors
843
1
Abandoning Your Car in a Snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virginia
844
1
Back from the Word-Processing Course, I Say to My Old Typewriter
845
1
JAMES FENTON (b. 1949)
845
6
A German Requiem
846
2
Dead Soldiers
848
2
God, A Poem
850
1
PAUL MULDOON (b. 1951)
851
4
The Big House
852
1
The Weepies
853
1
Making the Move
853
1
The Right Arm
854
1
Brock
854
1
GARY SOTO (b. 1952)
855
6
The Elements of San Joaquin
856
1
Wind [2]
856
1
Rain
857
1
The Map
857
1
The Tale of Sunlight
858
1
Making Money: Drought Year in Minkler, California
859
1
Oranges
860
1
RITA DOVE (b. 1952)
861
6
The House Slave
861
1
Banneker
862
1
Parsley
863
2
The Event
865
1
Weathering Out
865
1
The Great Palaces of Versailles
866
1
ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952)
867
4
Madre Sofia
868
1
A Dream of Husbands
869
1
A Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving
870
1
LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954)
871
4
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
871
1
Francine's Room
872
1
That Pull from the Left
873
1
Windigo
874
1
CATHY SONG (b. 1955)
875
7
Leaving
876
1
Beauty and Sadness
877
2
Lost Sister
879
1
Heaven
880
2
MODERN POETRY IN ENGLISH: A BRIEF HISTORY
882
15
Bibliography
897
26
Index
923