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Tables of Contents for The KGB Bar Book of Poems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preamble
xiii
 
Denis Woychuk
Introduction
xv
 
David Lehman
Poets on Poets
1
3
Nin Andrews
from ``Mirrors''
4
4
Sarah Arvio
Will
8
6
L. S. Asekoff
New Constructions
14
4
John Ashbery
It Says, I Did So
18
3
Mary Jo Bang
Snow-Day
21
4
Judith Baumel
Your Character Is Your Destiny
25
2
Erin Belieu
See It Does Rise
27
1
April Bernard
For the Twentieth Century
28
2
Frank Bidart
Happy Hour
30
2
Walid Bitar
from Balefire
32
5
Star Black
The Day We Visited New Orleans
37
2
Robert Bly
Confessional
39
2
Tom Breidenbach
Zohar
41
4
Tom Carey
Evensong
45
2
Marc Cohen
Tomes
47
5
Billy Collins
Astropastoral
52
4
Douglas Crase
St. Francis and the Nun
56
2
Carl Dennis
The Agreement of Predicate Pronouns
58
2
Tom Disch
Sex with a Famous Poet
60
6
Denise Duhamel
Autobiographical Poem
66
2
Elaine Equi
Argument
68
3
Jonathan Galassi
Two Girls
71
3
Suzanne Gardinier
Failure
74
3
Dana Gioia
Murder
77
2
Lucy Grealy
In the Grove
79
3
Rachel Hadas
The GWB in the Rain
82
4
Mary Stewart Hammond
Performance Poem
86
5
Bob Holman
A Reading
91
2
Virginia Hooper
Mrs. Eden in Town for the Day
93
3
Richard Howard
Sixth Grade
96
3
Marie Howe
When One Is Feeling One's Way
99
5
Lawrence Joseph
Harm
104
2
Vickie Karp
Oracular Degeneration
106
3
Karl Kirchwey
Gaudy Slave Trader
109
2
Wayne Koestenbaum
Chastity Belt
111
2
Yusef Komunyakaa
Bluebird in Cutleaf Beech
113
3
Wendy Wilder Larsen
The Novelist Speaks
116
5
Ann Lauterbach
The Prophet's Lantern
121
3
David Lehman
Translation
124
3
Rika Lesser
Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City
127
2
Thomas Lux
The House Style
129
4
Elizabeth Macklin
Blues
133
2
Pierre Martory
Two Men, Two Grapefruits
135
2
Donna Masini
Bishop Reading
137
2
J. D. McClatchy
A Window at Key West
139
4
Honor Moore
Hard Drive
143
1
Paul Muldoon
Milk
144
4
Eileen Myles
Philosophical Songs
148
3
Charles North
The Lake
151
4
Geoffrey O'Brien
Poem
155
1
Michael O'Brien
Breakfast with Cats
156
4
Molly Peacock
from ``Rain, Clouds, Eight Thousand Miles of Roads''
160
3
Wang Ping
Overheard in the Love Hotel
163
3
Robert Polito
Mind-Body Problem
166
3
Katha Pollitt
Five Wishes
169
3
Anne Porter
Of Joy Illimited: Polyphonic Soundings: Shore to Ship
172
2
Anna Rabinowitz
The Big Bad Art Thing
174
7
Carter Ratcliff
Singing to Tony Bennett's Cock
181
3
Victoria Redel
It Being Forbidden
184
3
Martha Rhodes
Airports of the World
187
3
Eugene Richie
Gail
190
2
Hugh Seidman
The Scholar
192
2
Vijay Seshadri
Old Poems
194
3
David Shapiro
6/20/97
197
2
Harvey Shapiro
The Lives of Alchemists
199
2
Charles Simic
Equality
201
2
Hal Sirowitz
Santa Monica
203
3
Charlie Smith
The Night, The Porch
206
2
Mark Strand
Postmodern Maturity
208
7
Tony Towle
Moonshine Sonata
215
2
John Tranter
Of Mere Plastic
217
4
David Trinidad
The Hazards of Imagery
221
8
Paul Violi
Create Desire
229
2
Karen Volkman
The Need for Attention
231
4
William Wadsworth
White Nights
235
3
Lewis Warsh
Produce, Produce
238
3
Susan Wheeler
Nature Study
241
3
Trevor Winkfield
Cicada Blue
244
5
Charles Wright
Acknowledgments
249