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Tables of Contents for Poetry in Six Dimensions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xv
Tools for Reading Poetry
xvii
The First Dimension: Family
Generations
The Bee
3
2
James Dickey
Daughter
5
1
Kimiko Hahn
Those Winter Sundays
5
1
Robert Hayden
I Ask My Mother to Sing
6
1
Li-Young Lee
All My Pretty Ones
7
2
Anne Sexton
Legacy
Sestina
9
1
Elizabeth Bishop
Elegy
10
1
Rosario Castellanos
Sweet n'Sour
11
1
Genny Lim
Mother
12
1
Nancy Morejon
The Bathrobe
12
2
Sharon Olds
Change
Relocation
14
2
David Mura
To David, About His Education
16
1
Howard Nemerov
Rites of Passage
17
1
Sharon Olds
The Magician Suspends the Children
17
2
Carole Oles
Who Makes the Journey
19
2
Cathy Song
Loss and Restoration
Slipping
21
1
Joan Aleshire
Death of a Young Son by Drowning
22
1
Margaret Atwood
The Lost Boy
23
1
Gabrielle Glancy
The Beads
23
1
Jaime Jacinto
Father and Son
24
2
Stanley Kunitz
For the Father of Sandro Gulotta
26
1
Janet Lewis
Reverence
Nesting
27
1
Carol Clark
A Poem for Carol
28
1
Nikki Giovanni
Early in the Morning
29
1
Li-Young Lee
Family
30
1
Josephine Miles
Bathing the New Born
31
1
Sharon Olds
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
32
1
John Crowe Ransom
Farm Wife
32
1
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Star Quilt
33
14
Roberta Hill Whiteman
The Second Dimension: Portraits
Identity
This is a Photograph of Me
47
1
Margaret Atwood
Spinoza
48
1
Jorge Luis Borges
Calling All Chamacos
48
1
Jacinto Jesus Cardona
Claiming Gray
49
1
Norma Fifer
Sketch of the Frontier Woman
50
1
Claudia Lars
From the House of Yemanja
51
1
Audre Lorde
Mirror
52
1
Sylvia Plath
Canadians
53
1
Miriam Waddington
My Chinese Love
54
2
Nellie Wong
Survival
July Man
56
1
Margaret Avison
Housewife
57
1
Josephine Miles
Warren Pryor
57
1
Alden Nowlan
Ex-Basketball Player
58
1
John Updike
Patterns
Women
59
1
Louise Bogan
The Rites for Cousin Vit
59
1
Gwendolyn Brooks
Implosion
60
1
Diana Chang
Second Nature
61
1
Dina Chang
Patterns
62
3
Amy Lowell
She
65
2
Richard Wilbur
Objects of Regard
cutting greens
67
1
Lucille Clifton
The Silken Tent
67
1
Robert Frost
Black Silk
68
1
Tess Gallagher
Love Poem
68
1
John Frederick Nims
Elegy for Jane
69
1
Theodore Roethke
The Old One and the Wind
70
1
Clarice Short
Myths and Legends
Cassandra
71
1
Louise Bogan
Ruth
71
1
Philip Levine
The Anasazi Woman
72
2
Janet Lewis
The Ancient Ones: Betatakin
74
1
Janet Lewis
Houdini
75
1
Eli Mandel
Cinderella
75
3
Anne Sexton
Yonosa House
78
2
R.T. Smith
Heroes and Heroines
Dreams of a Baseball Star
80
1
Gregory Corso
The Lifeguard
81
2
James Dickey
Banneker
83
1
Rita Dove
Audubon
84
1
Lorine Niedecker
Eccentrics
Miss Havisham
85
1
Olga Orozco
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
86
1
Theodore Roethke
A Charm for Cantinflas
87
1
Muriel Rukeyser
Revolutionary Petunias
87
20
Alice Walker
The Third Dimension: Nature
Cycles and Seasons
On Nothing
107
1
Emily Hiestand
Dandelions
108
1
Howard Nemerov
Elegy for a Nature Poet
109
1
Howard Nemerov
Arctic Rhododendrons
110
1
Al Purdy
The Snow Man
111
1
Wallace Stevens
Spring and All
112
1
William Carlos Williams
Danger and Death
The Armadillo
113
1
Elizabeth Bishop
Angle of Geese
114
1
N. Scott Momaday
The Meadow Mouse
115
1
Theodore Roethke
Traveling through the Dark
116
1
William Stafford
The Death of a Toad
117
1
Richard Wilbur
Natural Forces
A Holiday
118
1
Margaret Atwood
The Reedbeds of the Hackensack
119
1
Amy Clampitt
Canoeing Upstream
120
1
Carol Clark
Fire
121
1
Joy Harjo
The Ancient Ones: Water
122
1
Janet Lewis
Some Beasts
123
1
Pablo Neruda
This Solitude of Cataracts
124
1
Wallace Stevens
Ode to Rot
125
1
John Updike
Still, Citizen Sparrow
126
2
Richard Wilbur
Survivors
Spiders
128
1
Diane Ackerman
Leviathan
128
2
W.S. Merwin
The Bear
130
1
N. Scott Momaday
The Frigate Pelican
130
2
Marianne Moore
The Hermit Crab
132
2
Mary Oliver
Transformations
A Palm Tree
134
1
Rosario Castellanos
Poem for an Afghan Hound
134
2
Fran Claggett
Whooping Cranes
136
1
Louise Erdrich
Changing
137
1
Barbara Meyn
Medallion
137
2
Sylvia Plath
Sow
139
1
Sylvia Plath
Saturday Morning Journal
140
2
Charles Wright
Wonder
This Fevers Me
142
1
Richard Eberhart
Deer on the Way to Work
142
1
Gabrielle Glancy
Small Animals at Night
143
1
Linda Hogan
Small Life
144
1
Linda Hogan
Lake
145
1
Octavio Paz
In Cold Storm Light
146
1
Leslie Marmon Silko
Hay for the Horses
147
1
Gary Snyder
The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws
148
1
Wallace Stevens
The Recognition
149
1
Roberta Hill Whiteman
A Blessing
149
20
James Wright
The Fourth Dimension: Places
Identity
Boy in Sunlight
169
1
Malcolm Cowley
The Return
170
1
Louise Erdrich
from My Life
171
2
Lyn Hejinian
Portsmouth Square
173
1
Genny Lim
The House
173
1
Gabriela Mistral
Wishes
174
1
Carlos Pellicer
Exile
175
1
Alejandra Pizarnik
Digging for China
176
1
Richard Wilbur
Mood
Houses like Angels
177
1
Jorge Luis Borges
Blue Tropic
177
2
Luis Cabalquinto
La Coste, Texas
179
1
Jacinto Jesus Cardona
Juke Box Love Song
179
1
Langston Hughes
Dolor
180
1
Theodore Roethke
Jazz Fantasia
180
1
Carl Sandburg
The Starry Night
181
1
Anne Sexton
Cemetery in the Snow
182
1
Xavier Villaurrutia
Geography
The Map
183
1
Elizabeth Bishop
White Bear
184
1
Joy Harjo
A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England
185
1
Denise Levertov
The Map
186
2
Gary Soto
History
The Empty House
188
1
Rosario Castellanos
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga
189
1
A.M. Klein
ashes and food
190
1
Alan Lau
Small Town with One Road
191
1
Gary Soto
The Virgins
192
2
Derek Walcott
Contrasts
The City Limits
194
1
A.R. Ammons
the birth in a narrow room
194
1
Gwendolyn Brooks
kitchenette building
195
1
Gwendolyn Brooks
Root Cellar
195
16
Theodore Roethke
The Fifth Dimension: Culture
Mythic Patterns
Musee des Beaux Arts
211
1
W.H. Auden
Stringing the Lyre
211
1
Kenneth Fields
Odysseus
212
1
W.S. Merwin
Carriers of the Dream Wheel
213
1
N. Scott Momaday
The Dance
214
1
William Carlos Williams
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
214
2
William Carlos Williams
Portraits
Kopis'taya (A Gathering of Spirits)
216
1
Paula Gunn Allen
Nobel Peace Prize
217
1
Cecilia Bustamante
Avocado Avenue
218
1
Jacinto Jesus Cardona
Some Painful Butterflies Pass Through
219
1
Tess Gallagher
As for Poets
220
2
Gary Snyder
Men in the City
222
1
Alfonsina Storni
Alli por la calle San Luis
223
1
Carmen Tafolla
Reapers
223
1
Jean Toomer
History
The Caged Bird
224
1
Maya Angelou
My Guilt
225
1
Maya Angelou
Yet Do I Marvel
226
1
Countee Cullen
{plato told}
226
1
E.E. Cummings
We Wear the Mask
227
1
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
228
1
Langston Hughes
Relics
228
1
Shirley Kaufman
Stones
229
1
Shirley Kaufman
Long Division: A Tribal History
230
1
Wendy Rose
Women
231
1
Alice Walker
Transition
We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra
232
1
Marilyn Chin
Dear John Wayne
233
1
Louis Erdrich
Mr. Z.
234
1
M. Carl Holman
Dinner Guest: Me
235
1
Langston Hughes
Suzie Wong Doesn't Live Here
236
1
Diane Mei-Lin Mark
Lost Sister
237
2
Cathy Song
Who Will Know Us
239
1
Gary Soto
Chinatown Talking Story
240
2
Kitty Tsui
Upheaval
Hiroshima Exit
242
1
Joy Kogawa
Pantoun for Chinese Women
243
1
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
The Natives
244
1
David Mura
Things That Are Worse Than Death
245
1
Sharon Olds
Between the World and Me
246
17
Richard Wright
The Sixth Dimension: Time
Youth and Age
The Ball Poem
263
1
John Berryman
Cherrylog Road
263
4
James Dickey
Birches
267
1
Robert Frost
Fishing
268
1
Linda Hogan
Helen Grown Old
269
1
Janet Lewis
Fifteen
270
1
William Stafford
Cycles and Rebirth
Late October
271
1
Maya Angelou
Once and Future
271
1
Diana Chang
The Groundhog
272
1
Richard Eberhart
The Wood-Pile
273
1
Robert Frost
Nevertheless
274
2
Marianne Moore
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
276
1
Richard Wilbur
Hopes and Dreams
De Vez En Cuando
277
1
Jacinto Jesus Cardona
The Crumbling Infrastructure
277
3
Tom Disch
Preservation
Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone
280
1
Rosario Castellanos
Saving
281
1
Linda Hogan
Inside the Great Pyramid
282
1
Gwendolyn Macewen
Things Breaking
283
1
Pablo Neruda
While Love Is Unfashionable
284
2
Alice Walker
The Vivid Past Remembered
Amapolasong
286
2
Jacinto Jesus Cardona
The Rocking Chair
288
1
A.M. Klein
Remembering You
289
1
Maxine Kumin
Scouting
289
14
Philip Levine
Glossary of Poetic Terms
303
12
About the Poets
315
16
About the Authors and Artist
331
2
Copyrights and Acknowledgments
333
12
Index of Titles and Authors
345