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Tables of Contents for The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
A. R. AMMONS
Burnout in the Overshoot
1
1
The Gathering
1
4
JOHN ASHBERY
Endless Variation
5
1
By the Flooded Canal
6
1
Nothing to Steal
7
2
Wet Are the Boards
9
2
MARVIN BELL
Long Island
11
1
Tideline
12
1
Song for a Little Bit of Breath
13
1
Quilt, Dutch China Plate
14
1
A Path among the Dunes
15
1
WENDELL BERRY
From Sabbaths
16
3
MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL
Dusk: Mallards on the Charles River
19
1
What a Time!
20
1
The Tip of the Iceberg
21
2
PHILIP BOOTH
After the Rebuilding
23
1
Where Tide
23
2
Procession
25
1
North Haven
26
1
DAVID BOTTOMS
Ice
27
1
Naval Photograph: 25 October 1942: What the Hand May Be Saying
28
1
The Desk
29
3
HAYDEN CARRUTH
No Matter What, after All, and That Beautiful Word So
32
1
``Sure,'' Said Benny Goodman
33
1
Language As Inevitable Metaphor. Idea As Inevitable Figment
34
2
A Post-Impressionist Susurration for the First of November, 1983
36
2
FRED CHAPPELL
Webern's Mountain
38
1
Message
39
1
Forever Mountain
40
2
JOHN CIARDI
It Is for the Waking Man to Tell His Dreams
42
1
ALFRED CORN
Two Travelers on a Summer Evening
43
1
Prophet Bird
44
1
Naskeag
45
3
CARL DENNIS
A Letter on the Lake
48
1
Looking at a Photograph on My Forty-Fourth Birthday
49
1
Pen Pal
49
2
The Dream of Fair Women
51
1
WILLIAM DICKEY
Three Songs
52
2
Hootali Ajignat
54
1
STEPHEN DOBYNS
Spider Web
55
1
How to Like It
56
2
The Face in the Ceiling
58
3
RITA DOVE
A Hill of Beans
61
1
Wingfoot Lake
62
2
STEPHEN DUNN
Completion
64
1
A Birthday Gift
65
1
At the Smithville Methodist Church
66
3
RICHARD EBERHART
River Water Music
69
1
The Mystical Beast in the Shadows
69
1
Dead Skunk
70
1
White Pines, Felled 1984
71
1
The Angels
72
2
JOHN ENGELS
Revisit
74
1
Orchard
75
1
Goldfinch
76
1
Cardinals in the Ice Age
77
2
DONALD FINKEL
Waiting for the Wind
79
1
Oracle
79
1
Crumbs
80
1
Enough
81
1
JORIE GRAHAM
Self Portrait As Both Parties
82
2
Ravel and Unravel
84
2
MARILYN HACKER
Corona
86
3
April Interval I
89
2
PAMELA WHITE HADAS
Queen Charming
91
4
A Poem Not about a Zebra
95
1
Woman with Gardenia: a sketch
96
3
The Case of Ample Ora: Sweetness and Light
99
3
JOHN HAINES
The Vision of Marsden Hartley
102
1
From the Workshop of Brancusi and Giacometti
103
1
Ancestor of the Hunting Heart
104
2
DONALD HALL
The Henyard Round
106
2
Whip-poor-will
108
1
A Sister on the Tracks
109
1
Mr. Wakeville on Interstate 90
110
2
ANTHONY HECHT
The Book of Yolek
112
1
The Transparent Man
113
4
Meditation
117
3
Murmur
120
2
MARK JARMAN
Le Touquet
122
1
In Hell
122
3
Clues to Displaced Persons
125
2
ERICA JONG
In the Glass-Bottomed Boat
127
3
DONALD JUSTICE
Complaint of the Grandparents
130
1
Variation on Southern Themes
131
2
Tremayne
133
2
October
135
1
Villanelle at Sundown
136
1
X. J. KENNEDY
Abyss
137
1
Pont Mirabeau
138
1
Ambition
139
1
GALWAY KINNELL
The Fundamental Project of Technology
140
2
MAXINE KUMIN
Shelling Jacobs Cattle Beans
142
2
Grandchild
144
2
STANLEY KUNITZ
The Abduction
146
1
The Long Boat
147
1
Lamplighter: 1914
148
2
The Snakes of September
150
1
SYDNEY LEA
After Labor Day
151
3
Sereno
154
2
Telescope
156
2
Fall
158
2
PHILIP LEVINE
Look
160
2
Sweet Will
162
2
At Bessemer
164
1
Jewish Graveyards, Italy
165
3
Salts and Oils
168
3
PAUL MARIANI
Matadero, Riley & Company
171
3
Sarcophagus
174
2
News That Stays News
176
2
North/South
178
2
Goodnight Irene
180
3
WILLIAM MATTHEWS
The Accompanist
183
1
Prolific
184
1
Lucky and Unlucky
185
1
Clearwater Beach, Florida
186
1
Photo of the Author with a Favorite Pig
187
1
JAMES MERRILL
The Parnassians
188
1
JUDITH MOFFETT
The Price of Wildness
189
1
Hear Now the Fable of the Missing Link
189
3
FREDERICK MORGAN
The Christmas Tree
192
1
1904
193
1
Song
193
2
HOWARD MOSS
Heaven
195
1
It
196
1
CAROL MUSKE
Immunity
197
2
LEONARD NATHAN
Just Looking, Thank You
199
1
The Fall
200
1
Carrying On
201
2
JOHN FREDERICK NIMS
Gravity
203
2
Elegy
205
1
Hospital Breakfast: With Grace After
206
2
SHARON OLDS
I See My Girl
208
1
The Month of June: 13 1/2
209
1
Cambridge Elegy
210
2
CAROLE OLES
Preparing for Weather
212
1
To a Daughter at Fourteen Forsaking the Violin
213
1
Between Talcy and Mer
214
1
STEVEN ORLEN
Life Drawing
215
2
A House
217
2
GREGORY ORR
We Must Make a Kingdom of It
219
1
A Shelf Is a Ledge
220
1
The Voyages
221
1
ROBERT PACK
Clayfeld's Glove
222
3
Clayfeld's Twin
225
3
Clayfeld's Daughter Reveals Her Plans
228
3
Clayfeld's Anniversary Song
231
3
JAY PARINI
This Kampuchea
234
2
The Function of Winter
236
1
Skiing Home at Dusk
237
1
Suburban Swamp
238
1
LINDA PASTAN
Overture
239
1
Suffocation
240
1
The Death of a Parent
241
1
Last Words
242
2
Shadows
244
2
ROBERT PINSKY
Sonnet
246
1
The Want Bone
247
1
Icicles
248
1
STANLEY PLUMLY
Against Starlings
249
3
With Stephen in Maine
252
1
LAWRENCE RAAB
Familiar Landscapes
253
1
The Room
254
1
Desire and Revenge
255
1
This Day
256
2
IRA SADOFF
Why We Always Take Vacations by the Water
258
1
Nazis
259
2
Mood Indigo
261
1
Memorial Days
262
2
CHARLES SIMIC
Against Whatever It Is That's Encroaching
264
1
Ancient Autumn
265
1
Window Washer
266
1
October Arriving
267
1
JIM SIMMERMAN
Child's Grave, Hale Country, Alabama
268
1
Hide-and-Go-Seek
269
1
Whatever It Is
270
1
DAVE SMITH
Cooking Eggs
271
2
2000
273
1
A Pinto Mare
274
2
At Frost's Grave
276
1
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Burning a Book
277
1
Coming to Know
278
1
Pilgrims
278
1
Childish Things
279
1
GEORGE STARBUCK
Songs for the Old New Jersey Shelling the Shouf
280
1
Hardearned Overturned Caribbean Basin Stomp
281
1
The New Republic Is Infuriated at the News Coverage
282
1
GERALD STERN
I Sometimes Think of the Lamb
283
1
The Dog
284
1
This Was a Wonderful Night
285
2
ANNE STEVENSON
Hands
287
1
Shale
288
2
MARK STRAND
Always
290
1
The Continental College of Beauty
291
1
Franz
292
2
Ruins
294
2
RICHARD TILLINGHAST
Savannah, Sleepless
296
1
Firstness
297
1
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT
Landscape, Dense with Trees
298
1
The Lotus Flowers
299
2
The Storm
301
1
Short Story
302
1
The Farmer
303
2
DAVID WAGONER
On Motel Walls
305
1
Photographing a Rattlesnake
306
1
By a Waterfall
306
1
Sharp-shin
307
2
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Far West Once
309
1
Youthful Picnic Long Ago: Sad Ballad on Box
310
2
Why You Climbed Up
312
1
Old-Time Childhood in Kentucky
313
1
True Love
314
2
JAMES WHITEHEAD
A Natural Theology
316
1
How It Seemed to Him Away from Home
317
1
For Ellen after the Publication of Her Stories
318
1
RICHARD WILBUR
Lying
319
2
Hamlen Brook
321
1
The Ride
322
1
The Catch
323
2
Orchard Trees, January
325
1
NANCY WILLARD
Lullaby for Familiars
326
1
Science Fiction
327
1
A Wreath to the Fish
328
1
Poem Made of Water
329
2
MILLER WILLIAMS
A Poem for Emily
331
1
After the Revolution for Jesus the Associate Professor Prepares His Final Remarks
332
3
CHARLES WRIGHT
March Journal
335
2
Night Journal
337
3
PAUL ZIMMER
The Great Bird of Love over the Kingdom
340
1
The place
341
1
Blues for Old Dogs
342
3
Bibliography of Recent Work
345