The American Poetry Anthology
eBook - ePub

The American Poetry Anthology

  1. 542 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The American Poetry Anthology

About this book

This book aims to gather a selection that represents the diversity and richness of American poetry written by poets who share a sophistication that promises to evolve, with continued effort and risk, a new and powerful poetic idiom.

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Contents

  1. AI
    1. Everything: Eloy, Arizona, 1956
    2. Why Can't I Leave You?
    3. Cuba, 1962
    4. Hangman
  2. JON ANDERSON
    1. The Blue Animals
    2. The Photograph of Myself
    3. The Parachutist
    4. John Clare
    5. In Autumn
    6. Years
  3. MARVIN BELL
    1. Treetops
    2. Residue of Song
    3. The Perfection of Dentistry
    4. Impotence
    5. Acceptance Speech
    6. Here
  4. MICHAEL BENEDIKT
    1. The Death of the Human Particle
    2. The Grand Guignols of Love
    3. Divine Love
    4. The European Shoe
  5. FRANK BIDART
    1. Herbert White
  6. MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE
    1. The Roof of the World
    2. Power Failure
    3. Hallowe'en 1971
    4. Iowa, June
    5. Paranoia
  7. LUCILLE CLIFTON
    1. Good Times
    2. Miss Rosie
    3. In Salem
    4. (the thirty eighth year)
  8. CONYUS
    1. The Great Santa Barbara Oil Disaster OR:
  9. PETER COOLEY
    1. Vanishing Point
    2. The Confession
    3. Alternatives
  10. PHILIP DACEY
    1. The Birthday
    2. The Obscene Caller
    3. Form Rejection Letter
  11. RITA DOVE
    1. Nigger Song: An Odyssey
    2. Adolescence—II
    3. This Life
  12. PHILIP DOW
    1. The Life
    2. The Duck Pond at Mini's Pasture, A Dozen Years Later
    3. Twilight in California
  13. NORMAN DUBIE
    1. Pastoral
    2. Balalaika
    3. The Killigrew Wood
    4. The Dressing Stations
    5. In the Dead of the Night
  14. STEPHEN DUNN
    1. Looking for a Rest Area
    2. On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers
    3. Day and Night Handball
  15. RUSSELL EDSON
    1. Children
    2. In All the Days of My Childhood
    3. The Childhood of an Equestrian
    4. A Performance at Hog Theatre
    5. The Retirement of the Elephant
  16. SUSAN FELDMAN
    1. Sea Legs
    2. Intruder
    3. Lamentations of an Au Pair Girl
    4. How The Invalids Make Love
  17. CAROLYN FORCHÉ
    1. Taking Off My Clothes
    2. Kalaloch
    3. Burning the Tomato Worms
  18. KATHLEEN FRASER
    1. What You Need
    2. Casa de Pollos
    3. Poem in Which My Legs Are Accepted
  19. TESS GALLAGHER
    1. Kidnaper
    2. The Horse in the Drugstore
    3. Breasts
    4. Stepping Outside
  20. GARY GILDNER
    1. First Practice
    2. Digging for Indians
    3. Meeting the Reincarnation Analyst
    4. The Life of the Wolf
  21. LOUISE GLÜCK
    1. All Hallows
    2. Gretel in Darkness
    3. The School Children
    4. The Racer's Widow
    5. Phenomenal Survivals of Death in Nantucket
    6. The Garden
  22. LINDA GREGG
    1. The Girl I Call Alma
    2. We Manage Most When We Manage Small
    3. Sigismundo
    4. The Beckett Kit
  23. MARILYN HACKER
    1. Presentation Piece
    2. Aube Provengale
    3. Villanelle
    4. Before the War
    5. After the Revolution
  24. DANIEL HALPERN
    1. Street Fire
    2. Fish
    3. The Landing
    4. Summer, 1970
    5. The Ethnic Life
  25. MICHAEL S. HARPER
    1. We Assume: On the Death of Our ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. AI
  7. JON ANDERSON
  8. MARVIN BELL
  9. MICHAEL BENEDIKT
  10. FRANK BIDART
  11. MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE
  12. LUCILLE CLIFTON
  13. CONYUS
  14. PETER COOLEY
  15. PHILIP DACEY
  16. RITA DOVE
  17. PHILIP DOW
  18. NORMAN DUBIE
  19. STEPHEN DUNN
  20. RUSSELL EDSON
  21. SUSAN FELDMAN
  22. CAROLYN FORCHÉ
  23. KATHLEEN FRASER
  24. TESS GALLAGHER
  25. GARY GILDNER
  26. LOUISE GLÜCK
  27. LINDA GREGG
  28. MARILYN HACKER
  29. DANIEL HALPERN
  30. MICHAEL S. HARPER
  31. JIM HARRISON
  32. ROBERT HASS
  33. WILLIAM HEYEN
  34. LAWSON FUSAO INADA
  35. THOMAS JAMES
  36. LAURA JENSEN
  37. ERICA JONG
  38. PETER KLAPPERT
  39. JUDITH KROLL
  40. GREG KUZMA
  41. AL LEE
  42. FRED LEVINSON
  43. LARRY LEVIS
  44. ELIZABETH LIBBEY
  45. THOMAS LUX
  46. WILLIAM MATTHEWS
  47. ANGELA McCABE
  48. DAVID McELROY
  49. HEATHER McHUGH
  50. JAMES McMICHAEL
  51. SANDRA McPHERSON
  52. ROBERT MEZEY
  53. PAUL MONETTE
  54. CAROL MUSKE
  55. JACK MYERS
  56. GREGORY ORR
  57. GREG PAPE
  58. JOHN PECK
  59. STANLEY PLUMLY
  60. LAWRENCE RAAB
  61. JAMES REISS
  62. KENNETH ROSEN
  63. MICHAEL RYAN
  64. IRA SADOFF
  65. DENNIS SCHMITZ
  66. HUGH SEIDMAN
  67. CHARLES SIMIC
  68. ROBERTA SPEAR
  69. KATHLEEN SPIVACK
  70. MAURA STANTON
  71. DAVID ST. JOHN
  72. TERRY STOKES
  73. BRIAN SWANN
  74. JAMES TATE
  75. DIANE WAKOSKI
  76. ALICE WALKER
  77. ROGER WEINGARTEN
  78. JAMES WELCH
  79. PETER WILD
  80. CHARLES WRIGHT
  81. DAVID YOUNG