The American Voice Anthology of Poetry
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The American Voice Anthology of Poetry

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The American Voice Anthology of Poetry

About this book

The American Voice looks to find the vital edge of modern American writing. The journal, whose contributors come from the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, often publishes work by writers denied access to mainstream journals. Writings from its pages have been regularly reprinted in prize annuals such as The Pushcart Prize, Best American Poetry, and Best American Essays.

This fifteenth anniversary anthology collects eighty poems from some of the most original and daring writers of our time. The anthology's contributors range from the world famous Jorge Luis Borges, Marge Piercy, May Swenson to the newly emerging Marie Sheppard Williams, Suzanne Gardinier, Robyn Selman and from the nationally read Wendell Berry, Reynolds Price, Barbara Kingsolver to the distinctly regional George Ella Lyon, Jane Gentry, James Still.

This volume brings together some of the best selections from an award-winning journal, making clear why Small Press dubbed The American Voice one of the "most impressive journals in the country."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Paula Gunn Allen, The Text Is Flesh
  8. Yehuda Amichai, What I Learned in the Wars
  9. Wendell Berry, One of Us
  10. Michael Blumenthal, The Heart of Quang Due
  11. Jorge Luis Borges, One of Lee's Soldiers
  12. Diana Brebner, LabomreEst Orare
  13. Lee Ellen Briccetti, Sacred Heart
  14. Olga Broumas, Evensong
  15. Joseph Bruchac, Fixing the Barn
  16. Olga Cabral, Woman Ironing
  17. Ernesto Cardenal, "For Those Dead, Our Dead..."
  18. Barbara Carey, The Long Way Around
  19. Richard Chess, The Week
  20. Marilyn Chin, Autumn Leaves
  21. Jennifer Clement, Lady of the Haystack
  22. Jane Cooper, For a Birthday
  23. Pablo Antonio Cuadra, Poem of the Foreigners' Moment in Our Jungle
  24. Mark Doty, Broadway
  25. Sue Terry Driskell, So Much of My Garden Is Iris
  26. Odysseas Elytis, Anoint theAriston
  27. Elaine Equi, Puritans
  28. Jan Freeman, Gravity
  29. Tess Gallagher, Lynx Light
  30. Suzanne Gardinier, Where Blind Sorrow Is Taught to See
  31. Jane Gentry, My Mother's Clothes
  32. Sarah Gorham, Sonnet for the Last Empress of China
  33. E.J. Graff, By the Waters of Babylon
  34. Marilyn Hacker, Against Elegies
  35. James Baker Hall, Cape Light.
  36. Linda Hogan, Drum
  37. Lynda Hull, One Note Tolling
  38. Ha Jin, A Court Proposal
  39. Myrr Jonason, Winter Apples
  40. Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Music Lesson
  41. Jane Kenyon, After the Hurricane
  42. Barbara Kingsolver, Deadline
  43. Yusef Komunyakaa, Camouflaging the Chimera
  44. Natalie Kusz, Persistent Heat
  45. James Laughlin, The Wandering Words
  46. Dorianne Laux, Aphasia
  47. Li-Young Lee, A Story
  48. Ursula LeGuin, In that Desert
  49. Sabra Loomis, For Ishi
  50. George Ella Lyon, Silence.
  51. Carmen Matute, Guatemala, Your Name
  52. Medbh McGuckian, Skull-Light
  53. Sandra McPherson, Quilt of Rights.
  54. Jim Wayne Miller, Snafu
  55. Maureen Morehead, The New Stove
  56. Adrian Oktenberg, Woman, Embracing Tree
  57. Olga Orozco, Animal Catechism
  58. Brenda Marie Osbey, The Evening News
  59. Eric Pankey, Redemption Songs
  60. Suzanne Paola, Willow
  61. Linda Pastan, To a Daughter Leaving Home
  62. Marge Piercy, Dead Waters
  63. Reynolds Price, The Dream of Salt
  64. James Reiss, Sarah Shawcross
  65. Natasha Saje, Goodbye to Robert Graves
  66. Robyn Selman, Avec Amour
  67. Charles Semones, Backcountry
  68. AledaShirley, SmallTalk
  69. Dennis Silk, In Memoriam
  70. Eva Skrande, Lies
  71. Woodridge Spears, Entry
  72. James Still, Apples in the Well
  73. Ruth Stone, Metamorphosis
  74. Catherine Sutton, Graveyard Qui lt
  75. May Swenson, The Lone Pedestrian
  76. Richard Taylor, The Dialectic of Snow in the Phases of Wond er
  77. Jorge Teillier, In Memory of a Closed House
  78. Richard Tillinghast, The Worldls
  79. Edwina Trentham, An Unceasing Flow of Tea rs
  80. Jean Valentine, X: For Patrick Henisse, Dead of AIDS, In Me mory
  81. Reetika Vazirani, Amma's Ruby
  82. Cia White, Invitation
  83. Ruth Whitman, Exile: Jerusalem
  84. Marie Sheppard Williams, Sonya
  85. Daisy Zamora, Mother's Day
  86. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  87. About the Editor