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Twentieth Century American Poetry By Dana Gioia

Twentieth Century American Poetry by Dana Gioia


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Presents an anthology of 59 essays on poetry by 54 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, this book collects diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhona Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, Ron Silliman, and others.

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Twentieth Century American Poetry by Dana Gioia

20th Century American Poetry is a comprehensive and chronological anthology of 59 essays on poetry by 54 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book collects diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhona Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, and also work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice Fulton, and Christian Wiman.

About Dana Gioia

David Mason grew up in Bellingham, Washington and has lived in Colorado, Alaska, New York, Pennsylvania and Greece. From 1989 to 1998, he taught at Moorhead State University, and he has since joined the faculty of his alma mater, The Colorado College. He received his doctorate from The University of Rochester. His two prize-winning collections of poems are The Buried Houses and The Country I Remember, both from Story Line Press. Chapbooks include Small Elegies and Land Without Grief. With Mark Jarman, he is co-editor of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism. He has also published a book of essays, The Poetry of Life, and serves as an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review. In 1997, he was a Fulbright Fellow to Greece. He is married to Anne Lennox, a photographer, and has a stepdaughter, Darcy.

Table of Contents

Preface REALISM AND NATURALISM HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Stephen Crane (1871-1900) Black riders came from the sea In the desert I stood upon a high place I saw a man pursuing the horizon I met a seer On the horizon the peaks assembled I walked in a desert A man feared that he might find an assassin Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind The wayfarer A man said to the universe My cross! A man adrift on a slim spar Edwin Markham (1852-1940) The Man with the Hoe Outwitted Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) An Obstacle Whatever Is Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) from Spoon River Anthology The Hill Anne Rutledge Editor Whedon Knowlt Hoheimer Lucinda Matlock Petit, the Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) The Clerks George Crabbe The House on the Hill Luke Havergal Richard Cory Reuben Bright How Annandale Went Out Miniver Cheevy Another Dark Lady Bewick Finzer Eros Turannos The Mill Mr. Flood's Party New England The Sheaves James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) O Black and Unknown Bards The Creation Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) We Wear the Mask Sympathy The Debt The Poet To a Captious Critic Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) Mnemosyne Near Helikon Sir, say no more Robert Frost (1874-1963) Mowing My November Guest Storm Fear The Tuft of Flowers After Apple-Picking The Death of the Hired Man Home Burial Mending Wall The Wood-Pile Birches Out, Out-- The Oven Bird The Road Not Taken Fire and Ice The Need of Being Versed in Country Things Nothing Gold Can Stay Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening To Earthward The Witch of CoA!s Acquainted With the Night Once by the Pacific Desert Places Design Neither Out Far Nor in Deep Provide Provide Come In The Gift Outright The Silken Tent Directive Sara Cleghorn (1876-1959) The Golf Links The Survival of the Fittest Alan Seeger (1888-1916) I Have a Rendezvous with Death John Allan Wyeth Jr. (1894-1980) The Train from Brest Corbie to Sailly-Le-Sec War in Heaven EARLY MODERNISM: FROM IMAGISM TO HIGH MODERNISM HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Amy Lowell (1874-1925) Patterns A Decade A Lover The Pond 1 Opal Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) from Tender Buttons A Blue Coat A Piano A Purse A Mounted Umbrella A Time to Eat A Fire A Handkerchief Red Roses Yone Noguchi (1875-1947) I Hear You Call, Pine Tree from Japanese Hokkus Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) November Night Triad The Warning Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Chicago Fog Limited Window Cool Tombs Grass Cahoots Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) General William Booth Enters into Heaven Factory Windows Are Always Broken The Voyage Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) The Snow Man Nuances of a Theme by Williams A High-Toned Old Christian Woman The Emperor of Ice-Cream Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock Sunday Morning Bantams in Pine-Woods Anecdote of the Jar To the One of Fictive Music Peter Quince at the Clavier Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird To the Roaring Wind The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad Evening Without Angels The Idea of Order at Key West A Postcard from the Volcano from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction The Course of a Particular Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour Of Modern Poetry The Plain Sense of Things Of Mere Being William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Aux Imagistes Danse Russe Dedication for a Plot of Ground El Hombre Tract Portrait of a Lady The Great Figure Queen-Anne's-Lace To Waken An Old Lady The Widow's Lament in Springtime Spring and All The Right of Way To Elsie The Red Wheelbarrow The Last Words of My English Grandmother This is Just to Say Flowers by the Sea The Yachts The Dance The Descent from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Sestina: Altaforte Portrait D'une Femme The Return Alba Coda The Coming of War: Acton The Garden The Garret Papyrus In a Station of the Metro The Jewel Stairs' Grievance Lament of the Frontier Guard The Rest The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter Salutation A Pact from Homage to Sextus Propertius Hugh Selwyn Mauberley from The Cantos Canto I (And then went down to the ship) Canto XLV (With Usura) Canto LXXXI (Libretto: Yet / Ere the season died a-cold) H. D. (1886-1961) Oread Garden Pear Tree The Pool Sea Rose Sea Violet Storm Eurydice At Baia Helen from The Walls Do Not Fall I (An incident here and there) II (Evil was active in the land) from The Flowering of the Rod 6 (So I would rather drown, remembering) Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) To the Stone-Cutters Boats in a Fog Shine, Perishing Republic Fawn's Foster-Mother Hurt Hawks Hands Shane O'Neill's Cairn New Mexican Mountain November Surf Ave Caesar Love the Wild Swan Rock and Hawk The Purse-Seine Carmel Point Marianne Moore (1887-1972) The Fish Poetry Poetry (Revised Version) Those Various Scalpels To a Steam Roller Marriage An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish A Graveyard New York The Steeple-Jack What Are Years? In Distrust of Merits The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes The Boston Evening Transcript Hysteria La Figlia che Piange Sweeney Among the Nightingales The Waste Land The Hollow Men Journey of the Magi Ash-Wednesday from Four Quartets Burnt Norton e. e. cummings (1894-1962) in Just- Buffalo Bill 's the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls next to of course god america i i sing of Olaf glad and big somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond may i feel said he r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r you shall above all things be glad and young anyone lived in a pretty how town my father moved through dooms of love pity this busy monster,manunkind o purple finch Witter Bynner (1881-1968) and Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945) The Spectra Hoax Opus 181 (Anne Knish) Opus 104 (Emanuel Morgan) Opus 40 (Emanuel Morgan) Opus 15 (Emanuel Morgan) THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958) The Black Finger Tenebris A Mona Lisa Fragment Claude McKay (1889-1948) If We Must Die The Lynching America My Mother The White City Outcast Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Seventh Street November Cotton Flower Georgia Dusk Reapers Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) Memphis Blues Mose Slim Greer Slim in Atlanta Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981) Hatred To a Dark Girl Langston Hughes (1902-1967) The Negro Speaks of Rivers I, Too Negro Cross The Weary Blues Dream Variations Song for a Dark Girl Mother to Son Park Bench 50--50 Ku Klux Morning After Madam's Past History Madam and the Census Man Island Harlem [Dream Deferred] Theme for English B Homecoming Dinner Guest: Me Countee Cullen (1903-1946) For a Lady I Know For Paul Laurence Dunbar Heritage Incident Yet Do I Marvel From the Dark Tower To Certain Critics MODERNIST ALTERNATIVES: ROMANTICS AND NEO-CLASSICISTS HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) Over the Roofs There Will Come Soft Rains Since There Is No Escape Water Lilies In a Darkening Garden Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) The Eagle and the Mole Wild Peaches From the Wall Let No Charitable Hope Prophecy John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter Winter Remembered Blue Girls Dead Boy Piazza Piece Conrad Aiken (1889-1978) from Senlin: A Biography Morning Song of Senlin from Priapus and the Pool When trout swim down Great Ormond Street John Peale Bishop (1892-1944) Perspectives are Precipices My Grandfather Kept Peacocks Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Ars Poetica The End of the World The Silent Slain You, Andrew Marvell Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied First Fig Second Fig I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear Recuerdo Passer Mortuus Est What Lips My Lips Have Kissed Love Is Not All Hearing Your Words, and Not a Word Among Them Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Comment One Perfect Rose Resume Unfortunate Coincidence Sanctuary Loui se Bogan (1897-1970) The Alchemist The Crows Medusa Memory Women Knowledge Cassandra Henceforth, from the Mind The Sleeping Fury Spirit's Song Song for the Last Act The Dream Night Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943) American Names 1936 Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) from A Gallery of Harlem Portraits Sootie Joe An Ex-Judge at the Bar Dark Symphony Hart Crane (1899-1932) Praise for an Urn Garden Abstract At Melville's Tomb Black Tambourine Chaplinesque My Grandmother's Love Letters Voyages The Wine Menagerie from The Bridge To Brooklyn Bridge Royal Palm The Broken Tower Allen Tate (1899-1979) Ode to the Confederate Dead The Subway Robert Francis (1901-1987) Hallelujah: A Sestina Catch Yes, What? Richard Eberhart (b. 1904) The Fury of Aerial Bombardment Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Bearded Oaks Evening Hawk What Voice at Moth-Hour MID-CENTURY POETS HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) Cuttings Cuttings (later version) Root Cellar Dolor My Papa's Waltz Elegy for Jane The Waking I Knew a Woman In a Dark Time from North American Sequence: The Longing Journey to the Interior The Far Field Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) The Fish The Map At the Fishhouses The Armadillo Filling Station Questions of Travel Visits to St. Elizabeths In the Waiting Room The Moose One Art J. V. Cunningham (1911-1985) For My Contemporaries In the Thirtieth Year To My Wife To What Strangers, What Welcome Epigrams Josephine Miles (1911-1985) Reason Riddle Conception Album Robert Hayden (1913-1980) The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield Frederick Douglass Middle Passage Night, Death, Mississippi Those Winter Sundays The Whipping A Plague of Starlings John Frederick Nims (1913-1999) Dedication: Love Poem Epigrams Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) Effort at Speech Between Two People To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century Double Dialogue The Poem as Mask Poem John Berryman (1914-1972) Desires of Men and Women from The Dream Songs Huffy Henry hid the day (1) Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so (14) I am the little man who smokes & smokes (22) There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart (29) The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done (384) Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) Losses The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 90 North The Woman at the Washington Zoo Next Day Weldon Kees (1914-1955) For My Daughter Crime Club River Song Robinson Aspects of Robinson 1926 Round Dudley Randall (1914-2000) Ballad of Birmingham Booker T. and W. E. B. A Different Image William Stafford (1914-1993) The Farm on the Great Plains Traveling through the Dark Ask Me At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border Our Kind Thomas Merton (1915-1968) For my Brother: Reported Missing in Action, 1943 The Reader Margaret Walker (1915-1998) For Malcolm X John Ciardi (1916-1986) Most Like an Arch This Marriage Firsts Thomas McGrath (1916-1990) Ars Poetica: or: Who Lives in the Ivory Tower? Jig Tune: Not for Love The Buffalo Coat Remembering the Children of Auschwitz Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) The Mother Sadie and Maud Southeast Corner But Can See Better There, and Laughing There The Rites for Cousin Vit The Bean Eaters We Real Cool The Blackstone Rangers The Coora Flower Robert Lowell (1917-1977) Concord The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Memories of West Street and Lepke Skunk Hour For the Union Dead Waking Early Sunday Morning History Epilogue William Jay Smith (b. 1918) A Note on the Vanity Dresser Galileo Galilei American Primitive May Swenson (1919-1989) Question Four-Word Lines Strawberrying OPEN FORM: OBJECTIVISTS, BEATS, BLACK MOUNTAIN POETS HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Laura Riding (1901-1991) Helen's Burning The Map of Places The World and I Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) Dirge 1938 Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970) The Element Mother Sorrow moves in wide waves Poet's work I knew a clean man Autumn Sequence Autumn Last night the trash barrel The boy tossed the news Popcorn-can cover Truth Lights, lifts O late fall He lived--childhood summers Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) Non Ti Fidar A Song for the Year's End Starglow Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) A Very Early Morning Exercise Andree Rexroth Vitamins and Roughage The Signature of All Things George Oppen (1908-1984) from Discrete Series: The knowledge not of sorrow, you were Leviathan The Bicycles and the Apex The Building of the Skyscraper Psalm from Of Being Numerous Strange that the youngest people I know Charles Olson (1910-1970) Maximus, to himself La Chute William Everson / Brother Antoninus (1912-1944) These Are the Ravens Advent The Making of the Cross Robert Duncan (1919-1988) The Temple of the Animals Poetry, a Natural Thing This Place Rumored to Have Been Sodom Roots and Branches The Torso (Passages 18) Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) In Goya's Greatest Scenes Denise Levertov (1923-1997) ... Else a great Prince in prison lies The Ache of Marriage Hypocrite Women O Taste and See Our Bodies Prisoners Samuel Menashe (b. 1925) O Many Named Beloved The Shrine Whose Shape I Am Self Employed At a Standstill Curriculum Vitae Jack Spicer (1925-1965) Conspiracy A Book of Music A. R. Ammons (1926-2001) Gravelly Run The Constant The City Limits Cut the Grass Viable Robert Creeley (b. 1926) I Know a Man Heroes Oh No For Love The Rain I Keep to Myself Such Measures ... Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) America Howl A Supermarket in California Gary Snyder (b. 1930) Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout Riprap Water Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen Axe Handles POST-WAR FORMALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: FROM FORMALISM TO FEMINISM AND THE CONFESSIONAL MODE HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) A Primer of the Daily Round The Blue Swallows The Western Approaches Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry The Makers The War in the Air Mona Van Duyn (b. 1921) Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri Causes Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) The Beautiful Changes The Pardon Love Calls Us to Things of This World Cottage Street, 1953 Piccola Commedia To the Etruscan Poets The Writer Hamlen Brook The Ride Howard Moss (1922-1987) The Pruned Tree Tourists James Dickey (1923-1997) The Performance The Heaven of Animals The Lifeguard The Sheep Child Anthony Hecht (b. 1923) Adam The Dover Bitch A Hill The Book of Yolek The Mysteries of Caesar Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-seven Richard Hugo (1923-1982) Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg Driving Montana Louis Simpson (b. 1923) Early in the Morning The Man Who Married Magdalene To the Western World American Poetry My Father in the Night Commanding No The Unwritten Poem A Clearing Donald Justice (b. 1925) Counting the Mad n Bertram's Garden On the Death of Friends in Childhood But That Is Another Story Men at Forty Variations on a Text by Vallejo Psalm and Lament Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925) from Pro Femina: I. From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women II. I take as my theme The Independent Woman III. I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket Bitch Maxine Kumin (b. 1925) At the End of the Affair How It Is The Retrieval System Noted in The New York Times W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926) April Inventory Leaving the Motel Disposal James Merrill (1926-1995) The Broken Home The Mad Scene Last Words Casual Wear Donald Hall (b. 1928) My Son My Executioner Names of Horses Ox Cart Man Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Her Kind The Abortion The Truth the Dead Know Wanting to Die X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929) In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day Little Elegy Loose Woman The Waterbury Cross Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) Aunt Jennifer's Tigers The Diamond Cutters Living in Sin Peeling Onions Diving into the Wreck From a Survivor Rape Power from An Atlas of the Difficult World Dedications Tattered Kaddish Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) The Colossus Metaphors Blackberrying Mirror Daddy Mo rning Song Lady Lazarus Edge Anne Stevenson (b. 1933) The Victory Generations The Marriage Making Poetry Alas AMERICAN INTERNATIONALISM: SURREALISM, DEEP IMAGE, AND NEW YORK SCHOOL HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Barbara Guest (b. 1920) Green Revolutions Poem Edward Field (b. 1924) Curse of the Cat Woman Roaches John Haines (b. 1924) Winter News The Flight Night The Ghost Towns Robert Bly (b. 1926) Waking from Sleep The Busy Man Speaks Counting Small-Boned Bodies Johnson's Cabinet Watched by Ants Romans Angry About the Inner World Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) Today Poem (The eager note on my door said 'call me') To the Harbormaster The Day Lady Died Autobiographia Literaria Homosexuality Why I Am Not a Painter John Ashbery (b. 1927) Some Trees My Erotic Double Paradoxes and Oxymorons At North Farm Just Walking Around W. S. Merwin (b. 1927) Air The Animals For a Coming Extinction For the Anniversary of My Death The Last One Some Last Questions Rain Travel James Wright (1927-1980) Complaint Saint Judas Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio A Blessing Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Twilights The Life Philip Levine (b. 1928) On the Edge Animals are Passing from Our Lives To a Child Trapped in a Barber Shop They Feed They Lion You Can Have it Mark Strand (b. 1934) Keeping Things Whole Eating Poetry Charles Wright (b. 1935) The New Poem Clear Night Stone Canyon Nocturne California Dreaming Charles Simic (b. 1938) Fear My Shoes Fork Eyes Fastened with Pins Classic Ballroom Dances James Tate (b. 1942) The Lost Pilot Teaching the Ape to Write Poems The Chaste Stranger RETURN TO REALISM: REGIONALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Miller Williams (b. 1930) On a Photograph of my Mother at Seventeen Ruby Tells All Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) Haiku Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane The Idea of Ancestry The Warden Said to Me the Other Day A Poem for Myself Rhina Espaillat (b. 1932) Agua Bilingual / Bilingue 1 Bra Linda Pastan (b. 1932) Journey's End Ethics 1932- Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note Legacy Black Bourgeoisie Audre Lorde (1934-1992) Coal Father Son and Holy Ghost October N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) Simile Carriers of the Dream Wheel The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee The Eagle-Feather Fan Headwaters Fred Chappell (b. 1936) Narcissus and Echo Epigrams Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) Good Times Homage to my hips to my last period C. K. Williams (b. 1936) Hood From My Window Elms Bernice Zamora (b. 1938) Penitents Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra Oakland Blues Jared Carter (b. 1939) Work, for the Night Is Coming The Gleaning Stephen Dunn (b. 1939) Beautiful Women Decorum Ted Kooser (b. 1939) Abandoned Farmhouse The Blind Always Come as Such a Surprise Tom Ball's Barn Spring Plowing Carrie CONTEMPORARY VOICES HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OVERVIEW Robert Pinsky (b. 1940) Shirt 2000 Billy Collins (b. 1941) Embrace Lowell, Mass. The Dead Robert Hass (b. 1941) Black Mountain, Los Altos Heroic Simile Meditation at Lagunitas Lyn Hejinian (b. 1942) from My Life from Redo, 1-5 Nostalgia is the elixir drained Charles Martin (b. 1942) Taken Up E. S. L. Metaphor of Grass in California Sharon Olds (b. 1942) The Language of the Brag The One Girl at the Boys' Party Rites of Passage Sex Without Love Louise Gluck (b. 1943) The School Children The Gift Elms Mock Orange The Gold Lily Circe's Power Michael Palmer (b. 1943) All those words we once used ... Of this cloth doll which Autobiography Mary Kinzie (b. 1944) The Tattooer The Same Love Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (b. 1944) To Li Po My Father's Sadness Learning to love America B. H. Fairchild (b. 1945) The Death of a Small Town A Starlit Night Kay Ryan (b. 1945) Paired Things Turtle Bestiary Chemise Don't Look Back Mockingbird Adrian C. Louis (b. 1946) Without Words Looking for Judas Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946) 1990 The Ballad of Aunt Geneva 1990 How I Discovered Poetry 1990 Thus Far by Faith Ron Silliman (b. 1946) from The Chinese Notebook, Sections 1-25 AI (b. 1947) Child Beater Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) Facing It Starlight Scope Myopia Tu Do Street Banking Potatoes Amy Uyematsu (b. 1947) Deliberate The Ten Million Flames of Los Angeles R. S. Gwynn (b. 1948) Untitled Body Bags 1-800 David Lehman (b. 1948) Rejection Slip First Lines Heather McHugh (b. 1948) The Trouble with In Earthmoving Malediction Timothy Steele (b. 1948) Sapphics Against Anger The Sheets Summer Wendy Rose (b. 1948) Vanishing Point: Urban Indian For the White Poets Who Would Be Indian Carolyn Forche (b. 1950) The Morning Baking The Colonel Dana Gioia (b. 1950) The Next Poem Planting a Sequoia William Logan (b. 1950) After a Line by F. Scott Fitzgerald Small Bad Town Jorie Graham (b. 1951) Mind Over and Over Stitch Erosion Joy Harjo (b. 1951) She Had Some Horses Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951) The Hereafter Dead Christ Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952) Quincea--era The Lesson of the Sugarcane Rita Dove (b. 1952) Adolescence- I Adolescence- II Adolescence - III Daystar Alice Fulton (b. 1952) What I Like The Expense Of Spirit Mark Jarman (b. 1952) Ground Swell from Unholy Sonnets: Hands Folded After the Praying Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952) Famous The Traveling Onion Mark Doty (b. 1953) Fog Homo Will Not Inherit Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. 1953) The Paperweight Supernatural Love Kim Addonizio (b. 1954) First Poem for You Stolen Moments Francisco X. Alarcon (b. 1954) The X in my Name Border David Mason (b. 1954) Spooning Song of the Powers Benjamin Alire Saenz (b. 1954) Resurrections To the Desert Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954) Welcome to Hiroshima The Age of Reason Cathy Song (b. 1955) Beauty and Sadness Stamp Collecting Jacqueline Osherow (b. 1956) Song for the Music in the Warsaw Ghetto Ghazal: Comet H. L. Hix (b. 1960) No Less Than Twenty-Six Distinct Necronyms Reasons Rafael Campo (b. 1964) My Childhood in Another Part of the World What the Body Told Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) Indian Boy Love Song (#2) from The Native American Broadcasting System: I am the essence of powwow, I am The Powwow at the End of the World Marisa de los Santos (b. 1966) Perfect Dress Christian Wiman (b. 1966) What I Know Larissa Szporluk (b. 1967) Vertigo Diane Thiel (b. 1967) Memento Mori in Middle School Kevin Young (b. 1970) Quivira City Limits Acknowledgments Index of Authors and Titles

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