The Poetry anthology, 1912-1977 : sixty-five years of America's most distinguished verse magazine
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.
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0395265487, 9780395265482, 0395268745, 9780395268742
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Table of Contents
To Whistler, American / Ezra Pound --
XOPIKOE / Richard Aldington --
General William Booth enters into heaven / Nicholas Vachel Lindsay --
Epigram / H.D. --
from Contemporania: Tenzone --
In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound --
Proof of immortality / William Carlos Williams --
Trees / Joyce Kilmer --
from Lustra: I, III / Ezra Pound --
from Irradiations: I, II, VI, X, XI / John Gould Fletcher --
Illicit / D.H. Lawrence --
Code --
Heroics / Robert Frost --
from Chicago poems: Chicago / Carl Sandburg --
Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
Magi / William Butler Yeats --
To KAANON / Ezra Pound --
Coming of war: Actaeon / Ezra Pound --
from Nineteen-fourteen: Peace --
Soldier / Rupert Brooke --
Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot --
from Discordants: IV / Conrad Aiken --
Answer / Sara Teasdale --
Beethoven / John Hall Wheelock --
Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens. Scholars / William Butler Yeats --
In memory of Bryan Lathrop / Edgar Lee Masters --
Lake isle / Ezra Pound --
from Epigrams / Rabindranath Tagore --
from Observations: La figlia che piange --
Mr. Apollinax --
Morning at the window / T.S. Eliot --
Wave symphony / Arthur Davison Ficke --
Marriage / William Carlos Williams --
From Trench poems: Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg --
from My people: In tall grass / Carl Sandburg --
Evening song / Sherwood Anderson --
Reciprocity / John Drinkwater --
from Figs from thistles: First fig --
Second fig --
Thursday / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Medicin Malgre Lui / William Carlos Williams --
Nostalgia / D.H. Lawrence --
from Propertius: IV / Ezra Pound --
Walt Whitman / Emanuel Carnevali --
Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
End of the comedy / Louis Untermeyer --
Horrid voice of science / Vachel Lindsay --
Song / Sara Teasdale --
from Pecksniffiana: Fabliau of Florida --
Weeping burgher --
Indigo glass in the grass --
Anecdote of the jar --
Curtains in the house of the metaphysician --
Paltry nude starts on a spring voyage / Wallace Stevens --
Danny / Malcolm Cowley --
To W.C.W.M.D. / Alfred Kreymborg --
Atavism / Elinor Wylie --
Cubist portrait / Marjorie Allen Seiffert. Golden fleece / Oscar Williams --
Poet at night-fall / Glenway Wescott --
from Sur ma guzzla gracile: Snow man --
Tea at the palaz of Hoon --
Another weeping woman --
Of the manner of addressing clouds --
Of heaven considered as a tomb / Wallace Stevens --
Witch of Coos / Robert Frost --
Wild orchard / William Carlos Williams --
In high places / Harriet Monroe --
from Beginning and end: Knowledge / Louise Bogan --
Monody to the sound of zithers / Kay Boyle --
from Wanderings: Champs d'honneur --
Chapter heading / Ernest M. Hemingway --
Pastoral / Marion Strobel --
Static autumn / Yvor Winters --
Flower-boat / Robert Frost --
Chicago / Lola Ridge --
From Three songs: Thessalian / Winifred Bryher --
from Contributions: For instance / Robert McAlmon --
from Body's head: Head itself / Laura Riding Gottschalk --
Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish --
Crimson tent / John Dos Passos --
At Melville's tomb / Hart Crane --
from Blue Juniata: Streets of air / Malcolm Cowley --
To a seaman dead on land / Kay Boyle --
In the beginning was a word / Robert Graves --
Contemporary / Hortense Flexner --
O Carib isle! / Hart Crane --
from Things known: Under the hill / Richard Eberhart --
Hoar frost / Morton Dauwen Zabel. Birds in snow / H.D. --
from Published correspondence: Epistle to the Rapalloan / Archibald MacLeish --
Marching song / George Dillon --
Sonnet [Women have loved before ...] / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
from Words on the wind: Fruit of loneliness / May Sarton --
Kansas City west bottoms / Edward Dahlberg --
Hypocrite swift / Louise Bogan --
Sailor / Langston Hughes --
from Sonnets of the blood I, II, IV, VII, IX / Allen Tate --
Kansas boy / Ruth Lechlitner --
Extract / Paul Frederic Bowles --
Winter night / Cecil Day Lewis --
Fearful symmetry / Basil Bunting --
Watershed / Robert Penn Warren --
from Part of a novel, part of a poem, part of a play: Steeplejack --
Hero / Marianne Moore --
from Urn: Reliquary --
Purgatorio --
Sad Indian --
Reply --
Enrich my resignation / Hart Crane --
Winter sketches / Charles Reznikoff --
from Magnetic mountain: Condemned / Cecil Day Lewis --
from "That's the American style": 4th of July / William Carlos Williams --
Empty dwelling places / Kenneth Patchen --
from Local habitation: On inhabiting an orange / Josephine Miller --
At Woodward's gardens / Robert Frost --
Night-music / Muriel Rukeyser --
"Long live the weeds" / Theodore Roethke --
Farewell / Harriet Monroe.
Journey to Iceland / W.H. Auden --
We lying by seasand / Dylan Thomas --
Poem [You, my photographer] / Delmore Schwartz --
My love was light / Thomas Lanier Williams --
from Two mornings and two evenings: Paris, 7 A.M. --
Miracle for breakfast --
From the country to the city --
Song / Elizabeth Bishop --
Past midnight / Edmund Wilson --
Bearded oaks / Robert Penn Warren --
At Carmel highlands / Janet Lewis --
[In the naked bed, in Plaot's cave / Delmore Schwartz --
Four poems / Dylan Thomas --
Marginal field / Stephen Spender --
Sense of the sleight-of-hand man / Wallace Stevens --
Sonnet [The crumbled rock of London] / Roy Fuller --
from Stanzas in meditation I, IV, V, VI / Gertrude Stein --
Perdita / Louis MacNeice --
Raleigh was right / William Carlos Williams --
[anyone lived in a pretty how town] / E.E. Cummings --
Things / Walter de la Mare --
Antiques / Walter de la Mare --
University / Edwin Muir --
Bloody sire / Robinson Jeffers --
Memory / Babette Deutsch --
Immanent / Walter de la Mare --
from Conscript: III / Peter De Vries --
To Violet / Basil bunting --
Henry James at Newport / Weldon Kees --
Upon the heavenly scarp / A.M. Klein --
Dark morning / Thomas James Merton --
Springboard / Louis MacNeice --
[what if a much of a which of a wind] / E.E. Cummings. Sigmund Freud / Howard Nemerov --
Emancipators / Randall Jarrell --
Tennis trophy / John Frederick Nims --
Dolor / Theodore Roethke --
Fable of the ant and the word / Mary Barnard --
First snow on an airfield / John Ciardi --
Losses / Randall Jarrell --
Poem in October / Dylan Thomas --
Journal / John Ciardi --
Part for the whole / Robert Francis --
Higher empiricism / Francis C. Golffing --
Poem for my twentieth birthday / Kenneth Koch --
from "Theory of vision" --
The green eye / James Merrill --
Return / Theodore Roethke --
Ghost / Robert Lowell --
Night of battle / Yvor Winters --
Motive / Muriel Rukeyser --
Broken bowl / James Merrill --
Love poem / John Frederick Nims --
Niagara Falls / Alan Dugan --
Schoolyard in April / Kenneth Koch --
"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious" / Paul Goodman --
Dirty word / Karl Shapiro --
Fat man in the mirror / Robert Lowell --
[if (touched by love's own secret) we, like homing] / E.E. Cummings --
Party / Margaret Avison --
Ultimate poem is abstract / Wallace Stevens --
Small prayer / Weldon Kees --
Return of the goddess Artemis / Robert Graves --
Death of a toad / Richard Wilbur --
from The metaphor --
4. Terror and love as fugitives / Henry Rago --
Traveler / John Berryman --
Lear / William Carlos Williams --
Sleeping beauty: variation of the prince / Randall Jarrell --
Children of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks --
from Things of August: 1, 3, 8 / Wallace Stevens. Cage / John Berryman --
Self unsatisfied runs everywhere / Delmore Schwartz --
Poem / Babette Deutsch --
Little ode / Paul Goodman --
"World without objects is a sensible emptiness" / Richard Wilbur --
Alceste in the wilderness / Anthony Hecht --
Beauty of things / Robinson Jeffers --
To an anthologist / Theodore Roethke --
Hotel de L'Univers et Portugal / James Merrill --
Foreboding / Robert Graves --
Instrument / Kathleen Raine --
Nijinsky / Parker Tyler --
Shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden --
After the Persian / Louise Bogan --
Then the ermine: / Marianne Moore --
from Paterson, Book V --
The river of heaven / William Carlos Williams --
Sestina in time of winter / Patrick Anderson --
From the embassy / Robert Graves --
Illiterate / William Meredith --
Prison song / Alan Dugan --
World of water / E.L. Mayo --
Marginalia / Richard Wilbur --
Alphabet / Karl Shapiro --
Horatian ode / Joseph Warren Beach --
Aging / Randall Jarrell --
Chez Jane / Frank O'Hara --
Island in the evening / Fairfield Porter --
High fidelity / Thom Gunn --
Landed: a valentine / Richard Howard --
Radio / Frank O'Hara --
Bachelor / William Meredith --
from Cycle of six lyrics --
O pearl and breasted world / George Barker --
Permanently / Kenneth Koch --
Birth of Venus / Constance Urdang --
Metamorphosis / Sylvia Plath --
from Inscriptions on Chinese paintings / Witter Bynner. Metaphysical / Robert Fitzgerald --
Approach to Theves / Stanley Kunitz --
Unsettles motorcyclist's vision of his death / Thom Gunn --
from King Midas --
The King's speech / Howard Moss --
Wreaths / Geoffrey Hill --
Mark of resistance / Adrienne Rich --
Morning letter / Robert Duncan --
Holding the mirror up to nature / Howard Nemerov --
In time of gold / H.D. --
Shepherd / William Stafford --
Mirror / James Merrill --
Demands of the muse / Vernon Watkins --
To the snake / Denise Levertov --
Skykomish River running / Richard F. Hugo --
Close-up / A.R. Ammons --
Fire at Alexandria / T. Weiss --
Death of myth-making / Sylvia Plath --
from The bean eaters --
We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Spider / Richard Eberhart --
Returning to roots of first feeling / Robert Duncan --
Nude descending a staircase / X.J. Kennedy --
Song / Robert Creeley --
In favor of one's time / Frank O'Hara --
Population / George Oppen --
Gravelly run / A.R. Ammons --
Inside the river / James Dickey --
[how many moments must (amazing each] / E.E. Cummings --
Illustration --
a footnote / Denise Levertov --
Blessing / James Wright --
For the passing of Groucho's pursuer / John Hollander --
Notes for a history of poetry / David Daiches --
Astronomers of Mont Blanc / Edgar Bowers --
Stars over the Dordogne / Sylvia Plath --
Black art / Anne Sexton. from Four dream songs: [The high ones die, die] / John Berryman --
Death's the classic look / John Ciardi --
From Heraclitus / Alan Dugan --
For his father / William Meredith --
Mad scene / James Merrill --
If the birds knew / John Ashbery --
Fever 103 [degrees] / Sylvia Plath --
from Nine dream songs: Snow line / John Berryman --
After Lorca / Ted Hughes --
Words / David Wagoner --
Seeing Auden off / Philip Booth --
Here lies ... / Stevie Smith --
Like Rousseau / Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) --
About my poems / Donald Justice --
Metaphysic of snow / Donald Finkel --
Things we dreamt we died for / Marvin Bell --
from Through the smoke hole / Gary Snyder --
"Wish to be believed" / Mona Van Duyn --
Correspondence-school instructor says goodbye to his poetry students / Galway Kinnell --
Swan and shadow / John Hollander --
Beast in the space / W.S. Graham --
Uses of poetry / Winfield Townley Scott --
Slowly, slowly wisdom gathers / Mark Van Doren --
Swmrhydyceirw elegiacs / Vernon Watkins --
Implosions / Adrienne Rich --
Cows at night / Hayden Carruth --
Demonstration Hugh Seidman --
King's men / William Heyen --
Fire Island / May Swenson --
Invocation / Denise Levertov --
Game / Stanley Kunitz --
Handbook of versification / Gilbert Sorrentino --
Counterparts / Stephen Dobyns --
Messenger / Thom Gunn --
Homosexuality / Frank O'Hara --
Hope / F.D. Reeve --
Black maps / Mark Strand. Nightletter / Charles Wright --
Play / A.R. Ammons --
Magi / Louise Gluck --
Climbing you / Erica Jong --
Lost / David Wagoner --
Life beside this one / John N. Morris --
Crematorium / John Betjeman --
Poetry / Greg Kuzma --
Vowels of another language / Tom Disch --
Dido: swarming / Kathleen Spivack --
Negatives / Charles Wright --
To D
, dead by her own hand /
Howard Nemerov --
Poet's farewell to his teeth / William Dickey --
Parabola / A.D. Hope --
On hearing a new escalation / Richard Hugo --
May, 1972 / James Schuyler --
Desire of water / Mark Jarman --
Death & Empedocles 444 B.C. / Horace Gregory --
Verse translator / John Frederick Nims --
Last days / Richard Hugo --
from The way down: They return / Jay Macpherson --
Elegy for yards, pounds, and gallons / David Wagoner --
from Songs of the transformed: Siren song / Margaret Atwood --
Ode to pornography / Jack Anderson --
Signs / Gjertrud Schnackenberg --
Pleasure of ruins / J.D. McClatchy --
Astronomer's journal / Jane Shore --
from Essay of psychiatrists XIV. Their speech, compared with wisdom and poetry / Robert Pinsky --
Younger poet / Peter Schjeldahl --
Waiting rooms / Howard Nemerov --
"Can I tempt you to a pond walk?" / James Schuyler --
Translation / Rika Lesser --
Fragmenti / Ezra Pound --
Ice-cream wars / John Ashbery.
Ash / Jayanta Mahapatra --
Poem [Green things are flowers] / Frank O'Hara --
On the pier / Brenda Hillman --
Hog heaven / Robert Siegel --
Ring / Diane Wakoski --
Antigua / Gary Soto --
Photographs of old New York / Alfred Corn --
Valentine for Matthew Arnold / William Logan --
from Three notes toward definitions: Of faith / Timothy Steele --
Elegy / Sandra M. Gilbert --
After the solstice / Daryl Hine --
Muse of satire / Mary Kutzie --
Man and boy / John N. Morris --
Love and how it becomes important in our day to day lives / Miller Williams --
from The Venetian vespers: III / Anthony Hecht --
Guild / Sharon Olds --
Strolls / A.R. Ammons --
One page in The American heritage dictionary / Carole Oles --
Poems / Tom Disch --
X ray / Dannie Abse --
Rest / Lawrence Raab --
Poem beginning with a life of Wittgenstein / Donald Hall --
For an early retirement --
Easter morning / A.R. Ammons --
Late echo / John Ashbery --
Waving goodbye / Gerald Stern --
After minor surgery / Linda Pastan --
Static / Barton Sutter --
Shape for it / Michael Ryan --
Closer / Albert Goldbarth --
June fourth / Gerald Stern --
Dying / Robert Pinsky --
Poetry bug / Barry Spacks --
Poet of our climate / Katha Pollitt --
Survivor, walking / Stephen Sandy --
Cloud creates / David Ignatow. On coming to nothing / Richard Moore --
Schedule of benefits / John N. Morris --
History of photography / Baron Wormser --
Diogenes tries to forget / Mary Karr --
Flesh tones / Richmond Lattimore --
from Images of China : Torture --
Chinese courtesy / Paul Engle --
Death / Thomas P. Lynch --
I am learning to abandon the world / Linda Pastan --
Dusting / Rita Dove --
What is left to say / Lisel Mueller --
Failing in the presence of ants / Gary Soto --
Edgewater Hospital / Albert Goldbarth --
Wings and seeds: for my birth mother / Sandra McPherson --
How to regain your soul / William Stafford --
Corners / Stephen Dunn --
Flirtation / Rita Dove --
Anthem / Anthony Hecht --
Sapphics / Daryl Hine --
Their bodies / David Wagoner --
Origin of order / Pattiann Rogers --
Boy shepherds' simile / David Bottoms --
Inverse proportions / Jack Matthews --
Doing the evolution shuffle / Alice Fulton --
from Chronometrics IV. Hourglass / Robert B. Shaw --
Chanson philosophique / Timothy Steele --
Narcissus and Echo / Fred Chappell --
My confessional sestina / Dana Gioia --
Bitch / Carolyn Kizer --
Poor angels / Edward Hirsch --
Dodona: asked of the oracle / Amy Clampitt --
Big cars / Wesley McNair --
Rearview mirror / Robert Morgan --
Disappointments of childhood / Michael Blumenthal --
Janus / Laurence Perrine --
Limerick. Cloud painter / Jane Flanders --
Reading the writing / John N. Morris --
Preparing to live among the old / Stephen Corey --
Flight / B.H. Fairchild --
Poet at eighteen / Dick Allen --
Happiness / Raymond Carver --
Sweet Will / Philip Levine --
Athene / Amy Clampitt --
Fierce girl playing hopscotch / Alice Fulton --
Why fortune is the empress of the world / Turner Cassity --
Cruising with the Beach Boys / Dana Gioia --
Fossil fuel / John Dickson --
According to Ovid / Bin Ramke --
Hawk Hill / Reynolds Price --
Illinois: at night, Black Hawk's statue broods / J.W. Rivers --
Calling / Maxine Kumin --
Oh keep the poet hence / Thomas Carper --
Written in my dream by W.C. Williams / Allen Ginsberg --
Cold quilt / Michael McFee --
In bed with a book / Mona Van Duyn --
Postscript to an elegy / Gibbons Ruark --
My two lives / Ernest Sandeen --
Elegy for John, my student dead of AIDS / Robert Cording --
And the grass did grow / Ralph Angel --
Pole vaulting / Maura Stanton --
Coming into history / Jeanne Murray Walker --
Morning jitter / John Ashbery --
Available now: archaic torsos of both sexes / Gregory Orr --
Refuge / Randy Blasing --
To my mother / Wendell Berry --
Prayer for my father / Robert Bly --
Armored hearts / David Bottoms --
Inverse square law of the propagation of light / Christopher Buckley --
Bearer / Hayden Carruth --
Against poetry / Sandra M. Gilbert. Coordinating conjunction / John Hollander --
Witness / David Ignatow --
Nurture / Maxine Kumin --
My ambition / James Laughlin --
After the alphabets / W.S. Merwin --
When I am asked / Lisel Mueller --
Waiting on Elvis, 1956 / Joyce Carol Oates --
Dreamwood / Adrienne Rich --
To his pulse / Robert B. Shaw --
Trolling for blues / Richard Wilbur --
We are listening / Diane Ackerman --
Reading the facts about Frost in The Norton anthology / George Starbuck --
Other-directed / Turner Cassity --
Lace makers / Stanley Moss --
Faberge's egg / Elizabeth Spires --
Breathing, the endless news / Rita Dove --
First reader / Billy Collins --
Sun king sulking / Peter Porter --
Heading out / Philip Booth --
For the Calvinists / Ben Howard --
Inspiration / Stephen Stepanchev --
Peasants waiting for rain / G.S. Sharat Chandra --
Summer at North Farm / Stephen Kuusisto --
Utopian melodies / Stephen Dobyns --
For the bullies of West Morris High / Steven Carmer --
from The six-cornered snowflake / John Frederick Nims --
Written in blood / Sue Owen --
Reading Lao Tzu again in the new year / Charles Wright --
Brieves from The book of Kells / R.T. Smith --
Forgetfulness / Billy Collins --
from An essay on friendship:VII / J.D. McClatchy --
Little essay on communication / Stephen Dunn --
Mrs. Adam / Kathleen Norris. Dead Cartesian / Chris Wallace-Crabbe --
Death of Antinous / Mark Doty --
Correspondence / Henri Coulette --
Evening walk / Charles Simic --
Tenth-year elegy / Neal Bowers --
As a child, sleepless / W.D. Snodgrass --
Defining time / Carl Dennis --
Not responsible / Caroline Finkelstein --
Quotations for a winter evening / David Jauss --
Take a hike / Jim Simmerman --
Out of our hands / Cathy Song --
Things of the world / Robert Sargent --
Chicamauga / Charles Wright --
We have not long to love / Tennessee Williams --
Few last lines of laundry / Eamon Grennan --
Tree of life / Margaret Holley --
Dead man interview / Neal Bowers --
Cave of AIDS / Mark Scott --
To a young diver / Marilyn Taylor --
Winged torso of Eros / Daniel Hall --
Final notations / Adrienne Rich --
Mingus at The Showplace / William Matthews --
Meaner than a junkyard dog: or, Turner's evil twin / Turner Cassity --
Search party / W.S. Merwin --
Apollo / Elizabeth Alexander --
Digs in Escondido Canyon / Walter McDonald --
You are right / Cathryn Essinger --
Adirondack moosehead / Jeffrey Harrison --
Having it out with melancholy / Jane Kenyon --
Last words / William Matthews --
Telegram from the muse --
Anniversary / William Greenway --
Soul / alan Shaprio --
Parents they whould be / Joe-Anne McLaughln-Carruth --
Resurrection of the body / Eric Pankey --
Balkan / Gabriel Spera --
not so good night in the San Pedro of the world / Charles Bukowski --
Music of the spheres / Robert Morgan.
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.
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ISBN
0395265487, 9780395265482, 0395268745, 9780395268742
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Includes index.
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An anthology of poems previously published in "Poetry" magazine during its sixty-five year history.
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Hine, D., & Parisi, J. (1978). The Poetry anthology, 1912-1977: sixty-five years of America's most distinguished verse magazine . Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hine, Daryl and Joseph Parisi. 1978. The Poetry Anthology, 1912-1977: Sixty-five Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hine, Daryl and Joseph Parisi. The Poetry Anthology, 1912-1977: Sixty-five Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Hine, D. and Parisi, J. (1978). The poetry anthology, 1912-1977: sixty-five years of america's most distinguished verse magazine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hine, Daryl,, and Joseph Parisi. The Poetry Anthology, 1912-1977: Sixty-five Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.
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