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From the Book - Third edition
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens
Letter to Will Bowen (February 6, 1870) [the matter of Hannibal] / Samuel Clemens
Roughing it / Samuel Clemens
The story of the old ram / Samuel Clemens
The gilded age / Samuel Clemens
Chapter 8-Colonel Beriah Sellers / Samuel Clemens
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Samuel Clemens
The art of authorship / Samuel Clemens
How to tell a story / Samuel Clemens
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg / Samuel Clemens
Letters from the Earth / Samuel Clemens
Letter IV / Samuel Clemens.
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
Novel-writing and novel-reading / W. D. Howells
Editha / W. D. Howells
Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce
Daisy Miller: a study / Henry James
The real thing / Henry James
The turn of the screw / Henry James
The beast in the jungle / Henry James
The art of fiction / Henry James
The wonderful tar-baby story / Joel Chandler Harris
Mr. Rabbit grossly deceives Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris
Free Joe and the rest of the world / Joel Chandler Harris
A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
The foreigner / Sarah Orne Jewett
The awakening / Kate Chopin.
A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington
Chapter XIV. The Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington
The Goophered grapevine / Charles W. Chesnutt
Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Twenty years at Hull-House / Jane Addams
Chapter IV. The snare of preparation
First days at Hull-House / Jane Addams
Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton
The souls of black folk / W. E. B. Dubois
III. of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others / W. E. B. Dubois.
Suggestions / Frank Norris
Frank Norris' weekly letter [truth and accuracy] / Frank Norris
Vandover and the brute / Frank Norris
Chapter nine / Frank Norris
An experiment in misery / Stephen Crane
The open boat / Stephen Crane
The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane
An episode of war / Stephen Crane
The black riders and other lines / Sephen Crane
Black riders came from the sea / Stephen Crane
A youth in apparel that glittered / Stephen Crane
I walked in a desert / Stephen Crane
A man feared that he might find an assassin / Stephen Crane
War is kind / Stephen Crane
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind / Stephen Crane
Fast rode the knight / Stephen Crane
A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices / Stephen Crane
A slant of sun on dull brown walls / Stephen Crane
A man said to the universe / Stephen Crane
a man adrift on a slim spar / Stephen Crane.
Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser
Chapter XLIV [the strike] / Theodore Dreiser
Old Rogaum and his Theresa / Theodore Dreiser
The law of life / Jack London
Impressions of an Indian childhood / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)
The school days of an Indian girl / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)
An Indian teacher among Indians / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)
The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams
Editor's prefance / Henry Adams
Preface / Henry Adams
Chapter I. Quincy / Henry Adams
Chapter XIX. Chaos / Henry Adams
Chapter XXV. The dynamo and the virgin / Henry Adams.
Black Elk speaks / Black Elk
Heyoka Ceremony / Black Elk
The first cure / Black Elk
The butchering at Wounded Knee / Black Elk
Serepta Mason / Edgar Lee Masters
Trainor, the druggist / Edgar Lee Masters
Doe Hill / Edgar Lee Masters
Margaret Fuller Slack / Edgar Lee Masters
Abel Melveny / Edgar Lee Masters
Lucinda Matlock / Edgar Lee Masters
Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson
George Crabbe / Edwin Arlington Robinson
The house on the hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson
The clerks / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Credo / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Verlaine / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Bewick Finzer / Edwin Arlington Robinson
The mill / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson
New England / Edwin Arlington Robinson.
The difference / Ellen Glasgow
My mortal enemy / Willa Cather
Neighbour Rosicky / Willa Cather
The good Anna / Gertrude Stein
The making of Americans / Gertrude Stein
The pasture / Robert Frost
Mowing / Robert Frost
The tuft of flowers / Robert Frost
Mending wall / Robert Frost
The death of the hired man / Robert Frost
Home burial / Robert Frost
A servant to servants / Robert Frost
After apple-picking / Robert Frost
The wood-pile / Robert Frost
The road not taken / Robert Frost
The old man's winter night / Robert Frost
The oven bird / Robert Frost
Birches / Robert Frost
'Out, out-' / Robert Frost
Fire and ice / Robert Frost
Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost
Stopping by woods on a snow evening / Robert Frost
A boundless moment / Robert Frost
Spring pools / Robert Frost
Once by the Pacific / Robert Frost
Two tramps in mud time / Robert Frost
Departmental / Robert Frost
Desert places / Robert Frost
Design / Robert Frost
Neither out far nor in deep / Robert Frost
Provide, provide / Robert Frost
The most of it / Robert Frost
The gift outright / Robert Frost
Directive / Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes / Robert Frost.
Winesburg, Ohio / Sherwood Anderson
Mother / Sherwood Anderson
Adventure / Sherwood Anderson
"Queer" / Sherwood Anderson
The egg / Sherwood Anderson
Chicago / Carl Sandburg
Halsted street car / Carl Sandburg
Child of the Romans / Carl Sandburg
Fog / Carl Sandburg
Prairie waters by night / Carl Sandburg
Cool tombs / Carl Sandburg
Grass / Carl Sandburg.
The snow man / Wallace Stevens
A high-toned old Christian woman / Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens
Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens
Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens
Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens
Gubbinal / Wallace Stevens
Peter Quince at the clavier / Wallace Stevens
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens
The death of a soldier / Wallace Stevens
The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens
A postcard from the volcano / Wallace Stevens
Study of two pears / Wallace Stevens
The sense of the sleight-of-hand man / Wallace Stevens
Of modern poetry / Wallace Stevens
Asides on the oboe / Wallace Stevens
An ordinary evening in New Haven / Wallace Stevens
The eye's plain version is a thing apart / Wallace Stevens
We keep coming back and coming back / Wallace Stevens
The poem is the cry of its occasion / Wallace Stevens
Professor Eucalyptus said "the search" / Wallace Stevens
If it should be true that reality exists / Wallace Stevens
The last leaf that is going to fall has fallen / Wallace Stevens
The plain sense of things / Wallace Stevens
A quiet normal life / Wallace Stevens.
The young housewife / William Carlos Williams
Portrait of a lady / William Carlos Williams
Willow poem / William Carlos Williams
Queen-Ann's-lace / William Carlos Williams
The widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams
Spring and all / William Carlos Williams
To Elsie / William Carlos Williams
The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
The dead baby / William Carlos Williams
The wind increases / William Carlos Williams
Death / William Carlos Williams
This is just to say / William Carlos Williams
Classic scene / William Carlos Williams
The term / William Carlos Williams
A sort of a song / William Carlos Williams
The dance ("in Brueghel's great picture, the Kermess") / William Carlos Williams
Burning the Christmas Greens / William Carlos Williams
Lear / William Carlos Williams
Paterson / William Carlos Williams
Sunday in the park / William Carlos Williams
The ivy crown / William Carlos Williams
Landscape with the fall of Icarus / William Carlos Williams
The dance ("when the snow falls the flakes") / William Carlos Williams.
Beauty / Elinor Wylie
Wild peaches / Elinor Wylie
Let no charitable hope / Elinor Wylie
One person / Elinor Wylie
In our content, before the autumn came / Elinor Wylie
I hereby swear that to uphold your house / Elinor Wylie
Pretty words / Elinor Wylie
Sonnet (How many faults you might accuse me of) / Elinor Wylie
To Whistler, American / Ezra Pound
Portrait d'une femme / Ezra Pound
A virginal / Ezra Pound
A pact / Ezra Pound
The rest / Ezra Pound
In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound
The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound
Villanelle: the psycological hour / Ezra Pound
Huge Selwyn Mauberley: life and contacts / Ezra Pound
Mauberley / Ezra Pound
The Cantos / Ezra Pound
And then went down to the ship / Ezra Pound
So that the vines burst from my fingers / Ezra Pound
With Usura / Ezra Pound.
Mid-day / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Oread / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Leda / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
At Baia / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Fragment / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Helen / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
The walls do not fall / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
To the stone-cutters / Robinson Jeffers
Boats in a fog / Robinson Jeffers
Shine, perishing Republic / Robinson Jeffers
Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers
November surf / Robinson Jeffers
Carmel Point / Robinson Jeffers
Vulture / Robinson Jeffers
Birds and fishes / Robinson Jeffers.
The past is the present / Marianne Moore
To a snail / Marianne Moore
New York / Marianne Moore
A grave / Marianne Moore
Poetry / Marianne Moore
Peter / Marianne Moore
The fish / Marianne Moore
The student / Marianne Moore
Bird-witted / Marianne Moore
Nevertheless / Marianne Moore
The mind is an enchanting thing / Marianne Moore
In distrust of merits / Marianne Moore
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot
Sweeney among the Nightengales / T. S. Eliot
Tradition and the individual talent / T. S. Eliot
Gerontion / T. S. Eliot
The waste land / T. S. Eliot
The hollow men / T. S. Eliot
Journey of the Magi / T. S. Eliot
Four quartets / T. S. Eliot
Burnt Norton.
Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill
Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom
Here lies a lady / John Crowe Ransom
Philomela / John Crowe Ransom
Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom
Janet waking / John Crowe Ransom
The equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom
Old mortality / Katherine Anne Porter
The fig tree / Katherine Anne Porter
The Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurston
How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay
I think I should have loved you presently / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Loving you less than life, a little less / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare / Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Never may the fruit be plucked / Edna St. Vincent Millay
In the grave no flower / Edna St. Vincent Millay
I too beneath your moon, almighty sex / Edna St. Vincent Millay
The snow storm / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ragged island / Edna St. Vincent Millay.
De profundis / Dorothy Parker
Resume / Dorothy Parker
General review of the sex situation / Dorothy Parker
Experience / Dorothy Parker
The waltz / Dorothy Parker
Thy fingers make early flowers of / E. E. Cummings
In just- / E. E. Cummings
O sweet spontaneous / E. E. Cummings
Buffalo Bill's / E. E. Cummings
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls / E. E. Cummings
Poem, or beauty hurts Mr. Vinal / E. E. Cummings
Nobody loses all the time / E. E. Cummings
"Next to of course God America I / E. E. Cummings
I sing of Olaf glad and big / E. E. Cummings
If there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have / E. E. Cummings
Somewhere I have never ravelled, gladly beyond / E. E. Cummings
Anyone lived in a pretty how town / E. E. Cummings
My father moved through dooms of love / E. E. Cummings
Pity this busy monster, manunkind / E. E. Cummings
What if a much of a which of a wind / E. E. Cummings
All ignorance toboggans into know / E. E. Cummings.
The night the bed fell / James Thurber
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
The unicorn in the garden / James Thurber
Cane / Jean Toomer
Georgia Dusk / Jean Toomer
Fern / Jean Toomer
Portrait in Georgia / Jean Toomer
Seventh Street / Jean Toomer
U.S.A. / John Dos Passos
The big money / John Dos Passos
Newsreel LXVIII / John Dos Passos
The camera eye (51) / John Dos Passos
Mary French / John Dos Passos
Vag / John Dos Passos
Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Medusa / Louise Bogan
Portrait / Louise Bogan
The alchemist / Louise Bogan
The crows / Louise Bogan
Women / Louise Bogan
Cassandra / Louise Bogan
Simple autumnal / Louise Bogan
Dark summer / Louise Bogan
Sonnet ("dark, underground, is furnished with the bone") / Louise Bogan
Song ("it is not now I learn") / Louise Bogan
Henceforth, from the mind / Louise Bogan
Kept / Louise Bogan
Several voices out of a cloud / Louise Bogan
Evening in the sanitarium / Louise Bogan
Song for the last act / Louise Bogan
Night / Louise Bogan.
As I lay dying / William Faulkner
Barn burning / William Faulkner
Walden / E. B. White
The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway
Chaplinesque / Hart Crane
At Melville's tomb / Hart Crane
Voyages / Hart Crane
Above the resh ruffles of the surf / Hart Crane
Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime / Hart Crane
The bridge / Hart Crane
Last days of Alice / Allen Tate
Sonnets at Christmas / Allen Tate
This is the day His hour of life draws near / Allen Tate
To the Lacedemonians / Allen Tate
Ode to the Confederate dead / Allen Tate.
The lost boy / Thomas Wolfe
The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes
Mother to son / Langston Hughes
Dream variations / Langston Hughes
Mulatto / Langston Hughes
Song for a dark girl / Langston Hughes
Young gal's blues / Langston Hughes
Morning after / Langston Hughes
Trumpet player / Langston Hughes
Dear Dr. Butts / Langston Hughes
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen
Incident / Countee Cullen
Heritage / Countee Cullen
From the dark tower / Countee Cullen
Uncle Jim / Countee Cullen
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
The old stone house / Edmund Wilson
Upstate / Edmund Wilson
Epilogue / Edmund Wilson.
Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov
Chapter 1 / Vladimir Nabokov
A discovery / Vladimir Nabokov
Petrified man / Eudora Welty
A streetcar named desire / Tennessee Williams
The country husband / John Cheever
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
Invisible man / Ralph Ellison
Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison
Seize the day / Saul Bellow
Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller
What you hear from 'em? / Peter Taylor
The man who studied yoga / Norman Mailer
The armies of the night / Norman Mailer
Toward a theater of ideas / Norman Mailer
A transfer of power / Norman Mailer
The fire next time / James Baldwin.
The life you save may be your own / Flannery O'Connor
Good country people / Flannery O'Connor
Life-story / John Barth
The bonfire of the vanities / Tom Wolfe
The master of the universe / Tom Wolfe
A movie star has to star in black and white / Adrienne Kennedy
The happiest I've been / John Updike
Separating / John Updike
Dog's death / John Updike
Defender of the faith / Philip Roth
The crying of lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon
Helping / Robert Stone
Golden gloves / Joyce Carol Oates
Drawing names / Bobbie Ann Mason
True west / Sam Shepard
Everyday use / Alice Walker
Weekend / Ann Beattie
Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko
The last of the menu girls / Denise Chavez
Lulu's boys / Louise Erdrich.
Poet's work / Lorine Niedecker
I married / Lorine Niedecker
My life by water / Lorine Niedecker
Lake Superior / Lorine Niedecker
He lived-childhood summers / Lorine Niedecker
Old mother / Lorine Niedecker
Watching dancers on skates / Lorine Niedecker
Well, Spring overflows the land / Lorine Niedecker
Paean to place / Lorine Niedecker
Audubon / Robert Penn Warren
Was not the lost Dauphin / Robert Penn Warren
Love and knowledge / Robert Penn Warren
Tell me a story / Robert Penn Warren
American portrait: old style / Robert Penn Warren
Acquaintance with time in early autumn / Robert Penn Warren
Doubleness in time / Robert Penn Warren
Mortal limit / Robert Penn Warren
Little girl wakes early / Robert Penn Warren
After the dinner party / Robert Penn Warren.
Cuttings / Theodore Roethke
Cuttings (later) / Theodore Roethke
Weed puller / Theodore Roethke
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze / Theodore Roethke
My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke
Night crow / Theodore Roethke
The lost son / Theodore Roethke
I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke
The far field / Theodore Roethke
Wish for a young wife / Theodore Roethke
The meadow mouse / Theodore Roethke
In a dark time / Theodore Roethke
The maximus poems / Charles Olson
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you / Charles Olson
Maximus, to himself / Charles Olson
When do poppies bloom / Charles Olson
Celestial evening, October 1967 / Charles Olson.
The unbeliever / Elizabeth Bishop
The fish / Elizabeth Bishop
Over 2,000 illustrations and a complete concordance / Elizabeth Bishop
The bight / Elizabeth Bishop
At the fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop
Questions of travel / Elizabeth Bishop
The armadillo / Elizabeth Bishop
Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop
In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop
The moose / Elizabeth Bishop
One art / Elizabeth Bishop
MIddle passage / Robert Hayden
Homage to the Empress of the blues / Robert Hayden
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
The night-blooming Cereus / Robert Hayden
Free fantasia: Tiger flowers / Robert Hayden
Beginnings / Robert Hayden
Elegies for Paradise Valley / Robert Hayden.
90 North / Randall Jarrell
The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell
Second Air Force / Randall Jarrell
The marchen / Randall Jarrell
Next day / Randall Jarrell
Well water / Randall Jarrell
Thinking of the lost world / Randall Jarrell
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet / John Berryman
Dream songs / John Berryman
Huffy Henry hid the day / John Berryman
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so / John Berryman
There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart / John Berryman
I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son / John Berryman
He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back / John Berryman
That's enough of that, Mr. Bones. Some lady you make / John Berryman
The marker slants, flowerless, day's almost done / John Berryman
My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying / John Berryman.
Colloquy in Black Rock / Robert Lowell
The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell
Mr. Edwards and the spider / Robert Lowell
My last afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow / Robert Lowell
Memories of West STreet and Lepke / Robert Lowell
Skunk hour / Robert Lowell
Soft wood / Robert Lowell
Night sweat / Robert Lowell
For the Union dead / Robert Lowell
Death of Anne Boleyn / Robert Lowell
Returning turtle / Robert Lowell
No hearing (1) / Robert Lowell
No hearing (2) / Robert Lowell
Epilogue / Robert Lowell.
A street in Bronzeville / Gwendolyn Brooks
Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks
The mother / Gwendolyn Brooks
A song in the front yard / Gwendolyn Brooks
The vacant lot / Gwendolyn Brooks
The white troops had their orders but the negroes looked like men / Gwendolyn Brooks
The womanhood / Gwendolyn Brooks
2 (What shall I give my children? who are poor) / Gwendolyn Brooks
The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks
The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks
The lovers of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks
The Blackstone Rangers / Gwendolyn Brooks
To the diaspora / Gwendolyn Brooks.
Often I am permitted to return to a meadow / Robert Duncan
A poem beginning with a line by Pindar / Robert Duncan
Doves / Robert Duncan
Seventeenth century suite / Robert Duncan
- Robert Southwell, the burning babe / Robert Duncan
A pretty babe-that burning babe / Robert Duncan
Achilles' song / Robert Duncan
A little language / Robert Duncan
Interrupted forms / Robert Duncan
The death of a toad / Richard Wilbur
Ceremony / Richard Wilbur
A world without objects is a sensible emptiness / Richard Wilbur
Year's end / Richard Wilbur
A baroque wall-fountain in the Villa Sciarra / Richard Wilbur
In the field / Richard Wilbur
The mind-reader / Richard Wilbur.
Drowning with others / James Dickey
The heaven of animals / James Dickey
Falling / James Dickey
To the snake / Denise Levertov
The Jacob's ladder / Denise Levertov
Illustrious ancestors / Denise Levertov
In mind / Denise Levertov
September 1961 / Denise Levertov
Olga poems / Denise Levertov
Everything flows / Denise Levertov
Now as if smoke or sweetness were blown my way / Denise Levertov
Black one, incubus- / Denise Levertov
Your eyes were the brown gold of pebbles under water / Denise Levertov
The 90th year / Denise Levertov
Death in Mexico / Denise Levertov
Zeroing in / Denise Levertov
The well / Denise Levertov
Caedmon / Denise Levertov.
The wa a ghost dissolves / Richard Hugo
Graves at Elkhorn / Richard Hugo
The lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir / Richard Hugo
Degrees of gray in Philipsburg / Richard Hugo
A snapshot of the auxiliary / Richard Hugo
Wheels of fortune / Richard Hugo
Making certain it goes on / Richard Hugo
So I said I am Ezra / A. R. Ammons
Hymn / A. R. Ammons
Still / A. R. Ammons
Corsons Inlet / A. R. Ammons
The city limits / A. R. Ammons
Grace abounding / A. R. Ammons
Easter morning / A. R. Ammons
Singling and doubling together / A. R. Ammons
Autonomy / A. R. Ammons
The dwelling / A. R. Ammons.
An urban convalescence / James Merrill
The broken home / James Merrill
Lost in translation / James Merrill
The changing light at Sandover / James Merrill
The book of Ephraim / James Merrill
M / James Merrill
Mirabell's books of number / James Merrill
9.1 / James Merrill
Coda: the higher keys / James Merrill
The ballroom at Sandover / James Merrill
In the dark / James Merrill
Kore / Robert Creeley
The door / Robert Creeley
For love / Robert Creeley
The messengers / Robert Creeley
For no clear reason / Robert Creeley
The finger / Robert Creeley
The birds / Robert Creeley
An illness / Robert Creeley
Fathers / Robert Creeley.
Howl / Allen Ginsberg
A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg
Sunflower sutra / Allen Ginsberg
To Aunt Rose / Allen Ginsberg
On Burroughs' work / Allen Ginsberg
Ego confession / Allen Ginsberg
To the harbormaster / Frank O'Hara
In memory of my feelings / Frank O'Hara
A step away from them / Frank O'Hara
The day Lady died / Frank O'Hara
Ave Maria / Frank O'Hara
The porcupine / Galway Kinnell
Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight / Galway Kinnell
Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell
The man splitting wood in the daybreak / Galway Kinnell
The fundamental project of technology / Galway Kinnell.
Illustration / John Ashbery
Soonest mended / John Ashbery
Self-portrait in a convex mirror / John Ashbery
Syringa / John Ashbery
The Lonedale operator / John Ashbery
The drunk in the furnace / W. S. Merwin
To my brother Hanson / W. S. Merwin
Daybreak / W. S. Merwin
For the anniversary of my death / W. S. Merwin
For a coming extinction / W. S. Merwin
September plowing / W. S. Merwin
Losing a language / W. S. Merwin
Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright
To the evening star, Central Minnesota / James Wright
A blessing / James Wright
A centenary ode: inscribed to Little Crow, leader of the Sioux rebellion in Minnesota, 1862 / James Wright
With the shell of a hermit crab / James Wright
A finch sitting out a windstorm / James Wright
Honey / James Wright
The sumac in Ohio / James Wright
The journey / James Wright.
Animals are passing from our lives / Philip Levine
Detroit grease shop poem / Philip Levine
They feed they lion / Philip Levine
On the murder of Lieutenant Jose del Castillo by the Falangist Bravo Martinez, July 12, 1936 / Philip Levine
Starlight / Philip Levine
The fox / Philip Levine
Winter words / Philip Levine
The truth the dead know / Anne Sexton
The starry night / Anne Sexton
Sylvia's death / Anne Sexton
You all know the story of the other woman / Anne Sexton
Lobster / Anne Sexton.
Storm warnings / Adrienne Rich
Snapshots of a daughter-in-law / Adrienne Rich
I am in danger-sir- / Adrienne Rich
Orion / Adrienne Rich
A valediction forbidding mourning / Adrienne Rich
Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich
Power / Adrienne Rich
Twenty-one love poems / Adrienne Rich
Wherever in this city, screens flicker / Adrienne Rich
Every peak is a crater. This is the law of volcanoes / Adrienne Rich
The floating poem. unnumbered / Adrienne Rich
Rain on the West side highway / Adrienne Rich
Can it be growing colder when I begin / Adrienne Rich
Transcendental etude / Adrienne Rich
For Ethel Rosenberg / Adrienne Rich
Edges / Adrienne Rich.
Milton by firelight / Gary Snyder
Riprap / Gary Snyder
August on sourdough, a visit from Dick Brewer / Gary Snyder
Beneath my hand and eye the distant hills. Your body / Gary Snyder
The blue sky / Gary Snyder
Song of the taste / Gary Snyder
Straight-Creek-great burn / Gary Snyder
Breasts / Gary Snyder
Morning song / Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath
Ariel / Sylvia Plath
Daddy / Sylvia Plath
Words / Sylvia Plath
Parliament Hill Fields / Sylvia Plath
Blackberrying / Sylvia Plath
Child / Sylvia Plath
Purdah / Sylvia Plath.
Coal / Audre Lorde
The woman thing / Audre Lorde
Black mother woman / Audre Lorde
Separation / Audre Lorde
From the house of Yemanja / Audre Lorde
Harriet / Audre Lorde
Chain / Audre Lorde
Call / Audre Lorde
An agony. as now / Imamu Amiri Baraka
A poem for Willie Best / Imamu Amiri Baraka
Will they cry when you've gone, you bet / Imamu Amiri Baraka
Dear John, dear Coltrane / Michael Harper
American history / Michael Harper
Deathwatch / Michael Harper
Martin's blues / Michael Harper
History as apple tree / Michael Harper
Bird lives: Charles Parker in St. Louis / Michael Harper
Nightmare begins responsibility / Michael Harper
Tongue-tied in black and white / Michael Harper
The militance of a photograph in the passbook of a Bantu under detention / Michael Harper.
Passing through Little Rock / Simon J. Ortiz
Earth and rain, the plants & sun / Simon J. Ortiz
Vision shadows / Simon J. Ortiz
When it was taking place / Simon J. Ortiz
Poems from the veterans hospital / Simon J. Ortiz
8:50 AM Ft. Lyons VAH / Simon J. Ortiz
Travelling / Simon J. Ortiz
From Sand Creek / Simon J. Ortiz
Geometry / Rita Dove
Adolescence-I / Rita Dove
Banneker / Rita Dove
Parsley / Rita Dove
Thomas and Beulah / Rita Dove
The event / Rita Dove
Straw hat / Rita Dove
The Zeppelin factory / Rita Dove
Dusting / Rita Dove
Pomade / Rita Dove
The Oriental ballerina / Rita Dove.
Madre Sofia / Alberto Rios
Wet camp / Alberto Rios
Taking away the name of a nephew / Alberto Rios
Advice to a first cousin / Alberto Rios
The famous boxer Reies Madero lives / Alberto Rios
Seniors / Alberto Rios
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