The Penguin anthology of twentieth-century American poetry
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New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
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Table of Contents
The hill / Edgar Masters
Fiddler Jones / Edgar Masters
Petit, the poet / Edgar Masters
Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Robinson
Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Robinson
The creation / James Johnson
The poet / Paul Dunbar
Life's tragedy / Paul Dunbar
The death of the hired man / Robert Frost
Mending wall / Robert Frost
Birches / Robert Frost
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
Tree at my window / Robert Frost
Directive/ Robert Frost
Patterns / Amy Lowell
Susie Asado / Gertrude Stein
A box / Gertrude Stein
A plate / Gertrude Stein
I sit and sew/ Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Grass / Carl Sandburg
Cahoots / Carl Sandburg.
Peter Quince at the clavier / Wallace Stevens
Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens
Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens
Of mere being / Wallace Stevens
Fragment / Angelina Grimke
Tract / William Williams
Danse Russe / William Williams
The red wheelbarrow / William Williams
The yachts / William Williams / From Asphodel, that greeny flower (book 1, lines 1-92) / William Williams
Moonlight / Sara Teasdale
There will come soft rains / Sara Teasdale
The jewel stairs' grievance / Ezra Pound
The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound
In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound
From Canto LXXXI (Libretto: "Yet/Ere the season died a-cold") / Ezra Pound
Sea rose / Hilda Doolittle
Helen / Hilda Doolittle
From The walls do not fall: 1("an incident here and there") / Hilda Doolittle
From Hermetic Definition: "Red rose and a beggar" / Hilda Doolittle.
Gale in April / Robinson Jeffers
Shine, perishing republic / Robinson Jeffers
Clouds at evening / Robinson Jeffers
Credo / Robinson Jeffers
The fish / Marianne Moore
Poetry / Marianne Moore
Poetry / Marianne Moore
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot
Preludes / T. S. Eliot
The waste land / T. S. Eliot
If we must die / Claude McKay
The Harlem dancer / Claude McKay
Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish
First fig / Edna Millay
Recuerdo / Edna Millay
In just / E. E. Cummings
Buffalo Bill's / E. E. Cummings
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls / E. E. Cummings
Next to of course God America I / E. E. Cummings
Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond / E. E. Cummings
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / E. E. Cummings.
Reapers / Jean Toomer
November cotton flower / Jean Toomer
Portrait in Georgia / Jean Toomer
Medusa / Louise Bogan
New moon / Louise Bogan
Dark symphony / Melvin Tolson
From Harlem gallery: psi (blackboy, /let me get up from the white man's table...") / Melvin Tolson
Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane
From II: Powhatan's daughter: the river / Hart Crane
Silent poem / Robert Francis
The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes
I, too / Langston Hughes
Dream boogie / Langston Hughes
Harlem / Langston Hughes
Incident / Countee Cullen
To John Keats, poet, at spring time / Countee Cullen
Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen
From the dark tower / County Cullen
Father and son / Stanley Kunitz
The portrait / Stanley Kunitz
Touch me / Stanley Kunitz
Musee des beaux arts / W. H. Auden
Epitaph on a tyrant / W. H. Auden.
My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke
The waking / Theodore Roethke
In a dark time / Theodore Roethke
From the maximus poemts: I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you / Charles Olson
The distances / Charles Olson
The fish / Elizabeth Bishop
Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop
First death in Nova Scotia / Elizabeth Bishop
Visits to St. Elizabeths / Elizabeth Bishop
One art / Elizabeth Bishop
Mourning poem for the Queen of Sunday / Robert Hayden
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden
Middle passage / Robert Hayden
Effort at speech between two people / Muriel Rukeyser
Then I saw what the calling was / Muriel Rukeyser
The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser
The heavy bear who goes with me / Delmore Schwartz
From the dream songs / John Berryman
4 ("Filling her compact & delicious body") / John Berryman
14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") / John Berryman
29 ("There sat down, once") / John Berryman
149 ("This world is gradually becoming a place") / John Berryman
Henry's understanding / John Berryman.
90 North / Randall Jarrell
The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell
The woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell
Next day / Randall Jarrell
For my daughter / Weldon Kees
A different image / Dudley Randall
Traveling through the dark / William Stafford
At the bomb testing site / William Stafford
Scars / Ruth Stone
For my people / Margaret Walker
The mother / Gwendolyn Brooks
A song in the front yard / Gwendolyn Brooks
The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks
The lovers of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
The Blackstone Rangers / Gwendolyn Brooks
"To speak of woe that is in marriage" / Robert Lowell
Skunk hour / Robert Lowell
For the Union dead / Robert Lowell
Often I am permitted to return to a meadow / Robert Duncan
My mother would be a falconress / Robert Duncan
Populist manifesto / Lawrence Ferlighetti
Parents / William Meredith
Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry / Howard Nemerov.
The hyacinth garden in Brooklyn / Hayden Carruth
August 1945 / Hayden Carruth
Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur
Cottage Street / Richard Wilbur
The writer / Richard Wilbur
The sheep child / James Dickey
Love song: I and thou / Alan Dugan
"More light! more light!" / Anthony Hecht
Degrees of gray in Philipsburg / Richard Hugo
The freaks at Spurgin Road field / Richard Hugo
The poem unwritten / Denise Levertov
Caedmon / Denise Levertov
Swan in falling snow / Denise Levertov
American poetry / Louis Simpson
A muse of water / Carolyn Kizer
Fresh air / Kenneth Koch
Permanently / Kenneth Koch
Morning swim / Maxine Kumin
How it is / Maxine Kumin
Behaving like a Jew / Gerald Stern
The dancing / Gerald Stern
Another insane devotion / Gerald Stern
The city limits / A. R. Ammons
Corsons Inlet / A. R. Ammons.
Snowfall in the afternoon / Robert Bly
Driving to town late to mail a letter / Robert Bly
Waking from sleep / Robert Bly
The flower / Robert Creeley
I know a man / Robert Creeley
The language / Robert Creeley
The rain / Robert Creeley
Bresson's movies / Robert Creeley
The victor dog / James Merrill
Steps / Frank O'Hara
Poem ("Lana Turner has collapsed!") / Frank O'Hara
The day Lady died / Frank O'Hara
Some trees / John Ashbery
Self-portrait in a convex mirror / John Ashbery
What is poetry / John Ashbery
The bear / Galway Kinnell
After making love we hear footsteps / Galway Kinnell
Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell
Air / W. S. Merwin
For the anniversary of my death / W. S. Merwin
Yesterday / W. S. Merwin
Chord / W. S. Merwin.
A blessing / James Wright
Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright
Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota / James Wright
In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been condemned / James Wright
My son my executioner / Donald Hall
Digging / Donald Hall
Animals are passing from our lives / Philip Levine
They feed they lion / Philip Levine
You can have it / Philip Levine
The simple truth / Philip Levine
Her kind / Anne Sexton
The abortion / Anne Sexton
Wanting to die / Anne Sexton
In celebration of my uterus / Anne Sexton
Rowing / Anne Sexton
Orion / Adrienne Rich
Planetarium / Adrienne Rich
A valediction forbidding mourning / Adrienne Rich
From twenty-one love poems: XIII ("The rules break like a thermometer...") / Adrienne Rich
Marriage / Gregory Corso
Hay for the horses / Gary Snyder
Riprap / Gary Snyder
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Gary Snyder.
A far cry from Africa / Derek Walcott
Sea grapes / Derek Walcott
From the schooner flight (part 11, after the storm: "There's a fresh light that follows...") / Derek Walcott
The light of the world / Derek Walcott
From Omeros, Book VII, LXIV, i ("I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son...") / Derek Walcott
Let me tell you / Miller Williams
The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / Amiri Baraka
An agony. as now. / Amiri Baraka
SOS / Amiri Baraka
Black art / Amiri Baraka
Wrong train / Ted Berrigan
A final sonnet / Ted Berrigan
Power / Audre Lorde
Poem at thirty / Sonia Sanchez
The prediction / Mark Strand
The night, the porch / Mark Strand
A stone is nobody's / Russell Edson
Singapore / Mary Oliver
The summer day / Mary Oliver
Reunion / Charles Wright
Dead color / Charles Wright
California dreaming / Charles Wright.
Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton
[At last we killed the roaches] / Lucille Clifton
The death of Fred Clifton / Lucille Clifton
To my last period / Lucille Clifton
Poem about my rights / June Jordan
1968 / Frederick Seidel
From my window / C. K. Williams
Blades / C. K. Williams
The mechanic / Diane Wakoski
Dear John, dear Coltrane / Michael Harper
Last affair: Bessie's blues song / Michael Harper
Grandfather / Michael Harper
Nightmare begins responsibility / Michael Harper
Stone / Charles Simic
Fork / Charles Simic
Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic
Grandmother / Paula Allen
Ellen West / Frank Bidart
Spring letter / Carl Dennis
Two or three wishes / Carl Dennis
Allegory of the cave / Stephen Dunn
Tucson / Stephen Dunn
History of my heart / Robert Pinsky
The questions / Robert Pinsky
Samurai song / Robert Pinsky.
Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat / James Welch
Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins
The dead / Billy Collins
Allen Ginsber / Toi Derricotte
The weakness / Toi Derricotte
How to like it / Stephen Dobyns
Lullaby/ Stephen Dobyns
Song / Robert Hass
The pornographer / Robert Hass
The return of Robinson Jeffers / Robert Hass
From my life: a name trimmed with colored ribbons / Lyn Heijinian
The machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano / B. H. Fairchild
But he was cool or: he even stopped for green lights / Haki Madhubuti
A poem to compliment other poems / Haki MAdhubuti
In memory of the Utah stars / William Matthews
The accompanist / William Matthews
The language of the brag / Sharon Olds
The lifting / Sharon Olds
Barbed wire / Henry Taylor
Black silk / Tess Gallagher
Under stars / Tess Gallagher
I do not / Michael Palmer
The lost pilot / James Tate
Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear / Norman Dubie
The funeral / Norman Dubie.
August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Carol Muske-Dukes
Turtle / Kay Ryan
Bestiary / Kay Ryan
Chldhood ideogram / Larry Levis
Winter stars / Larry Levis
Looking for Judas / Adrian Louis
The people of the other village / Thomas Lux
The ballad of Aunt Geneva / Marilyn Nelson
Star-fix / Marilyn Nelson
Albany / Ron Silliman
Cuba, 1962 / Ai
The kid / Ai
Finished / Ai
Thanks / Yusef Komunyakaa
Tu do street / Yusef Komunyakaa
Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa
Nude interrogation / Yusef Komunyakaa
Song of the Andoumboulou: 21 / Nathaniel Mackey
Gathering the bones together / Gregory Orr
Two lines from the Brothers Grimm / Gregory Orr
Origin of the Marble Forest / Gregory Orr
Reaching Yellow River / Roberta Whiteman
Away / Albert Goldbarth.
Language lesson 1976 / Heather McHugh
What he thought / Heather McHugh
In cold storm light / Leslie Silko
Calypso / Olga Broumas
Latin & soul / Victor Cruz
Miami Heart / Jane Miller
Iris / David St. John
Why Ralph refuses to dance / C. D. Wright
Girl friend poem / C. D. Wright
Crescent / C. D. Wright
Taking off my clothes / Carolyn Forche
San Sepolcro / Jorie Graham
What the living do / Marie Howe
She had some horses / Joy Harjo
My house is the red earth / Joy Harjo
The legend / Garrett Hongo
Begotten / Andrew Hudgins
We were simply talking / Andrew Hudgins
Imagining their own hymns / Brigit Kelly
Song / Brigit Kelly
Meeting the British / Paul Muldoon
Errata / Paul Muldoon
The throwback / Paul Muldoon
Quinceanera / Judith Cofer.
Parsley / Rita Dove
Daystar / Rita Dove
After reading Mickey in the night kitchen for the third time before bed / Rita Dove
Claudette Colvin goes to work / Rita Dove
Our calling / Alice Fulton
Thinking of Galileo / Barbara Hamby
Hatred / Barbara Hamby
Unholy sonnet 13 / Mark Jarman
The traveling onion / Naomi Nye
Arabic / Naomi Nye
Wedding cake / Naomi Nye
Nani / Alberto Rios
England finally, like my mother always said we would / Alberto Rios
Nocturne: blue waves / Laurie Sheck
The unfinished / Laurie Sheck
Field poem / Gary Soto
Oranges / Gary Soto
Black hair / Gary Soto
Yellow stars and ice / Susan Stewart
The forest / Susan Stewart
Brilliance / Mark Doty
Esta noche / Mark Doty
Bill's story / Mark Doty
Black nikes / Harryette Mullen
Alcohol / Franz Wright.
To my brother / Lorna Cervantes
"Love of my flesh, living death" / Lorna Cervantes
My wicked wicked ways / Sandra Cisneros
Little clown, my heart / Sandra Cisneros
Jack Johnson does the eagle rock / Cornelius Eady
Crows in a strong wind / Cornelius Eady
I'm a fool to love you / Cornelius Eady
Indian boarding school: the runaways / Louise Erdrich
Spooning / David Mason
How I got that name / Marilyn Chin
Composed near the Bay Bridge / Marilyn Chin
The survivor / Marilyn Chin
The youngest daughter / Cathy Song
Another reluctance / Annie Finch
Insect / Annie Finch
The gift / Li-Young Lee
Eating together / Li-Young Lee
Our lady / Carl Phillips
As from a quiver of arrows / Carl Phillips
Bag of mice / Nick Flynn
Cartoon physics, part 1 / Nick Flynn
The Venus Hottentot / Elizabeth Alexander
Affirmative action blues / Elizabeth Alexander
Equinox / Elizabeth Alexander.
A million balconies / Reetika Vazirani
Train windows / Reetika Vazirani
What the orphan inherits / Sherman Alexie
The powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie
Hot combs / Natasha Tretheway
Amateur fighter / Natasha Tretheway
Flounder / Natasha Tretheway
The tantrum / A. E. Stallings
Spare / Joanna Klink
Postfeminism / Brenda Shaughnessy
Your one good dress / Brenda Shaughnessy
Quivira city limits / Kevin Young
Everywhere is out of town / Kevin Young
Whatever you want / Kevin Young
At Pegasus / Terrance Hayes
Lady sings the blues / Terrance Hayes.
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Published
New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
Format
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Language
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Includes index.
Summary
This collection of modern American poetry features the most significant and compelling work by the most influential voices of the twentieth century.
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