100 Essential Modern Poems

, by Parisi, Joseph

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ISBN: 9781566636124 | 1566636124
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Copyright: 8/30/2005

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Inspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny--here in one compact volume are 100 of the greatest poems written in English over the last century, memorable masterpieces that everyone should know and enjoy. Selected and introduced by Joseph Parisi, longtime former editor of Poetry magazine, this brilliant collection brings together the greatest poems by all the classic authors, along with the choicest works by today's most accomplished artists in America and abroad.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

(6)

William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)

(7)

The Second Coming

Leda and the Swan

Sailing to Byzantium

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)

(2)

Miniver Cheevy

Robert Frost (1874--1963)

(6)

Mending Wall

The Road Not Taken

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)

(2)

Chicago

Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)

(8)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Sunday Morning

Anecdote of the Jar

William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)

(5)

The Red Wheelbarrow

Spring and All

Ezra Pound (1885--1972)

(7)

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

The Study in Aesthetics

H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961)

(2)

Helen

Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)

(3)

Hurt Hawks

Marianne Moore (1887--1972)

(3)

The Fish

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

(10)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Rupert Brooke (1887--1915)

(1)

The Soldier

Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)

(3)

From Counter-Attack

The General

Base Details

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)

(2)

Break of Day in the Trenches

Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)

(2)

Dulce et Decorum Est

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)

(2)

Recuerdo

Dorothy Parker (1893--1967)

(1)

Resume

E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)

(3)

[anyone lived in a pretty how town]

Robert Graves (1895--1985)

(2)

The Persian Version

Hart Crane (1899-1932)

(3)

From The Bridge

Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

(3)

The Weary Blues

Ogden Nash (1902--1971)

(2)

Columbus

Stevie Smith (1902--1971)

(2)

Not Waving But Drowning

Patrick Kavanagh (1904--1967)

(4)

From The Great Hunger: I

Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)

(3)

Bearded Oaks

W. H. Auden (1907--1973)

(5)

Lullaby

From Twelve Songs: IX. [Stop all the clocks]

Musee des Beaux Arts

Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)

102

(3)

Bagpipe Music

Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)

105

(2)

My Papa's Waltz

Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)

107

(4)

Manners

One Art

Karl Shapiro (1913--2000)

111

(3)

The Alphabet

John Berryman (1914-1972)

114

(5)

From The Dream Songs

1, 14, 76: Henry's Confession, 143, 324: An Elegy for W.C.W., The Lovely Man, 382

Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)

119

(2)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)

121

(4)

Fern Hill

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

William Stafford (1914--1993)

125

(2)

How to Regain Your Soul

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

127

(1)

We Real Cool

Robert Lowell (1917--1977)

128

(5)

For the Union Dead

William Meredith (b. 1919)

133

(1)

The Illiterate

Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)

134

(2)

The War in the Air

Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

136

(3)

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

139

(5)

Church Going

Aubade

James Dickey (1923--1997)

144

(3)

The Hospital Window

Anthony Hecht (1923--2004)

147

(2)

``More Light! More Light!''

Denise Levertov (1923--1997)

149

(3)

Tenebrae

Donald Justice (1925--2004)

152

(2)

Men at Forty

Kenneth Koch (1925--2002)

154

(2)

To My Twenties

A. R. Ammons (1926--2001)

156

(3)

Gravelly Run

The City Limits

David Wagoner (b. 1926)

159

(2)

Their Bodies

Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)

161

(11)

From Howl: I

James Merrill (1926--1995)

172

(6)

The Broken Home

Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)

178

(3)

The Day Lady Died

Why I Am Not a Painter

W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)

181

(3)

April Inventory

John Ashbery (b. 1927)

184

(4)

And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name

My Erotic Double

Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)

188

(2)

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)

190

(4)

Losing a Language

For a Coming Extinction

James Wright (1927--1980)

194

(2)

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

Philip Levine (b. 1928)

196

(3)

You Can Have It

Anne Sexton (1928--1974)

199

(3)

Wanting to Die

Thom Gunn (1929--2004)

202

(3)

The Missing

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

205

(3)

Planetarium

Ted Hughes (1930--1998)

208

(5)

Hawk Roosting

Relic

Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

213

(3)

Blues

Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)

216

(3)

September Song

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

219

(5)

Lady Lazarus

Linda Pastan (b. 1932)

224

(2)

After Minor Surgery

Mark Strand (b. 1934)

226

(2)

Where Are the Waters of Childhood?

Charles Wright (b. 1935)

228

(6)

Homage to Paul Cezanne

Mary Oliver (b. 1935)

234

(3)

Morning Poem

C. K. Williams (b. 1936)

237

(2)

Alzheimer's: The Wife

Charles Simic (b. 1938)

239

(3)

Prodigy

Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

242

(8)

Punishment

Clearances

Two Lorries

Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)

250

(2)

After Making Love

Billy Collins (b. 1941)

252

(3)

Forgetfulness

William Matthews (1942--1997)

255

(4)

Dire Cure

Sharon Olds (b. 1942)

259

(2)

Young Mothers I

Eavan Boland (b. 1944)

261

(2)

That the Science of Cartography Is Limited

Kay Ryan (b. 1945)

263

(3)

Patience

Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)

266

(2)

Facing It

Jane Kenyon (1947--1995)

268

(5)

Having It Out with Melancholy

Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)

273

(2)

They That Wash on Thursday

Rita Dove (b. 1952)

275

(6)

Parsley

Notes to the Poems

281

(15)

Credits

296

(4)

Index of Authors and Titles

300

(3)

Index of Titles

303

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