American Alphabets

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ISBN: 9780932440280 | 0932440282
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Copyright: 2/1/2006

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A major new anthology of recent American poetry, featuring generous selections of the work of 25 extraordinary poets born since World War II, with thoughtful introductions and annotations. In language of striking originality and beauty, these poets illuminate the complexities of contemporary life and chart the contours of the American landscape.

Preface

Agha Shahid Ali

(18)

I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror

(2)

Snow on the Desert

(3)

The Country Without a Post Office

(3)

Ghazal (Arabic)

(1)

Lenox Hill

(2)

Rooms Are Never Finished

(2)

Ghazal (Even the Rain)

(1)

The Purse-Seiner Atlantis

(1)

Of Fire

(2)

Pamela Alexander

(17)

Flight

(1)

Vines

(2)

Inventory. Journal.

(1)

Sight

(2)

Reprise

(1)

Mt. Auburn Owl

(1)

Northeast Suite

(2)

The Comma a Portrait

(1)

Foxlight

(1)

Person of

(1)

Lightfall

(2)

Crossing

(2)

Bruce Beasley

(17)

Witness

(3)

Red Reed

(2)

What Did You Come to See

(3)

from Spiritual Alphabet in Midsummer

(3)

Hermetic Diary

(2)

Lord Brain

(3)

Robin Behn

(16)

Origin

(1)

Drownproofing Lesson

(2)

On Giving My Father a Book About Roses

(2)

Aubade

(1)

Still Life

(1)

On Being Asked My Opinion About an Autopsy

(2)

Vigil: Dwindle

(1)

Ancient New Parents

(1)

The Yellow House Writes a Story for the Boy

(1)

Below the Cellar of the Yellow House There is Another Set of Stairs

(1)

Like a Horse

(1)

The Green Field

(2)

Linda Bierds

(17)

Quickly and Fully

(1)

In the Beeyard

(1)

White Bears: Tolstoy at Astapovo

(2)

Phantom Pain

(1)

Hunter

(1)

Desire

(2)

Van Leeuwenhoek: 1675

(1)

Altamira: What She Remembered

(1)

Vespertilio

(1)

Muybridge

(1)

Pasteur on the Rue Vauquelin

(1)

Thinking of Red

(2)

Marianne Boruch

(16)

The Hammer Falls, is Falling

(1)

Perennial Garden

(1)

Interior with a Violin

(1)

The Window

(1)

Moss Burning

(2)

Omens

(2)

Year in Hawaii

(2)

The Way the Dying Hear Things

(1)

Piano Tuning

(1)

Elegy

(1)

All Those People

(1)

Think of the Words

100

(1)

Simple Machines

100

(2)

Mark Doty

102

(16)

A Display of Mackerel

103

(2)

Migratory

105

(1)

Fog Argument

106

(2)

Homo Will Not Inherit

108

(4)

The Embrace

112

(1)

Retrievers in Translation

112

(2)

Elizabeth Bishop, Croton

114

(1)

Flit

115

(3)

Rita Dove

118

(16)

Small Town

119

(1)

The House Slave

120

(1)

Adolescence---II

120

(1)

Parsley

121

(2)

Dusting

123

(1)

Weathering Out

124

(1)

Sunday Greens

125

(1)

Mississippi

126

(1)

Dog Days, Jerusalem

126

(1)

Turning Thirty, I Contemplate Students Bicycling Home

127

(1)

The Other Side of the House

128

(1)

Lint

128

(1)

Exit

129

(1)

Revenant

129

(1)

On Veronica

130

(1)

Ta Ta Cha Cha

131

(1)

La Chapelle. 92nd Division. Ted.

132

(1)

Desert Backyard

133

(1)

Norman Dubie

134

(18)

February: The Boy Breughel

135

(2)

Thomas Hardy

137

(1)

Elizabeth's War with the Christmas Bear

137

(2)

Coleridge Crossing the Plain of Jars

139

(1)

Parish

140

(1)

New England, Springtime

141

(1)

Of Politics, & Art

142

(1)

The Apocrypha of Jacques Derrida

143

(1)

Buffalo Clouds over the Maestro Hoon

144

(1)

The Pendulum

145

(3)

Of Art & Memory

148

(1)

Dementia

149

(1)

Sky Harbor

150

(2)

Beckian Fritz Goldberg

152

(16)

Retro Lullaby

153

(2)

Since I Have Lived

155

(1)

Money

156

(1)

Wren

157

(1)

Fetish

158

(1)

Lilies at Night

159

(1)

God Body

160

(1)

Blossom at the End of the Body

161

(1)

Twentieth Century Children

161

(1)

Twentieth Century Children (2)

162

(1)

Twentieth Century Children (5): Blood-Kissing

163

(1)

Third Body

164

(1)

Nights with the Star-Ladle Over the House

164

(1)

Nights in the Constellation of the Tree Stepping from Its Robe

165

(1)

He Said Discipline is the Highest Form of Love

166

(1)

Bedtime Story

167

(1)

The Passing House

167

(1)

Linda Gregerson

168

(17)

Norway

169

(2)

Safe

171

(2)

For the Taking

173

(2)

Cranes on the Seashore

175

(3)

Bicameral

178

(3)

Elegant

181

(4)

Bob Hicok

185

(16)

Whither Thou Goest

186

(2)

Once a Green Sky

188

(1)

Small Purchase

189

(2)

Dropping the Euphemism

191

(2)

Goodbye in the Shape of a Knot

193

(1)

Radical Neck

194

(2)

Sudden Movements

196

(1)

The Active Reader

197

(1)

Team Effort

198

(1)

The Busy Days of My Nights

199

(1)

Angels of Mercy

200

(1)

Yusef Komunyakaa

201

(17)

Water Buffalo

202

(1)

Monsoon Season

203

(1)

Camouflaging the Chimera

204

(1)

Tunnels

205

(1)

Starlight Scope Myopia

206

(2)

Fragging

208

(1)

``You and I Are Disappearing''

209

(1)

Sappers

209

(1)

We Never Know

210

(1)

Tu Do Street

211

(1)

Prisoners

212

(1)

Thanks

213

(1)

Facing It

214

(1)

A Reed Boat

215

(1)

Buried Light

215

(1)

The Hanoi Market

216

(1)

Anodyne

216

(2)

Larry Levis

218

(17)

Sensationalism

219

(2)

At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans

221

(3)

Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage

224

(6)

Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand

230

(3)

Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It

233

(2)

Thomas Lux

235

(17)

Solo Native

237

(1)

View from a Porch

237

(1)

The Thirst of Turtles

238

(1)

Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy

239

(1)

There Were Some Summers

240

(1)

The Dark Comes on in Blocks, in Cubes

241

(1)

Ultima Thule

241

(1)

Black Road Over Which Green Trees Grow

242

(1)

Gorgeous Surfaces

243

(1)

Grim Town in a Steep Valley

244

(1)

Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City

245

(1)

Grain Burning Far Away

245

(1)

Marine Snow at Mid-Depths and Down

246

(1)

Unlike, for Example, the Sound of a Riptooth Saw

247

(1)

The Language Animal

247

(1)

Can Tie Shoes But Won't

248

(1)

To Help the Monkey Cross the River

249

(1)

From the High Ground

250

(1)

The Hungry Gap-Time

250

(2)

Carol Muske-Dukes

252

(18)

Ideal

253

(2)

Applause

255

(5)

Unsent Letter 4: Last Take

260

(2)

Miracles

262

(1)

Blue Kashmir, '74

262

(2)

Ovation

264

(1)

Heroine

265

(1)

Request Radio

266

(1)

Crack the Whip

267

(1)

Jacaranda

268

(2)

Carl Phillips

270

(16)

Somewhere Holy

271

(2)

As from a Quiver of Arrows

273

(1)

Parable

274

(1)

Luck

275

(1)

Words of Love

276

(1)

To Break, to Ride

277

(2)

Minotaur

279

(2)

Custom

281

(1)

The Rest of Love

281

(1)

Late Apollo

282

(2)

Erasure

284

(1)

A Summer

285

(1)

Mary Ruefle

286

(17)

The Melancholiacs

287

(1)

The Intended

288

(1)

In the Bitter Country

289

(1)

An American Dream

289

(1)

Wasps' Nest

290

(1)

Peeling the Orange

291

(1)

Rain Effect

291

(1)

Rising Bodies

292

(1)

Out of a Hundred

293

(1)

Public Garden with a Weeping Tree

293

(1)

Evangelical

294

(1)

The March

295

(1)

Perpetually Attempting to Soar

296

(1)

Perfect Reader

296

(1)

The Letter

297

(1)

The Jewel

298

(1)

The Execution Poster

298

(1)

Seven Postcards from Dover

299

(1)

The Feast

300

(1)

Search Party

301

(1)

From Here to Eternity

301

(1)

Kiss of the Sun

302

(1)

David St. John

303

(16)

Slow Dance

304

(3)

Iris

307

(1)

Six/Nine/Forty-Four

308

(3)

Wedding Preparations in the Country

311

(1)

Dolls

312

(1)

Gin

312

(2)

Hush

314

(1)

Elegy

314

(2)

Winter Fires

316

(1)

An Essay on Liberation

316

(1)

Meditation

317

(1)

In the Sulphur Garden

318

(1)

Susan Stewart

319

(16)

The Forest

320

(2)

May 1988

322

(1)

The Meadow

323

(1)

Apple

324

(3)

Dark the Star

327

(1)

Forms of Forts

328

(1)

Pear

329

(2)

These Trees in Particular

331

(1)

Lost Rules of Usage

332

(1)

Wings

333

(1)

Zero

334

(1)

Arthur Sze

335

(17)

The Negative

336

(1)

Axolotl

337

(1)

The String Diamond

338

(5)

Apache Plume

343

(6)

Acanthus

349

(1)

X and O

350

(1)

Earthstar

351

(1)

Lee Upton

352

(17)

Window Seat at the Paradise

353

(1)

Somewhere So Lush

354

(1)

Contortionist

355

(1)

The Imagination of Flowers

356

(1)

Scroll

357

(1)

Bedtime Story

357

(1)

Jim's Hairball

358

(1)

The Quality of Mercy

359

(1)

Destruction of Daughters

360

(1)

Happiness

361

(1)

The Scarlet Letter

362

(1)

Beatrix Potter

363

(1)

Civilian Histories

364

(3)

The Table

367

(2)

Bruce Weigl

369

(17)

Monkey

370

(4)

Him, on the Bicycle

374

(1)

Painting on a T'ang Dynasty Water Vessel

375

(1)

Temple Near Quang Tri, Not on the Map

376

(1)

The Way of Tet

377

(1)

Dialectical Materialism

378

(1)

Why Nothing Changes for Miss Ngo Thi Thanh

379

(1)

Temptation

380

(1)

The Sky in Daduza Township

381

(1)

Three Fish

382

(1)

River Journal

383

(1)

Why I Hate Theory

383

(1)

Home

384

(1)

Self Portrait at Fifty-Three

384

(2)

C. D. Wright

386

(17)

Bent Tones

387

(1)

Tours

388

(1)

Provinces

389

(1)

Elements of Night

389

(1)

Petition for Replenishment

390

(1)

More Blues and the Abstract Truth

390

(1)

Humidity

391

(1)

Personals

392

(1)

Floating Trees

393

(1)

Lake Echo, Dear

394

(1)

Key Episodes from an Earthly Life

395

(1)

Privacy

396

(1)

Flame

397

(1)

from Deepstep Come Shining

398

(3)

until words turn to moss.

401

(1)

in our only time.

402

(1)

Franz Wright

403

(16)

Blood

405

(1)

Morning

406

(1)

Alcohol

406

(1)

Illegibility

407

(1)

Loneliness

408

(1)

August Insomnia

409

(1)

Thoughts of a Solitary Farmhouse

409

(1)

Sunday Afternoon

410

(1)

Have You Seen This Child

410

(1)

Circle Drawn in Water

411

(1)

Flight

412

(2)

Walking to Martha's Vineyard

414

(1)

The Only Animal

415

(2)

Sitting Up Late with My Father, 1977

417

(1)

Publication Date

417

(1)

Lines Written in the Dark Illegible Next Day

418

(1)

Acknowledgments

419

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