New York Poems

A series of poems spanning thirty years from a long-time New York resident leads the reader through the vanishing milieu of the 1970s and 1980s and concludes with a lyrical panorama of the city's dynamic changes. Original.

Preface

11

(2)

NOTES ON 94TH STREET

13

(76)

Foreword by Martin Tucker

15

(1)

Introduction by Donald Phelps

16

(3)

the street

Broadway Music

19

(2)

Tough Babe doesn't beg

21

(1)

This tourist, resident

22

(1)

horse at the corner

23

(1)

on 94th street

24

(1)

Dogbaby

25

(1)

picketing jimmy's

26

(1)

supermarket

27

(1)

Order Boy

28

(1)

A Pisser

29

(1)

PIZZA

30

(1)

smiley's deli

31

(2)

Lore, at Green's

33

(1)

Mr. Lee's Laundry

33

(1)

Dogwalker

34

(1)

unnaturals

34

(1)

accident

35

(1)

Crier (song)

36

(1)

by the hudson

37

(1)

Slum Garbage Collection

38

(1)

buildings

From the Second Floor

39

(1)

From the Sixteenth Floor

40

(1)

Musicale

41

(1)

cockroach: a tribute

42

(1)

schoolday

43

(1)

moving in

43

(1)

Mugging

44

(1)

doorman

45

(1)

morning

46

(1)

Conversation

46

(1)

S.R.O.

47

(1)

Cleaning Lady

48

(1)

lamentation after jeremiah to exorcise high rental/high rise building scheduled for construction with public funds

49

(1)

on the roof

50

(1)

loving

john wayne's in bed with you, sylvia

51

(1)

I came awake

52

(1)

overkill

53

(1)

Order

54

(1)

first snow

55

(1)

lovers/Joan of arc statue, 93rd street

56

(1)

wishing (song)

57

(1)

sometimes, baby I think

58

(1)

black sugar

59

(1)

Mrs. Pink Plastic

60

(1)

perspectives

cold poem 1.

61

(1)

cold poem 2.

61

(1)

cold poem 3. hotel

62

(1)

Cop and Robber (song)

63

(1)

In the Park

64

(1)

after dinner

65

(1)

Home Movies on Broadway

66

(1)

imperfections

67

(1)

for dana and gregory, explaining somewhat why we stayed

68

(1)

antinomy

69

(2)

heroines and heroes

fulcrum

71

(1)

on heroes, hero-worship/footnote to Carlyle

72

(1)

for kay leslie

73

(1)

for max and isabel manes

74

(1)

for Max and Isabel Manes, poem revised

75

(1)

Dissident Poet

76

(1)

for jennette washington

77

(1)

margaret cook::

78

(1)

incident at st. gregory's, april 21, 1970

79

(2)

panther

81

(2)

CORRECTION, PLEASE

83

(3)

up here

86

(1)

The Blue Man

87

(2)

CHILDREN OF THE HOUSE AFIRE/More Notes on 94th Street

89

(94)

D.H. Melhem: A Reassessment by Donald Phelps

91

(2)

MICROCOSM

93

(38)

Window Notes

to the sun

95

(1)

window woman

96

(1)

Strangers

97

(1)

two versions of a plane tree

98

(1)

Screamer:

99

(1)

winter woman

99

(1)

subway

100

(1)

express

100

(1)

trackman

101

(1)

ON STRIKE: Local 32B, April 1976

102

(1)

workman

102

(1)

on the street

103

(1)

Toward a redistribution of wealth

103

(1)

ginkgo

104

(1)

from my window

105

(1)

you,

105

(1)

to the symphony theater

106

(1)

electrician

107

(1)

riverside

108

(1)

park mother

108

(1)

The Harlequin Lady

109

(1)

in the street

110

(1)

on 137th street

111

(1)

Pigeonlady

112

(1)

capitalism

113

(1)

Politics: a declamation with demurrers

114

(1)

Children of the House Afire:

115

(4)

Love Notes

love notes

119

(7)

Watching the Tall Ships on the Hudson July 4, 1976

126

(1)

You, Me, and Wallace Stevens's "The Snow Man"

127

(1)

For a troubled friend

128

(1)

L., asleep

129

(1)

The Cool Swan

130

(1)

ROSE POEMS

131

(12)

the dying call us

133

(1)

Wedding-Day, January 17, 1970

134

(1)

Dear Aunt, Upon Your Wedding

135

(1)

at st. vincent's

136

(4)

brimming the chalice of that pillow

137

(1)

from one closed eye

138

(1)

rosie

139

(1)

to the music of rose and henry

140

(3)

MACROCOSM

143

(20)

poems:

145

(1)

New York Times, August 15, 1976 "As Lebanon Dies"

146

(1)

On the tendency toward solipsism in literature

147

(1)

for Seurat, his "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte"

148

(1)

for Greg and Roslynn at Woods Hole

149

(1)

for margaret, at ninety-three, convalescing

150

(1)

on the rejection of an attica prisoner for funeral rites, september 18, 1971

151

(1)

For An Old Woman Killed In The Monterey Hotel, October 30, 1975

152

(1)

leviathan

153

(2)

on bombing one's own troops erroneously

155

(1)

to george jackson (a dirge)

156

(1)

song for angela davis in the women's house of detention

157

(1)

for Delacroix, his "Liberty Leading the People"

158

(2)

To the son of julius and ethel rosenberg at the village gate

160

(1)

attention

161

(2)

REQUIESCANT 9/11

163

(14)

September 11, 2001, World Trade Center, Aftermath

165

(5)

Mindful Breathing

170

(2)

Lines Composed a Few Miles above St. Paul's Chapel, and beside the Viewing Platform, Ground Zero, July 4, 2002

172

(3)

Niagara Falls, after Ground Zero

175

(2)

PROSPECT

177

(6)

About the Author

183

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