Poetry in motion : 100 poems from the subways and buses / edited by Molly Peacock, Elise Paschen, Neil Neches.
One hundred poems from the poetry placards in New York City's subway and buses. Amid ads for mace and cockroach exterminators, a happy glimmer in 16 lines or less. From Sappho, to W.H. Auden, to Chu Chen Po.
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Table of Contents:
- Giovanni
- From Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare
- Along the Hard Crest of the Snowdrift / Anna Akhmatova
- To My Dear and Loving Husband / Anne Bradstreet
- From Marriage / Gregory Corso
- Song of Solomon 2:8-13 / The King James Bible
- Tw.
- Introduction / Molly Peacock
- Preface / Alan F. Kiepper
- Let there be new flowering / Lucille Clifton
- From Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Walt Whitman
- "Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson
- When You Are Old / William Butler Yeats
- Hermandad/Brotherhood / Octavio Paz
- Travel / Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Sir, You Are Tough / Joseph Brodsky
- Magic Words / Anonymous Inuit Poet
- From The Inferno, Canto I / Dante Alighieri
- From What Are Years? / Marianne Moore
- From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot
- Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among Them Nora and Henry III) / Gwendolyn Brooks
- If There Is a Scheme / Charles Reznikoff
- The Armful / Robert Frost
- From To Autumn / John Keats
- Blackberry Eating / Galway Kinnell
- To a Poor Old Woman / William Carlos Williams
- Delta / Adrienne Rich
- Variacion/Variations / Federico Garcia Lorca
- Please Give This Seat to an Elderly or Disabled Person / Nina Cassian
- From The Love Poems of Marichiko / Kenneth Rexroth
- From The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital / Delmore Schwartz
- Luck / Langston Hughes
- Let No Charitable Hope / Elinor Wylie
- From Coal / Audre Lorde
- To My Love, Combing Her Hair / Yehuda Amichai
- Mother of the Groom / Seamus Heaney
- From Riding the A / May Swenson
- Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz
- From I Am Vertical / Sylvia Plath
- Western Wind / Anonymous
- Adolescence
- I / Rita Dove
- From Antigone / Sophocles
- Casabianca / Elizabeth Bishop
- A Man Said to the Universe / Stephen Crane
- Summer / Walter Dean Myers
- From Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay
- From The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage / Walter Ralegh
- Komu to yu mo/You Say, "I Will Come" / Otomo No Sakanoe
- From Riding on a Railroad Train / Ogden Nash
- love is a place / E.E. Cummings
- Unfortunate Coincidence / Dorothy Parker
- From 'Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square' / Allen Ginsberg
- For Friendship / Robert Creeley
- Aspects of Eve / Linda Pastan
- Sandinista Avioncitos / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Thank You, My Dear / Sappho
- Transit / Richard Wilbur
- I Stop Writing the Poem / Tess Gallagher
- From Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird / Wallace Stevens
- First Memory / Louise Gluck
- Hedgehog / Chu Chen Po
- Suspended / Denise Levertov
- Listen to the Mustn'ts / Shel Silverstein
- The Question / Karla Kuskin
- The Bagel / David Ignatow
- Reflective / A.R. Ammons
- My Heart Leaps Up / William Wordsworth
- Heat / H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- From Ode to the Cat / Pablo Neruda
- First Grade / William Stafford
- From Manhattan / Lorenz Hart
- The Talker / Mona Van Duyn
- Jamesian / Thom Gunn
- From Grasmere / Amy Clampitt
- Revival / Steve Crow
- From Yes / Muriel Rukeyser
- From Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas
- Precautions / Eugenio Montale
- A Renewal / James Merrill
- Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
- The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the little girl said) / Vachel Lindsay
- An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love / Anne Sexton
- I Am Singing the Cold Rain / Lance Henson
- The Panther / Rainer Maria Rilke
- Cartography / Louise Bogan
- Days / Philip Larkin
- From Lullaby / W.H. Auden
- Wall / Gabriela Mistral
- As Much As You Can / C.P. Cavafy
- Birth / Louise Erdrich
- Take Hands / Laura Riding Jackson
- From The Round / Stanley Kunitz
- You Called Me Corazon / Sandra Cisneros
- My Heart / Frank O'Hara
- Autumn Leaves / Marilyn Chin
- Window / Carl Sandburg
- The Sloth / Theodore Roethke
- Four in the Morning / Wislawa Szymborska
- On imagine les anges/I Imagine Angels / Guillaume Apollinaire
- Star / Derek Walcott
- Happiness / Stephen Dunn
- Winter Poem / Nikki.