Contemporary American poetry / selected and introduced by Donald Hall.
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| Other title: | Florence Becker Lennon Collection. |
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Penguin,
1962.
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| Series: | Penguin poets.
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Table of Contents:
- William Stafford. Travelling through the dark
- Returned to say
- At cove on the crooked river
- Strokes
- Near
- With my crowbar key
- Robert Lowell. Christmas Eve under Hooker's statue
- The holy innocents
- New Year's Day
- Katherine's dream
- After the surprising conversions
- Memories of West Street and Lepke
- For sale
- Man and wife
- Skunk hour
- Robert Duncan. A poem beginning with a line by Pindar
- Reed Whittemore. Still life
- A day with the Foreign Legion
- On the suicide of a friend
- The party
- The walk home
- Howard Nemerov. Storm windows
- The statues in the public gardens
- A singular metamorphosis
- The view from an attic window
- The fall again
- Richard Wilbur. Tywater
- "A world without objects is a sensible emptiness"
- Museum piece
- After the last bulletins
- She
- The undead
- In the smoking car
- Shame
- Anthony Hecht. Alceste in the wilderness.
- Samuel Sewall. The vow
- The end of the weekend
- "More light! More light!"
- James Dickey. The performance
- Hunting Civil War relics at Nimblewill Creek
- Denise Levertov. Overland to the islands
- Sunday afternoon
- The springtime
- The grace-note
- The world outside
- Six variations
- A map of the western part of the county of Essex in England
- John Logan. The picnic
- A trip to four or five towns
- Louis Simpson. Early in the morning
- The ash and the oak
- To the western world
- The riders held back
- Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain
- There is
- My father in the night commanding no
- Edgar Bowers. The mountain cemetery
- The prince
- The centaur overhead
- Adam's song to heaven
- Le Rêve.
- Donald Justice. Beyond the hunting woods ; On the death of friends in childhood ; Here in Katmandu ; Another song ; Counting the mad ; On a painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane
- Robert Bly. Where we must look for help ; Sunda in Glastonbury ; Awakening ; Poem against the British ; Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River ; Hunting pheasants in a cornfield ; A busy man speaks ; Poem in three parts ; The possibility of new poetry ; After the Industrial Revolution, all things happen at once ; Sleet storm on the Merritt Parkway ; Andrew Jackson's speech
- Robert Creeley. After Lorca ; I know a man ; The hill ; The signboard ; The cracks ; For love ; Kore ; The rain
- James Merrill. The power station ; Angel ; Childlessness ; After Greece
- W.D. Snodgrass. From Heart's needle ; The examination ; Monet : "Les nymphéas"
- John Ashbery. Some trees ; The picture of little J.A. in a prospect of flowers ; A vase of flowers ; Thoughts of a young girl ; Our youth ; The young prince and the young princess
- Galway Kinnell. From The avenue bearing the initial of Christ into the new world ; Flower-herding pictures on Mount Monadnock
- W.S. Merwin. Leviathan ; Low fields and light ; The bones ; Small woman on Swallow Street ; Grandfather in the old men's home ; Views from the high camp ; Departure's girl-friend
- James Wright. A gesture by a lady with an assumed name ; At Thomas Hardy's birthplace, 1953 ; Saint Judas ; Confession to J. Edgar Hoover ; Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; Depressed by a book of bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me ; The blessing ; Miners
- X.J. Kennedy. First confession ; Nude descending a staircase ; Little elegy ; B negative ; In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day
- Adrienne Rich. The insusceptibles ; Readings of history
- Gary Snyder. All through the rains ; Piute Creek ; Above Pate Valley ; Milton by firelight ; Hay for the horses
- Robert Mezey. The funeral home ; Epitaph of a faithful man ; Late winter birthday ; Dark head ; The lovemaker ; To Philip Levine, on the Day of Atonement.