The Penguin anthology of twentieth-century American poetry
(Book)

Spoon River anthology : Hill ; Fiddler Jones ; Petit, the poet / Edgar Lee Masters --

Miniver Cheevy ; Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson --

Creation / James Weldon Johnson --

Poet ; Life's tragedy / Paul Laurence Dunbar --

Death of the hired man ; Mending wall ; Birches ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Tree at my window ; Directive / Robert Frost --

Patterns / Amy Lowell --

Susie Asado ; Tender buttons : Box ; Plate / Gertrude Stein --

I sit and sew / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson --

Grass ; Cahoots / Carl Sandburg --

Peter Quince at the Clavier ; Disillusionment of ten o'clock ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; Anecdote of the jar ; Emperor of ice-cream ; Of mere being / Wallace Stevens --

Fragment / Angelina Weld Grimké --

Tract ; Danse Russe ; Red wheelbarrow ; Yachts ; Asphodel, that greeny flower (Book I, lines 1-92) / William Carlos Williams --

Moonlight ; There will come soft rains / Sara Teasdale --

Jewel stairs' grievance ; River-merchants' wife : a letter ; In a station of the metro ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; Canto LXXXI : (Libretto: "Yet/Ere the season died a-cold") / Ezra Pound --

Sea rose ; Helen ; Walls do not fall : 1 ("An incident here and there") ; Hermetic definition : "Red rose and a beggar" : 1 ("Why did you come") ; 2 ("Take me anywhere

") ;

5 ("Venice

Venus?") /

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) --

Gale in April ; Shine, perishing republic ; Clouds at evening ; Credo / Robinson Jeffers --

Fish ; Poetry ; Poetry / Marianne Moore --

Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Preludes ; Waste land / T.S. Eliot --

If we must die ; Harlem dancer / Claude McKay --

Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish --

First fig ; Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay --

in Just- ; Buffalo Bill's ; Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; next to of course god america i ; somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond ; r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / E.E. Cummings --

Reapers ; November cotton flower ; Portrait in Georgia / Jean Toomer --

Medusa ; New moon / Louise Bogan --

Dark symphony ; Harlem gallery : Psi ("Black boy, / let me get up from the white man's table

") /

Melvin B. Tolson --

Bridge [excerpts] : Proem : To Brooklyn Bridge ; II : Powhatan's daughter : The river / Hart Crane --

Silent poem / Robert Francis --

Negro speaks of rivers ; I, too ; Dream boogie ; Harlem / Langston Hughes --

Incident ; To John Keats, poet, at spring time ; Yet do I marvel ; From the dark tower / Countee Cullen --

Father and son ; Portrait ; Touch me / Stanley Kunitz --

Musée des Beaux Arts ; Epitaph on a tyrant / W.H. Auden --

My papa's waltz ; Waking ; In a dark time / Theodore Roethke --

Maximus poems : I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you ; Distances / Charles Olson --

Fish ; Sestina ; First death in Nova Scotia ; Visits to St. Elizabeths ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop --

Mourning poem for the queen of Sunday ; Those winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle passage / Robert Hayden --

Effort at speech between two people ; Then I saw what the calling was ; Poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser --

Heavy bear who goes with me / Delmore Schwartz --

Dream songs : 4 ("Filling her compact & delicious body") ; 14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") ; 29 ("There sat down, once") ; 149 ("This world is gradually becoming a place") ; Henry's understanding / John Berryman --

90 north ; Death of the ball turret gunner ; Woman at the Washington Zoo ; Next day / Randall Jarrell --

For my daughter / Weldon Kees --

Different image / Dudley Randall --

Traveling through the dark ; At the bomb testing site / William Stafford --

Scars / Ruth Stone --

For my people / Margaret Walker --

Mother ; Song in the front yard ; Bean eaters ; Lovers of the poor ; We real cool ; Blackstone rangers / Gwendolyn Brooks --

"To speak of woe that is in marriage" ; Skunk hour ; For the Union dead / Robert Lowell --

Often I am permitted to return to a meadow ; My mother would be a falconress / Robert Duncan --

Populist manifesto / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --

Parents / William Meredith --

Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry / Howard Nemerov --

Hyacinth garden in Brooklyn ; August 1945 / Hayden Carruth --

Love calls us to the things of this world ; Cottage Street, 1953 ; Writer / Richard Wilbur --

Sheep child / James Dickey --

Love song : I and thou / Alan Dugan --

"More light! More light!" / Anthony Hecht --

Degrees of gray in Philipsburg ; Freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Richard Hugo --

Poem unwritten ; Caedmon ; Swan in falling snow / Denise Levertov --

American poetry / Louis Simpson --

Muse of water / Carolyn Kizer --

Fresh air ; Permanently / Kenneth Koch --

Morning swim ; How it is / Maxine Kumin --

Behaving like a Jew ; Dancing ; Another insane devotion / Gerald Stern --

City limits ; Corsons Inlet / A.R. Ammons --

Snowfall in the afternoon ; Driving to town late to mail a letter ; Waking from sleep / Robert Bly --

Flower ; I know a man ; Language ; Rain ; Bresson's movies / Robert Creeley --

Victor dog / James Merrill --

Steps ; Poem ("Lana Turner has collapsed!") ; Day Lady died / Frank O'Hara --

Some trees ; Self-portrait in a convex mirror ; What is poetry / John Ashbery --

Bear ; After making love we hear footsteps ; Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell --

Air ; For the anniversary of my death ; Yesterday ; Chord / W.S. Merwin --

Blessing ; Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio ; Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been condemned / James Wright --

My son my executioner ; Digging / Donald Hall --

Animals are passing from our lives ; They feed they lion ; You can have it ; Simple truth / Philip Levine --

Her kind ; Abortion ; Wanting to die ; In celebration of my uterus ; Rowing / Anne Sexton --

Orion ; Planetarium ; Valediction forbidding mourning ; Twenty-one love poems : XIII ("The rules break like a thermometer

") /

Adrienne Rich --

Marriage / Gregory Corso --

Hay for the horses ; Riprap ; Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Gary Snyder --

Far cry from Africa ; Sea grapes ; Schooner : Flight (part 11, After the storm : "There's a fresh light that follows

") ;

Light of the world ; Omeros, Book VII, LXIV, i ("I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son

") /

Derek Walcott --

Let me tell you / Miller Williams --

Idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight --

Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Agony. As now. ; SOS ; Black art / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) --

Wrong train ; Final sonnet / Ted Berrigan --

Power / Audre Lorde --

poem at thirty / Sonia Sanchez --

Prediction ; Night, the porch / Mark Strand --

Stone is nobody's / Russell Edson --

Singapore ; Summer day / Mary Oliver --

Reunion ; Dead color ; California dreaming / Charles Wright --

homage to my hips ; [at last we killed the roaches] ; death of fred clifton ; to my last period / Lucille Clifton --

Poem about my rights / June Jordan --

1968 / Frederick Seidel --

From my window ; Blades / C.K. Williams --

Mechanic / Diane Wakoski --

Dear John, dear Coltrane ; Last affair : Bessie's blues song ; Grandfather ; Nightmare begins responsibility / Michael S. Harper --

Stone ; Fork ; Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic --

Grandmother / Paula Gunn Allen --

Ellen West / Frank Bidart --

Spring letter ; Two or three wishes / Carl Dennis --

Allegory of the cave ; Tucson / Stephen Dunn --

History of my heart ; Questions ; Samurai song / Robert Pinsky --

Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat / James Welch --

Introduction to poetry ; Dead / Billy Collins --

Allen Ginsberg ; Weakness / Toi Derricotte --

How to like it ; Lullaby / Stephen Dobyns --

Song ; Pornographer ; Return of Robinson Jeffers / Robert Hass --

My life : A name trimmed with colored ribbons / Lyn Hejinian --

Machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano / B.H. Fairchild --

But he was cool or: he even stopped for green lights ; Poem to complement other poems / Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) --

In memory of the Utah stars ; The accompanist / William Matthews --

Language of the brag ; Lifting / Sharon Olds --

Barbed wire / Henry Taylor --

Black silk ; Under stars / Tess Gallagher --

I do not / Michael Palmer --

Lost pilot / James Tate --

Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear ; Funeral / Norman Dubie --

August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Carol Muske-Dukes --

Turtle ; Bestiary / Kay Ryan --

Childhood ideogram ; Winter stars / Larry Levis --

Looking for Judas / Adrian C. Louis --

People of the other village / Thomas Lux --

Ballad of Aunt Geneva ; Star-fix / Marilyn Nelson --

Albany / Ron Silliman --

Cuba, 1962 ; Kid ; Finished / Ai --

Thanks ; Tu Do Street ; Facing it ; Nude interrogation / Yusef Komonyakaa --

Song of the Andoumboulou : 21 / Nathaniel Mackey --

Gathering the bones together ; Two lines from the Brothers Grimm ; Origin of the marble forest / Gregory Orr --

Reaching Yellow River / Roberta Hill Whiteman --

Away / Albert Goldbarth --

Language lesson 1976 ; What he thought / Heather McHugh --

In cold storm light / Leslie Marmon Silko --

Calypso / Olga Broumas --

Latin & soul / Victor Hernández Cruz --

Miami heart / Jane Miller --

Iris / David St. John --

Why Ralph refuses to dance ; Girl friend poem #3 ; Crescent / C.D. Wright --

Taking off my clothes / Carolyn Forché --

San Sepolcro / Jorie Graham --

What the living do / Marie Howe --

She had some horses ; My house is the red earth / Joy Harjo --

Legend / Garrett Hongo --

Begotten ; We were simply talking / Andrew Hudgins --

Imagining their own hymns ; Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly --

Meeting the British ; Errata ; Throwback / Paul Muldoon --

Quinceañera / Judith Ortiz Cofer --

Parsley ; Daystar ; After reading Mickey in the night kitchen for the third time before bed ; Claudette Colvin goes to work / Rita Dove --

Our calling / Alice Fulton --

Thinking of Galileo ; Hatred / Barbara Hamby --

Unholy sonnet 13 / Mark Jarman --

Traveling onion ; Arabic ; Wedding cake / Naomi Shihab Nye --

Nani ; England finally, like my mother always said we would / Alberto Ríos --

Nocturne : Blue waves ; Unfinished / Laurie Sheck --

Field poem ; Oranges ; Black hair / Gary Soto --

Yellow stars and ice ; Forest / Susan Stewart --

Brilliance ; Esta noche ; Bill's story / Mark Doty --

Black Nikes / Harryette Mullen --

Alcohol / Franz Wright --

To my brother ; "Love of my flesh, living death" / Lorna Dee Cervantes --

My wicked wicked ways ; Little clown, my heart / Sandra Cisneros --

Jack Johnson does the eagle rock ; Crows in a strong wind ; I'm a fool to love you / Cornelius Eady --

Indian boarding school : The runaways / Louise Erdrich --

Spooning / David Mason --

How I got that name ; Composed near the Bay Bridge Survivor / Marilyn Chin --

Youngest daughter / Cathy Song --

Another reluctance ; Insect / Annie Finch --

Gift ; Eating together / Li-young Lee --

Our lady ; As from a quiver of arrows / Carl Phillips --

Bag of mice ; Cartoon physics, part 1 / Nick Flynn --

Venus Hottentot ; Affirmative action blues (1993) ; Equinox / Elizabeth Alexander --

White elephants : Million balconies ; Train windows / Reetika Vazirani --

What the orphan inherits ; Powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie --

Hot combs ; Amateur fighter ; Flounder / Natasha Trethewey --

Tantrum / A.E. Stallings --

Spare / Joanna Klink --

Postfeminism ; Your one good dress / Brenda Shaughnessy --

Quivira city limits ; Everywhere is out of town ; Whatever you want / Kevin Young --

At Pegasus ; Lady sings the blues / Terrance Hayes.