| Edition |
University of Massachusetts Press edition. |
| Description |
ix, 243 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"Published in association with the New England Foundation for the Humanities, Boston." |
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Rev. ed. of a work first produced in a limited ed. by the New England Foundation for the Humanities. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236). |
| Contents |
An old man's winter night / Robert Frost -- The snow man / Wallace Stevens -- The farm / Archibald MacLeish -- The reading of the psalm / Robert Francis -- Youth and age / Richard Eberhart -- Sky / Robert Penn Warren -- The image-maker / Stanley Kunitz -- The prospect before us / Constance Carrier -- Sandpiper / Elizabeth Bishop -- Water / Robert Lowell -- Country stars / William Meredith -- The loon on Forrester's Pond / Hayden Carruth -- An event / Richard Wilbur -- Note: the sea grinds things up / Alan Dugan -- Noted in the New York Times / Maxine Kumin -- Species / Philip Booth -- Farm picture / Galway Kinnell -- Whale / Anne Sexton -- Names of horses / Donald Hall -- Grounds of winter / John Hollander -- Midsummer: XXXI / Derek Walcott -- Green rock, Winthrop Bay / Sylvia Plath -- Pitch pines / Brendan Galvin -- Windy evening / Charles Simic -- The drive-in / Michael S. Harper -- House in spring / Wesley McNair -- The copperhead / Linda Gregg. |
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(Cont. 2) Witchgrass / Louise Gluck -- Long walks in the afternoon / Margaret Gibson -- August rain, after haying / Jane Kenyon -- The music of astronomy / Martin Espada -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- Less and less human, o savage spirit / Wallace Stevens -- The old gray couple / Archibald MacLeish -- Identity / Robert Francis -- "If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness" / Richard Eberhart -- Better than counting sheep / Robert Penn Warren -- Quinnapoxet / Stanley Kunitz -- Perspective / Constance Carrier -- In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop -- For sale / Robert Lowell -- Parents / William Meredith -- Lost / Hayden Carruth -- In limbo / Richard Wilbur -- Not to choose / Alan Dugan -- My father's neckties / Maxine Kumin -- Supposition with qualification / Philip Booth -- The room / Galway Kinnell. |
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(Cont. 3) Santa / Anne Sexton -- Mr. Wakeville on Interstate 90 / Donald Hall -- The angler's story / John Hollander -- For Adrian / Derek Walcott -- The colossus / Sylvia Plath -- A green evening / Brendan Galvin -- Shirt / Charles Simic -- The families album / Michael S. Harper -- The minister's death / Wesley McNair -- To be here / Linda Gregg -- Field flowers / Louise Gluck -- Beginner's mind / Margaret Gibson -- Potato / Jane Kenyon -- The toolmaker unemployed / Martin Espada -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Idiom of the hero / Wallace Stevens -- Long hot summer / Archibald MacLeish -- Blood stains / Robert Francis -- Spite fence / Richard Eberhart -- Dream, dump-heap, and civilization / Robert Penn Warren -- Robin Redbreast / Stanley Kunitz -- Pro Patria / Constance Carrier -- Varick Street / Elizabeth Bishop -- For the union dead / Robert Lowell -- Effort at speech / William Meredith -- The mountain / Hayden Carruth -- A finished man / Richard Wilbur. |
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(Cont. 4) On trading time for life by work / Alan Dugan -- Saga / Maxine Kumin -- Game / Philip Booth -- The tragedy of bricks / Galway Kinnell -- Mr. Mine / Anne Sexton -- from The one day / Donald Hall -- A late fourth / John Hollander -- Midsummer: XXX / Derek Walcott -- Night shift / Sylvia Plath -- A photo of miners / Brendan Galvin -- Grocery / Charles Simic -- Makin' jump shots / Michael S. Harper -- My brother running: V / Wesley McNair -- The shopping-bag lady / Linda Gregg -- Daisies /Louise Gluck -- Wars / Margaret Gibson -- Back from the city / Jane Kenyon -- Mi vida: wings of fright / Martin Espada -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Martial cadenza / Wallace Stevens -- Where the hayfields were / Archibald MacLeish -- The sound I listened for / Robert Francis -- On a squirrel crossing the road in autumn, in New England / Richard Eberhart -- Timeless, twinned / Robert Penn Warren -- The snakes of September / Stanley Kunitz -- Journey / Constance Carrier. |
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(Cont. 5) Anaphora / Elizabeth Bishop -- Hawthorne / Robert Lowell -- The cheer / William Meredith -- Song: so often, so long I have thought / Hayden Carruth -- Advice to a prophet / Richard Wilbur -- Thesis, antithesis, and nostalgia / Alan Dugan -- The excrement poem / Maxine Kumin -- Presence / Philip Booth -- Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell -- I remember / Anne Sexton -- Granite and grass / Donald Hall -- One of our walks / John Hollander -- The season of phantasmal peace / Derek Walcott -- Poems, potatoes / Sylvia Plath -- Great blue / Brendan Galvin -- Spring / Charles Simic -- History as apple tree / Michael S. Harper -- Hunt walking / Wesley McNair -- Esta / Linda Gregg -- The red poppy / Louise Gluck -- Learning a new language / Margaret Gibson -- Portrait of a figure near water / Jane Kenyon -- When songs become water / Martin Espada -- Directive / Robert Frost. |
| Subject |
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Influence.
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American poetry -- New England.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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New England -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Lyman, Henry, 1942-
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| ISBN |
1558490418 paperback alkaline paper |
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