| Description |
269 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Bio-bibliographies of poets: p. 199-241. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Back in the world / Ai -- The exaggeration of despair / Sherman Alexie -- Return to Harmony 3 / Agha Shahid Ali -- from Strip / A.R. Ammons -- That cold summer / Nin Andrews -- Rounding the horn / L.S. Asekoff -- The problem of anxiety / John Ashberry -- Camouflage / Marianne Boruch -- No sorry / Catherine Bowman -- Love song / Joseph Brodsky -- Feminine intuition / Stephanie Brown -- The map room / Joshua Clover -- Lines lost among trees / Billy Collins -- The sky drank in / Gillian Conoley -- The heavy headed dance / Jayne Cortez -- Won't it be fine? / Robert Creeley -- History / Carl Dennis -- The death of John Berryman / William Dickey -- How should I say this? / Robert Dow -- Atomic bride / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- You know what I'm saying? / Irving Feldman -- Asylum / Herman Fong -- Backing into the future / Dick Gallup -- A fan letter / Amy Gerstler. |
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Is about / Allen Ginsberg -- The litany / Dana Gioia -- Smoking / Elton Glaser -- After fighting for hours / Kate Gleason -- Complete with starry night and bourbon shots / Albert Goldbarth -- Thinking / Jorie Graham -- The porcelain couple / Donald Hall -- Her body / Daniel Halpern -- Interrupted meditation / Robert Hass -- Heroin / Bob Hicok -- California / Paul Hoover -- Helicopter wrecked on a hill / Christine Hume -- The butterfly effect / Harry Humes -- Passacaglia / Don Hymans -- Making it stick / Lawson Fusao Inada -- The poem that was once called 'Desperate' but is now striving to become the perfect love poem / Richard Jackson -- Dust storm / Gray Jacobik -- Mud / George Kalamaras -- The bright light of responsibility / Jennifer L. Knox -- A bill, posted / Philip Kobylarz -- Jeanne Duval's confession / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Suddenly I realized I was sitting / Elizabeth Kostova -- The change / Denise Levertov -- Anastasia and sandman / Larry Levis. |
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Hallelujah terrible / Matthew Lippman -- Empress of sighs / Beth Lisick -- Heartsong / Khaled Mattawa -- Vermin / William Matthews -- Shadow / Josip Novakovich -- from A summer evening / Geoffrey Nutter -- Mostly Mick Jagger / Catie Rosemurgy -- Valediction / Clare Rossini -- Topophilia / Mary Ruefle -- Recruiting poster / Hillel Schwartz -- Fiddleheads / Maureen Seaton -- Lifeline / Vijay Seshadri -- Katyn Forest / Steven Sherrill -- The something / Charles Simic -- Beds / Charlie Smith -- Evening's end / Leon Stokesbury -- Morning, noon and night / Mark Strand -- The plan / Jack Turner -- Infernal / Karen Volkman -- Italian eclogues / Derek Walcott -- Diversion / Rosanna Warren -- Downward Mobility / Lewis Warsh -- Shadow Grammar / Terence Winch -- Recognition / Eve Wood -- Disjecta membra / Charles Wright -- Frottage / Dean Young. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Tate, James, 1943-2015
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Lehman, David, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0684814528 |
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