MODERN AMERICAN POETRY Table of Contents

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1 MODERN AMERICAN POETRY Table of Contents A NOTE TO THE READER HOW TO READ A POEM ABOUT SHARED INQUIRY Walt Whitman ( ) Song of Myself (1-3) To a Stranger We Two Boys Together Clinging Salut Au Monde! (1-5) There Was a Child Went Forth To a Locomotive in Winter Emily Dickinson ( ) [I taste a liquor never brewed] [I m Nobody! Who are you?] [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,] [This World is not conclusion] [The Soul selects her own Society] [I died for Beauty - but was scarce ] [I heard a Fly buzz - when I died-] [Undue Significance a starving man attaches] [Perception of an Object costs] Edgar Lee Masters ( ) Butch Weldy Petit, the Poet Anne Rutledge Lucinda Matlock Edwin Arlington Robinson ( ) Luke Havergal Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy The Dark Hills Mr. Flood s Party Why He Was There Paul Lawrence Dunbar ( ) The Poet and His Song A Summer s Night We Wear the Mask When Dey Listed Colored Soldiers The Unsung Heroes Robert Frost ( ) Mowing The Telephone The Hill Wife Out, Out Acquainted with the Night Desert Places The Subverted Flower Willful Homing Wallace Stevens ( ) From the Misery of Don Joost Anecdote of the Jar Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird How to Live. What to Do The Idea of Order at Key West The Poems of Our Climate Study of Two Pears Of Mere Being William Carlos Williams ( ) To Waken an Old Lady The Young Housewife Queen Anne s Lace The Widow s Lament in Springtime The Great Figure Spring and All This Is Just to Say The Last Words of My English Grandmother Landscape with the Fall of Icarus The Descent From Spring and All H. D. ( ) The Helmsman Lethe Chance Fragment 113 Leda

2 T. S. Eliot ( ) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes Rhapsody on a Windy Night Aunt Helen The Hollow Men E. E. Cummings ( ) FROM Five Americans [because it s / Spring] [a great / man] [who are you,little i] [Buffalo Bill s / defunct] [if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have] [somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond] [at dusk / just when] [I(a / le / af] Hart Crane ( ) Legend My Grandmother s Love Letters Garden Abstract Chaplinesque Recitative Langston Hughes ( ) The Negro Speaks of Rivers I, Too The Weary Blues Railroad Avenue Harlem Night Theme for English B Harlem [2] Theodore Roethke ( ) Child on Top of a Greenhouse I Knew a Woman The Voice The Waking A Walk in Late Summer In Evening Air The Sequel Elizabeth Bishop ( ) Chemin de Fer The Fish Insomnia Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore Sestina Sandpiper North Haven Robert Hayden ( ) Belsen, Day of Liberation Those Winter Sundays For a Young Artist The Islands Randall Jarrell ( ) 90 North The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner When I Was Home Last Christmas... The Woman at the Washington Zoo The Player Piano William Stafford ( ) Traveling Through the Dark Why I Am a Poet What Gets Away Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing American Gothic Gwendolyn Brooks ( ) the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon the sonnet-ballad We Real Cool To Black Women Denise Levertov ( ) The Lovers A Woman Meets an Old Lover Wedding-Ring Mid-American Tragedy The Batterers John Logan ( ) Lines on His Birthday Poem, Slow to Come, on the Death of Cummings Poem for My Brother Believe It

3 Donald Justice (1925 ) Time and the Weather Men at Forty The Tourist from Syracuse The Telephone Number of the Muse Poem The Missing Person Maxine Kumin (1925 ) Morning Swim After Love Living Alone with Jesus The Longing to Be Saved How It Is Robert Bly (1926 ) Three Presidents After Long Busyness The Dead Seal In Rainy September Why We Don t Die Things To Think Robert Creeley (1926 ) The Innocence I Know a Man The Rain The Language Arroyo This Day Self-Portrait If Happiness Oh Max Allen Ginsberg ( ) FROM Kaddish Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters Now and Forever Homeless Compleynt Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina Frank O Hara ( ) Why I Am Not a Painter A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island The Day Lady Died Pearl Harbor For Grace, After a Party To My Dead Father Interior (With Jane) Autobiographia Literaria James Wright ( ) Saint Judas Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Beginning Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960 A Prayer to Escape from the Market Place Donald Hall (1928 ) My Son My Executioner Digging The Man in the Dead Machine Woolworth s Maple Syrup Kicking the Leaves Anne Sexton (1928 ) Her Kind With Mercy for the Greedy Housewife Just Once The Ambition Bird Adrienne Rich (1929 ) Living in Sin Villa Adriana FROM The Blue Ghazals Diving into the Wreck FROM Twenty-One Love Poems Homage to Winter Gary Snyder (1930 ) Above Pate Valley Goofing Again Riprap Marin-An I Went into the Maverick Bar Axe Handles As for Poets

4 Sylvia Plath ( ) The Colossus Mirror Lady Lazarus Sheep in Fog Edge Mark Strand (1934 ) Keeping Things Whole Eating Poetry For Jessica, My Daughter The Continuous Life The End The Night, The Porch Richard Brautigan ( ) Oranges Death is a Beautiful Car Parked Only A Baseball Game, Part 7 The Sidney Greenstreet Blues Marge Piercy (1936 ) For the young who want to Sign The skyscrapers of the financial district dance with Gasman September afternoon at four o clock Barbie doll Michael S. Harper (1938 ) Letter to a Moon Child Black Study The Dance of the Elephants We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper If You Don t Force It Release: Kind of Blue Yusef Komunykau (1947 ) Out There There Be Dragons Strands Untitled Blues Villon/ Leadbelly The Music That Hurts Birds on a Powerline Linda Hogan (1947 ) Nothing Two of Hearts Two The New Apartment: Minneapolis Celebration: Birth of a Colt Ray Young Bear (1950 ) From the Spotted Night Wadasa Nakamoon, Vietnam Memorial Our Bird Aegis The Mask of Four Indistinguishable Thunderstorms Rita Dove (1952 ) Testimonial Rosa Teach Us to Number Our Days Gospel Naomi Shihab Nye (1952 ) Minnows My Father and the Figtree You Know Who You Are What People Do Blood How Palestinians Keep Warm Gary Soto (1952 ) Moving Away TV in Black and White Black Hair Behind Grandma s House College Car Jane Hirshfield (1953 ) For What Binds Us Pomegranates The Love of Aged Horses The Weighing Not Moving Even One Step Standing Deer Hope and Love Mathematics

5 Martín Espada (1957 ) Bully Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits The Lover of a Subversive Is also a Subversive Fidel in Ohio Tires Stacked in the Hallways of Civilization Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper The Music of Astronomy Li-Young Lee (1957 ) The Gift Early in the Morning Eating Alone Eating Together This Room and Everything in It This Hour and What Is Dead Gerry Crinnin (1958 ) Nocturne Final Exam Common Grave Walking Through Glass A NOTE ON METER GLOSSARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS