An edition of Contemporary American poetry (1962)

Contemporary American poetry

Contemporary American poetry
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An edition of Contemporary American poetry (1962)

Contemporary American poetry

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
201

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Cover of: Contemporary American poetry
Contemporary American poetry
1972, Penguin
in English - 2nd ed., revised and expanded.
Cover of: Contemporary American poetry.
Contemporary American poetry.
1972, Penguin Books
in English - 2d ed., rev. and expanded.
Cover of: Contemporary American poetry.
Contemporary American poetry.
1971, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Contemporary American poetry
Contemporary American poetry
1969, Penguin Books
Cover of: Contemporary American poetry
Contemporary American poetry
1966, Penguin
in English
Cover of: Contemporary American poetry.
Contemporary American poetry.
1963, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Contemporary American poetry
Contemporary American poetry
1962, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Contemporary American poetry
Contemporary American poetry
1962, Penguin Books
in English

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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[Harmondsworth, Eng.]
Series
Penguin poets, Penguin poets

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811.54082
Library of Congress
PS613 .H3 1962

The Physical Object

Pagination
201 pages
Number of pages
201

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27787721M
OCLC/WorldCat
42256169

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