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American alphabets : 25 contemporary poets / edited by David Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 425 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oberlin, Ohio : Oberlin College Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- A major new anthology of recent American poetry, featuring generous selections of the work of 25 extraordinary poets born since World War II, with thoughtful introductions and annotations. In language of striking originality and beauty, these poets illuminate the complexities of contemporary life and chart the contours of the American landscape. Agha Shahid Ali - Pamela Alexander - Bruce Beasley Robin Behn - Linda Bierds - Marianne Boruch - Mark Doty Rita Dove - Norman Dubie - Beckian Fritz Goldberg Linda Gregerson - Bob Hicok - Yusef Komunyakaa - Larry Levis Thomas Lux - Carol Muske-Dukes - Carl Phillips - Mary Ruefle David St. John - Susan Stewart - Arthur Sze - Lee Upton Bruce Weigl - C. D. Wright - Franz Wright
- Contents:
- Agha Shahid Ali 1
- I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror 2
- Snow on the Desert 4
- The Country Without a Post Office 7
- Ghazal (Arabic) 10
- Lenox Hill 11
- Rooms Are Never Finished 13
- Ghazal (Even the Rain) 15
- The Purse-Seiner Atlantis 16
- Of Fire 17
- Pamela Alexander 19
- Flight 20
- Vines 21
- Inventory. Journal 23
- Sight 24
- Reprise 26
- Mt. Auburn Owl 27
- Northeast Suite 28
- The Comma a Portrait 30
- Foxlight 30
- Person of 31
- Lightfall 32
- Crossing 34
- Bruce Beasley 36
- Witness 37
- Red Reed 40
- What Did You Come to See 42
- from Spiritual Alphabet in Midsummer 45
- Hermetic Diary 48
- Lord Brain 50
- Robin Behn 53
- Origin 54
- Drownproofing Lesson 55
- On Giving My Father a Book About Roses 57
- Aubade 59
- Still Life 60
- On Being Asked My Opinion About an Autopsy 61
- Vigil: Dwindle 63
- Ancient New Parents 64
- The Yellow House Writes a Story for the Boy 65
- Below the Cellar of the Yellow House There Is Another Set of Stairs 66
- Like a Horse 67
- The Green Field 67
- Linda Bierds 69
- Quickly and Fully 70
- In the Beeyard 71
- White Bears: Tolstoy at Astapovo 72
- Phantom Pain 74
- Hunter 75
- It 76
- Desire 77
- Van Leeuwenhoek: 1675 79
- Altamira: What She Remembered 80
- Vespertilio 81
- Muybridge 82
- Pasteur on the Rue Vauquelin 83
- Thinking of Red 84
- Marianne Boruch 86
- The Hammer Falls, Is Falling 87
- Perennial Garden 88
- Interior with a Violin 89
- The Window 89
- Moss Burning 90
- Omens 92
- Year in Hawaii 94
- The Way the Dying Hear Things 96
- Piano Tuning 97
- Elegy 98
- All Those People 99
- Think of the Words 100
- Simple Machines 100
- Mark Doty 102
- A Display of Mackerel 103
- Migratory 105
- Fog Argument 106
- Homo Will Not Inherit 108
- The Embrace 112
- Retrievers in Translation 112
- Elizabeth Bishop, Croton 114
- Flit 115
- Rita Dove 118
- Small Town 119
- The House Slave 120
- Adolescence-II 120
- Parsley 121
- Dusting 123
- Weathering Out 124
- Sunday Greens 125
- Mississippi 126
- Dog Days, Jerusalem 126
- Turning Thirty, I Contemplate Students Bicycling Home 127
- The Other Side of the House 128
- Lint 128
- Exit 129
- Revenant 129
- On Veronica 130
- Ta Ta Cha Cha 131
- La Chapelle. 92nd Division. Ted 132
- Desert Backyard 133
- Norman Dubie 134
- February: The Boy Breughel 135
- Thomas Hardy 137
- Elizabeth's War with the Christmas Bear 137
- Coleridge Crossing the Plain of Jars 139
- Parish 140
- New England, Springtime 141
- Of Politics, & Art 142
- The Apocrypha of Jacques Derrida 143
- Buffalo Clouds over the Maestro Hoon 144
- The Pendulum 145
- Of Art & Memory 148
- Dementia 149
- Sky Harbor 150
- Beckian Fritz Goldberg 152
- Retro Lullaby 153
- Since I Have Lived 155
- Money 156
- Wren 157
- Fetish 158
- Lilies at Night 159
- God Body 160
- Blossom at the End of the Body 161
- Twentieth Century Children 161
- Twentieth Century Children (2) 162
- Twentieth Century Children (5): Blood-Kissing 163
- Third Body 164
- Nights with the Star-Ladle Over the House 164
- Nights in the Constellation of the Tree Stepping from Its Robe 165
- He Said Discipline Is the Highest Form of Love 166
- Bedtime Story 167
- The Passing House 167
- Linda Gregerson 168
- Norway 169
- Safe 171
- For the Taking 173
- Cranes on the Seashore 175
- Bicameral 178
- Elegant 181
- Bob Hicok 185
- Whither Thou Goest 186
- Once a Green Sky 188
- Small Purchase 189
- Dropping the Euphemism 191
- Goodbye in the Shape of a Knot 193
- Radical Neck 194
- Sudden Movements 196
- The Active Reader 197
- Team Effort 198
- The Busy Days of My Nights 199
- Angels of Mercy 200
- Yusef Komunyakaa 201
- Water Buffalo 202
- Monsoon Season 203
- Camouflaging the Chimera 204
- Tunnels 205
- Starlight Scope Myopia 206
- Fragging 208
- "You and I Are Disappearing" 209
- Sappers 209
- We Never Know 210
- Tu Do Street 211
- Prisoners 212
- Facing It 214
- A Reed Boat 215
- Buried Light 215
- The Hanoi Market 216
- Anodyne 216
- Larry Levis 218
- Sensationalism 219
- At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans 221
- Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage 224
- Elegy with a Bridle in Its Hand 230
- Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It 233
- Thomas Lux 235
- Solo Native 237
- View from a Porch 237
- The Thirst of Turtles 238
- Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy 239
- There Were Some Summers 240
- The Dark Comes On in Blocks, in Cubes 241
- Ultima Thule 241
- Black Road Over Which Green Trees Grow 242
- Gorgeous Surfaces 243
- Grim Town in a Steep Valley 244
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City 245
- Grain Burning Far Away 245
- Marine Snow at Mid-Depths and Down 246
- Unlike, for Example, the Sound of a Riptooth Saw 247
- The Language Animal 247
- Can Tie Shoes But Won't 248
- To Help the Monkey Cross the River 249
- From the High Ground 250
- The Hungry Gap-Time 250
- Carol Muske-Dukes 252
- Ideal 253
- Applause 255
- Unsent Letter 4: Last Take 260
- Miracles 262
- Blue Kashmir, '74 262
- Ovation 264
- Heroine 265
- Request Radio 266
- Crack the Whip 267
- Jacaranda 268
- Carl Phillips 270
- Somewhere Holy 271
- As from a Quiver of Arrows 273
- Parable 274
- Luck 275
- Words of Love 276
- To Break, to Ride 277
- Minotaur 279
- Custom 281
- The Rest of Love 281
- Late Apollo 282
- Erasure 284
- A Summer 285
- Mary Ruefle 286
- The Melancholiacs 287
- The Intended 288
- In the Bitter Country 289
- An American Dream 289
- Wasps' Nest 290
- Peeling the Orange 291
- Rain Effect 291
- Rising Bodies 292
- Out of a Hundred 293
- Public Garden with a Weeeping Tree 293
- Evangelical 294
- The March 295
- Perpetually Attempting to Soar 296
- Perfect Reader 296
- The Letter 297
- The Jewel 298
- The Execution Poster 298
- Seven Postcards from Dover 299
- The Feast 300
- Search Party 301
- From Here to Eternity 301
- Kiss of the Sun 302
- David St. John 303
- Slow Dance 304
- Iris 307
- Six/Nine/Forty-Four 308
- Wedding Preparations in the Country 311
- Dolls 312
- Gin 312
- Hush 314
- Elegy 314
- Winter Fires 316
- An Essay on Liberation 316
- Meditation 317
- In the Sulphur Garden 318
- Susan Stewart 319
- The Forest 320
- May 1988 322
- The Meadow 323
- Apple 324
- Dark the Star 327
- Forms of Forts 328
- Pear 329
- These Trees in Particular 331
- Lost Rules of Usage 332
- Wings 333
- Zero 334
- Arthur Sze 335
- The Negative 336
- Axolotl 337
- The String Diamond 338
- Apache Plume 343
- Acanthus 349
- X and O 350
- Earthstar 351
- Lee Upton 352
- Window Seat at the Paradise 353
- Somewhere So Lush 354
- Contortionist 355
- The Imagination of Flowers 356
- Scroll 357
- Bedtime Story 357
- Jim's Hairball 358
- The Quality of Mercy 359
- Destruction of Daughters 360
- Happiness 361
- The Scarlet Letter 362
- Beatrix Potter 363
- Civilian Histories 364
- The Table 367
- Bruce Weigl 369
- Monkey 370
- Him, on the Bicycle 374
- Painting on a T'ang Dynasty Water Vessel 375
- Temple Near Quang Tri, Not on the Map 376
- The Way of Tet 377
- Dialectical Materialism 378
- Why Nothing Changes for Miss Ngo Thi Thanh 379
- Temptation 380
- The Sky in Daduza Township 381
- Three Fish 382
- River Journal 383
- Why I Hate Theory 383
- Home 384
- Self Portrait at Fifty-Three 384
- C. D.
- Wright 386
- Bent Tones 387
- Tours 388
- Provinces 389
- Elements of Night 389
- Petition for Replenishment 390
- More Blues and the Abstract Truth 390
- Humidity 391
- Personals 392
- Floating Trees 393
- Lake Echo, Dear 394
- Key Episodes from an Earthly Life 395
- Privacy 396
- Flame 397
- from Deepstep Come Shining 398
- Until words turn to moss 401
- In our only time 402
- Franz Wright 403
- Blood 405
- Morning 406
- Alcohol 406
- Illegibility 407
- Loneliness 408
- August Insomnia 409
- Thoughts of a Solitary Farmhouse 409
- Sunday Afternoon 410
- Have You Seen This Child 410
- Circle Drawn In Water 411
- Flight 412
- Walking To Martha's Vineyard 414
- The Only Animal 415
- Sitting Up Late with My Father, 1977 417
- Publication Date 417
- Lines Written in the Dark Illegible Next Day 418.
- ISBN:
- 0932440282
- OCLC:
- 62858071
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