Dark horses : poets on overlooked poems : an anthology / edited by Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katz, Joy, 1963-

Prufer, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]

Summary:

Too many amazing poems end up overlooked by the academy and excluded from the canon, remaining largely unknown to the poetry-reading public. Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer's Dark Horses joyfully rediscovers dozens of these poems, recognizes their power, and illuminates their significance. Seventy-five established American poets including Billy Collins, John Ashbery, Linda Bierds, Carl Phillips, C. K. Williams, Wanda Coleman, Miller Williams, and Dana Gioia have each selected one unjustly neglected poem, most never previously anthologized, and written a concise commentary to accompany it. Selections include forgotten gems by well known poets as well as poems by writers who have fallen into obscurity. Dark Horses also acts as a primer on how to creatively read a poem and a documentary of the bonds between a poem and its reader.

Contents:

Kingsley Amis A Bookshop Idyll: Recommended by Rachel Hadas 5

/ A. R. Ammons from The Ridge Farm: Recommended by Forrest Hamer 9

/ Margaret Avison New Year's Poem: Recommended by Linda Bierds 11

/ Edward Barrett Morfudd's Hair: Recommended by Pamela Alexander 13

/ John Berryman Young Woman's Song: Recommended by Rachel Wetzsteon 15

/ Elizabeth Bishop Poem: Recommended by Stanley Plumly 18

/ R. P. Blackmur Mirage: Recommended by John Koethe 22

/ Louise Bogan Old Countryside: Recommended by Martha Collins 24

/ Joseph Ceravolo Drunken Winter: Recommended by David Lehman 26

/ John Ciardi A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats: Recommended by Miller Williams 28

/ Tom Clark Whatever Happened to Don Ho: Recommended by Billy Collins 31

/ R. Zulueta Da Costa from Like the Molave: Recommended by Nick Carbo 34

/ Emily Dickinson [This World is not Conclusion]: Recommended by Richard Foerster 38

/ Emily Dickinson [A Pit-but Heaven over it-]: Recommended by Rae Armantrout 41

/ Tim Dlugos Gilligan's Island: Recommended by David Trinidad 43

/ John Donne [Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear]: Recommended by Paul Muldoon 46

/ Alvin Feinman True Night: Recommended by Reginald Shepherd 48

/ Penny Gasaway Dark Old Men: Recommended by Wanda Coleman 52

/ Jack Gilbert Adulterated: Recommended by Eric Pankey 55

/ Paul Goodman Birthday Cake: Recommended by Tony Hoagland 57

/ Adam Hammer Guide to Marine Mammals and Sentence Structure: Recommended by Jim Daniels 60

/ A. E. Housman [On your midnight pallet lying]: Recommended by J. D. McClatchy 63

/ Langston Hughes White Poems: Recommended by Lynn Emanuel 67

/ Leigh Hunt The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit: Recommended by Albert Goldbarth 70

/ Laura (Riding) Jackson As Many Questions as Answers: Recommended by Bin Ramke 74

/ Thomas James Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh XXI Dynasty: Recommended by Carol Muske-Dukes 77

/ Ronald Johnson Radi os: Recommended by Stephen Yenser 80

/ Ron Koertge Modifications: Recommended by Denise Duhamel 83

/ Joanne Kyger Watching TV: Recommended by Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith 86

/ D.H. Lawrence Tortoise Shout: Recommended by David St. John 89

/ Naomi Lazard In Answer to Your Query: Recommended by Carolyn Kizer 93

/ Larry Levis The Morning After My Death: Recommended by Christopher Buckley 95

/ John Logan Three Moves: Recommended by Lucia Perillo 99

/ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Aftermath: Recommended by John Hollander 102

/ Amy Lowell The Garden by Moonlight: Recommended by D. A. Powell 105

/ Louis Macneice Meeting Point: Recommended by Elise Paschen 107

/ Pierre Martory The Landscape Is Behind the Door: Recommended by Dara Wier 111

/ Charlotte Mew The Trees Are Down: Recommended by Molly Peacock 115

/ Bert Meyers The Drive: Recommended by Amy Gerstler 118

/ Josephine Miles Cage: Recommended by Don Bogen 121

/ Mary Oliver John Chapman: Recommended by R. T. Smith 124

/ George Oppen Psalm: Recommended by Carl Phillips 128

/ Joyce Peseroff The Hardncss Scale: Recommended by Lloyd Schwartz 131

/ Sylvia Plath Mad Girl's Love Song: Recommended by Mary Jo Bang 135

/ Vasko Popa The Craftsmen of the Little Box: Recommended by Alan Michael Parker 138

/ Ezra Pound "Blandula, Tenella, Vagula": Recommended by Susan Wheeler 140

/ F. T. Prince The Moonflower: Recommended by John Ashbery 142

/ Man Ray Epilogue: Recommended by Dean Young 149

/ Muriel Rukeyser Nine Poems (for the unborn child): Recommended by Marilyn Hacker 152

/ James Schuyler February: Recommended by Peter Gizzi 159

/ Delmore Schwartz Poem: Recommended by Robert Phillips 162

/ Seifu Untitled Poem: Recommended by Cole Swensen 164

/ James Still Heritage: Recommended by Maggie Anderson 166

/ Wislawa Szymborska Returning Birds: Recommended by Elton Glaser 168

/ Eleanor Ross Taylor The Chain Gang Guard: Recommended by Betty Adcock 171

/ Sara Teasdale Water Lilies: Recommended by Annie Finch 175

/ R. S. Thomas The Cat and the Sea: Recommended by Susan Ludvigson 177

/ Chase Twichell The Ruiner of Lives: Recommended by C. K. Williams 180

/ Unknown, Kuno Meyer Summer Has Come: Recommended by Fanny Howe 184

/ Unknown [There was a man of double deed]: Recommended by Toi Derricotte 186

/ Henry Vaughan Distraction: Recommended by Ann Townsend 188

/ James L. White Making Love to Myself: Recommended by David Wojahn 191

/ Walt Whitman Time to Come: Recommended by David Baker 194

/ John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The Mock Song: Recommended by Barry Goldensohn 198

/ John Allan Wyeth Fromereville: Recommended by Dana Gioia 200.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0252030532

0252072871

OCLC:

60414411

Publisher Number:

9780252030536

9780252072871