The Penguin anthology of twentieth-century American poetry / edited with an introduction by Rita Dove.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dove, Rita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

lii, 599 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2011.

Summary:

Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the 20th century, Dove has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities--from styles and voices to themes and cultures--while balancing important poems with significant periods of each poet. 800 pp. 35,000 print.

Contents:

Spoon River anthology : Hill ; Fiddler Jones ; Petit, the poet / Edgar Lee Masters

Miniver Cheevy ; Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson

Creation / James Weldon Johnson

Poet ; Life's tragedy / Paul Laurence Dunbar

Death of the hired man ; Mending wall ; Birches ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Tree at my window ; Directive / Robert Frost

Patterns / Amy Lowell

Susie Asado ; Tender buttons : Box ; Plate / Gertrude Stein

I sit and sew / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Grass ; Cahoots / Carl Sandburg

Peter Quince at the Clavier ; Disillusionment of ten o'clock ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; Anecdote of the jar ; Emperor of ice-cream ; Of mere being / Wallace Stevens

Fragment / Angelina Weld Grimké

Tract ; Danse Russe ; Red wheelbarrow ; Yachts ; Asphodel, that greeny flower (Book I, lines 1-92) / William Carlos Williams

Moonlight ; There will come soft rains / Sara Teasdale

Jewel stairs' grievance ; River-merchants' wife : a letter ; In a station of the metro ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; Canto LXXXI : (Libretto: "Yet/Ere the season died a-cold") / Ezra Pound

Sea rose ; Helen ; Walls do not fall : 1 ("An incident here and there") ; Hermetic definition : "Red rose and a beggar" : 1 ("Why did you come") ; 2 ("Take me anywhere

") ; 5 ("Venice

Venus?") / Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)

Gale in April ; Shine, perishing republic ; Clouds at evening ; Credo / Robinson Jeffers

Fish ; Poetry ; Poetry / Marianne Moore

Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Preludes ; Waste land / T.S. Eliot

If we must die ; Harlem dancer / Claude McKay

Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish

First fig ; Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay

in Just- ; Buffalo Bill's ; Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; next to of course god america i ; somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond ; r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / E.E. Cummings

Reapers ; November cotton flower ; Portrait in Georgia / Jean Toomer

Medusa ; New moon / Louise Bogan

Dark symphony ; Harlem gallery : Psi ("Black boy, / let me get up from the white man's table

") / Melvin B. Tolson

Bridge [excerpts] : Proem : To Brooklyn Bridge ; II : Powhatan's daughter : The river / Hart Crane

Silent poem / Robert Francis

Negro speaks of rivers ; I, too ; Dream boogie ; Harlem / Langston Hughes

Incident ; To John Keats, poet, at spring time ; Yet do I marvel ; From the dark tower / Countee Cullen

Father and son ; Portrait ; Touch me / Stanley Kunitz

Musée des Beaux Arts ; Epitaph on a tyrant / W.H. Auden

My papa's waltz ; Waking ; In a dark time / Theodore Roethke

Maximus poems : I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you ; Distances / Charles Olson

Fish ; Sestina ; First death in Nova Scotia ; Visits to St. Elizabeths ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop

Mourning poem for the queen of Sunday ; Those winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle passage / Robert Hayden

Effort at speech between two people ; Then I saw what the calling was ; Poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser

Heavy bear who goes with me / Delmore Schwartz

Dream songs : 4 ("Filling her compact & delicious body") ; 14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") ; 29 ("There sat down, once") ; 149 ("This world is gradually becoming a place") ; Henry's understanding / John Berryman

90 north ; Death of the ball turret gunner ; Woman at the Washington Zoo ; Next day / Randall Jarrell

For my daughter / Weldon Kees

Different image / Dudley Randall

Traveling through the dark ; At the bomb testing site / William Stafford

Scars / Ruth Stone

For my people / Margaret Walker

Mother ; Song in the front yard ; Bean eaters ; Lovers of the poor ; We real cool ; Blackstone rangers / Gwendolyn Brooks

"To speak of woe that is in marriage" ; Skunk hour ; For the Union dead / Robert Lowell

Often I am permitted to return to a meadow ; My mother would be a falconress / Robert Duncan

Populist manifesto / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Parents / William Meredith

Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry / Howard Nemerov

Hyacinth garden in Brooklyn ; August 1945 / Hayden Carruth

Love calls us to the things of this world ; Cottage Street, 1953 ; Writer / Richard Wilbur

Sheep child / James Dickey

Love song : I and thou / Alan Dugan

"More light! More light!" / Anthony Hecht

Degrees of gray in Philipsburg ; Freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Richard Hugo

Poem unwritten ; Caedmon ; Swan in falling snow / Denise Levertov

American poetry / Louis Simpson

Muse of water / Carolyn Kizer

Fresh air ; Permanently / Kenneth Koch

Morning swim ; How it is / Maxine Kumin

Behaving like a Jew ; Dancing ; Another insane devotion / Gerald Stern

City limits ; Corsons Inlet / A.R. Ammons

Snowfall in the afternoon ; Driving to town late to mail a letter ; Waking from sleep / Robert Bly

Flower ; I know a man ; Language ; Rain ; Bresson's movies / Robert Creeley

Victor dog / James Merrill

Steps ; Poem ("Lana Turner has collapsed!") ; Day Lady died / Frank O'Hara

Some trees ; Self-portrait in a convex mirror ; What is poetry / John Ashbery

Bear ; After making love we hear footsteps ; Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell

Air ; For the anniversary of my death ; Yesterday ; Chord / W.S. Merwin

Blessing ; Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio ; Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been condemned / James Wright

My son my executioner ; Digging / Donald Hall

Animals are passing from our lives ; They feed they lion ; You can have it ; Simple truth / Philip Levine

Her kind ; Abortion ; Wanting to die ; In celebration of my uterus ; Rowing / Anne Sexton

Orion ; Planetarium ; Valediction forbidding mourning ; Twenty-one love poems : XIII ("The rules break like a thermometer

") / Adrienne Rich

Marriage / Gregory Corso

Hay for the horses ; Riprap ; Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Gary Snyder

Far cry from Africa ; Sea grapes ; Schooner : Flight (part 11, After the storm : "There's a fresh light that follows

") ; Light of the world ; Omeros, Book VII, LXIV, i ("I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son

") / Derek Walcott

Let me tell you / Miller Williams

Idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight

Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Agony. As now. ; SOS ; Black art / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

Wrong train ; Final sonnet / Ted Berrigan

Power / Audre Lorde

poem at thirty / Sonia Sanchez

Prediction ; Night, the porch / Mark Strand

Stone is nobody's / Russell Edson

Singapore ; Summer day / Mary Oliver

Reunion ; Dead color ; California dreaming / Charles Wright

homage to my hips ; [at last we killed the roaches] ; death of fred clifton ; to my last period / Lucille Clifton

Poem about my rights / June Jordan

1968 / Frederick Seidel

From my window ; Blades / C.K. Williams

Mechanic / Diane Wakoski

Dear John, dear Coltrane ; Last affair : Bessie's blues song ; Grandfather ; Nightmare begins responsibility / Michael S. Harper

Stone ; Fork ; Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic

Grandmother / Paula Gunn Allen

Ellen West / Frank Bidart

Spring letter ; Two or three wishes / Carl Dennis

Allegory of the cave ; Tucson / Stephen Dunn

History of my heart ; Questions ; Samurai song / Robert Pinsky

Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat / James Welch

Introduction to poetry ; Dead / Billy Collins

Allen Ginsberg ; Weakness / Toi Derricotte

How to like it ; Lullaby / Stephen Dobyns

Song ; Pornographer ; Return of Robinson Jeffers / Robert Hass

My life : A name trimmed with colored ribbons / Lyn Hejinian

Machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano / B.H. Fairchild

But he was cool or: he even stopped for green lights ; Poem to complement other poems / Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee)

In memory of the Utah stars ; The accompanist / William Matthews

Language of the brag ; Lifting / Sharon Olds

Barbed wire / Henry Taylor

Black silk ; Under stars / Tess Gallagher

I do not / Michael Palmer

Lost pilot / James Tate

Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear ; Funeral / Norman Dubie

August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Carol Muske-Dukes

Turtle ; Bestiary / Kay Ryan

Childhood ideogram ; Winter stars / Larry Levis

Looking for Judas / Adrian C. Louis

People of the other village / Thomas Lux

Ballad of Aunt Geneva ; Star-fix / Marilyn Nelson

Albany / Ron Silliman

Cuba, 1962 ; Kid ; Finished / Ai

Thanks ; Tu Do Street ; Facing it ; Nude interrogation / Yusef Komonyakaa

Song of the Andoumboulou : 21 / Nathaniel Mackey

Gathering the bones together ; Two lines from the Brothers Grimm ; Origin of the marble forest / Gregory Orr

Reaching Yellow River / Roberta Hill Whiteman

Away / Albert Goldbarth

Language lesson 1976 ; What he thought / Heather McHugh

In cold storm light / Leslie Marmon Silko

Calypso / Olga Broumas

Latin & soul / Victor Hernández Cruz

Miami heart / Jane Miller

Iris / David St. John

Why Ralph refuses to dance ; Girl friend poem #3 ; Crescent / C.D. Wright

Taking off my clothes / Carolyn Forché

San Sepolcro / Jorie Graham

What the living do / Marie Howe

She had some horses ; My house is the red earth / Joy Harjo

Legend / Garrett Hongo

Begotten ; We were simply talking / Andrew Hudgins

Imagining their own hymns ; Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Meeting the British ; Errata ; Throwback / Paul Muldoon

Quinceañera / Judith Ortiz Cofer

Parsley ; Daystar ; After reading Mickey in the night kitchen for the third time before bed ; Claudette Colvin goes to work / Rita Dove

Our calling / Alice Fulton

Thinking of Galileo ; Hatred / Barbara Hamby

Unholy sonnet 13 / Mark Jarman

Traveling onion ; Arabic ; Wedding cake / Naomi Shihab Nye

Nani ; England finally, like my mother always said we would / Alberto Ríos

Nocturne : Blue waves ; Unfinished / Laurie Sheck

Field poem ; Oranges ; Black hair / Gary Soto

Yellow stars and ice ; Forest / Susan Stewart

Brilliance ; Esta noche ; Bill's story / Mark Doty

Black Nikes / Harryette Mullen

Alcohol / Franz Wright

To my brother ; "Love of my flesh, living death" / Lorna Dee Cervantes

My wicked wicked ways ; Little clown, my heart / Sandra Cisneros

Jack Johnson does the eagle rock ; Crows in a strong wind ; I'm a fool to love you / Cornelius Eady

Indian boarding school : The runaways / Louise Erdrich

Spooning / David Mason

How I got that name ; Composed near the Bay Bridge Survivor / Marilyn Chin

Youngest daughter / Cathy Song

Another reluctance ; Insect / Annie Finch

Gift ; Eating together / Li-young Lee

Our lady ; As from a quiver of arrows / Carl Phillips

Bag of mice ; Cartoon physics, part 1 / Nick Flynn

Venus Hottentot ; Affirmative action blues (1993) ; Equinox / Elizabeth Alexander

White elephants : Million balconies ; Train windows / Reetika Vazirani

What the orphan inherits ; Powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie

Hot combs ; Amateur fighter ; Flounder / Natasha Trethewey

Tantrum / A.E. Stallings

Spare / Joanna Klink

Postfeminism ; Your one good dress / Brenda Shaughnessy

Quivira city limits ; Everywhere is out of town ; Whatever you want / Kevin Young

At Pegasus ; Lady sings the blues / Terrance Hayes.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780143106432

0143106430

OCLC:

706024203