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The heart of American poetry / Edward Hirsch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirsch, Edward, author.
- Series:
- Library of America special publication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Explication.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--History and criticism.
- Poets, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 452 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Library of America, [2022]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The education of a poet
- "The author to her book" / Anne Bradstreet
- "To S. M. a young African painter, on seeing his works" / Phillis Wheatley
- "The Jewish cemetery at Newport" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- "Out of the cradle endlessly rocking" / Walt Whitman
- "Shiloh" / Herman Melville
- #479 ["Because I could not stop for death"] / Emily Dickinson
- "The new colossus" / Emma Lazarus
- "Eros turannos" / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- "Madonna of the evening flowers" / Amy Lowell
- "The most of it" / Robert Frost
- "Sunday morning" / Wallace Stevens
- from Spring and All, I ["By the road to the contagious hospital"] / William Carlos Williams
- "The river-merchant's wife: a letter" / Ezra Pound
- "The steeple-jack" / Marianne Moore
- "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" / T.S. Eliot
- "To Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane
- "Harlem" / Langston Hughes
- "Southern Road" / Sterling A. Brown
- "Cuttings" and "Cuttings (later)" / Theodore Roethke
- "In the waiting room" / Elizabeth Bishop
- "Cross road blues" [Take 2] / Robert Johnson
- "Middle passage" / Robert Hayden
- "St. Roach" / Muriel Rukeyser
- "Farewell in Welfare Island" / Julia de Burgos
- "A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon" / Gwendolyn Brooks
- "More light! More light!" / Anthony Hecht
- "O taste and see" / Denise Levertov
- "The day lady died" / Frank O'Hara
- "America" / Allen Ginsberg
- "Soonest mended" / John Ashbery
- "Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio" / James Wright
- "To Cipriano, in the wind" / Philip Levine
- "XIII (Dedications" [from "An atlas of the difficult world"] / Adrienne Rich
- "Daddy" / Sylvia Plath
- ["won't you celebrate with me"] / Lucille Clifton
- "My mother's lips" / C. K. Williams
- "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" / Michael S. Harper
- "Retreating wind" / Louise Glück
- "Ancestral graves, Kahuku" / Garrett Hongo
- "Rabbit is up to tricks" / Joy Harjo.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781598537277 (electronic bk.)
- 159853727X (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40031203190
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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