Eating Poetry
Keeping Things Whole
Reading in Place
Paul Zimmer (b. 1934)
Zimmer’s Head Thudding Against the Blackboard
David R. Slavitt (b. 1935)
Titanic
C.K. Williams (b. 1936)
My Fly
The Dance
Gail Mazur (b. 1937)
In Houston
Diane Wakoski (b. 1937)
George Washington and the Loss of His Teeth
Robert Phillips (b. 1938)
Instrument of Choice
Charles Simic (b. 1938)
Country Fair
Fork
Northern Exposure
Prodigy
The Old World
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
Manet’s Olympia
Miss July Grows Older
Variations on the Word Sleep
You Fit Into Me
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
A Dream of Jealousy
Clearances
Punishment
Requiem for the Croppies
The Haw Lantern (Dedication)
Ted Kooser (b. 1939)
At the Office Early
Selecting a Reader
David Budbill (b. 1940)
Dilemma
The Three Goals
Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)
The Cardinal Detoxes: A Play in One Act
Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)
Shirt
Billy Collins (b. 1941)
Budapest
Forgetfulness
Introduction to Poetry
Nightclub
Not Touching
Passengers
Purity
Questions About Angels
Toi Derricotte (b. 1941)
Allen Ginsberg
Stephen Dobyns (b. 1941)
Tomatoes
Eamon Grennan (b. 1941)
Detail
Gerald Locklin (b. 1941)
Late Registration
Jack Myers (b. 1941)
Jake Addresses the World from the Garden
Nancy Vieira Couto (b. 1942)
Living in the La Brea Tar Pits
Stuart Dybek (b. 1942)
Brass Knuckles
Maroon
B. H. Fairchild (b. 1942)
The Dumka
Tom Hennen (b. 1942)
Soaking Up Sun
The Life of a Day
David Huddle (b. 1942)
Holes Commence Falling
Louis Jenkins (b. 1942)
A Place for Everything
William Matthews (1942 – 1997)
A Poetry Reading at West Point
Onions
Sharon Olds (b. 1942)
I Go Back to May 1937
Once
Quake Theory
Satan Says
The Pope’s Penis
The Promise
The Space Heater
Dave Smith (b. 1942)
Pulling a Pig’s Tail
Wreck in the Woods
Sharon Bryan (b. 1943)
Beyond Recall
Philip Schultz ((b. 1945)
The Answering Machine
Ronald Wallace (b. 1945)
Thirteen
Tom Wayman (b. 1945)
Did I Miss Anything?
Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945)
Electric Elegy
Moment
Andrei Codrescu (b. 1946)
Defense of the meek
Two fragments from Three Types of Loss, Part 3
Larry Levis (1946 – 1996)
The Poem You Asked For
Brian Patten (b. 1946)
Party Piece
Maura Stanton (b. 1946)
Living Apart
Lorna Goodison (b. 1947)
Birth Stone
Kaylin Haught (b. 1947)
God Says Yes to Me
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)
Blackberries
Camouflaging the Chimera
Facing It
Ode to the Maggot
Heather McHugh (b. 1948)
What He thought
Agha Shahid Ali (1949 – 2001)
The Dacca Gauzes
Mark Halliday (b. 1949)
Get It Again
Population
Robert Hedin (b. 1949)
The Old Liberators
Joyce Sutphen (b. 1949)
Living in the Body
Bruce Weigl (b. 1949)
What Saves Us
Claribel Alegria (b. 1950)
Documentary
Charles Bernstein (b. 1950)
Of Time and the Line
Jorie Graham (b. 1950)
Salmon
Michael Pettit (b. 1950)
Driving Lesson
Brigit Pegeen Kelly (b. 1951)
The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery
Timothy Russell (b. 1951)
In Simili Materia
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (b. 1952)
Ceist na Teangan (The Language Issue)
Sean O’Brien (b. 1952)
Rain
Shu Ting (b. 1952)
Assembly Line
Mark Irwin (b. 1953)
Woolworth’s
Richard Jones (b. 1953)
Certain People
Leaving Town after the Funeral
The Bell
Wan Chu’s Wife in Bed
Robert Kinsley (b. 1953)
A Walk Along the Old Tracks
Mark Turpin (b. 1953)
Before Groundbreak
Don Fargo & Sons
Jobsite Wind
Pickwork
Poem
Waiting for Lumber
Kevin Hart (b. 1954)
The Room
Molly Fisk (b. 1955)
Intrigue
On the Disinclination to Scream
The Dry Tortugas
William Roetzheim (b. 1955)
Response to Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”
Fading into Background
Stretch Marks
Opera Season
Shadow Friends
Dean Young (b. 1955)
Only One of My Deaths
Mark Cox (b. 1956)
Geese
Style
Jim Daniels (b. 1956)
Wheels
Gu Gheng (1956 – 1993)
Ark
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
Eating Together
Persimmons
Julia Kasdorf (b. 1962)
What I Learned from My Mother
Ruth L. Schwartz (b. 1962)
The Swan at Edgewater Park
Patience Agbabi (b. 1965)
Transformatrix
Kate Clanchy (b. 1965)
War Poetry
David Berman (b. 1967)
Snow
Jackleen Holton (b. 1969)
American History
Free
Jane Flanders (b. 1984)
The House that Fear Built: Warsaw, 1943
Appendix A Notes on Meter
Index by Author
Index by Title
Index by Subject
Index to Translations
Index of First Lines
Index Pointing To Audio CD
Index Pointing From Audio CD
Acknowledgements
Footnotes
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