Contemporary American poetry / selected and introduced by Donald Hall
1962, First Edition. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books. First Penguin edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Item #451407
Physical description; 201 pages ; 19 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; William Stafford -- Travelling through the dark -- Returned to say -- At cove on the crooked river -- Strokes -- Near -- With my crowbar key -- Robert Lowell -- Christmas Eve under Hooker's statue -- The holy innocents -- New Year's Day -- Katherine's dream -- After the surprising conversions -- Memories of West Street and Lepke -- For sale -- Man and wife -- Skunk hour -- Robert Duncan -- A poem beginning with a line by Pindar -- Reed Whittemore -- Still life -- A day with the Foreign Legion -- On the suicide of a friend -- The party -- The walk home -- Howard Nemerov -- Storm windows -- The statues in the public gardens -- A singular metamorphosis -- The view from an attic window -- The fall again -- Richard Wilbur. Tywater -- "A world without objects is a sensible emptiness" -- Museum piece -- After the last bulletins -- She -- The undead -- In the smoking car -- Shame -- Anthony Hecht -- Alceste in the wilderness -- Samuel Sewall -- The vow -- The end of the weekend -- "More light! More light!" -- James Dickey -- The performance -- Hunting Civil War relics at Nimblewill Creek -- Denise Levertov -- Overland to the islands -- Sunday afternoon -- The springtime -- The grace-note -- The world outside -- Six variations -- A map of the western part of the county of Essex in England -- John Logan -- The picnic -- A trip to four or five towns -- Louis Simpson -- Early in the morning -- The ash and the oak -- To the western world -- The riders held back -- Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain -- There is -- My father in the night commanding no -- Edgar Bowers -- The mountain cemetery -- The prince -- The centaur overhead -- Adam's song to heaven -- Le Rêve -- Donald Justice -- Beyond the hunting woods -- On the death of friends in childhood -- Here in Katmandu -- Another song -- Counting the mad -- On a painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane -- Robert Bly -- Where we must look for help -- Sunda in Glastonbury -- Awakening -- Poem against the British -- Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River -- Hunting pheasants in a cornfield -- A busy man speaks -- Poem in three parts -- The possibility of new poetry -- After the Industrial Revolution, all things happen at once -- Sleet storm on the Merritt Parkway -- Andrew Jackson's speech -- Robert Creeley -- After Lorca -- I know a man -- The hill -- The signboard -- The cracks -- For love -- Kore -- The rain -- James Merrill -- The power station -- Angel -- Childlessness -- After Greece -- W. D. Snodgrass -- From Heart's needle -- The examination -- Monet : "Les nymphéas" -- John Ashbery -- Some trees -- The picture of little J.A. in a prospect of flowers -- A vase of flowers -- Thoughts of a young girl -- Our youth -- The young prince and the young princess -- Galway Kinnell -- From The avenue bearing the initial of Christ into the new world -- Flower-herding pictures on Mount Monadnock -- W. S. Merwin -- Leviathan -- Low fields and light -- The bones -- Small woman on Swallow Street -- Grandfather in the old men's home -- Views from the high camp -- Departure's girl-friend -- James Wright -- A gesture by a lady with an assumed name -- At Thomas Hardy's birthplace, 1953 -- Saint Judas -- Confession to J. Edgar Hoover -- Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota -- Depressed by a book of bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me -- The blessing -- Miners -- X. J. Kennedy -- First confession -- Nude descending a staircase -- Little elegy -- B negative -- In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day -- Adrienne Rich -- The insusceptibles -- Readings of history -- Gary Snyder -- All through the rains -- Piute Creek -- Above Pate Valley -- Milton by firelight -- Hay for the horses -- Robert Mezey -- The funeral home -- Epitaph of a faithful man -- Late winter birthday -- Dark head -- The lovemaker -- To Philip Levine, on the Day of Atonement. Subjects; 1900-1999. American poetry 20th century. American poetry. American poetry 20th century Collected works. American poetry 20th century Anthologies. American Poetry. English Poetry. 20th century. USA.
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