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| Genre/Form: | poetry Poetry Poésie |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Strand; David Lehman |
| ISBN: | 0684193116 9780684193113 9780020698449 0020698445 |
| OCLC Number: | 28559724 |
| Description: | xvii, 326 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | The voice from Paxos / Jonathan Aaron -- Evidence: from a reporter's notebook / Ai -- Talking with poets / Dick Allen -- Bookmaking / Julia Alvarez -- Cigarettes / John Ash -- Of dreams and dreaming / John Ashbery -- Great stone face / George Bradley -- In memory of my father: Australia / Joseph Brodsky -- Double sonnet for Mickey / Gerald Burns -- A whippoorwill in the woods / Amy Clampitt -- Blue lonely dreams / Marc Cohen -- Infernal regions and the invisible girl / Alfred Corn -- Desire / Stephen Dobyns -- Bringing it down / Stephen Dunn -- The recording angel / Carolyn Forche -- The fractal lanes / Alice Fulton -- Celestial music / Louise Gluck -- The phase after history / Jorie Graham -- The consolation of Boethius / Melissa Green -- The afterlife / Debora Greger -- Safe / Linda Gregerson -- The ether dome (an entertainment) / Allen Grossman -- The beautician / Thom Gunn -- Tubes / Donald Hall -- Garden / Brooks Haxton -- Who we are / Daniel Hoffman -- The see-saw / John Hollander -- Desire / Paul Hoover -- Second nature / Ron Horning -- What word did the Greeks have for it? / Richard Howard -- The woods / Josephine Jacobsen -- Body and soul / Donald Justice -- Elegy / Vickie Karp -- A flower for the new year / Robert Kelly -- Let evening come / Jane Kenyon -- The diva's first song (White's Hotel, London) / Karl Kirchwey -- Marriage song / Carolyn Kizer -- A time zone / Kenneth Koch -- Morning in America / John Koethe -- Work song / Mark Levine -- Dark songs: slave house and synagogue / Laurence Lieberman -- At the classics teacher's / Elizabeth Macklin -- An essay on friendship / J.D. McClatchy -- Smash and scatteration / James McManus -- The 'ring' cycle / James Merrill -- Sky of clouds / Susan Mitchell -- Benedick's complaints: Much Ado About Nothing / Gary Mitchner -- Protracted episode / A.F. Moritz -- Lunchcounter freedom / Thylias Moss -- Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942 / Joyce Carol Oates. Chronic meanings / Bob Perelman -- Evidence / Robert Polito -- Night subway / Katha Pollitt -- Into the open / Susan Prospere -- The new reforms / Jack Roberts -- Merlin / David St. John -- Two poems / Sherod Santos -- Leaves / Lloyd Schwartz -- Past lives / Robyn Selman -- The seasons / David Shapiro -- Living color / Laurie Sheck -- Country fair / Charles Simic -- The wound / David R. Slavitt -- The woman as figure / Charlie Smith -- The Haiku master / Elizabeth Spires -- For seven women / Ruth Stone -- War movie: last leave, 1944 / Patricia Storace -- I am a Finn / James Tate -- Reminiscence forward / Molly Tenenbaum -- Reruns / David Trinidad -- Revenge / Chase Twichell -- Omeros / Derek Walcott -- Song / Rosanna Warren -- Lasting influence / Susan Wheeler -- Reading Lao Tzu again in the new year / Charles Wright. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Strand, editor ; David Lehman, series editor. |
Abstract:
A selection of 75 poems by new and established poets, culled from the pages of nearly three dozen magazines published in the past year.
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