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Title

Poetry in motion from coast to coast : one hundred and twenty poems from the subways and buses / edited by Elise Paschen and Brett Fletcher Lauer ; introduction by Elise Paschen ; preface by William Louis-Dreyfus.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, [2002], ©2002.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Paschen, Elise.
• Lauer, Brett Fletcher.
• Poetry Society of America.

Description

xxvi, 172 pages; 14 x 21 cm

Subject

• Poetry > Collections

Note

• "Published in cooperation with the Poetry Society of America."
• Includes index.

Contents

• Preface / William Louis-Dreyfus -- Introduction / Elise Paschen -- from Emergence / Joy Harjo -- Naming the Animals / Anthony Hecht -- Ceres Looks at the Morning / Eavan Boland -- The Sonogram / Paul Muldoon -- Blackberries / Gabriele Hayden -- First Early Mornings Together / Robert Pinsky -- from Art: African-American Woman Guild, or The Spider Explains Her Art to the Blind / Angela Jackson -- Sonnet XXIX / William Shakespeare -- Red Rooster, Yellow Sky / Amy Uyematsu -- Beautiful Days / Mary Kinzie -- from Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- False Spring / Wanda Coleman -- from Eruption: Pu'u O'o / Garrett Hongo -- from Foreign Exchange / Marlon Winik -- Espresso / Tomas Transtromer -- Peaches / Peter Davison -- Walking to School, 1964 / David Wojahn -- Lilac Time / Hayden Carruth -- from The World Is Round / Gertrude Stein -- Riddle / Nan Fry -- A Tin Roof Song / Afaa Michael Weaver -- from The Choice / Elaine Terranova --
• from Avalanche / Quincy Troupe -- Days of Our Years / John Frederick Nims -- At Noon / Reginald Gibbons -- El Chicle / Ana Castillo -- I Ask My Mother to Sing / Li-Young Lee -- The Cure / James McManus -- A Poem for Jesse / Sonia Sanchez -- from Praise the Tortilla, Praise Menudo, Praise Chorizo / Ray Gonzalez -- Wrong Side of the River / Stanley Plumly -- Ventanas Pintadas/Painted Windows / Gloria Fuertes -- Cow Worship / Gerald Stern -- The Loon on Oak-Head Pond / Mary Oliver -- The Eagle / Alfred Tennyson -- from A Chorus of Horizontals / Maureen Seaton -- from Of Pairs / Josephine Jacobsen -- Keeping Things Whole / Mark Strand -- Milkweed / James Wright -- The Bears / Kim Stafford -- from Poppies / Robert McDowell -- In Between / Phillis Levin -- The Tree House / May Miller -- On the Patio, Dallas / Isabel Nathaniel -- from Untitled / Mina Loy -- from Brotherly Love / Daniel Hoffman -- We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks --
• I Finally Managed to Speak to Her / Hal Sirowitz -- from My Grandmother's New York Apartment / Elizabeth Alexander -- Hanging the Wash / Cynthia Harper -- Instruction / Hazel Hall -- Lineage / Margaret Walker -- The Courage of Women / Jane Glazer -- The Hands / Linda Hogan -- Open House / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Too Much Heat, Too Much Work / Tu Fu -- The Potter's Wheel / Calvin Forbes -- from Mending Wall / Robert Frost -- from Heavy Tells a Story / Luis J. Rodriguez -- The Mill Back Home / Vern Rutsala -- Confusion / Nino Nikolov -- from Auburn / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Epigram V, xxxvi / Martial -- The Door / E. Ethelbert Miller -- The Grade-School Angels / Rafael Alberti -- from Daily Horoscope / Dana Gioia -- The Whistle / Kathy Mangan -- Whose side are you on? / Lucille Clifton -- Hunger / Billy Collins -- from Men at Forty / Donald Justice -- from Commuter Marriage / Emily Grosholz -- Sonnet / Robert Hass -- Paper Matches / Paulette Jiles --
• from Fences / Benjamin Alire Saenz -- from Crazy Horse Speaks / Sherman Alexie -- Communicacion/Communication / Alicia Partnoy -- Love Like Salt / Lisel Mueller -- from Misgivings / William Matthews -- from Happy Family / Jane Shore -- Primitive / Sharon Olds -- Harmonie du Soir / Stephen Yenser -- Sent on a Sheet of Paper with a Heart Shape Cut Out of the Middle of It / John Hollander -- Scaffolding / Seamus Heaney -- Delight in Disorder / Robert Herrick -- Separation / W. S. Merwin -- from Those Who Come After / Eleanor Wilner -- Hysteria / Susan Hahn -- The Gift / N. Scott Momaday -- Tides / John Fuller -- The Ideal / James Fenton -- This Is Just to Say / William Carlos Williams -- from Little L. A. Villanelle / Carol Muske-Dukes -- Tower Suite / Grace Schulman -- The Taxi / Amy Lowell -- from The Starlight Night / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- from Fireflies / James McKean -- from In Spite of Everything, the Stars / Edward Hirsch --
• from The Heavy Light of Shifting Stars / Michael Collier -- The moonless night / Rosellen Brown -- from In February / Ralph J. Mills, Jr. -- White Towels / Richard Jones -- The Good Old Dog / Toi Derricotte -- from Rumors / John Yau -- Quies, or Rest / Allen Grossman -- Lullaby for a Daughter / Mary Jo Salter -- 0[degree] / Elizabeth Spires -- I Know / David St. John -- Exile / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- from Let Me Think / Faiz Ahmed Faiz -- Meeting at Night -- Water Can Only Wrap Me, but Life Must Hold Me / Primus St. John -- from Variation on the Word Sleep / Margaret Atwood -- Sonnet XVII / Pablo Neruda -- from Watch Repair / Charles Simic -- The Poem / Donald Hall -- Say Uncle / Kay Ryan -- The Well Dressed Man with a Beard / Wallace Stevens -- from The Tyger / William Blake -- from They Feed They Lion / Philip Levine -- When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer / Walt Whitman.

ISBN

0393323765 (pbk.)

LCCN

2002071841

OCLC

• ocm50006592
• SCSB-4320402

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries