I Speak of the City: Poems of New York Book

Foreword Preface The Complaint of New Amsterdam to Its Mother, by Jacob Steendam (1616--1672)
On the City Encroachment on the Hudson River, 1800, by Philip Freneau (1752--1832)
New York, by Samuel Woodworth (1785--1842)
Song, by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790--1867)
Hymn of the City, by William Cullen Bryant (1794--1878)
Bronx, 1818, by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795--1820)
"He Walked the Streets of Great New York", by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)
City Lyrics, by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806--1867)
Five Points, 1838, by Laughton Osborn (1809--1878)
The Old Apple-Woman: A Broadway Lyric, by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813--1892)
The House-top, by Herman Melville (1819--1891)
Mannahatta; from Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun; from Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus (1849--1887)
Hudson's Last Voyage, by Henry Van Dyke (1852--1933)
Owed to New York, by Byron Rufus Newton (1861--1938)
New York, by Richard Hovey (1864--1900)
Maiden Lane, by Louise Morgan Sill (1868--1961)
My City, by James Weldon Johnson (1871--1938)
Lower New York, by George Cabot Lodge (1873--1909)
New York at Night, by Amy Lowell (1874--1925)
New York at Sunrise, by Anne Hempstead Branch (1875--1937)
When Broadway Was a Country Road, by Charles Coleman Stoddard (1876--1961)
Manhattan, by Charles Hanson Towne (1877--1949)
Broadway, by Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)
A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign, by Vachel Lindsay (1879--1931)
New York, from a Skyscraper, by James Oppenheim (1882--1932)
The Great Figure, by William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)
From the Woolworth Tower, by SaraTeasdale Song: Weekend's Over, by Moishe Leib Halpern (1886--1932)
Storm on Fifth Avenue, by Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)
Granite and Steel; Dock Rats, by Marianne Moore (1887--1972)
Here Lives the Jewish People, by H. Leyvik (1888--1962)
Harlem Shadows, by Claude McKay (1889--1948)
Ballad of New York, New York, by Christopher Morley (1890--1957)
English Sparrows (Washington Square), by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)
Brooklyn Bridge, by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893--1930)
New York City, by Maxwell Bodenheim (1893--1954)
Shadow of a Vision of an Ode to New York, by Melech Ravitch (1893--1976)
"at the ferocious phenomenon", by E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)
from By the Well of the Living and Seeing, by Charles Reznikoff (1894--1976)
The Cemetery at Chatham Square, by Naftali Gross (1896--1956)
Visiting Second Avenue, by Eliezer Greenberg (1896--1977)
New York, by Federico Garcia Lorca (1898--1936)
The Tunnel, from The Bridge, by Hart Crane (1899--1932)
Peter Stuyvesant, by Aaron Zeitlin (1899--1974)
The Cloisters, by Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986)
Manhattan, by Kenneth Fearing (1902--1961)
Good Morning; The Heart of Harlem, by Langston Hughes (1902--1967)
I Want New York, by Ogden Nash (1902--1971)
Valentine for New York, by Phyllis McGinley (1905--1978)
New York, by Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906--2001)
Manhattan Novelettes, by Edouard Roditi (1910--1992)
America, America, by Delmore Schwartz (1913--1966)
The Ballad of Orange and Grape, by Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980)
Riding the A, by May Swenson (1913--1989)
Central Park, by Octavio Paz (1914--1998)
Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City, by Thomas Merton (1915--1968)
George Washington Bridge, by John Ciardi (1916--1986)
Central Park, by Robert Lowell (1917--1977)
Geometries of Manhattan: Morning, by M. L. Rosenthal (1917--1996)
Token, by Jane Mayhall (1918--)
New York Subway, by Hilda Morley (1919--1998)
Meet Miss Subways, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919--)
Ode to New York, by Reed Whittemore (1919--)
Times Square Water Music, by Amy Clampitt (1920--1994)
The Location of Things, by Barbara Guest (1920--2006)
The Hyacinth Garden in Brooklyn, by Hayden Carruth (1921--)
from MacDougal Street Blues, by Jack Kerouac (1922--1969)
The Roof Garden, by Howard Moss (1922--1987)
Manhattan Movements, by John Logan (1923--1987)
Morning; Back, by James Schuyler (1923--1991)
The Cabdriver's Smile, by Denise Levertov (1923--1997)
Greenwich Village of My Dreams, by Tuli Kupferberg (1923--)
New York; The Last Bohemians, by Edward Field (1924--)
Through the Boroughs; Brooklyn Heights, by Harvey Shapiro (1925--)
from A Time Zone, by Kenneth Koch (1925--2002)
Manhattan Dawn (1945), by Donald Justice (1925--2004)
Old as the Hills; Sheep Meadow, by Samuel Menashe (1925--)
SM, by Stanley Moss (1925--)
The Poem of Liberation, by Gerald Stern (1925--)
Steps; A Step Away from Them, by Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)
Bryant Park, by Paul Blackburn (1926--1971)
From Brooklyn, by John Holmes (1926--1988)
164 East 72nd Street, by James Merrill (1926--1995)
from Mugging; The Charnel Ground, by Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)
The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World, by Galway Kinnell (1927--)
227 Waverly Place, by W. S. Merwin (1927--)
Helpless, We Go Into This Ground, Helpless, by Leo Connellan (1928--2001)
Awaking in New York, by Maya Angelou (1928--)
The Handball Players at Brighton Beach, by Irving Feldman (1928--)
The Village: The Seasons, by L. E. Sissman (1929--1976)
from New York, by John Hollander (1929--)
The Old Men Playing Boccie on Leroy Street, by Richard Howard (1929--)
from Twenty-one Love Poems, by Adrienne Rich (1929--)
On the Death of the Lucky Gent, by Gregory Corso (1930--2001)
Walking the New York Bedrock Alive in the Sea of Information, by Gary Snyder (1930--)
A Village Life, by Derek Walcott (1930--)
The Spirit of 34th Street, by Peggy L. Shriver (1931--)
Summer: West Side, by John Updike (1932--)
New York Elegy, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933--)
XXXVI ("It's 8:45 a.m. in Brooklyn. . ."), by Ted Berrigan (1934--1983)
New York 1970, by Audre Lorde (1934--1992)
New Netherland, 1654, by Grace Schulman (1935--)
47,000 Windows, by June Jordan (1936--2002)
I Am New York City, by Jayne Cortez (1936--)
I woke with the room cold. . ., by Marge Piercy (1936--)
These Green-Going-to-Yellow, by Marvin Bell (1937--)
Guggenheim, by William Borden (1938--)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, by Robert Phillips (1938--)
Early Morning in July, by Charles Simic (1938--)
Inventory -- to 100th Street, by Frank Lima (1939--)
Man Listening to Disc, by Billy Collins (1941--)
Looking for an Apartment in New York, by Stan Rice (1942--2002)
The Empire State Building as the Moon, by Sharon Olds (1942--)
Strawberries in Mexico, by Ron Padgett (1942--)
Photographs of Old New York, by Alfred Corn (1943--)
The New Yorkers, by Nikki Giovanni (1943--)
Street Fire, by Daniel Halpern (1945--)
A Lower East Side Poem, by Miguel Piñero (1946--1988)
You Say You Like the Country, by Claudia Menza (1947--)
Hungarian Woman on Ellis Island, by Diane Ackerman (1948--)
The World Trade Center (1993), by David Lehman (1948--)
Washington Heights, 1959, by Michael Blumenthal (1949--)
The Old Neighborhood, by Andrea Carter Brown (1949--)
Spring Street Girl Friend (#8), by C. D. Wright (1949--)
The Grid, by Tom Sleigh (1953--)
Generations, by Kim Addonizio (1954--)
Brooklyn Bound, by Barbara Elovic (1954--)
playland, by Eve Packer (1955--)
The Owl and the Lightning; Day of the Dead on Wortman Avenue, by Martin Espada (1957--)
Going Home Madly, by Brooke Wiese (1957--)
"bella" (6 December 2002), by Tonya Bolden (1959--)
Ladies' Night at the Turkish and Russian Baths, by Julia Kasdorf (1962--)
New York, New York, by David Berman (1967--)
Conservatory Pond, Central Park, New York, New York, by Joel Brouwer (1968--)
The Cyclone, by Yvonne C. Murphy (1968--)
East Seventh Street, by Mark Wunderlich (1968--)
lured beneath your golden, calling lights, by Kevin Coval (1975--)
Notes to the Poems Acknowledgments Index of Poets