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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry Book

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, J, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry has a rating of 3.6 stars
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, J, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
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  • The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
  • Written by author J. D. McClatchy
  • Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, April 2003
  • Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, J
  • Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, J
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Introduction
A Note on the Second Edition, 2003
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket3
Memories of West Street and Lepke8
Man and Wife9
Skunk Hour10
The Mouth of the Hudson12
For the Union Dead13
Waking Early Sunday Morning15
History18
The Nihilist as Hero18
Reading Myself19
Obit19
Fishnet20
Dolphin20
Epilogue21
The Bight22
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance23
At the Fishhouses25
The Shampoo28
Brazil, January 1, 150228
Under the Window: Ouro Preto30
The Armadillo32
Filling Station33
In the Waiting Room34
One Art37
Poem38
Cuttings40
Root Cellar41
The Shape of the Fire41
The Waking44
I Knew a Woman45
In a Dark Time46
The Moon and the Night and the Men47
From the Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46, 76, 77, 143, 257, 384)48
90 North56
Eighth Air Force57
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner58
The Woman at the Washington Zoo58
Cinderella59
Next Day60
Well Water62
Masts at Dawn63
Birth of Love65
Rattlesnake Country66
Evening Hawk72
The Kingfishers73
For My Contemporaries80
To My Wife81
From a Century of Epigrams 9 (29, 53, 55, 62, 76)81
Night, Death, Mississippi83
Frederick Douglass85
Middle Passage85
Amsterdam Letter91
Cracked Looking Glass93
After Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs94
Teleology97
Unconscious Came a Beauty98
Stone Gullets99
Staying at Ed's Place99
Strawberrying100
A Poem Beginning With a Line by Pindar101
Styx109
The Illiterate111
Thoughts on One's Head112
Consequences113
Country Stars115
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi115
Storm Windows117
Writing118
Money119
The Dependencies120
Learning the Trees121
Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry122
The War in the Air123
A Baroque Wall-Foundation in the Villa Sciarra124
Looking Into History126
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World128
Mind129
Advice to a Prophet130
Walking to Sleep131
Hamlen Brook135
Homework136
Into Mexico137
The Twins138
A View139
The Stream141
The Pruned Tree145
The Wars146
Menage a Trois147
Elegy for My Sister149
Rules of Sleep152
Einstein's Bathrobe153
The Heaven of Animals155
The Hospital Window156
The Sheep Child158
The Strength of Fields160
A Hill162
Third Avenue in Sunlight163
"More Light! More Light!"164
Peripeteia165
The Feast of Stephen168
The Crystal Lithium170
Shimmer175
Korean Mums176
Clouds178
The Ache of Marriage179
Intrusion180
Seeing for a Moment180
Prisoners181
Graves at Elkhorn183
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir184
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg186
The River Now187
An Afternoon at the Beach188
Amor Vincit Omnia189
From Autumn Shade (3, 6, 8, 9)189
A Muse of Water192
Amusing Our Daughters194
From Pro Feminia (I, II)195
The Evening of the Mind198
Men at Forty199
The Tourist from Syracuse200
Variations on a Text by Vallejo201
The Assassination202
Mule Team and Poster202
To the Harbormaster204
A Step Away from Them205
Meditations in an Emergency206
Why I Am Not a Painter208
The Day Lady Died208
Having a Coke With You209
Ave Maria211
The Best Slow Dancer212
The Naval Trainees Learn How to Jump Overboard213
The Excursion of the Speech and Hearing Class214
Five Dawn Skies in November215
Making Camp215
The Source216
I Know a Man218
The Rescue219
Air: "The Love of a Woman"219
For Friendship220
For Love220
Again222
The World223
From Howl (I)225
Sunflower Sutra229
My Sad Self231
Wales Visitation233
April Inventory237
From Heart's Needle (2, 6)239
Mementos, 1241
A Locked House242
A Renewal244
Voices from the Other World245
Days of 1964246
Willowware Cup248
Lost in Translation249
The Animals256
Some Last Questions257
The River of Bees257
For the Anniversary of My Death258
The Asians Dying259
For a Coming Extinction260
The Night of the Shirts261
Bread261
St. Vincent's262
He Held Radical Light265
Gravelly Run266
Corsons Inlet267
Reflective271
Terrain271
The City Limits272
Glazunoviana274
Soonest Mended275
As One Put Drunk Into the Packet-Boat277
Pyrography278
And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name281
Syringa282
My Erotic Double284
At the Executed Murderer's Grave286
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio289
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota290
Beginning290
A Blessing291
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned292
A Winter Daybreak Above Vence293
Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond295
Last Songs296
The Bear297
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps300
The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak301
The Vow302
The Man on the Hotel Room Bed302
Her Kind304
Music Swims Back to Me305
The Truth the Dead Know306
The Starry Night307
With Mercy for the Greedy307
Wanting to Die308
The Room of My Life310
The Horse311
They Feed They Lion313
Belle Isle, 1949314
You Can Have It314
Rain Downriver316
Sweet Will317
Family History320
The Dream324
From All of Us Here325
The Night Mirror328
From Powers of Thirteen (3, 29, 69, 82, 87, 130)329
Swan and Shadow333
The Mad Potter334
The Venetian Interior, 1889338
At the Monument to Pierre Louys342
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law345
Planetarium349
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children351
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff354
For the Record357
For an Album358
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout359
Riprap360
Burning Island361
The Bath362
I Went Into the Maverick Bar365
Axe Handles366
The Colossus368
The Hanging Man369
Morning Song370
Daddy370
Fever 103[degree]373
Ariel375
Lady Lazarus376
Edge378
Words379
Keeping Things Whole381
Coming to This382
The Prediction382
"The Dreadful Has Already Happened"383


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