Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems Book

Introduction     1
A Bookshop Idyll: Recommended by Rachel Hadas     5
from The Ridge Farm: Recommended by Forrest Hamer     9
New Year's Poem: Recommended by Linda Bierds     11
Morfudd's Hair: Recommended by Pamela Alexander     13
Young Woman's Song: Recommended by Rachel Wetzsteon     15
Poem: Recommended by Stanley Plumly     18
Mirage: Recommended by John Koethe     22
Old Countryside: Recommended by Martha Collins     24
Drunken Winter: Recommended by David Lehman     26
A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats: Recommended by Miller Williams     28
Whatever Happened to Don Ho: Recommended by Billy Collins     31
from Like the Molave: Recommended by Nick Carbo     34
[This World is not Conclusion]: Recommended by Richard Foerster     38
[A Pit-but Heaven over it-]: Recommended by Rae Armantrout     41
Gilligan's Island: Recommended by David Trinidad     43
[Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear]: Recommended by Paul Muldoon     46
True Night: Recommended by Reginald Shepherd     48
Dark Old Men: Recommended by Wanda Coleman     52
Adulterated: Recommended by Eric Pankey     55
Birthday Cake:Recommended by Tony Hoagland     57
Guide to Marine Mammals and Sentence Structure: Recommended by Jim Daniels     60
[On your midnight pallet lying]: Recommended by J. D. McClatchy     63
White Poems: Recommended by Lynn Emanuel     67
The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit: Recommended by Albert Goldbarth     70
As Many Questions as Answers: Recommended by Bin Ramke     74
Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh XXI Dynasty: Recommended by Carol Muske-Dukes     77
Radi os: Recommended by Stephen Yenser     80
Modifications: Recommended by Denise Duhamel     83
Watching TV: Recommended by Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith     86
Tortoise Shout: Recommended by David St. John     89
In Answer to Your Query: Recommended by Carolyn Kizer     93
The Morning After My Death: Recommended by Christopher Buckley     95
Three Moves: Recommended by Lucia Perillo     99
Aftermath: Recommended by John Hollander     102
The Garden by Moonlight: Recommended by D. A. Powell     105
Meeting Point: Recommended by Elise Paschen     107
The Landscape Is Behind the Door: Recommended by Dara Wier     111
The Trees Are Down: Recommended by Molly Peacock     115
The Drive: Recommended by Amy Gerstler      118
Cage: Recommended by Don Bogen     121
John Chapman: Recommended by R. T. Smith     124
Psalm: Recommended by Carl Phillips     128
The Hardncss Scale: Recommended by Lloyd Schwartz     131
Mad Girl's Love Song: Recommended by Mary Jo Bang     135
The Craftsmen of the Little Box: Recommended by Alan Michael Parker     138
"Blandula, Tenella, Vagula": Recommended by Susan Wheeler     140
The Moonflower: Recommended by John Ashbery     142
Epilogue: Recommended by Charles Bernstein     145
Epilogue: Recommended by Dean Young     149
Nine Poems (for the unborn child): Recommended by Marilyn Hacker     152
February: Recommended by Peter Gizzi     159
Poem: Recommended by Robert Phillips     162
Untitled Poem: Recommended by Cole Swensen     164
Heritage: Recommended by Maggie Anderson     166
Returning Birds: Recommended by Elton Glaser     168
The Chain Gang Guard: Recommended by Betty Adcock     171
Water Lilies: Recommended by Annie Finch     175
The Cat and the Sea: Recommended by Susan Ludvigson     177
The Ruiner of Lives: Recommended by C. K. Williams     180
Summer Has Come: Recommended by Fanny Howe      184
[There was a man of double deed]: Recommended by Toi Derricotte     186
Distraction: Recommended by Ann Townsend     188
Making Love to Myself: Recommended by David Wojahn     191
Time to Come: Recommended by David Baker     194
The Mock Song: Recommended by Barry Goldensohn     198
Fromereville: Recommended by Dana Gioia     200
Acknowledgments     205
Index of Titles     209
Contributors     211