CiNii Books - Contemporary American poetry

Within the pages of this anthology, now in its second edition, you'll find 39 American poets from across the twentieth century. In his introduction, editor and Guggenheim fellow Donald Hall, describes the face of American poetry as "subjective." The American poem "reveals through images not particular pain, but general subjective life . . . The poet uses fantasy and distortion to express feeling."

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Acknowledgments Introduction Preface to the Second Edition Index of Poets Index of Titles Index of First Lines William Stafford (b. 1914) comes from Kansas and was educated at the universities of Kansas, Wisconsin and Iowa. He has taught in California and Indiana and is now at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. West of Your City appeared in 1960, and Travelling Through the Dark (winner of the National Book Award) in 1962. In 1966 he published The Rescued Year and in 1970 Allegiances. Travelling through the Dark Returned to Say At Cove on the Crooked River Strokes Near With My Crowbar Key Dudley Randall (b. 1914) is a librarian in Detroit, and publisher of the Broadside Press, which prints broadsides and books by black American poets. Randall published some of his poems, together with poems by Margaret Danner, in Poem Counterpoem (1966), and a second collection, Cities Burning, in 1968. Roses and Revolutions Black Poet, White Critic George Old Witherington David Ignatow (b. 1914) has lived most of his life in Manhattan. In 1961 he published Say Pardon, and in 1964 Figures of the Human, which collected poems from volumes that had gone out of print. Rescue the Dead, from which all of these poems are taken, was published in 1968. In 1970 he published Poems 1934-1969.The Bagel Rescue the Dead Ritual Three East Bronx All Quiet Robert Lowell (1917-77) was a member of the Bostonian family that included a president of Harvard and the poets Amy and James Russell. He attended Harvard and Kenyon and studied with John Crowe Ransom. Lord Weary's Castle (1946), Lowell's first full-scale book, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947. The Mills of the Kavanaghs followed in 1951, and Life Studies (which won the National Book Award) in 1959. A book of translations, Imitations, appeared in 1961, and a translation of Racine's Phedre in 1961. He published a new collection of poems, For the Union Dead, in 1964, and a collection of his plays, The Old Glory, in 1965. His most recent collections of poems are Near the Ocean (1967), Notebooks (1969), a revised Notebook 1970, For Lizzie and Harris (1973), History (1973), and The Dolphin (1973). Christmas Eve Under Hooker's Statue The Holy Innocents New Year's Day Katherine's Dream After the Surprising Conversions Memories of West Street and Lepke For Sale Man and Wife Skunk Hour Robert Duncan (b. 1919) comes from Oakland, California, and has continued to live near by. He has edited the Experimental Review and Phoenix, and taught at Black Mountain College and the University of Buffalo. Among his books are The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), and Bending the Bow (1968). A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar Reed Whittemore (b. 1919) was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and attended Yale University. He taught at Carleton College, was consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress in 1964-65, and is now on the staff of the National Institute of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. He has published six volumes of poetry, of which the most recent is Poems New and Selected (1967). Still Life A Day with the Foreign Legion On the Suicide of a Friend The Party The Walk Home Howard Nemerov (b. 1920) joined the Royal Canadian Air Force after graduating from Harvard, and flew in England during the Second World War. He has published considerable literary criticism, three novels, a book of short stories and an autobiographical Journal of the Fictive Life, as well as several books of poems. New and Selected Poems appeared in 1960 and was followed by The Next Room of the Dream (1962) and The Blue Swallows (1967). Storm Windows The Statues in the Public Gardens A Singular Metamorphosis The View from an Attic Window The Fall Again Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) was educated at Amherst College and Harvard, where he took an M.A. in 1947, and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows 1947-50. He has taught at Harvard, Wellesley and Wesleyan University, and he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and received a Prix de Rome. His books of poems include The Beautiful Changes (1947), Ceremony (1950), Things of This World (1956), Poems 1943-1956 (1957) and Advice to a Prophet (1961). In 1957 he received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Things of This World. He is also an accomplished translator, especially known for his translation of plays by Moliere, The Misanthrope (1955) and Tartuffe (1963). In 1969 he published a new collection of poems, Walking to Sleep. Tywater "A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness" Museum Piece After the Last Bulletins She The Undead In the Smoking Car Shame Anthony Hecht (b. 1922) is a native of New York City and attended Kenyon College, where he studied with John Crowe Ransom. He has taught at Smith College, Bard, and the University of Rochester. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and Hudson Review Fellow. A Summoning of Stones appeared in 1954, and The Hard Hours (which included a selection from the earlier book) was published in 1967 and received the Pulitzer Prize. Alceste in the Wilderness Samuel Sewall The Vow The End of the Weekend "More Light! More Light!" James Dickey (b. 1923) was born in Georgia and has lived most of his life in the South. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress, and teaches at the Unviersity of South Carolina. In 1967 he gathered his verse together in Poems 1957-67. In 1968 he collected his criticism under the title From Babel to Byzantium. His most recent collection of poems is Eyebeaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buck-head and Mercy (1970). The Performance Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek Denise Levertov (b. 1923) comes from Ilford in Essex, England and served as a nurse during the Second World War, when her poems were first published by Wrey Gardiner in London. She married the American writer, Mitchell Goodman, and has lived in the United States since 1948. He American books include Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands (1958), With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960), The Jacob's Ladder (1961), O Taste and See! (1964), The Sorrow Dance (1967) and Relearning the Alphabet (1970). OVerland to the Islands Sunday Afternoon The Springtime The Grace-note The World Outside Six Variations A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England John Logan (b. 1923) is editor of Choice, and teaches at the University of Buffalo. His books of poems are Cycle for Mother Cabrini (1955), Ghosts of the Heart (1960), Spring of the Thief (1963), and Zigzag Walk: Poems 1963-1968 (1969). The Picnic A Trip to Four or Five Towns Louis Simpson (b. 1923), born in Jamaica in the West Indies, came to the United States in 1940, and attended Columbia University. He spent three years in the United States Army, mostly in the glider infantry, and received his citizenship at Berchtesgaden. He has been a publisher, and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and at Stony Brook in Long Island. He has published a novel, a critical book and six books of poems. At the End of the Open Road won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964, Selected Poems appeared in 1966 and The Adventures of the Letter I in 1971. Early in the Morning The Ash and the Oak To the Western World The Riders Held Back Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain There Is My Father in the Night Commanding No Edgar Bowers (b. 1924) was born in Georgia, and attended the University of North Carolina and Stanford, where he studied with Yvor Winters. He has been a Sewanee Review Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. He now teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books of poems are The Form of Loss (1956) and The Astronomers (1965). The Mountain Cemetery The Prince The Centaur Overheard Adam's Song to Heaven Le Reve John Haines (b. 1924) was born in Virginia, and in the late forties studied painting and sculpture in Washington and New York. He went to Alaska in 1947, and lived in a cabin which he built himself some seventy miles from Fairbanks. He published Winter News in 1966 and The Stone Harp in 1971. And When the Green Man Comes The Tundra Foreboding If the Owl Calls Again To Turn Back Donald Justice (b. 1925) was born in Miami, Florida, where he attended the University of Miami. He has studied at Stanford University and at the University of North Carolina. He teaches at the State University of Iowa. The Summer Anniversaries was the Lamont Poetry Selection in 1959, and was followed by Night Light in 1967. Beyond the Hunting Woods On the Death of Friends in Childhood Here in Katmandu Another Song Counting the Mad On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane Robert Bly (b. 1926) was born on the Western plains of Minnesota and attended St. Olaf's College and Harvard University. He is editor of the literary magazine The Seventies, and spent a year in Norway on a Fulbright, translating Scandinavian poetry and prose. Later he returned to Norway and to England on a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Grant. His poems have been collected in Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962) and in The Light Around the Body, which won the National Book Award in 1968. Where We Must Look for Help Sunday in Glastonbury Awakening Poem Against the British Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River Hunting Peasants in a Cornfield A Busy Man Speaks Poem in Three Parts The Possibility of New Poetry After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once Sleet Storm on the Merritt Parkway Andrew Jackson's Speech Robert Creeley (b. 1926) was raised in Massachusetts, attended Harvard, and served in India and Burma with the American Field Service during the war. Later he lived in France, Spain, and Guatemala, where he edited and taught school. He has taught at Black Mountain College, at the University of New Mexico and now at San Francisco State. He has published a novel and a book of short stories, as well as several volumes of poetry. His poems are available in three volumes, For Love (1962), Words (1967), and Pieces (1969). After Lorca I Know a Man The Hill The Signboard The Cracks For Love Kore The Rain James Merrill (b. 1926) is a graduate of Amherst College and lives in Stonington, Connecticut. He has published two novels and several books of poems, including Nights and Days, which won the National Book Award in 1967. Poems 1948-1961 appeared in England in 1962. The Fire Screen appeared in 1969. The Power Station Angel Childlessness After Greece W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926) grew up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, where he majored in music at Geneva College. After service in the Navy he attended the State University of Iowa, and taught at Cornell, Rochester and Wayne State University in Detroit. He is now teaching at Syracuse University. His first book of poems, Heart's Needle (1959), received a Pulitzer Prize in 1960. In 1968 he published After Experience. from Heart's Needle The Examination Monet: "Les Nympheas" A. R. Ammons (b. 1926) was born in Whiteville, North Carolina. After many years in business, Ammons took a position teaching at Cornell University. He has published six books of poems, including Selected Poems (1968), Uplands (1970) and Briefings (1971). Hymn Terrain Prospecting Loss Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926) was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of a school teacher and poet. He attended Columbia College, and with the publication of Howl in 1957 he became a spiritual leader of the young in America. Kaddish (1961) was his next collection, followed by Reality Sandwiches (1963) and Planet News in 1968. A Supermarket in California Dream Record: June 8 1955 To Lindsay Message The End First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels John Woods (b. 1926) was born in Martinsville, Indiana, and teaches at Western Michigan University. He is the author of books of poetry, including The Cutting Edge (1966), Keeping Out of Trouble (1968) and Turning to Look Back: Poems 1955-1970 (1971). Lie Closed, My Lately Loved What Do You Do When It's Spring? Looking Both Ways Before Crossing Frank O'Hara (1926-66) grew up in New England and attended Harvard and the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award. Most of his adult life he spent in New York, one of the group of poets associated with contemporary painters. He worked for Art News and the Museum of Modern Art, where he was an assistant curator of exhibitions at the time of his accidental death. The Museum published a posthumous collection of his poems illustrated by painters who were his friends, In Memory of My Feelings. In 1971, Knopf published The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara. Why I am not a Painter A Step Away from Them Steps John Ashbery (b. 1927), a native of Sodus, New York, was educated at Deerfield and Harvard. He has worked for Art News and been art critic for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune. He has published four principal collections of poems, Some Trees (Yale Series of Young Poets, 1956), The Tennis Court Oath (1962), Rivers and Mountains (1966) and The Double Dream of Spring (1970). Some Trees The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers A Vase of Flowers Thoughts of a Young Girl Our Youth The Young Prince and the Young Princess Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) was born in Rhode Island and attended Princeton University. He has lived in France, where he taught at Grenoble, and in Iran. He has translated Yves Bonnefoy and Villon, among other French poets. He lives in an old farmhouse in Vermont, from which he occasionally departs to teach for a semester or two. He has published What a Kingdom It Was (1960), Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1964), Body Rags (1968) and The Book of Nightmares (1971). from The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World Flower-hearding Pictures on Mount Monadnock W. S. Merwin (b. 1927) was born in New York City, raised in Pennsylvania, and educated at Princeton University. He has spent most of the last two decades in Spain, England and France, where he has a small cottage. He has published numerous translations from Spanish and French. His seven books of poems include The Drunk in the Furnace (1960), The Moving Target (1963), The Lice (1967), and The Carrier of Ladders (1970). Leviathan Low Fields and Light The Bones Small Woman on Swallow Street Grandfather in the Old Men's Home Views from the High Camp Departure's Girl-friend James Wright (b. 1927) is a native of Ohio, and studied under John Crowe Ransom and Theodore Roethke. He has been a Kenyon Review Fellow, and has lived in Austria on a Fulbright Award. He taught at the University of Minnesota and now teaches at Hunter College in New York. His books of poems are The Green Wall (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 1957), Saint Judas (1959), The Branch Will Not Break (1963), Shall We Gather at the River (1968). His Collected Poems appeared in 1971. A Gesture by a Lady with an Assumed Name At Thomas Hardy's Birthplace, 1953 Saint Judas Confession to J. Edgar Hoover Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me The Blessing Miners Anne Sexton (1928-74) began writing poems in 1957. To Bedlam and Part Way Back appeared in 1960, followed by All My Pretty Ones (1962), Live or Die, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, Transformations (1971), Book of Folly (1972) and The Death Notebooks (1974). Lament Wanting to Die That Day Donald Hall (b. 1928) is editor of this anthology. He was born in Connecticut, and since 1957 has lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He spent two years at Oxford on a Henry Fellowship, and has returned to spend two more years in England subsequently. His books of poems include Exiles and Marriages (1955), The Dark Houses (1958), A Roof of Tiger Lilies (1963), The Alligator Bride (1969) and The Yellow Room love poems (1971). The Long River The Blue Wing The Alligator Bride Gold Reclining Figure X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929) is a native of New Jersey and took his B. A. at Seton Hall University, going to the University of Michigan for graduate study. His first book of poems, Nude Descending a Staircase, was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1961. He teaches at Tufts University. In 1969 he published a second book of poems, Growing into Love. First Confession Nude Descending a Staircase Little Elegy B Negative In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), a native of Baltimore, published her first book of poems when she was a senior at Radcliffe College. She lives in Manhattan. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has held an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship. Her most recent books are Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), Necessities of Life (1966), Leaflets (1969), and The Will to Change (1971). The Insusceptibles Readings of History Edward Dorn (b. 1929) was born in Illinois, and attended Black Mountain College. He lived for some time in the northwest of the United States, especially in Pocatello, Idaho. Recently, he spent several years as a visiting professor at the University of Essex, in England. Some of his books of poems are The Newly Fallen (1961), Geography (1965), The North Atlantic Turbine (1967) and Gunslinger (Book I, 1968
Book II, 1969). Home on the Range, February 1962 On the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck A Song Mourning Letter, March 29, 1963 Gary Snyder (b. 1930) has lived most of the past decade in Japan, but has now settled in northern California in a house--Kitkitdizze--which he built himself. His principal books are Riprap (1959), Myths and Texts (1960), The Back Country (1968) and Regarding Wave (1970). All through the Rains Piute Creek Above Pate Valley Milton by Firelight Hay for the Horses Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston and went to Smith College. On a Fulbright to Cambridge she met Ted Hughes, the English poet, whom she married in 1956. She published her first book of poems, The Colossus, in 1960. Shortly after the birth of her second child in 1962, she wrote the poems of her posthumous volume, Ariel (1965). Lady Lazarus Death & Co. Words Etheridge Knight (b. 1933) was born in Corinth, Mississippi. He has written of himself, "I died in Korea from a shrapnel wound and narcotics resurrected me. I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life." His book of poems is called Poems from Prison, and appeared in 1968. He was released from the Indiana State Prison in December 1968. Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane He Sees Through Stone The Idea of Ancestry As You Leave Me Michael Benedikt (b. 1937) lives in New York. The Body was published in 1968, Sky in 1970 and Mole Notes in 1971. He has also published considerable translation. The European Shoe The Eye Divine Love Some Feelings Thoughts Tom Clark (b. 1941) grew up in Chicago and was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1963, where he won a Major Hopwood Award for poetry. He then attended Cambridge University and the University of Essex, returning to the United States in 1967. He now lives in California. His first major collection of poems, Stones, appeared in 1969 and Air in 1970. Poem Going to School in France or America Doors Eyeglasses Poem Ron Padgett (b. 1942) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and edited a magazine while he was still in high school which included work by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and LeRoi Jones. With several other artists from Tulsa, he moved to New York, and currently lives in the East Village. His book of collaborations with Ted Berrigan, Bean Spasms, appared in 1967. In 1969 he published a collection of his own poems, called Great Balls of Fire. After the Broken Arm The Sandwich Man

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