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Poems for America : 125 poems that celebrate the American experience
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- ISBN: 0743244869
- ISBN: 9780743244862
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Physical Description:
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xvi, 231 p. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New York : Scribner Poetry, [2002]
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Includes indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied Out of a Loose Paper" / Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) 5 -- "The Indian Burying Ground" / Philip Freneau (1752-1832) 7 -- "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." / Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784) 9 -- "To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North Carolina" 11 -- "The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers" / Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865) 13 -- Excerpt, "The Prairies" / William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) 15 -- "On Liberty and Slavery" / George Moses Horton (c.1797-c.1883) 17 -- "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day" / Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) 19 -- "Concord Hymn" / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 22 -- "Boston Hymn" 23 -- "Paul Revere's Ride" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 27 -- "Barbara Frietchie" / John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) 32 -- "America" / Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895) 35 -- "Old Ironsides" / Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) 37 -- "The First Atlantic Telegraph" / Jones Very (1813-1880) 38 -- "Our Country" / Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) 39 -- "An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876" / James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) 41 -- "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" / Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) 42 -- "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 43 -- "City of Orgies" 50 -- "A Promise to California" 51 -- "I Hear America Singing" 52 -- "Ball's Bluff" / Herman Melville (1819-1891) 53 -- "America" / James Monroe Whitfield (1822-1871) 54 -- "The Slave Mother" / Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911) 59 -- "Learning to Read" 61 -- "Ode Sung at Magnolia Cemetery" / Henry Timrod (1828-1867) 63 -- #389 [There's been a Death, in the Opposite House,"] / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 65 -- #617 ["Don't put up my Thread and Needle--"] 67 -- "At Home from Church" / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) 68 -- "Long Island Sound" / Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) 70 -- "The New Colossus" 71 -- Excerpt, "The Old Swimmin'-Hole" / James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) 72 -- "The Anti-Suffragists" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) 73 -- "Cabins" / Frank Bird Linderman (1869-1938) 76 -- "War Is Kind" / Stephen Crane (1871-1900) 77 -- "Thompson's Lunch Room--Grand Central Station" / Amy Lowell (1874-1925) 79 -- "The Dude Ranch" / Arthur Chapman (1874-1935) 81 -- "After Apple-Picking" / Robert Frost (1874-1963) 82 -- "I Sit and Sew" / Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) 84 -- "Work Gangs" / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) 85 -- "The Flower-Fed Buffaloes" / Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) 87 -- "Fabliau of Florida" / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) 88 -- "Anecdote of the Jar" 89 -- "The Legend of Boastful Bill" / Badger Clark Jr. (1883-1957) 90 -- "The Forgotten City" / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) 93 -- "Old Amusement Park" / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) 95 -- "Love in America--" 97 -- "The Boston Evening Transcript" / T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) 98 -- "Dawn in New York" / Claude McKay (1890-1948) 99 -- "O Pioneers!" / John Peale Bishop (1892-1944) 100 -- "From a Train Window" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) 101 -- "American Farm, 1934" / Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948) 102 -- "Proud Riders" / H. L. Davis (1894-1960) 104 -- "'next to of course god america i" / e. e. cummings (1894-1962) 105 -- "Thanksgiving (1956)" 106 -- "To Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane (1899-1932) 108 -- "I Like Americans" / Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) 110 -- "In Praise of California Wines" / Yvor Winters (1900-1968) 112 -- "We're All in the Telephone Book" / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 114 -- "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem" / Helene Johnson (1907-1995) 115 -- "Product" / George Oppen (1908-1984) 116 -- "California" 117 -- "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore" / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) 118 -- "Florida" 120 -- "Tract" / Josephine Miles (1911-1985) 122 -- "The Campaign" 123 -- "The Outer Banks" / Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) 126 -- "Despisals" 128 -- "American Lights, Seen from off Abroad" / John Berryman (1914-1972) 130 -- "Southern Song" / Margaret Walker (1915-1998) 132 -- "The Mouth of the Hudson" / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) 133 -- "We Real Cool" / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) 134 -- "Bronco Busting, Event #1" / May Swenson (1919-1989) 135 -- "Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore" 136 -- "The Changing Light" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-) 137 -- "vegas" / Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) 139 -- "In Georgetown" / Hayden Carruth (1921-) 141 -- "Pleasant Avenue" / Marie Ponsot (1921-) 142 -- "Wellfleet: The House" / Richard Wilbur (1921-) 145 -- "April and Its Forsythia" / James Schuyler (1923-1991) 146 -- "Bagel Shop Jazz" / Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) 148 -- "Music" / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 150 -- "America" / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 151 -- "First Carolina Said-Song" / A. R. Ammons (1926-2001) 155 -- "Sleet Storm on the Merritt Parkway" / Robert Bly (1926-) 157 -- "And One for My Dame" / Anne Sexton (1928-1974) 158 -- "Transcontinent" / Donald Hall (1928-) 160 -- "Tomorrow" 161 -- "Belle Isle, 1949" / Philip Levine (1928-) 163 -- "Prospective Immigrants Please Note" / Adrienne Rich (1929-) 164 -- Excerpt "From an Old House in America" 165 -- "All over the Dry Grasses" / Gary Snyder (1930-) 167 -- "Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem" / Audre Lorde (1934-1992) 168 -- "Listenen to Big Black at S.F. State" / Sonia Sanchez (1935-) 169 -- "American Twilight" / Charles Wright (1935-) 171 -- "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989" / Lucille Clifton (1936-) 172 -- "black power poem" / Ishmael Reed (1938-) 174 -- "Iowa" / Michael Dennis Browne (1940-) 175 -- "Why We Are Truly a Nation" / William Matthews (1942-1997) 176 -- "Knoxville, Tennessee" / Nikki Giovanni (1943-) 177 -- "My Poem" 178 -- "Today I Am a Homicide in the North of the City" / Wanda Coleman (1946-) 180 -- "Walking Back Up Depot Street" / Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946-) 181 -- "At the Public Market Museum: Charleston, South Carolina" / Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) 183 -- "The Way Things Are in Franklin" 185 -- "American Trains" / Reginald Gibbons (1947-) 186 -- "Facing It" / Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-) 188 -- "Language Lesson 1976" / Heather McHugh (1948-) 190 -- "Queens, 1963" / Julia Alvarez (1950-) 191 -- "California Dreamin'" / Sapphire (1950-) 194 -- "The Dream Life of a Coffin Factory in Lynn, Massachusetts" / John Yau (1950-) 196 -- "Community Garden, Sixth Street and Avenue B" / Robin Becker (1951-) 198 -- "Crab-Boil" / Rita Dove (1952-) 200 -- "Silos" 202 -- "I Hear the Bells of the Ice-Cream Vendor Outside My Door" / Ray Gonzalez (1952-) 203 -- "Adonis Theater" / Mark Doty (1953-) 204 -- "Spiderman Versus the Kachinas" / Dave Alvin (1955-) 207 -- "The Hula Skirt, 1959" / Kimiko Hahn (1955-) 209 -- "What the Janitor Heard in the Elevator" / Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) 211 -- "Eden" / David Woo (1959-) 212 -- "Boston Year" / Elizabeth Alexander (1962-) 214 -- "Capitalist Poem #5" / Campbell McGrath (1962-) 216 -- "At the Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School" / Sherman Alexie (1966-) 217 -- Afterword: Excerpt, "Introduction" / Edward Sanders (1939-) 219. |
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