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Marion K. Stocking |
| Foreword |
xvii |
Victor E. Ferrall, Jr. |
| Preface |
xix |
Marion K. Stocking |
| Introduction |
xxi |
John Holmes |
| A Taste for Revenge (originally published in Fall 1950) |
5 |
May Sarton |
| The Stone Resists (originally published in Fall 1950) |
6 |
William Carlos Williams |
| The Drunkard (originally published in Spring 1951) |
7 |
James Laughlin |
| Fragment (from "America I Love You") (originally published in Summer 1951) |
8 |
| Well All Right (originally published in Summer 1951) |
9 |
Federico García Lorca |
| The Ballad of the Sleepwalker (originally published in Fall 1951) |
10 |
Philip Booth |
| Admission of Guilt (originally published in Spring 1952) |
13 |
Richard Wilbur |
| Digging for China (originally published in Spring 1952) |
14 |
Galway Kinnell |
| Death of a Sister (originally published in Summer 1953) |
15 |
Charles Muñoz |
| The Politician (originally published in Summer 1953) |
16 |
Louis Zukofsky |
| from "A" - 12 (originally published in Fall 1954) |
17 |
Charles Olson |
| Letter #29 (from The Maximus Poems) (originally published in Fall 1954) |
20 |
William Carlos Williams |
| The Ivy Crown (originally published in Fall 1954) |
25 |
Philip Levine |
| Moving (originally published in Spring 1955) |
28 |
Suzanne Gross |
| Guitarist (originally published in Spring 1955) |
29 |
Robert Creeley |
| Not Again (originally published in Fall 1955) |
30 |
Traditional |
| Woad (originally published in Winter 1955-1956) |
31 |
| William A-Trembletoe (originally published in Winter 1955-1956) |
32 |
| The Purple Hen (originally published in Winter 1955-1956) |
33 |
Lachlan MacDonald |
| Monkey Apple Town (originally published in Spring 1956) |
34 |
David Ignatow |
| Elegy (originally published in Summer 1956) |
36 |
Adrienne Rich |
| The Salvagers (originally published in Summer 1956) |
37 |
Nelly Sachs |
| Landschaft aus Schreien (originally published in Winter 1956-1957) |
38 |
May Swenson |
| R. F. at Breadloaf-His Hand against a Tree (originally published in Summer 1957) |
42 |
Maxine W. Kumin |
| Sandpipers (originally published in Fall 1957) |
44 |
Charles Bukowski |
| Treason (originally published in Winter 1957-1958) |
45 |
Gil Orlovitz |
| Not (originally published in Winter 1957-1958) |
47 |
Philip Larkin |
| Success Story (originally published in Winter 1957-1958) |
49 |
William Stafford |
| Totem (originally published in Spring 1958) |
50 |
| Long Distance (originally published in Spring 1958) |
51 |
Anne Sexton |
| Didn't Know (originally published in Summer 1958) |
52 |
James Dickey |
| Joel Cahill Dead (originally published in Summer 1958) |
53 |
Hayden Carruth |
| Plato, Esq. (originally published in Fall 1959) |
55 |
Nicholas Biel |
| Adam (originally published in Winter 1959-1960) |
61 |
P. Machwe, translator |
| Extremely Impoverished (originally published in Winter 1962-1963), by Nirendra Chakravarty |
65 |
Mohan Singh |
| A Village Girl (originally published in Winter 1962-1963) |
66 |
Balakrishna Sama |
| The Song (originally published in Winter 1962-1963) |
67 |
Derek Walcott |
| Rivers (originally published in Summer 1963) |
68 |
Galway Kinnell |
| Tillamook Journal (originally published in Summer 1963) |
69 |
W. S. Merwin |
| The Next (originally published in Fall 1963) |
74 |
LeRoi (Amiri Baraka) Jones |
| A Contract (originally published in Fall 1963) |
76 |
Adrienne Rich |
| Ghost of a Chance (originally published in Fall 1963) |
77 |
Denise Levertov |
| The Secret (originally published in Fall 1963) |
78 |
A. R. Ammons |
| Sung Reassertions (originally published in Fall 1963) |
80 |
Gary Snyder |
| A Heifer Clambers Up (originally published in Fall 1963) |
81 |
Ted Enslin |
| Pavane (originally published in Fall 1963) |
82 |
Patricia Goedicke |
| The Hedgehog (originally published in Spring 1964) |
84 |
Charles Simic |
| Water (originally published in Fall 1964) |
85 |
Suzanne Gross |
| Dateline: Death (originally published in Spring 1965) |
86 |
| The Link (originally published in Spring 1965) |
88 |
| Grass Oracle (originally published in Spring 1965) |
90 |
Jibanananda Das |
| Grass (originally published in Fall 1965) |
91 |
| She (originally published in Fall 1965) |
92 |
Raymond Carver |
| For Semra, with Martial Vigor (originally published in Winter 1965-1966) |
93 |
Wendell Berry |
| The Snake (originally published in Winter 1965-1966) |
95 |
Claus Bremer |
| ein text passiert (originally published in Fall 1966) |
96 |
Ian Hamilton Finlay |
| au pair girl (originally published in Fall 1966) |
97 |
Seiichi & Pierre Garnier Niikuni |
| Untitled (originally published in Fall 1966) |
98 |
Edwin Morgan |
| The Computer's First Birthday Card (originally published in Fall 1966) |
99 |
Joyce Carol Oates |
| Numberless Girls (originally published in Winter 1967-1968) |
100 |
Christopher Bursk |
| Adjust, Adjust (originally published in Summer 1968) |
101 |
Erica Mann (Jong) |
| Tapestry, with Unicorns (originally published in Winter 1968-1969) |
103 |
Thomas Lux |
| Pindar (Odes 1-8) (originally published in Fall 1970) |
107 |
Doris Betts |
| Mrs. Longfellow's Death (originally published in Spring 1971) |
110 |
John McKernan |
| The Napkin (originally published in Fall-Winter 1971-1972) |
112 |
Kaoru Maruyama |
| The Sea's Eyes (originally published in Summer 1972) |
113 |
Ann Deagon |
| The Sibyl's Bath (originally published in Winter 1972-1973) |
114 |
Sister Pam Smith |
| The Young Woman Explains Why She Has Become a Nun (originally published in Winter 1972-1973) |
116 |
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer |
| The Tablecloth (originally published in Spring 1973) |
118 |
Chad Walsh |
| Our Brother the Murderer (originally published in Summer 1973) |
119 |
Gjertrud Schnackenberg |
| Letter from Brooklyn (originally published in Summer 1974) |
121 |
Sharon Olds |
| Schoolhouse Bell (originally published in Fall 1974) |
122 |
Karen Snow |
| Snow Falls on Flowers (originally published in Winter 1974-1975) |
124 |
Wendell Berry |
| The Bent Tree (originally published in Fall 1975) |
126 |
Hayden Carruth |
| Elaboration (originally published in Fall 1975) |
127 |
Russell Edson |
| One Who Journeys in a Tree (originally published in Fall 1975) |
128 |
Richard Eberhart |
| Depths (originally published in Fall 1975) |
129 |
Thomas McGrath |
| Totems (VI) (originally published in Fall 1975) |
130 |
W. S. Merwin |
| The Shuttles (originally published in Fall 1975) |
131 |
John Wheatcroft |
| Night Howl (originally published in Spring-Summer 1976) |
132 |
Hunt Hawkins |
| Jean-Paul Sartre in the Bathtub (originally published in Winter 1976-1977) |
137 |
Paula Rankin |
| Two Poems for the Blood (originally published in Winter 1976-1977) |
138 |
Susan Stewart |
| Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals (originally published in Fall 1978) |
139 |
George Barlow |
| American Plethora: MacCorporate MacDream (originally published in Winter 1978-1979) |
141 |
Ntozake Shange |
| We Are Just Kinda That Way (originally published in Winter 1978-1979) |
143 |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
| Captain Nobones' Threnody (originally published in Winter 1978-1979) |
146 |
Pattiann Rogers |
| How to Stay Safe in the City (originally published in Summer 1979) |
147 |
Achy Obejas |
| Come the Fox (originally published in Fall 1979) |
149 |
Joy Harjo |
| Cuchillo (originally published in Winter 1979-1980) |
153 |
Peter Blue Cloud |
| Sixteen Postholes (originally published in Winter 1979-1980) |
154 |
Linda Hogan |
| Daughters Sleeping (originally published in Winter 1979-1980) |
156 |
Marianne Boruch |
| Sympathy (originally published in Spring 1980) |
157 |
Gail Thomas |
| South African Song (originally published in Summer 1980) |
158 |
David P. Brunet |
| A Scared Kid with a Knife Threatens an Old Man (originally published in Summer 1980) |
161 |
Suzanne Gross |
| The Woman and the Waterhorse (originally published in Winter 1980-1981) |
162 |
Lola Haskins |
| Employment (originally published in Winter 1980-1981) |
163 |
Thomas Frosch |
| Flounder (originally published in Winter 1980-1981) |
164 |
Susan Hand Shetterly |
| The Lobsterman's Death (originally published in Spring 1981) |
167 |
Agha Shahid Ali |
| Glass Bangles (originally published in Winter 1982-1983) |
168 |
David M. Michalak |
| Sour Grapes (originally published in Spring 1983) |
169 |
Brooks Haxton |
| What Would Make a Boy Think to Kill Bats? (originally published in Spring 1984) |
171 |
Achy Obejas |
| Tiger Tiger (originally published in Fall 1984) |
172 |
Lola Haskins |
| Alexandria, 1982 (originally published in Fall 1984) |
174 |
Judith Cordary |
| Heartland (originally published in Winter 1984-1985) |
175 |
Dorianne Laux |
| Two Pictures of My Sister (originally published in Spring 1985) |
177 |
Albert Goldbarth |
| The Gulf (originally published in Spring 1985) |
179 |
Ray Clark Dickson |
| The Day They Shot Sakharov (originally published in Winter 1985-1986) |
186 |
Brooks Haxton |
| Walking Home in the Dark (originally published in Winter 1985-1986) |
187 |
Gary Hulbert |
| Appreciation for City Music (originally published in Winter 1986-1987) |
188 |
Leonard M. Trawick |
| Earth (originally published in Summer 1987) |
189 |
Ray Clark Dickson |
| It Takes an Old Woman Screaming Vietato Fumare! (originally published in Summer 1987) |
190 |
Hillel Schwartz |
| BUZ LOVES DONNA FOREVER, All in Caps, outside Trenton (originally published in Summer 1988) |
191 |
Bei Dao |
| Everything (originally published in Winter 1988-1989) |
194 |
Shu Ting |
| This Is also Everything, In Reply to a Young Friend's Everything (originally published in Winter 1988-1989) |
196 |
Xie Ye |
| At Last I Turn My Back (originally published in Winter 1988-1989) |
198 |
Wang Xiao-Long |
| In Memory of the Space Ship Challenger (originally published in Winter 1988-1989) |
200 |
Gu Chen |
| A Generation (originally published in Winter 1988-1989) |
208 |
Glyn Maxwell |
| True that I Lie (originally published in Spring 1989) |
209 |
Albert Goldbarth |
| The Nile (originally published in Spring 1989) |
211 |
Jane Poston |
| Manta Rays (originally published in Summer 1989) |
217 |
Justin Chin |
| Sold (originally published in Fall 1989) |
218 |
Bruce Cutler |
| The Kingdom of Hands (originally published in Fall 1989) |
220 |
| The Examination (originally published in Fall 1989) |
222 |
Roger Finch |
| In a Sari Shop (originally published in Fall 1989) |
225 |
Joanna Byrne Cavitch |
| I Follow an Ambulance This Morning (originally published in Winter 1989-1990) |
229 |
David Sullivan |
| Don't Laugh (originally published in Winter 1989-1990) |
230 |
| Their Letters Were Baked in a Sterilizer (originally published in Winter 1989-1990) |
232 |
Susan Tichy |
| Copulation (originally published in Spring 1990) |
233 |
Chitra Divakaruni |
| The Gift (originally published in Spring 1990) |
235 |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Jane Addams (originally published in Summer 1990) |
237 |
Hayden Carruth |
| Pray You Young Woman (originally published in Summer 1990) |
239 |
Daniel Hoffman |
| Speech (originally published in Summer 1990) |
240 |
David Ignatow |
| Imagine (originally published in Summer 1990) |
242 |
| The Manacled Youth (originally published in Summer 1990) |
243 |
Philip Levine |
| The Fast (originally published in Summer 1990) |
244 |
William Stafford |
| Snow (originally published in Summer 1990) |
246 |
Roald Hoffmann |
| Into the Stadium (originally published in Winter 1990-1991) |
247 |
| The Sensual Laboratory Assistant (originally published in Winter 1990-1991) |
248 |
Susan Kolodny |
| Neuroanatomy (originally published in Winter 1990-1991) |
250 |
Betsy Sholl |
| Real Faux Pearls (originally published in Spring 1991) |
253 |
Laura Kasischke |
| After My Little Light, I Sat in the Dark (originally published in Spring 1991) |
255 |
Norman German |
| Bone Mouse Sings a Skeleton Song (originally published in Winter 1991-1992) |
258 |
Albert Goldbarth |
| Lullabye (originally published in Winter 1991-1992) |
260 |
Ruth Anderson Barnett |
| Annie Parker (originally published in Winter 1991-1992) |
261 |
William Carpenter |
| There's This Poet Going Round, Speaking Fire at Stones (originally published in Spring 1992) |
265 |
| Power of Concentration (originally published in Spring 1992) |
267 |
Philip Dacey |
| Recorded Message (originally published in Fall 1992) |
268 |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Fragments from the Women's Writing (originally published in Fall 1992) |
270 |
A. E. Stallings |
| Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses (originally published in Winter 1992-1993) |
274 |
Baron Wormser |
| Cow Symphony (originally published in Spring 1993) |
275 |
Elizabeth Tibbetts |
| Ida Goes to the Hens (originally published in Spring 1993) |
276 |
Kurt Leland |
| Remedies (originally published in Summer 1993) |
278 |
Jim Kacian |
| A Sonnet for Philip Glass (originally published in Fall 1993) |
284 |
Kate Barnes |
| Elizabeth and Sally (originally published in Fall 1993) |
285 |
Jane Mead |
| In the Parking Lot at the Junior College on the Eve of a Presidential Election (originally published in Fall 1993) |
287 |
Philip Booth |
| First Night (originally published in Summer 1994) |
290 |
| Seventy (originally published in Summer 1994) |
291 |
Charles Muñoz |
| Lockerbie (originally published in Winter 1994-1995) |
292 |
Taylor Mali |
| I Could Be a Poet (originally published in Winter 1994-1995) |
294 |
David Starkey |
| Pottawatomie Creek (originally published in Winter 1994-1995) |
296 |
Forrest Hamer |
| The Calling (originally published in Spring 1995) |
298 |
Brian Hubbell |
| To a Woman of Many Houses: (originally published in Spring 1995) |
302 |
Michael D. Piscal |
| Discovering the Right Words (originally published in Spring 1995) |
304 |
Eleanor Wilner |
| Abstraction (originally published in Summer 1995) |
306 |
A. R. Ammons |
| December Starlings (originally published in Summer 1995) |
308 |
Patricia Goedicke |
| In These Burning Stables (originally published in Summer 1995) |
309 |
Charles Muñoz |
| The Bull and the Angel (originally published in Fall 1995) |
311 |
| The Innocents (originally published in Fall 1995) |
313 |
Sherman Alexie |
| Defending Walt Whitman (originally published in Fall 1995) |
315 |
Henry Hart |
| The Prisoner of Camau (originally published in Fall 1995) |
317 |
Robert M. Chute |
| Heat Wave in Concord (originally published in Spring 1996) |
324 |
Sherman Alexie |
| Inside Dachau (originally published in Summer 1996) |
328 |
Brian Hubbell |
| Men's Night (originally published in Fall 1996) |
333 |
Joy Dworkin |
| Morning at the Neretva River, November 8, 1993 (originally published in Winter 1996-1997) |
334 |
Mary Leader |
| For the Love of Gerald Finzi (originally published in Summer 1997) |
335 |
Gary J. Whitehead |
| Sisyphus (originally published in Summer 1997) |
342 |
Gabriel Gudding |
| The Footnote's Reconnaissance of the Piedmont (originally published in Fall 1997) |
343 |
Hillel Schwartz |
| Exactitude (originally published in Winter 1997-1998) |
345 |
Lucia Perillo |
| The Oldest Map with the Name America (originally published in Winter 1997-1998) |
347 |
Nancy Nielsen |
| Found Wanting (originally published in Summer 1998) |
352 |
Cathleen Calbert |
| Listening to the Voices of Medieval Sainted Ladies (originally published in Summer 1998) |
353 |
Anthony Sobin |
| Cutting Ties (originally published in Summer 1998) |
355 |
Karl Elder |
| Alpha Images (originally published in Winter 1998-1999) |
357 |
Janet Holmes |
| Partch Stations (originally published in Winter 1998-1999) |
361 |
Peter Munro |
| A Fisheries Scientist Sights a Large School of Myth Swimming in Shallow Water in Southeast Alaska (originally published in Winter 1998-1999) |
374 |
Richard Foerster |
| Petit Mal (originally published in Spring 1999) |
384 |
| Church Burning (originally published in Spring 1999) |
385 |
Mairéad Byrne |
| Birds (originally published in Spring 1999) |
386 |
Carol Henrie |
| Año Nuevo (originally published in Fall 1999) |
388 |
Patricia Goedicke |
| The Dreams We Wake From (originally published in Fall 1999) |
390 |
Lisa Coffman |
| Small Paintings within Sarah McEneaney's Paintings (originally published in Fall 1999) |
392 |
Elizabeth Kuhlman |
| Solange (originally published in Spring 2000) |
394 |
Margaret Aho |
| I dream I'm leaving (originally published in Summer 2000) |
396 |
| Between wand and welt (originally published in Summer 2000) |
399 |
| When he emerged- (originally published in Summer 2000) |
400 |
| Eye-shaped, mouth-shaped (originally published in Summer 2000) |
401 |
Lynne Knight |
| Wrapped Songs (originally published in Summer 2000) |
403 |
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| Appendix 1: BPJ Chapbooks |
413 |
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| Appendix 2: Chad Walsh Poetry Prize Winners |
415 |
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| Index of Poets and Titles |
419 |
