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| Volume One |
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1-1 |
Walt Whitman |
| America |
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1-2 |
William Butler Yeats |
| The Lake Isle Of Innisfree |
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1-3 |
William Butler Yeats |
| The Song Of The Old Mother |
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1-4 |
Robert Frost |
| The Road Not Taken |
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1-5 |
Robert Frost |
| Birches |
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1-6 |
Robert Frost |
| The Gift Outright |
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1-7 |
Gertrude Stein |
| If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait Of Picasso |
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1-8 |
Wallace Stevens |
| So & So Reclining On Her Couch |
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1-9 |
William Carlos Williams |
| The Red Wheelbarrow |
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1-10 |
William Carlos Williams |
| To Elsie |
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1-11 |
Ezra Pound |
| Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt) |
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1-12 |
Marianne Moore |
| Bird-Witted |
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1-13 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Recuerdo |
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1-14 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Love Is Not All |
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1-15 |
E. E. Cummings |
| Next To Of Course God America |
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1-16 |
E. E. Cummings |
| Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town |
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1-17 |
Robert Graves |
| To Juan At The Winter Solstice |
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1-18 |
Stephen Vincent Benét |
| The Opening Of The Battle Of Gettysburg |
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1-19 |
Langston Hughes |
| The Negro Speaks Of Rivers |
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1-20 |
Langston Hughes |
| Ballad Of The Gypsy |
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1-21 |
Langston Hughes |
| Mulatto |
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1-22 |
Ogden Nash |
| Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man |
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1-23 |
Robert Penn Warren |
| Love Recognized |
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1-24 |
Stanley Kunitz |
| King Of The River (Previously Unreleased) |
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1-25 |
W. H. Auden |
| In Memory Of W.B. Yeats (Part 1) |
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| Volume Two |
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2-1 |
Theodore Roethke |
| I Knew A Woman |
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2-2 |
Theodore Roethke |
| Elegy For Jane |
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2-3 |
Stephen Spender |
| Rough (My Parents Kept Me…) |
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2-4 |
Stephen Spender |
| Thoughts During An Air Raid |
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2-5 |
May Sarton |
| My Sisters, O My Sisters |
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2-6 |
Muriel Rukeyser |
| In Our Time |
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2-7 |
Muriel Rukeyser |
| Despisals |
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2-8 |
Muriel Rukeyser |
| The Ballad Of Orange And Grape |
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2-9 |
David Ignatow |
| The World Is So Difficult To Give Up… (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-10 |
David Ignatow |
| This Is The Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter… (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-11 |
David Ignatow |
| Here I Am With Mike In Hand, Shooting Down The Rapids… (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-12 |
David Ignatow |
| I Killed A Fly… (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-13 |
David Ignatow |
| What About Dying?… (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-14 |
William Stafford |
| Scars (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-15 |
William Stafford |
| It Is (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-16 |
Dylan Thomas |
| Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
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2-17 |
Dylan Thomas |
| If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love |
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2-18 |
John Ciardi |
| Happiness |
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2-19 |
Robert Lowell |
| The Old Flame |
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2-20 |
Robert Lowell |
| Skunk Hour |
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2-21 |
Robert Lowell |
| Epilogue |
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2-22 |
William Meredith |
| Crossing Over (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-23 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| See It Was Like This When… |
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2-24 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| Underwear |
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2-25 |
Charles Bukowski |
| The Secret Of My Endurance |
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2-26 |
Howard Nemerov |
| Thanksgrieving (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-27 |
Mona Vanduyn |
| Sonnet For Minimalists (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-28 |
Richard Wilbur |
| Shame |
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2-29 |
Richard Wilbur |
| Apology |
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2-30 |
Richard Wilbur |
| Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World |
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2-31 |
Jack Kerouac |
| American Haikus (Excerpt) |
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2-32 |
Lisel Mueller |
| Monet Refuses The Operation (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-33 |
Allen Ginsberg |
| America |
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2-34 |
John Ashbery |
| Song |
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2-35 |
Galway Kinnell |
| After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (Previously Unreleased) |
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2-36 |
Galway Kinnell |
| Last Gods (Previously Unreleased) |
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| Volume Three |
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3-1 |
W. S. Merwin |
| The River Bees |
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3-2 |
James Wright (3) |
| A Blessing |
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3-3 |
Anne Sexton |
| The Truth The Dead Know |
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3-4 |
Anne Sexton |
| All My Pretty Ones |
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3-5 |
Maya Angelou |
| Phenomenal Woman |
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3-6 |
Richard Howard (7) |
| Even In Paris (Previously Unreleased, Excerpt) |
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3-7 |
Adrienne Rich |
| Diving Into The Wreck |
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3-8 |
Derek Walcott |
| Omeros (Previously Unreleased, Excerpt) |
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3-9 |
Gary Snyder |
| The Song Of The Taste |
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3-10 |
Gary Snyder |
| How Poetry Comes To Me |
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3-11 |
Gary Snyder |
| Why I Take Good Care Of My MacIntosh Computer |
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3-12 |
Sylvia Plath |
| Daddy |
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3-13 |
Sylvia Plath |
| Ariel |
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3-14 |
David Ray (6) |
| The Greatest Poem In The World (Previously Unreleased) |
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3-15 |
John Updike |
| An Oddly Lovely Day Alone |
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3-16 |
Dan Jaffe |
| Learning About Easter And Passover |
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3-17 |
Amiri Baraka |
| Bang, Bang Outishly (Previously Unreleased) |
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3-18 |
Amiri Baraka |
| Rhythim Blues |
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3-19 |
Amiri Baraka |
| Shazam Doowah (Previously Unreleased) |
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3-20 |
Leonard Cohen |
| The Story Of Issac |
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3-21 |
Audre Lorde |
| Dahomey (Previously Unreleased) |
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3-22 |
Marge Piercy |
| Putting The Good Things Away (Previously Unreleased) |
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3-23 |
Marge Piercy |
| Right To Life (Previously Unreleased) |
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3-24 |
Mark Strand |
| Keeping Things Whole |
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3-25 |
Mark Strand |
| The Way It Is |
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3-26 |
Mark Strand |
| The Poem |
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3-27 |
Paul Zimmer (3) |
| Zimmer Imagines Heaven (Previously Unreleased) |
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3-28 |
Lucille Clifton |
| Yes Lord, He Was Born… (Previously Unreleased) |
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3-29 |
Lucille Clifton |
| Cruelty (Previously Unreleased) |
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| Volume Four |
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4-1 |
Diane Wakoski |
| I Have Had To Learn To Live With My Face (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-2 |
Michael S. Harper |
| Dear John, Dear Coltrane (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-3 |
Charles Simic |
| We Were So Poor… (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-4 |
Charles Simic |
| I Was Stolen By The Gypsies… (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-5 |
Charles Simic |
| Everybody Knows The Story… (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-6 |
Al Young (2) |
| Lester Leaps In (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-7 |
Al Young (2) |
| For Poets (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-8 |
Al Young (2) |
| A Dance For Militant Diletantes (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-9 |
Иосиф Бродский |
| Odysseus To Telemachus |
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4-10 |
Erica Jong |
| Ode Yo My Shoes |
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4-11 |
Joseph Bruchac |
| Prayer (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-12 |
Joseph Bruchac |
| Translator’s Son (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-13 |
Sharon Olds |
| Wonder (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-14 |
James Tate (2) |
| The Lost Pilot (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-15 |
Tess Gallagher |
| One Kiss (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-16 |
James Ragan |
| The Tent People Of Beverly Hills (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-17 |
Anne Waldman |
| Uh Oh Plutonium |
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4-18 |
Adrian Louis |
| The Fine Printing On The Label Of A Bottle Of Non-Alcohol Beer (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-19 |
Adrian Louis |
| The Sweat Lodge (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-20 |
Juan Felipe Herrera |
| Logan Heights & The World (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-21 |
Carolyn Forché |
| The Colonel |
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4-22 |
Edward Hirsch |
| Wild Gratitude (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-23 |
Joy Harjo |
| Justice For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-24 |
Carmen Tafolla |
| Tia Sophia (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-25 |
Jimmy Santiago Baca |
| This Is Number 26 (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-26 |
Jimmy Santiago Baca |
| I Am Offering You This Poem (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-27 |
Rita Dove |
| Parsley (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-28 |
Luci Tapahonso |
| Raisin Eyes |
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4-29 |
Donald Revell |
| The Children’s Undercroft (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-30 |
Luis J. Rodriguez |
| The Concrete River (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-31 |
Luis J. Rodriguez |
| Tia Chucha (Previously Unreleased) |
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4-32 |
Li-Young Lee |
| My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud (Previously Unreleased) |
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