Preface
Introduction
Harold D. Bloom
AI
The Deserter (1973)
The Anniversary (1973)
New Crops for a Free Man (1973)
Everything: Eloy, Arizona 1956 (1973)
Julia Alvarez
Wallpaper (1995)
Redwing Sonnets (1995)
A. R. Ammons
An Improvisation for the Stately Dwelling (1979)
An Improvisation for Jerald Bullis (1979)
Above the Fray Is Only Thin Air (1997)
Widespread Implications (1997)
Spit (1997)
Ralph Angel
Breaking the Rock Down (1984)
Evolving Similarities (1995)
Veils of Prayer (1995)
The Nothing That Is (1995)
Twilight (1995)
L. S. Asekoff
Invisible Hand (1992)
North Star (1993)
Crowdoll (1993)
Starwork (1993)
John Ashbery
Business Personals (1977)
The Couple in the Next Room (1977)
Variant (1977)
Saying It to Keep It from Happening (1977)
Lost and Found and Lost Again (1977)
The Archipelago (1993)
My Philosophy of Life (1994)
Operators Are Standing By (1995)
Chapter II, Book 35 (1995)
My Name Is Dimitri (1995)
The Walkways (1995)
Limited Liability (1995)
Robin Becker
A History of Sexual Preference (1996)
Sad Sestina (1996)
Why We Fear the Amish (1999)
Sonnet to the Imagination (1999)
Midlife (1999)
Life Forms (1999)
Marvin Bell
The Self and the Mulberry (1976)
Someone Is Probably Dead (1981)
A True Story (1982)
How I Got the Words (1982)
To Be (1984)
Street Fair: The Quartet (1989)
Marco Polo (1989)
Charles Bernstein
The Age of Correggio and the Carracci (1989)
Freud's Butcher (1989)
Memories (1994)
Ted Berrigan
Six Sonnets (1998)
John Berryman
The Alcoholic in the 3rd Week of the 3rd Treatment (1975)
[O all the problems other people face] (1975)
4th Weekend (1975)
The Recognition (1975)
5th Tuesday (1975)
Phase Four (1975)
Group (1975)
Dry Eleven Months (1975)
Robert Bly
Snowbanks North of the House (1975)
The Exhausted Bug (1993)
Two Ramages for Old Masters (1993)
A Dream of William Carlos Williams (1993)
On the Oregon Coast (1993)
The Gaiety of Form (1993)
My Father's Neck (1993)
Eavan Boland
Anna Liffey (1994)
Philip Booth
Sixty-Six (1994)
Fog-Talk (1994)
Henry Braun
To Fat Boy, The Bomb (1989)
Olga Broumas
After The Little Mariner (1989)
On Earth (1989)
Next to the Cafe Chaos (1989)
The Pealing (1989)
Stephanie Brown
Interview with an Alchemist in the New Age (1990)
Chapter One (1992)
No, No Nostalgia! (1994)
Schadenfreude (1994)
Feminine Intuition (1996)
I Was a Phony Baloney! (1996)
Marriage (1996)
Christopher Buckley
The Presocratic, Surfing, Breathing
Cosmology Blues...(1996)
Charles Bukowski
b (1975)
Drooling Madness at St. Liz (1975)
not much singing (1993)
Michael Burkard
The Personal Histories (``More Darkness'') (1983)
Foolish Thing (1983)
My Aunt and the Sun (1984)
The Dogs on the Cliffs (1984)
[I have a silence in the rain] (1986)
2 Poems on the Same Theme (1986)
Breathless Storm (1986)
Meditation Brought About by George Bogin's Translation of Jules Supervielle's Poem
``The Sea'' (1998)
Weather (1998)
Hayden Carruth
The Cows at Night (1974)
Paragraph 23 (1974)
Paragraph 36 (1974)
Essay on Death (1988)
Crucifixion (1989)
Quality of Wine (1993)
Anne Carson
8 Poems from ``The Truth About God'' (1993)
Richard Cecil
Apology (1978)
Threnody for Sunrise (1981)
Threnody for Sunset (1981)
Joseph Ceravolo
Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky (1994)
Caught in the Swamp (1994)
White Fish in Reeds (1994)
Grow (1994)
Data (1994)
Tom Clark
As the Human Village Prepares for Its Fate (1992)
[Before dawn there you lie] (1992)
Time (1992)
On the Beach (1995)
Lucille Clifton
shapeshifter poems (1987)
[here is another bone to pick with you] (1987)
[cruelty. don't talk to me about cruelty] (1987)
the lost women (1987)
sorrow song (1987)
january 1991 (1993)
[won't you celebrate with me] (1993)
night vision (1993)
Gillian Conoley
Beckon (1996)
Beauty and the Beast (1997)
The Masters (1997)
The World (1999)
Gregory Corso
30th Year Dream (1989)
Douglas Crase
There Is No Real Peace in the World (1978)
Carolyn Creedon
litany (1992)
Robert Creeley
Buffalo Evening (1983)
Be of Good Cheer (1983)
This House (1993)
The Place (1993)
Parade (1993)
Echo (1993)
The Road (1993)
Time (1993)
Silvia Curbelo
If You Need a Reason (1996)
Tourism in the Late 20th Century (1996)
James Dickey
Eagles (1987)
Weeds (1988)
The One (1988)
The Three (1988)
Basics (1988)
Stephen Dobyns
Frenchie (1982)
The Great Doubters of History (1982)
Tomatoes (1986)
Allegorical Matters (1995)
Nouns of Assemblage (1995)
Rita Dove
Demeter, Waiting (1995)
Wiederkehr (1995)
Norman Dubie
An Annual of the Dark Physics (1984)
Hummingbirds (1984)
Danse Macabre (1984)
Sanctuary (1986)
The Peace of Lodi (1987)
Trakl (1987)
Poem (``A mule kicked out in the trees. An early'') (1987)
Anagram Born of Madness at Czernowitz, 12
November
Joseph Duemer
Theory of Tragedy (1994)
Alan Dugan
Swing Shift Blues (1999)
Nomenclature (1999)
Poem for Elliot Carter on His 90th Birthday (1999)
Barefoot Homiletics, After Wittgenstein and Boswell (1999)
American Variation on How Rilke Loved a
Princess and Got to Stay in Her Castle (1999)
Drunken Memories of Anne Sexton (1999)
Stephen Dunn
What They Wanted (1990)
Because You Mentioned the Spiritual Life (1996)
Gerald Early
Amagideon; or When Lee Andrews and the
Hearts Sang Only for Me (1986)
Innocency or Not Song X (1988)
Country or Western Music (1988)
Richard Eberhart
Chart Indent (1988)
The Immortal Picture (1988)
The Blunting (1988)
Lynn Emanuel
The Technology of Spring (1986)
She (1998)
Homage to Sharon Stone (1998)
Elsewhere (1998)
Edward Field
Whatever Became Of: Freud (1991)
Callas (1991)
Oh, the Gingkos (1991)
Carolyn Forche
Return (1980)
Ourselves or Nothing (1981)
Tess Gallagher
The Hug (1982)
Monologue at the Chinook Bar and Grill (1987)
Amy Gerstler
A Sinking Feeling (1991)
A Fan Letter (1996)
Reginald Gibbons
Breath (1980)
We Say (1980)
The Ruined Motel (1980)
Jack Gilbert
Elephant Hunt in Guadalajara (1980)
Pewter (1980)
Getting Ready (1982)
The Revolution (1982)
Prospero Listens to the Night (1982)
To See if Something Comes Next (1994)
The White Heart of God (1994)
Allen Ginsberg
No Way Back to the Past (1979)
Grim Skeleton (1979)
The Charnel Ground (1994)
Who Eats Who? (1994)
Not Dead Yet (1994)
Yiddishe Kopf (1994)
A Thief Stole This Poem (1994)
Homeless Compleynt (1997)
Louise Gluck
Aubade (1998)
The New Life (1998)
Unwritten Law (1998)
Roman Study (1998)
Condo (1998)
The Winged Horse (1998)
Mutable Earth (1998)
Eurydice (1998)
Paul Goodman
In the Jury Room, in Pain (1983)
Birthday Cake (1983)
Sentences After Defence of Poetry (1983)
[Connary, Blodgett, Day, Hapgood] (1983)
Ballade of the Moment After (1983)
[Woman eternal my muse, lean toward me] (1983)
From Sentences for Matthew Ready, Series II (1983)
A Gravestone, August 8, 1968 (1983)
[It was good when you were here,] (1983)
Jorie Graham
Breakdancing (1986)
Underneath (1) (1997)
Underneath (2) (1997)
Underneath (3) (1997)
For One Must Want/To Shut the Other's Gaze (1997)
Underneath (7) (1997)
Linda Gregg
The Clapping (1993)
The Edge of Something (1993)
What Is Kept (1993)
Fishing in the Keep of Silence (1993)
Past Perfect (1993)
Official Love Story (1993)
Barbara Guest
The Advance of the Grizzly (1992)
Red Dye (1992)
You Can Discover (1992)
Motion Pictures: 4 (1994)
Motion Pictures: 15 (1997)
Donald Hall
To a Waterfowl (1973)
Eating the Pig (1976)
Sam Hamill
What the Water Knows (1993)
Another Duffer (1994)
Abstract (1994)
Joy Harjo
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994)
A Postcolonial Tale (1994)