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Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 1979
Subjects:	Geschichte 1750-1977 Geschichte 1700-1975 Poésie américaine Poésie humoristique américaine American poetry Humorous poetry, American Anthologie Lyrik Humor USA Light verse
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Physical Description:	XLIX, 540 S.
ISBN:	0195025091

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adam_text	Titel: The Oxford book of American light verse Autor: Harmon, William Jahr: 1979 CONTENTS ANONYMOUS Yankee Doodle, 3 FRANCIS HOPKINSON, 1737-1791 The Battle of the Kegs, 6 ST. GEORGE TUCKER, 1752-1827 The Cynic, 9 The Discontented Student, 10 The Judge with the Sore Rump, 11 JOEL BARLOW, 1754-1812 The Hasty Pudding (from Canto I, Canto III), 12 ROYALL TYLER, 1757-1826 Anacreontic to Flip, 18 The Widower, 19 Original Epitaph on a Drunkard, 19 SAMUEL LOW, 1765-? To a Segar, 20 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 1767-1848 The Wants of Man, 20 To Sally, 25 CLEMENT MOORE, 1779-1863 A Visit from St. Nicholas, 26 FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, 1780-1843 To My Cousin Mary, for Mending My Tobacco Pouch, 28 Written at the White Sulphur Springs, 29 CONTENTS FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, 1790-1867 Fanny (Stanzas xlvi-lxviii), 29 Song, 34 LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY, 1791-1865 God Save the Plough, 34 GEORGE MOSES HORTON, ? 1797-?! 88 3 New Fashions, 3; Snaps for Dinner, Snaps for Breakfast, and Snaps for Supper, 37 RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803-1882 Fable, 38 The Test, 38 Solution, 39 Prudence, 40 NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS, 1806-1867 The Lady Jane: A Humorous Novel in Rhyme (Canto I, Stanzas xix-xxii andxci), 41 To the Lady in the Chemisette with Black Buttons, 42 The Declaration, 44 To Helen in a Huff, 44 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882 The Village Blacksmith, 45 The Children’s Hour, 46 Paul Revere’s Ride, 48 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, 1807-1892 The Haschish, 51 Barbara Frietchie, 53 The Barefoot Boy, 55 Skipper Ireson’s Ride, 57 THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS, 1809-1858 Lily Adair, 61 The Moon of Mobile, 62 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1899 The Height of the Ridiculous, 63 /Estivation, 64 The Deacon’s Masterpiece, 65 xxx CONTENTS Ode for a Social Meeting, 69 A Sea Dialogue, 70 EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1809-1849 The Bells, 71 JAMES THOMAS FIELDS, 1817-1881 The Owl Critic, 74 Jupiter and Ten, 76 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, 1819-1891 In an Album, 78 A Misconception, 78 The Boss, 79 from The Biglow Papers The Courtin’, 79 Rev. Homer Wilbur’s “Festina Lente,” 82 HERMAN MELVILLE, 1819-1891 In a Garret, 84 The Bench of Boors, 84 The Attic Landscape, 85 The Lover and the Syringa-Bush, 85 The New Ancient of Days, 85 WALT WHITMAN, 1819-1892 A Boston Ballad, 87 CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, 1824-1903 Hans Breitmann’s Party, 89 Breitmann in Politics (VII), 90 PHOEBE CARY, 1824-1871 Samuel Brown, 92 The Day Is Done, 93 Jacob, 94 WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, 1825-1902 Nothing To Wear, 95 BAYARD TAYLOR, 1825-1878 The Ballad of Hiram Hover, 100 Palabras Crandiosas, 102 Nauvoo, 102 XXXI CONTENTS STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER, 1826-1864 Gwine To Run All Night; or, De Camptown Races, 104 Oh! Susanna, 105 ANONYMOUS The Little Brown Jug, 106 Sweet Betsey from Pike, 107 Clementine, 108 Starving to Death on a Government Claim, 109 The Factory Girl’s Come-All-Ye, no An Ode on Gas, 111 JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, 1827-1916 Darius Greene and His Flying-Machine, 111 Recollections of “Lalla Rookh,” 118 Filling an Order, 121 SEPTIMUS WINNER, 1827-1902 Ten Little Injuns, 122 The Coolie Chinee, 123 Lilliputian’s Beer Song, 124 EMILY DICKINSON, 1830-1886 A bird came down the walk, 127 I like to see it lap the miles, 127 His Mansion in the Pool, 128 MARY MAPES DODGE, 183O-I905 The Zealless Xylographer, 128 EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, 1833-1908 The Ballad of Lager Bier, 129 GEORGE ARNOLD, 1834-1865 Beer, 134 CHARLES H. WEBB (“jOHN PAUL”), 1834-1905 Autumn Leaves, 135 At the Ball!, 136 SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (“MARK TWAIN”), 1835-I9IO The Aged Pilot Man (from Roughing It), 137 Imitation of Julia A. Moore (from Following the Equator), 141 XXXII CONTENTS Emmeline Grangerford’s “Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d” (from Huckleberry Finn), 142 THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, 1836-I9O7 Fannie, 143 At a Reading, 144 ANONYMOUS The Young Woman from Aenos, 145 BRET HARTE, 1836-1902 Colenso Rhymes for Orthodox Children, 145 Schemmelfennig, 146 Plain Language from Truthful James, 146 The Society upon the Stanislaus, 146 R. H. NEWELL (“ORPHEUS C. KERR”), 1836-I9OI The Rejected “National Hymns,” 150 The American Traveller, 1 54 Columbia’s Agony, 156 The Editor’s Wooing, 157 The Neutral British Gentleman, 158 Tuscaloosa Sam, 160 Dear Father, Look Up, 162 When Your Cheap Divorce Is Granted, 162 O, Be Not Too Hasty, My Dearest, 163 INNES RANDOLPH, 1837-1887 The Rebel, 163 ANONYMOUS Two Appeals to John Harralson, Agent, Nitre and Mining Bureau, C. S. A., 165 JOHN HAY, 1838-1905 The Pledge at Spunky Point, 166 Good and Bad Luck, 168 CHARLES E. CARRYL, 1841-1920 A Nautical Ballad, 169 CHARLES HEBER CLARK (“MAX ADELEr”), 184I-I915 Mr. Slimmer’s Funeral Verses for the Morning Argus Alexander McGlue, 170 XXXlll CONTENTS Willie, 170 Johnny Smith, 170 Hanner, 171 Mrs. McFadden, 171 Alexander, 171 CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS, 1842-1918 To Bary Jade, 171 Repartee, 172 John Barley-Corn, My Foe, 173 Misplaced Sympathy, 174 My Infundibuliform Hat, 175 AMBROSE BIERCE, l 842 -?I 914 from The Devil’s Dictionary Body-Snatcher, 176 Corporal, 176 Egotist, 176 Elegy, 177 Lead, 177 Nose, 177 Orthography, 178 Prospect, 178 Safety-Clutch, 178 ANONYMOUS Willie the Weeper, 180 No More Booze, 181 The Drunkard and the Pig, 181 ROBERT JONES BURDETTE, 1844-1914 Orphan Bom, 182 “Soldier, Rest!,” 183 JOHN B. TABB, 1845-1909 Foot-Soldiers, 184 Bicycles! Tricycles!, 184 Close Quarters, 184 A Rub, 184 The Tryst, 185 JULIA A. MOORE, 1847-1920 Grand Rapids, 185 Ashtabula Disaster, 186 XXXIV CONTENTS Little Libbie, 187 Sketch of Lord Byron’s Life, 188 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, 1849-1916 Craqueodoom, 190 A Rose in October, 190 When the Frost Is on the Punkin, 191 Little Orphant Annie, 192 The Diners in the Kitchen, 193 RUTH MCENERY STUART, 71849-1917 The Endless Song, 194 FRED EMERSON BROOKS, 185O-I923 Foreigners at the Fair, 195 Bamyard Melodies, 197 EUGENE FIELD, 18 50-189 5 The Little Peach, 200 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, 200 Little Boy Blue, 202 The Duel, 203 SAMUEL C. BUSHNELL, 1852-1930 Boston, 204 SAMUEL MINTURN PECK, 1854-1938 A Kiss in the Rain, 204 JOHN PHILIP SOUSA, 1854-1932 The Feast of the Monkeys, 205 Have You Seen the Lady?, 208 H. C. BUNNER, 1855-1896 Poetry and the Poet, 209 Home, Sweet Home,” with Variations, 210 BEN KING, 1857-1894 If I Should Die, 217 The Mermaid, 217 The Hair-Tonic Bottle, 218 The Cultured Girl Again, 218 The Pessimist, 219 XXXV CONTENTS ANONYMOUS Kentucky Moonshiner, 220 Roy Bean, 221 SAM WALTER FOSS, 1858-1911 Husband and Heathen, 222 A Philosopher, 223 NIXON WATERMAN, 1859-1944 Cheer for the Consumer, 225 If We Didn’t Have To Eat, 226 HAMLIN GARLAND, 1860-1940 Horses Chawin’ Hay, 227 Goin’ Back T’morrer, 229 BLISS CARMAN, 1861-1929 A More Ancient Mariner, 230 OLIVER BROOK HERFORD, 1863-1935 The Fall of J. W. Beane, 233 Eve, 236 ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER, 1863-I94O Casey at the Bat, 236 RICHARD HOVEY, 1864-19OO Eleazar Wheelock, 238 Barney McGee, 238 J. GORDON COOGLER, 1865-I9OI Alas! Carolina!, 241 Alas! for the South!, 241 To Amy, 242 Byron, 242 In Memorial, 242 A Mustacheless Bard, 243 A Pretty Girl, 243 GEORGE ADE, 1866-1944 Il Janitoro, 243 The Microbe’s Serenade, 247 R-E-M-O-R-S-E (from The Sultan of Sulu), 247 xxxvi CONTENTS GELETT BURGESS, 1866-1951 The Purple Cow, 248 Cinq Ans Après, 249 TOM MASSON, 1866-194 3 Enough, 249 My Poker Girl, 249 A Tragedy, 250 He Took Her, 251 BERT LESTON TAYLOR (“b. L. T.”), 1866-19: Doxology, 251 Those Flapjacks of Brown’s, 251 Upon Julia’s Arctics, 252 Aprilly, 252 EDGAR LEE MASTERS, 1868-I95O Jonathan Swift Somers, 253 The Spooniad, 253 EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, 1869-1935 Variations of Greek Themes ( II, III, IV ), 260 CAROLYN WELLS, 1869-1942 Diversions of the Re-Echo Club, 261 JOHN PALMER, ?l8yO-? The Band Played On, 268 STEPHEN CRANE, 187I-I9OO A man said to the universe, 269 Tell me not in joyous numbers, 269 ANONYMOUS The Big Rock Candy Mountains, 269 The Four Nights’ Drunk, 270 The Frozen Logger, 271 T. A. DALY, 1871-1948 Pennsylvania Places, 273 ARTHUR GUITERMAN, 1 87 1 - 1 94 3 Song of Hate for Eels, 274 Heredity, 274 xxxvii CONTENTS Brief Essay on Man, 275 Everything in Its Place, 275 BEN HARNEY, 1872-1938 You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon, But You’ve Done Broke Down, 275 Mister Johnson, 276 GUY WETMORE CARRYL, 1873-1904 How a Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar, 277 The Domineering Eagle and the Inventive Bratling, 279 ROBERT FROST, 1874-1963 Departmental, 280 The Hardship of Accounting, 282 A Considerable Speck, 282 For Travelers Going Sidereal, 283 Pride of Ancestry, 283 The Rose Family, 284 RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES, 1874-1922 On a Magazine Sonnet, 284 AMY LOWELL, 1874-1925 The Painted Ceiling, 284 Epitaph on a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success, 285 GERTRUDE STEIN, 1874-1946 Sacred Emily, 286 ANDREW B. STERLING, 1874-1955 Under the Anheuser Bush, 295 What You Goin’ To Do When the Rent Comes ’Round?, 295 Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis, 296 ANONYMOUS Mademoiselle from Armenti^res, 299 WALLACE IRWIN, 1876-1959 The Constant Cannibal Maiden, 300 HUGHIE CANNON, 1877-1912 Bill Bailey, Won t You Please Come Home?, 301 XXXVlll CONTENTS ANTHONY EUWER, 1877-1955 The True Facts of the Case, 302 The Face, 302 DON MARQUIS, 1878-1937 certain maxims of archy, 303 archy at the zoo, 308 CARL SANDBURG, 1878-1967 from The People, Yes Section 32, 309 Section 41, 312 Section 42, 313 On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride, 314 One Modern Poet, 315 VACHEL LINDSAY, 1879-1931 The Little Turtle, 3x5 Two Old Crows, 3x5 JACK NORWORTH, 1879-1959 Take Me Out to the Ballgame, 316 WALLACE STEVENS, 1879-1955 Depression Before Spring, 3x7 The Pleasures of Merely Circulating, 3x7 FRANKLIN P. ADAMS (“f. P. A.”), 1881-1960 Composed in the Composing Room, 3x8 Lines Where Beauty Lingers, 318 The Double Standard, 3x9 The Rich Man, 320 If—, 321 WITTER BYNNER, 1881-1968 To a President, 322 EDGAR A. GUEST, 1881-1959 Home, 322 Lemon Pie, 323 Sausage, 323 JOSEPH W. STILWELL, 1883-1946 Lyric to Spring, 324 xxxix CONTENTS WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, 1883-1963 To a Poor Old Woman, 325 Proletarian Portrait, 326 To, 326 To Greet a Letter-Carrier, 326 These Purists, 327 Ballad of Faith, 327 Après le Bain, 327 The Intelligent Sheepman and the New Cars, 328 KEITH PRESTON, 1884-1927 Lapsus Linguae, 328 Effervescence and Evanescence, 328 RINGLARDNER, 1885-1933 Parodies of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day,” 329 Hardly a man is now alive, 329 Hail to thee, blithe owl, 330 Quiescent, a person sits heart and soul, 330 Abner Silver’s “Pu-leeze! Mr. Hemingway!,” 330 EZRA POUND, 1885-1972 An Immorality, 331 Meditatio, 331 Tame Cat, 331 Ancient Music, 331 Cantico del Sole, 332 LOUIS UNTERMEYER, 1885-1977 Song Tournament: New Style, 332 Edgar A. Guest, 333 ELINOR WYLIE, 1885-1928 Simon Gerty, 334 MARIANNE MOORE, 1887-1972 I May, I Might, I Must, 335 Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese, 335 W. S. Landor, 337 T. S. ELIOT, 1888-1965 Aunt Helen, 337 Cousin Nancy, 338 xl CONTENTS Lines to Ralph Hodgson, Esqre., 338 Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg, 339 NEWMAN LEVY, 1888 - 1 966 Tannhäuser, 339 Rigoletto, 341 JOHN CROWE RANSOM, 1888 - 1 974 Amphibious Crocodile, 343 Philomela, 345 Her Eyes, 347 Our Two Worthies, 347 Dog, 349 Survey of Literature, 350 CONRAD AIKEN, 1889-1973 Obituary in Bitcherel, 351 There once was a wicked young minister, 354 Animula vagula bland ula, 334 Sighed a dear little shipboard divinity, 354 STODDARD KING, 1889-1933 Hearth and Home, 334 Breakfast Song in Time of Diet, 355 The Difference, 356 SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN, 1890-1947 Love-Songs, At Once Tender and Informative (I-XXIII), 356 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, 189O-I957 Elegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin, 362 Forever Ambrosia, 362 ARCHIBALD MACLEISH, b. 1892 Mother Goose’s Garland, 363 Corporate Entity, 363 The End of the World, 364 Critical Observations, 364 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, 1892-1950 From a Very Little Sphinx (I-VII), 365 xli CONTENTS MORRIS BISHOP, 1893-197 3 Gas and Hot Air, 367 Bishop Orders His Tomb in St. Praxed’s, 368 How To Treat Elves, 369 Who’d Be a Hero (Fictional)?, 370 MAXWELL BODENHEIM, 1893-1954 Upper Family, 371 DOROTHY PARKER, 1893-1967 Comment, 372 R6sum£, 372 News Item, 373 One Perfect Rose, 373 Partial Comfort, 373 COLE PORTER, 1893-1964 Anything Goes, 373 Let’s Do It, 375 My Heart Belongs to Daddy, 377 You’re the Top, 379 Well, Did You Evah?, 382 Brush Up Your Shakespeare, 384 E. E. CUMMINGS, 1894-1962 the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls, 386 twentyseven bums give a prostitute the once, 387 Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal, 387 slightly before the middle of Congressman Pudd, 389 my sweet old etcetera, 389 Q:dwo, 390 flotsam and jetsam, 390 a politician is an arse upon, 390 meet mr universe(who clean, 391 BESSIE SMITH, 1894-1937 Empty Bed Blues, 391 OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II, 1895-1960 Kansas City, 393 » Money Isn t Everything!, 394 There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame, 395 xlii CONTENTS LORENZ HART, 1895-1943 Manhattan, 397 Mountain Greenery, 399 The Blue Room, 401 The Lady Is a Tramp, 402 The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, 404 ROBERT HILLYER, 1895-1961 Moo!, 405 EDMUND WILSON, 1895-1972 Drafts for a Quatrain, 406 Something for My Russian Friends, 406 IRA GERSHWIN, b. 1896 It Ain’t Necessarily So, 407 Blah, Blah, Blah, 408 KENNETH BURKE, b. 1897 Nursery Rhyme, 409 Frigate Jones, the Pussyfooter, 409 Civil Defense, 410 Know Thyself, 410 DAVID MCCORD, b. 1897 The Axolotl, 411 Gloss, 411 To a Certain Most Certainly Certain Critic, 411 Mantis, 412 Baccalaureate, 412 History of Education, 412 Epitaph on a Waiter, 412 ANONYMOUS The heavyweight champ of Seattle, 413 STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, 1898-1943 American Names, 413 Hymn in Columbus Circle, 414 A Nonsense Song, 415 ERNEST HEMINGWAY, 1899-1961 The Ernest Liberal’s Lament, 415 xliii Neo-Thomist Poem, 415 Valentine, 416 CONTENTS VLADIMIR NABOKOV, 1899-1977 A Literary Dinner, 416 Ode to a Model, 417 BILLY ROSE, 1899-1966 Barney Google, 418 Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?, 418 E. B. WHITE, b. 1899 Marble-Top, 420 Window Ledge in the Atom Age, 420 LANGSTON HUGHES, 1902-1967 Bad Morning, 421 Wake, 421 What?, 422 Little Lyric, 422 Ennui, 422 Situation, 422 Be-Bop Boys, 422 Hope, 423 OGDEN NASH, I9O2-I97I Invocation, 423 Song of the Open Road, 424 Lines to a World-Famous Poet Who Failed To Complete a World-Famous Poem; or, Come Clean, Mr. Guest!, 425 The Turtle, 426 The Panther, 426 The Rhinoceros, 426 Genealogical Reflection, 426 They Don’t Speak English in Paris, 426 Adventures of Isabel, 428 The Ant, 429 Reflection on Ice-Breaking, 429 COUNTEE CULLEN, I9O3-I946 For a Lady I Know, 429 For a Mouthy Woman, 429 xliv CONTENTS RICHARD EBERHART, b. I9O4 I Went To See Irving Babbitt, 430 STANLEY KUNITZ, b. 1905 The Summing-Up, 430 PHYLLIS MCGINLEY, 1905-1978 Publisher’s Party, 431 About Children, 432 Evening Musicale, 433 KENNETH REXROTH, b.1905 Fact, 433 A Bestiary, 434 Observations in a Cornish Teashop, 441 ROBERT PENN WARREN, b. 1905 Man in the Street, 441 HELEN BEVINGTON, b. 1906 Mr. Rockefeller’s Hat, 442 Penguins in the Home, 443 Mrs. Trollope in America, 443 W. H. AUDEN, 1907-1973 The Aesthetic Point of View, 444 Henry Adams, 444 T. S. Eliot, 444 THEODORE ROETHKE, 1908-1963 Academic, 444 Dinky, 445 The Cow, 445 The Sloth, 445 The Kitty-Cat Bird, 446 A Rouse for Stevens, 447 JOHNNY MERCER, 1909-1976 I’m an Old Cowhand, 447 Jubilation T. Compone, 448 The Glow-worm, 449 ELDER OLSON, b. 1909 Childe Roland, etc., 450 xlv CONTENTS PETER DEVRIES, b. lgiO Beth Appleyard’s Verses Loveliest of Pies, 451 Bacchanal, 451 Psychiatrist, 452 FRANK LOESSER, b. 191O Guys and Dolls, 452 J. V. CUNNINGHAM, b. 1911 from Doctor Drink (3 and 4), 453 Uncollected Poems and Epigrams (2, 5, 9), 453 RICHARD HARTER FOGLE, b. 191 1 A Hawthorne Garland, 453 ANONYMOUS The Virtues of Carnation Milk, 455 JOHN BERRYMAN, 1914-1972 Dream Song #4, 455 American Lights, Seen from Off Abroad, 456 GEORGE HITCHCOCK, b. 1914 Three Found Poems, 457 RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965 The Blind Sheep, 461 WILLIAM STAFFORD, b. 1914 Religion Back Home, 462 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, b. 1914 Carrousel Tune, 462 Sugar in the Cane, 463 Kitchen Door Blues, 463 Gold Tooth Blues, 464 REUEL DENNEY, b. 1915 Fixer of Midnight, 465 JOHN CIARDI, b. 1916 Ballad of the Icondic, 466 Goodnight, 466 xlvi CONTENTS Dawn of the Space Age, 466 To a Reviewer Who Admired My Book, 467 On Evolution, 467 PETER VIERECK, b. 1916 1912-1952, Full Cycle, 467 WILLIAM JAY SMITH, b. 1918 Dachshunds, 468 Random Generation of English Sentences; or, The Revenge of the Poets, 469 WILLIAM COLE, b. 1919 Marriage Couplet, 470 Mutual Problem, 470 Poor Kid, 471 Mysterious East, 471 What a Friend We Have in CheesesI, 471 LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, b. 1919 Underwear, 473 MAX SHULMAN, b. 1919 Honest Abe Lincoln, 475 HOWARD NEMEROV, b. 1920 Epigrams (I-IX), 476 HOWARD MOSS, b. 1922 Cats and Dogs, 478 ALAN DUGAN, b. 1923 On a Seven-Day Diary, 478 ANTHONY HECHT, b. 1923 The Dover Bitch, 479 Improvisations on Aesop, 480 Firmness, 481 From the Grove Press, 481 Vice, 481 NORMAN MAILER, b. 1923 Devils, 482 xlvii CONTENTS LOUIS SIMPSON, b. 1923 New Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg, 482 On the Lawn at the Villa, 483 EDWARD GOREY, b. 1925 There was a young woman named Plunnery, 484 Some Harvard men, stalwart and hairy, 484 The babe, with a cry brief and dismal, 484 A lady who signs herself “Vexed,” 484 From the bathing machine came a din, 484 CAROLYN KIZER, b. I925 One to Nothing, 485 KENNETH KOCH, b. 1925 A Poem of the Forty-eight States, 48,6 A. R. AMMONS, b. 1926 First Carolina Said-Song, 490 Second Carolina Said-Song, 491 Auto Mobile, 492 Chasm, 493 Needs, 493 Cleavage, 493 Coward, 494 ROBERT CREELEY, b. 1926 She Went To Stay, 494 Ballad of the Despairing Husband, 494 The Man, 496 ALLEN GINSBERG, b. 1926 Bop Lyrics, 496 FRANK O’HARA, 1926-1966 To the Film Industry in Crisis, 497 JAMES MERRILL, b. 1926 Tomorrows, 499 JAMES WRIGHT, b. 1927 Love in a Warm Room in Winter, 500 xlviii CONTENTS DONALD HALL, b. 1928 To a Waterfowl, 501 Professor Graft, 502 Breasts, 502 JOHN HOLLANDER, b. 1929 To the Lady Portrayed by Margaret Dumont, 502 Heliogabalus, 503 Last Words, 503 Appearance and Reality, 504 Historical Reflections, 504 No Foundation, 504 X. ƒ. KENNEDY, b. 1929 In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day, 505 Japanese Beetles, 506 Last Lines, 507 JONATHAN WILLIAMS, b. 1929 The Hermit Cackleberry Brown, on Human Vanity, 508 Uncle Iv Surveys His Domain from His Rocker of a Sunday Afternoon as Aunt Dory Starts To Chop Kindling, 508 Mrs. Sadie Grindstaff, Weaver and Factotum, Explains the Work-Principle to the Modern World, 509 Three Sayings from Highlands, North Carolina, 509 The Anthropophagites See a Sign on NC Highway 177 That Looks Like Heaven, 509 JOHN BARTH, b. I93O The Minstrel’s Last Lay (from “Anonymiad”), 510 GREGORY CORSO, b. I93O Marriage, 510 STEPHEN SONDHEIM, b. I93O Gee, Officer Krupke, 513 GEORGE STARBUCK, b. I93I On First Looking in on Blodgett’s Keats’s “Chapman’s Homer, 515 High Renaissance, 515 Chip, 516 Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line, 516 Said (J. Alfred Prufrock), 517 xlix CONTENTS Said (Agatha Christie), 517 Monarch of the Sea, 517 JOHN UPDIKE, b. 1932 The Amish, 518 I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name, 518 Recital, 519 ROBERT SWARD, b. 1933 American Heritage, 519 MICHAEL BENEDIKT, b. 1935 Fate in Incognito, 521 WILLIAM HARMON, b. 1938 Bureaucratic Limerick, 521 CHARLES SIMIC, b. 19 38 Watermelons, 522 ROY BLOUNT, JR., b. 1941 Against Broccoli, 522 For the Record, 522 Gryll’s State, 524 NIKKI GIOVANNI, b. 1943 Master Charge Blues, 525 Poem for Unwed Mothers, 525 JAMES TATE, b. 1943 My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry, 526 The President Slumming, 526 Conjuring Roethke, 526 KATHLEEN NORRIS, b. 1947 Stomach, 527 Memorandum/The Accountant’s Notebook, 528
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