Poems
Poems
Poems
• Rilke: “The First Elegy,” “The Second Elegy,” “The Third Elegy”
• Plath: “Street Song,” “The Colossus,” “The Bee Meeting,” “Daddy,” “Cut,” “Fever
103,” “Lady Lazarus,” “Mad Girl’s Love Song”
• Bishop: “The Man-Moth,” “Questions of Travel,” “In the Waiting Room,” “Poem,”
“One Art”
• Dickinson: “After great pain, a formal feeling comes…,”
• Sexton: “Music Swims Back to Me,” “Her Kind,” “A Story for Rose on the Midnight
Flight to Boston,” “For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further,” “The Double
Image,” “With Mercy for the Greedy,” “Flee on Your Donkey,” “Wanting to Die,”
“The Addict,” “The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator,” “Rowing,” “Words,” “Yellow,”
“Admonitions to a Special Person”
• Jennifer Denrow: “California”
• Sarah Manguso: “What We Miss,” “Love Letter (Clouds),” “Hell”
• Heather Christle: “Elegy for Neil Armstrong,” “Pursuits,” “Disintegration Loop 1.1,”
“My Enemy,” “Self-Portrait With Fire”
• Judy Grahn: “The Marilyn Monroe Poem,” “Detroit Annie, Hitchhiking,” “A Woman
is Talking to Death”
• Mary Ruefle: “Glory,” “Why I Am Not A Good Kisser,” “Kiss of the Sun,” “Picking
Up Pinecones”
• Ada Limón: “The Leash”
• Dora Malech: “Country Songs,” “To the You of Ten Years Ago, Now,” “Love Poem,”
“Note to So Sorry for Self,” “Flight, Flight Or,”
• Sasha West: “Fecundity, Expanse”
• Lisa Olstein: “Dear One Absent This Long While,” “Blood, Bread, Spoons,” “Exile
the Dragon-Tailed and the Rabbit-Eared Among You,” “Each River Was a River of
Mercury,” “Dear Sir,” “Built For It,” “Air Rights,” “The Resemblance of the Enzymes
of Grasses to Those of Whales is a Family Resemblance,” “A Simple Lesson on the
Buried Spirit,” “Every Pastoral is an Elegy,” “Where the Use of Cannon is
Impractical”
• Eileen Myles: “On the Death of Robert Lowell,” “Milk,” “Ink,” “An American Poem”
• Robert Hass: “Meditation at Lagunitas,” “Happiness,” “A Story About the Body”
• Galway Kinnell: “Little Sleep’s-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight”
• Rae Armantrout: “What We Can Say,” “Before,” “Almost,” “Scumble,” “Unbidden,”
“Exact,” “A Pulse”
• Marie Howe: “Magdalene—The Seven Devils,” “Practicing,” (other Magdalene
poems)
• Robert Lowell: “Waking in the Blue,” “Water,” “In the Ward,” “Epilogue”
• W.S. Graham: “What is the Language Using Us for?”
• Richard Hugo: “Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg”
• Sommer Browning: “It Isn’t Dead, Just Different”
• Layne Ransom: “Mercy”
• Philip Larkin: “This Be The Verse”
• Naomi Shihab Nye: “Trying to Name What Doesn’t Changed”
• Louise Glück:
• Matthea Harvey: “On Intimacy,” “One Way”
• Julie Carr: “Conception Abstracts,” “Pregnancy Abstracts,” “Insert: Detail Given,”
“Inward Abstracts,” “In the second week of solid rain…”
• Rae Armantrout: “Scumble,” “Dark Matter,” “Unbidden,” “Simple,” “The Hole,”
• Andrea Cohen: “Progress Report September 2010”
• Joanna Klink: “Aubade,” “Stillways,” “Night on Land,” “Excerpts from a Secret
Prophecy,” “The Graves”
• Andrea Cohen: “Doing the Loop,” “Progress Report September 2010,” “First
Thought, Best Thought,” “Bargain,” “Bricks,” “Task Lighting,” “Clasp,” “Yarn,”
“The Committee Weighs In,” “Spell,” “Bootstraps,” “Chair,” “Jehova,”
“Silence,” “Road Trip,” “To an Ant Fallen in the Salt Shaker,” “Street Corner,”
“Establishing Shot,” “Lit,” “Stationery”
• W. S. Graham: “The Nightfishing,” “Malcolm Mooney’s Land,” “The Constructed
Space,” “The Dark Dialogues,” “Approaches to How They Behave,” “Five Verses
Beginning with the Word Language”
• Traci Brimhall: “Aubade with a Broken Neck,” “Why He Leaves,” “Leviathan: A
Rapture,” “A Dead Woman Speaks to Her Resurrectionist,” “Dear Eros,” “Dearest
Eros,” “Vive, Vive,”
• James Tate: “The Lost Pilot”
• Mary Szybist: “So I Am One,” “Yes, I’m Talking to You,” “Night Shifts at the Group
Home,”
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