Contemporary American poetry
By: selected and introduced by Donald Hall
Contributors: Plath, Sylvia, former owner
Series: Penguin poets; Penguin poets
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1962
Place of publication: [Harmondsworth, Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Lyrik; American poetry
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Internet Archive - 2

Internet Archive 2
Table of contents: title: William Stafford. Travelling through the dark ; Returned to say ; At cove on the crooked river ; Strokes ; Near ; With my crowbar key; title: Robert Lowell. Christmas Eve under Hooker's statue ; The holy innocents ; New Year's Day ; Katherine's dream ; After the surprising conversions ; Memories of West Street and Lepke ; For sale ; Man and wife ; Skunk hour; title: Robert Duncan. A poem beginning with a line by Pindar; title: Reed Whittemore. Still life ; A day with the Foreign Legion ; On the suicide of a friend ; The party ; The walk home; title: Howard Nemerov. Storm windows ; The statues in the public gardens ; A singular metamorphosis ; The view from an attic window ; The fall again; title: Richard Wilbur. Tywater ; "A world without objects is a sensible emptiness" ; Museum piece ; After the last bulletins ; She ; The undead ; In the smoking car ; Shame; title: Anthony Hecht. Alceste in the wilderness ; Samuel Sewall ; The vow ; The end of the weekend ;"More light! More light!"; title: James Dickey. The performance ; Hunting Civil War relics at Nimblewill Creek; title: Denise Levertov. Overland to the islands ; Sunday afternoon ; The springtime ; The grace-note ; The world outside ; Six variations ; A map of the western part of the county of Essex in England; title: John Logan. The picnic ; A trip to four or five towns; title: Louis Simpson. Early in the morning ; The ash and the oak ; To the western world ; The riders held back ; Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain ; There is ; My father in the night commanding no; title: Edgar Bowers. The mountain cemetery ; The prince ; The centaur overhead ; Adam's song to heaven ; Le Rêve; title: Donald Justice. Beyond the hunting woods ; On the death of friends in childhood ; Here in Katmandu ; Another song ; Counting the mad ; On a painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane; title: Robert Bly. Where we must look for help ; Sunda in Glastonbury ; Awakening ; Poem against the British ; Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River ; Hunting pheasants in a cornfield ; A busy man speaks ; Poem in three parts ; The possibility of new poetry ; After the Industrial Revolution, all things happen at once ; Sleet storm on the Merritt Parkway ; Andrew Jackson's speech; title: Robert Creeley. After Lorca ; I know a man ; The hill ; The signboard ; The cracks ; For love ; Kore ; The rain; title: James Merrill. The power station ; Angel ; Childlessness ; After Greece; title: W. D. Snodgrass. From Heart's needle ; The examination ; Monet : "Les nymphéas"; title: John Ashbery. Some trees ; The picture of little J.A. in a prospect of flowers ; A vase of flowers ; Thoughts of a young girl ; Our youth ; The young prince and the young princess; title: Galway Kinnell. From The avenue bearing the initial of Christ into the new world ; Flower-herding pictures on Mount Monadnock; title: W. S. Merwin. Leviathan ; Low fields and light ; The bones ; Small woman on Swallow Street ; Grandfather in the old men's home ; Views from the high camp ; Departure's girl-friend; title: James Wright. A gesture by a lady with an assumed name ; At Thomas Hardy's birthplace, 1953 ; Saint Judas ; Confession to J. Edgar Hoover ; Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; Depressed by a book of bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me ; The blessing ; Miners; title: X. J. Kennedy. First confession ; Nude descending a staircase ; Little elegy ; B negative ; In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day; title: Adrienne Rich. The insusceptibles ; Readings of history; title: Gary Snyder. All through the rains ; Piute Creek ; Above Pate Valley ; Milton by firelight ; Hay for the horses; title: Robert Mezey. The funeral home ; Epitaph of a faithful man ; Late winter birthday ; Dark head ; The lovemaker ; To Philip Levine, on the Day of Atonement.