Great American Prose Poems From Poe to the Present

Table of Contents Introduction [organized chronologically by year of poet''s birth] Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882"Woods, A Prose Sonnet"Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849"Shadow -- A Parable"Emma Lazarus, 1849-1887"The Exodus (August 3, 1492)"Amy Lowell, 1874-1925"Red Slippers"Gertrude Stein, 1874-194622 "Objects" from Tender ButtonsWilliam Carlos Williams, 1883-1963Three Improvisations from Kora in HellH. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961"Strophe""Antistrophe""Epode"T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965"Hysteria"e. e. cummings, 1894-1962"i was sitting in mcsorley''s"Jean Toomer, 1894-1967"Calling Jesus"Thornton Wilder, 1897-1975"Sentences"Hart Crane, 1899-1932"Havana Rose"Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961"Montparnasse"Ruth Krauss, 1901-1993"News"Edwin Denby, 1903-19832"Aaron"W. H. Auden, 1907-1973"Vespers"Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-19792"12 O''Clock News"Czeslaw Milosz, 1911-"Esse""Be Like Others"Kenneth Patchen, 1911-1972"In Order To""Delighted with Bluepink""The Famous Boating Party"Delmore Schwartz, 1913-1966"Justice"David Ignatow, 1914-1997"I sink back upon the ground...""The Story of Progress"Barbara Guest, 1920-"Color"James Schuyler, 1923-1991"Two Meditations""Wonderful World""Footnote"Kenneth Koch, 1925-2002"On Happiness""The Allegory of Spring""The Wish to Be Pregnant"Robert Bly, 1926-"The Hockey Poem""Warning to the Reader""A Rusty Tin Can""One Day at a Florida Key"Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997"A Supermarket in California"James Merrill, 1926-1995Three Poems from "Prose of Departure"Frank O''hara, 1926-1966"Meditations in an Emergency""Schoenberg"John Ashbery, 1927-"Whatever It Is, Wherever You Are""Haibun 6""A Nice Presentation""Disagreeable Glimpses""Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland"W. S. Merwin, 1927-"Humble Beginning""The Dachau Shoe""Our Jailer""The Lonely Child"James Wright, 1927-1980"On Having My Pocket Picked in Rome""Honey"John Hollander, 1929-"The Way We Walk Now""Crocus Solus""Not Something for Nothing"Harry Mathews, 1930-Three Entries from 20 Lines a DayMark Strand, 1934-"In the Privacy of the Home""Success Story""From a Lost Diary""Chekhov: A Sestina"Michael Benedikt, 1935-"The Doorway of Perception"Russell Edson, 1935-"A Performance at Hog Theater""The Pilot""The Taxi""The Rat''s Tight Schedule""The Canoeing Trip""The New Father"Rosmarie Waldrop, 1935-Five Poems from The Reproduction of ProfilesCharles Simic, 1938-Three Poems from The World Doesn''t End"The Magic Study of Happiness""Contributor''s Note"Margaret Atwood, 1939-"Women''s Novels""In Love with Raymond Chandler"Frank Bidart, 1939-"Borges and I"Fanny Howe, 1940-"Everything''s a Fake""Doubt"Tom Clark, 1941-"Death, Revenge and the Profit Motive"Billy Collins, 1941-"Five Fondly Remembered Passages from My Childhood Reading"Robert Hass, 1941-"A Story About the Body""In the Bahamas""Tall Windows"Lyn Hejinian, 1941-Three Sections From My LifeJoe Brainard, 1942-1994"Freud""History"Louis Jenkins, 1942-"Football""Appointed Rounds""The Prose Poem"Ron Padgett, 1942-"Light as Air""Album"Michael Palmer, 1943-"A word is coming up on the screen..."James Tate, 1943-"The Second Greatest Story Ever Told""Same Tits""The List of Famous Hats""Distance from Loved Ones""Rapture""Bernie at the Pay Phone"Paul Violi, 1944-"Triptych""Acknowledgments"John Godfrey, 1945-"So Let''s Look At It Another Way"Bernadette Mayer, 1945-"Visions or Desolation"Alice Notley, 1945-"Untitled"Ira Sadoff, 1945-"Seurat"Anne Waldman, 1945-"Stereo"Terence Winch, 1945-"Shoot the Horse"B.J. Atwood-Fukuda, 1946-"The Wreck of the Platonic"Andrei Codrescu, 1946-"De Natura Rerum""Secret Training""Power"Rae Armantrout, 1947-"Bases""Middle Men""Imaginary Places"Michael Burkard, 1947-"A Conversation About Memory"Lydia Davis, 1947-"The Thirteenth Woman""In the Garment District""Agreement"Aaron Fogel, 1947-"The Chessboard Is on Fire"Yusef Komunyakaa, 1947-"Nude Interrogation""The Hanoi Market""A Summer Night in Hanoi"Maureen Seaton, 1947-"Toy Car""Lateral Time"Leslie Scalapino, 1948-"That They Were at the Beach"Tom Whalen, 1948-"Why I Hate the Prose Poem"Agha Shahid Ali, 1949-2001"Return to Harmony 3"Lynn Emanuel, 1949-"inside gertrude stein"Kit Robinson, 1949-"The Person"Charles Bernstein, 1950-"Comraderie turns to rivalry..."Anne Carson, 1950-"On Waterproofing""On Orchids""On Hedonism""On Shelter"Carolyn Forche, 1950-"The Colonel"James Richardson, 1950-2"Vectors: Thirty-six Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays"John Yau, 1950-"Predella""Summer Rental"Peter Johnson, 1951-"Pretty Happy!""Tex-Mex"Maxine Chernoff, 1952-"His Pastime""Vanity, Wisconsin""The Inner Life"Rita Dove, 1952-"Kentucky, 1833"Carla Harryman, 1952-"Magic (or Rousseau)""Matter"Mark Jarman, 1952-"Epistle"Mary Ruefle, 1952-"Monument"Killarney Clary, 1953-"Because the ones I work for...""Life is boundless..."Fran Carlen, 1954-"Anna Karenina""Anal Nap"Thylias Moss, 1954-"An Anointing"Tyrone Williams, 1954-"Cold Calls"Harryette Mullen, ?-"Variation on a Theme Park,""The Anthropic Principle""Sleeping with the Dictionary"Susan Wheeler, 1955-"Invective: You Should Know"April Bernard, 1956-"Exegesis"Amy Gerstler, 1956-"Dear Boy George""Bitter Angel""The Bear-Boy of Lithuania"Dionisio D. Mart Inez, 1956-"Avant-Dernieres Pensees"Catherine Bowman, 1957-"No Sorry"Wang Ping, 1957 -"Of Flesh and Spirit"Nin Andrews, 1958-"Notes on the Orgasm""Always Have a Joyful Mind"Michael Friedman, 1960-"Lecture""Death""State"Stephanie Brown, 1961-"Commencement Address"Denise Duhamel, 1961-"A Nap on the Afternoon of My 39th Birthday"Christopher Edgar, 1961-"In C"Campbell Mcgrath, 1962-"The Prose Poem"Linh Dinh, 1963-"Fish Eyes""The Most Beautiful Word"Claudia Rankine, 1963-"Intermission in Four Acts"Gabriel Gudding, 1966-"A Defense of Poetry"Joe Wenderoth, 1966-Twelve Epistles from Letters to Wendy''sLisa Jarnot, 1967-"Still Life""Ode"Karen Volkman, 1967-"It Could Be a Bird""When Kiss Spells Contradiction"Mark Bibbins, 1968-Two Poems from "Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs"Richard Blanco, 1968-"Mango, Number 61"Jennifer L. Knox, 1968-"Hot Ass Poem"Richard Deming, 1970-"Requiem"Anselm Berrigan, 1972-"The Page Torn Out"Katherine Lederer, 1972-"According to the Appetites"Andrew Zawacki, 1972-Two Poems from MasqueradeJamey Dunham, 1973-"An American Story"Matthea Harvey, 1973-"The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away"308Sarah Manguso, 1974-"Nepenthe""What We Miss"Jenny Boully, 1976 -- "He appeared then..."Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex of PoemsIndex of PoetsCopyright 2003 by David LehmanLehman, David is the author of 'Great American Prose Poems From Poe to the Present' with ISBN 9780743229890 and ISBN 0743229894.