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THE ANTHOLOGY 1912 —2002

Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse-Magazine

EDITED BY Joseph Parisi & Stephen Young

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

JOSEPH PARISI

IVAN R. DEE 2002 CONTENTS

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Ezra Pound To Whistler, American i XOPIKO2 2 Nicholas General William Booth Enters into Heaven 4 H.D. Epigram 5 From CONTEMPORANIA Tenzone 6 In a Station of the Metro 6 Proof of Immortality 6 Joyce Kilmer 7 Ezra Pound From LUSTRA: I, III 7 From IRRADIATIONS: I, II.VI, X, XI 9 D. H. Lawrence Illicit II The Code —Heroics II From CHICAGO POEMS Chicago H Eros Turannos 16 William Butler Yeats The Magi 17 Ezra Pound TOKAAON 17 Ezra Pound The Coming of War: Actaeon 18 H.D. Moonrise 18 Rupert Brooke From NINETEEN-FOURTEEN Peace 19 The Soldier 19 T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 20 From DISCORDANTS: IV 24 The Answer 24 John Hall Wheelock Beethoven 25 Sunday Morning 25 CONTENTS

William Butler Yeats • The Scholars 28 Edgar Lee Masters In Memory of Bryan Lathrop 28 Ezra Pound The Lake Isle 29 Rabindranath Tagore From Epigrams 30 T. S. Eliot From OBSERVATIONS La Figlia che Piange 30 Mr. Apollinax 31 Morning at the Window 32 Arthur Davison Ficke The Wave Symphony 32 William Carlos Williams Marriage 33 Isaac Rosenberg From TRENCH POEMS Break of Day in the Trenches 33 Carl Sandburg From MY PEOPLE In Tall Grass 34 Sherwood Anderson Evening Song 34 John Drinkwater Reciprocity 35 Edna St. Vincent Millay From FIGS FROM THISTLES First Fig 35 Second Fig 35 Thursday 35 William Carlos Williams Le Mtdecin Malgre Lui 36 D. H. Lawrence Nostalgia 36 Ezra Pound From PROPERTIUS: IV 37 Emanuel Carnevali 38 Edna St. Vincent Millay Recuerdo 39 End of the Comedy 39 Vachel Lindsay The Horrid Voice of Science 40 Sara Teasdale Song 40 Wallace Stevens From PECKSNIFFIANA Fabliau of 4i The Weeping Burgher 41 The Indigo Glass in the Grass 42 Anecdote of the Jar 42 The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician 42 The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage 43 Malcolm Cowley Danny 44 ToW. C.W. M.D. 44 Atavism 45 Marjorie Allen Seiffert Cubist Portrait 45

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Oscar Williams The Golden Fleece 45 Glenway Wescott The at Night-Fall 46 Wallace Stevens From SUR MA GUZZLA GRACILE The Snow Man 47 Tea at the Palaz of Hoon 47 Another Weeping Woman 48 Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds 48 Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb 49 Robert Frost The Witch of Coos 49 William Carlos Williams Wild Orchard 54 In High Places 55 From BEGINNING AND END Knowledge 55 Kay Boyle Monody to the Sound of Zithers 55 Ernest M. Hemingway From WANDERINGS Champs d'Honneur 56 Chapter Heading 56 Marion Strobel Pastoral 57 Static Autumn 57 Robert Frost The Flower-Boat 58 Lola Ridge Chicago 58 Winifred Bryher From THREE SONGS ' Thessalian 59 Robert McAlmon From CONTRIBUTIONS For Instance 59 Gottschalk From BODY'S HEAD Head Itself 60 Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica 61 Crimson Tent 62 _, At Melville's Tomb 64 Malcolm Cowley From BLUEJUNIATA The Streets of Air 64 Kay Boyle To a Seaman Dead on Land 65 In the Beginning Was a Word 66 Hortense Flexner Contemporary 66 Hart Crane O Carib Isle! 67 From THINGS KNOWN Under the Hill 68 Morton Dauwen Zabel Hoar Frost 69 CONTENTS

H.D. Birds in Snow 69 Archibald MacLeish From PUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE Epistle to the Rapalloan 70 Marching Song 71 Edna St. Vincent Millay Sonnet [Women have loved before . . .] 71 May Sarton From WORDS ON THE WIND Fruit of Loneliness 72 Edward Dahlberg Kansas City West Bottoms 72 Louise Bogan Hypocrite Swift 73 Langstori Hughes Sailor 74 From SONNETS OF THE BLOOD I, II, IV, VII, IX 74 Ruth Lechlitner Kansas Boy 77 Paul Frederic Bowles Extract 77 Cecil Day Lewis Winter Night 78 Fearful Symmetry 78 Watershed 79 From PART OF A , PART OF A POEM, PART OF A PLAY The Steeple-Jack 80 The Hero 82 Hart Crane From THE URN Reliquary " 84 Purgatorio 84 The Sad Indian 85 Reply 85 Enrich My Resignation 86 Charles Reznikoff Winter Sketches 86 Cecil Day Lewis From THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN Condemned 88 William Carlos Williams From "THAT'S THE AMERICAN STYLE": 4th of July 89 Empty Dwelling Places 90 Josephine Miles From LOCAL HABITATION On Inhabiting an Orange 90 Robert Frost At Woodward's Gardens 91 Muriel Rukeyser Night-Music 92 "Long Live the Weeds" 93 Harriet Monroe A Farewell 94

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W.H.Auden Journey to Iceland 94 Dylan Thomas We Lying by Seasand 96 Poem [You, my photographer] 96 Thomas Lanier Williams My Love Was Light 97 From TWO MORNINGS AND TWO EVENINGS Paris, 7 A.M. 98 A Miracle for Breakfast 99 From the Country to the City 100 Song IOI Past Midnight IOI Robert Penn Warren Bearded Oaks IOI Janet Lewis At Carmel Highlands 103 Delmore Schwartz [In the naked bed, in Plato's cave] 103 Dylan Thomas Four Poems 104 The Marginal Field 106 Wallace Stevens The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man 107 Roy Fuller Sonnet [The crumbled rock of London] 107 From STANZAS IN MEDITATION I, IV,V,VI 108 Louis MacNeice Perdita 109 William Carlos Williams 109 E. E. Cummings [anyone lived in a pretty how town] no Walter de la Mare Things III Antiques 112 Edwin Muir Then ... 112 KarlJ. Shapiro University 113 Robinson Jeffers The Bloody Sire 114 Babette Deutsch Memory 114 Walter de la Mare . Immanent "5 Peter De Vries From CONSCRIPT: III 115 Basil Bunting To Violet 117 at Newport 117 A. M. Klein Upon the Heavenly Scarp Il8 Thomas James Merton The Dark Morning 120 Louis MacNeice The Springboard 120 E. E. Cummings [what if a much of a which of a wind] 121 CONTENTS

Howard Nemerov 122 The Emancipators 122 John Frederick Nims Tennis Trophy 123 Theodore Roethke Dolor 124 Fable of the Ant and the Word 124 First Snow on an Airfield 125 Randall Jarrell Losses 125 Dylan Thomas Poem in October 126 John Ciardi Journal 128 Robert Francis Part for the Whole 129 Francis C. Golffing The Higher Empiricism 130 Kenneth Koch Poem for My Twentieth Birthday 130 From "THEORY OF VISION" The Green Eye 130 Theodore Roethke The Return 131 The Ghost 132 Yvor Winters Night of Battle 134 Muriel Rukeyser Motive 135 James Merrill The Broken Bowl 135 John Frederick Nims Love Poem 136 Niagara Falls 137 Kenneth Koch Schoolyard in April 137 Paul Goodman "Dreams Are the Royal Road to the Unconscious" 138 The Dirty Word 139 Robert Lowell The Fat Man in the Mirror 140 E. E. Cummings [if(touched by love's own secret)we,like homing] 141 Margaret Avison The Party 141 Wallace Stevens The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract 142 Weldon Kees Small Prayer 143 Robert Graves Return of the Goddess Artemis 143 The Death of a Toad 144 Henry Rago From THE METAPHOR 4. Terror and Love as Fugitives 144 The Traveler 145 William Carlos Williams Lear 146 Randall Jarrell The Sleeping Beauty: Variation of the Prince 147 The Children of the Poor 148 Wallace Stevens From THINGS OF AUGUST: 1,3,8 149

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John Berryman The Cage 151 Delmore Schwartz The Self Unsatisfied Runs Everywhere 152 Babette Deutsch The Poem 152 Paul Goodman Little Ode 153 Richard Wilbur "A World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness" 154 Alceste in the Wilderness 155 Robinson Jeffers The Beauty of Things 156 Theodore Roethke To an Anthologist 156 James Merrill Hotel de L'Univers et Portugal 157 Robert Graves The Foreboding 158 Kathleen Raine The Instrument 158 Parker Tyler Nijinsky 159 W. H. Auden The Shield of Achilles 160 Louise Bogan After the Persian 162 Marianne Moore Then the Ermine: 163 William Carlos Williams From , BOOKV The River of Heaven 164 Patrick Anderson Sestina in Time of Winter 165 Robert Graves From the Embassy 166 William Meredith The Illiterate 166 Alan Dugan Prison Song 166 E. L. Mayo The Word of Water 167 Richard Wilbur Marginalia 167 Karl Shapiro The Alphabet 168 Joseph Warren Beach Horatian Ode 169 Randall Jarrell Aging 169 Frank O'Hara Chez Jane 170 Fairfield Porter The Island in the Evening 171 Thorn Gunn High Fidelity 172 Landed: A Valentine 172 Frank O'Hara Radio 173 William Meredith Bachelor 174 George Barker From CYCLE OF SIX LYRICS O Pearl and Breasted World 174 Kenneth Koch Permanently 175 Constance Urdang Birth of Venus 175 Metamorphosis 176 Witter Bynner From INSCRIPTIONS ON CHINESE 111

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Robert Fitzgerald Metaphysical 178 The Approach to Thebes 179 Thorn Gunn The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of His Death 180 Howard Moss From KING MIDAS The King's Speech 181 Geoffrey Hill Wreaths 183 A Mark of Resistance 183 A Morning Letter 184 Holding the Mirror Up to Nature 185 H.D. In Time of Gold 186 Shepherd 186 James Merrill Mirror 187 Vernon Watkins Demands of the Muse 188 To the Snake 189 Richard F. Hugo Skykomish River Running 189 A. R. Ammons Close-Up 190 Josephine Miles Dream 191 T. Weiss The Fire at Alexandria 191 Sylvia Plath The Death of Myth-Making 193 Gwendolyn Brooks From THE BEAN EATERS We Real Cool 193 Richard Eberhart The Spider 194 Robert Duncan Returning to Roots of First Feeling 195 X.J. Kennedy Nude Descending a Staircase 195 Robert Creeley Song 196 Frank O'Hara In Favor of One's Time 196 Population 197 A. R. Ammons Gravelly Run 198 Inside the River 199 E. E. Cummings [how many moments must(amazing each] 200 Denise Levertov The Illustration—A Footnote 201 The Blessing 201 For the Passing of Groucho's Pursuer 202 David Daiches Notes for a History of Poetry 203 Edgar Bowers The Astronomers of Mont Blanc 204 Sylvia Plath Stars over the Dordogne 204 The Black Art 205

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John Berryman • . From FOUR DREAM SONGS [The high ones die, die] 206 John Ciardi Death's the Classic Look 207 Alan Dugan From Heraclitus 208 William Meredith For His Father 208 James Merrill The Mad Scene 209 If the Birds Knew 209 Sylvia Plath Fever 103° 210 John Berryman From NINE DREAM SONGS Snow Line 212 Ted Hughes After Lorca 212 David Wagoner The Words 213 Philip Booth Seeing Auden Off 214 Stevie Smith Here Lies . . . 214 LeRoi Jones () Like Rousseau 215 About My Poems 215 Donald Finkel Metaphysic of Snow 216 Marvin Bell Things We Dreamt We Died For 216 From THROUGH THE SMOKE HOLE 217 "The Wish To Be Believed" 218 The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students 218 John Hollander Swan and Shadow 220 W. S. Graham The Beast in the Space 221 Winfield Townley Scott Uses of Poetry 221 Slowly, Slowly Wisdom Gathers 222 Vernon Watkins Cwmrhydyceirw Elegiacs 222 Adrienne Rich Implosions 223 Hayden Carruth The Cows at Night 224 Hugh Seidman Demonstration 225 William Heyen The King's Men 225 May Swenson Fire Island 226 Denise Levertov Invocation 226 Stanley Kunitz The Game 227 Gilbert Sorrentino Handbook of Versification 227 Stephen Dobyns Counterparts 228 Thorn Gunn The Messenger 229 Frank O'Hara Homosexuality 229 F. D. Reeve Hope 230 Black Maps 231

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Charles Wright Nightletter 232 A. R. Ammons Play 233 Louise Gluck The Magi 233 Erica Jong Climbing You 234 David Wagoner Lost 234 John N. Morris The sLife Beside This One 235 John Betjeman Crematorium 236 Greg Kuzma Poetry 236 Tom Disch The Vowels of Another Language 236 Kathleen Spivack Dido: Swarming » 237 Negatives 237 Howard Nemerov To D—, Dead by Her Own Hand 238 William Dickey The Poet's Farewell to His Teeth 239 A. D. Hope Parabola 240 Richard Hugo On Hearing a New Escalation 241 James Schuyler May, 1972 242 James McAuley Winter Drive 243 May Swenson July 4th 243 The Desire ofWater 244 Horace Gregory Death & Empedocles 444 B.C. 244 John Frederick Nims Verse Translator 245 Richard Hugo Last Days 245 Jay Macpherson From THE WAY DOWN: They Return 246 David Wagoner Elegy for Yards, Pounds, and Gallons 246 Margaret Atwood From SONGS OF THE TRANSFORMED: Siren Song 247 Jack Anderson Ode to Pornography 248 Gjertrud Schnackenberg Signs 250 J. D. McClatchy The Pleasure of Ruins 250 Jane Shore An Astronomer's Journal 251 From ON PSYCHIATRISTS XIV. Their Speech, Compared with Wisdom and Poetry 252 Peter Schjeldahl A Younger Poet 253 Howard Nemerov Waiting Rooms 254 James Schuyler "Can I Tempt You to a Pond Walk?" 255 Rika Lesser 256 Ezra Pound Fragmenti 256 John Ashbery The Ice-Cream Wars 257

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Jayanta Mahapatra ' • Ash 258 Frank O'Hara Poem [Green things are flowers] 259 Brenda Hillman On the Pier 259 Robert Siegel Hog Heaven 260 The Ring 261 Gary Soto Antigua 262 Alfred Corn Photographs of Old 262 William Logan A Valentine for Matthew Arnold 264 Timothy Steele From THREE NOTES TOWARD DEFINITIONS: Of Faith 264 Sandra M. Gilbert Elegy 265 Daryl Hine After the Solstice 266 Mary Kinzie The Muse of Satire 266 John N. Morris Man and Boy 267 Miller Williams Love and How It Becomes - Important in Our Day to Day Lives 267 Anthony Hecht From THE VENETIAN VESPERS: III 268 The Guild 272 A. R. Ammons Strolls 273 Carole Oles One Page in The American Heritage Dictionary 274 Tom Disch Poems 274 Dannie Abse XRay 275 Lawrence Raab The Rest 276 Poem Beginning with a Line of Wittgenstein 277 For an Early Retirement 277 A. R. Ammons Easter Morning 277 John Ashbery Late Echo 280 Gerald Stern Waving Goodbye 280 Linda Pastan After Minor Surgery 281 Barton Sutter Static 281 Michael Ryan A Shape for It 282 Albert Goldbarth Closer 282 Gerald Stern June Fourth 283 Robert Pinsky Dying 284 Barry Spacks The Poetry Bug 285 Katha Pollitt A Poet of Our Climate 286 Stephen Sandy Survivor, Walking 286 David Ignatow A Cloud Creates 288

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Richard Moore l On Coming to Nothing 288 John N. Morris A Schedule of Benefits 289 Baron Wormser A History of Photography 289 Mary Karr Diogenes Tries To Forget 291 Richmond Lattimore Flesh Tones 291 From IMAGES OF CHINA Torture 292 Chinese Courtesy 292 Thomas P. Lynch A Death 292 Linda Pastan I Am Learning to Abandon the World 293 Dusting 293 What Is Left to Say 294 Gary Soto Failing in the Presence of Ants 295 Albert Goldbarth Edgewater Hospital 296 Sandra McPherson Wings and Seeds: For My Birth Mother 297 William Stafford How to Regain Your Soul 298 Corners 298 Rita Dove Flirtation 299 Anthony Hecht Anthem 300 Daryl Hine Sapphics 300 David Wagoner Their Bodies 301 Pattiann Rogers The Origin of Order 302 David Bottoms The Boy Shepherds' Simile 303 Jack Matthews Inverse Proportions 303 Alice Fulton Doing the Evolution Shuffle 304 Robert B. Shaw From CHRONOMETRICS IV. Hourglass 305 Timothy Steele Chanson Philosophique 305 Fred Chappell Narcissus and Echo 306 My Confessional Sestina 306 Bitch 307 Edward Hirsch Poor Angels 308 Amy Clampitt Dodona: Asked of the Oracle 309 Wesley McNair Big Cars 3io Robert Morgan Rearview Mirror 3ii Michael Blumenthal The Disappointments of Childhood 312 Laurence Perrine Janus 312 Limerick 312

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Jane Flanders Cloud Painter 313 John N. Morris Reading the Writing 3H Stephen Corey Preparing to Live Among the Old 314 B. H. Fairchild Flight 315 Dick Allen The Poet at Eighteen 3i6 Raymond Carver Happiness 317 Sweet Will 318 Amy Clampitt Athene 320 Alice Fulton Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch 321 Turner Cassity Why Fortune Is the Empress of the World 321 Dana Gioia Cruising with the Beach Boys 322 John Dickson Fossil Fuel 323 Bin Ramke According to Ovid 324 Reynolds Price Hawk Hill 325 J. W. Rivers : At Night, Black Hawk's Statue Broods 325 A Calling 326 Thomas Carper Oh Keep the Poet Hence 327 Written in My Dream by W. C.Williams 328 Michael McFee Cold Quilt 330 Mona Van Duyn In Bed with a Book 331 Gibbons Ruark Postscript to an Elegy 331 Ernest Sandeen My Two Lives 332 Robert Cording Elegy for John, My Student Dead of AIDS 333 Ralph Angel And the Grass Did Grow 334 Maura Stanton Pole Vaulting 335 Jeanne Murray Walker Coming into History 336 John Ashbery Morning Jitters 336 Gregory On Available Now: Archaic Torsos of Both Sexes 337 Randy Biasing Refuge 338 To My Mother 338 Prayer for My Father 339 David Bottoms Armored Hearts 340 Christopher Buckley The Inverse Square Law of the Propagation of Light 341 Hayden Carruth The Bearer 342 Sandra M. Gilbert Against Poetry 343 CONTENTS

John Hollander (Coordinating Conjunction 344 David Ignatow Witness 345 Maxine Kumin Nurture 346 My Ambition 346 W. S. Merwin After the Alphabets 347 Lisel Mueller When I Am Asked 348 Joyce Carol Oates Waiting on Elvis, 1956 348 Adrienne Rich Dreamwood 349 Robert B. Shaw To His Pulse 350 The Immortal 350 Mark Strand To Himself 352 Richard Wilbur Trolling for Blues 352 Diane Ackerman We Are Listening 353 George Starbuck Reading the Facts about Frost in The Norton Anthology 354 Turner Cassity Other-Directed 355 Stanley Moss The Lace Makers 355 Elizabeth Spires Faberge's Egg 356 Rita Dove The Breathing, the Endless News 357 First Reader 358 Peter Porter Sun King Sulking 359 Philip Booth Heading Out 360 Ben Howard For the Calvinists 361 Stephen Stepanchev Inspiration 361 Alicia Ostriker I Can't Speak 362 G. S. Sharat Chandra Peasants Waiting for Rain 362 Stephen Kuusisto Summer at North Farm 363 Stephen Dobyns Utopian Melodies 364 Steven Cramer For the Bullies of West Morris High 364 John Frederick Nims From THE SIX-CORNERED SNOWFLAKE 366 Sue Owen Written in Blood 367 Charles Wright Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year 368 R. T. Smith Brieves from The Book of Kells 369 Billy Collins Forgetfulness 370 J. D. McClatchy From AN ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP:VII 37i Stephen Dunn Little Essay on Communication 372 Kathleen Norris Mrs. Adam 373

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Chris Wallace-Crabbe. The Dead Cartesian 374 Mark Doty The Death of Antinoiis 375 Henri Coulette Correspondence 376 Charles Simic Evening Walk 376 Neal Bowers Tenth-Year Elegy 377 W. D. Snodgrass As a Child, Sleepless 378 Defining Time 378 Caroline Finkelstein Not Responsible 379 David Jauss Quotations for a Winter Evening 380 Jim Simmerman Take a Hike 380 Cathy Song Out of Our Hands 381 Robert Sargent The Things of the World 382 Charles Wright Chickamauga 383 Williams We Have Not Long To Love 384 Eamon Grennan A Few Last Lines of Laundry 384 Margaret Holley The Tree of Life 385 Neal Bowers Dead Man Interview 385 Mark Scott The Cave of AIDS 386 Marilyn Taylor To a Young Diver 387 Daniel Hall Winged Torso of Eros 388 Adrienne Rich Final Notations 389 William Matthews Mingus at The Showplace 389 Turner Cassity Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog; or, Turner's Evil Twin 390 W. S. Merwin Search Party 39i Elizabeth Alexander Apollo 392 Walter McDonald The Digs in Escondido Canyon 393 Cathryn Essinger You Are Right 393 Jeffrey Harrison Adirondack Moosehead 394 Jane Kenyon Having It Out with Melancholy 395 William Matthews Last Words 398 A Telegram from the Muse 399 William Greenway Anniversary 400 Alan Shapiro Soul 400 Joe-Anne McLaughlin- The Parents They Would Be 401 Carruth Eric Pankey The Resurrection of the Body 401 Gabriel Spera Balkan 402 Charles Bukowski a not so good night in the San Pedro of the world 403 Robert Morgan Music of the Spheres 404

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James Scruton In the Age of the Radio Telescope 404 Marvin Bell The Book of the Dead Man (#33) 405 Charlie Smith The Essential Story 406 Carl Dennis To Reason 407 Debora Greger Psyche and Eros in Florida 408 Andrew Hudgins Tools: An Ode 409 Ha Jin Ways of Talking 410 Derick Burleson Democracy 410 Watching Dogwood Blossoms Fall in a Parking Lot off Route 46 411 Richard Foerster The Failure of Similes 412 Peter Cooley Poem on the First Day of School 412 Herbert Morris Duesenberg, 1929 413 Barry Goldensohn Arch of Titus 414 Willy Clay On Me, the Imported Skies 415 Pearl Andelson Sherry Fermi Lab: Sisyphus of Quarks 416 Deborah Pope Getting Through 416 Elise Paschen Angling 417 Donald Hall Goggles and Helmet 417 Jane Kenyon Happiness 418 Michael Chitwood After the Missionaries 419 George Bilgere At the Vietnam Memorial 420 Henry Taylor For William Stafford 420 John Ashbery A Poem of Unrest 421 Jack Turner TV Movie 421 Christopher Bursk Does Poetry Matter? 422 Seamus Heaney A Dog Was Crying To-Night in Wicklow Also 423 The Throwback 424 Eavan Boland Mother Ireland 424 William Dickey The Arrival of the Titanic 425 Donald Hall Without 426 Billy Collins Marginalia 428 Stephen Dunn After Making Love 430 David Bottoms Horseshoes 430 A. E. Stallings A Postcard from Greece 431 Ronald Wallace The Friday Night Fights 432 J. Allyn Rosser Lover Release Agreement 432 John Kinsella Drowning in Wheat 433

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Linda Pastan ' '. The Obligation to Be Happy 434 Rachel Hadas Twelfth Birthday 434 David Ricks Variation on a Theme of Baudelaire 435 Lisa Rosenberg Introduction to Methods of Mathematical Physics 436 Tom Disch Hooray for Hollywood 436 Julie Suk From Ruin 437 Seamus Heaney The Suit 438 Donald Justice The Voice of Col. von Stauffenberg Rising from Purgatory 438 Galway Kinnell Middle Path 439 Robin Morgan Add-Water Instant Blues 440 Leslie Ullman Hotwire 440 Rodney Jones The Obsolescence of Thou 441 Ghana Bloch Visiting Hours Are Over 442 Susan Hahn The Baobab Tree 1996 442 Mary Karr The Patient 443 Brad Leithauser At an Island Farm 444 The Devil's Workshop 444 John Brehm At the Poetry Reading 445 X.J. Kennedy For Allen Ginsberg 446 David Citino The Invention of Secrecy 447 Derek Walcott Becune Point 448 Alan Shapiro Natural Selection 449 Billy Collins Sonnet 450 The Dark Between 451 Rhina P. Espaillat "Find Work" 452 Robley Wilson Old Movies 452 A. E. Stallings Dead Language Lesson 453 Liz Rosenberg The Offspring 454 Grace Schulman Psalm for an Anniversary 455 Robert Bly Driving West in 1970 456 Philip Levine Detroit, Tomorrow 456 C. K. Williams Risk 458 Stanley Plumly Wight 459 Grace Butcher Crow Is Walking 459 Gregory Djanikian Immigrant Picnic 460 Dennis O'Driscoll Tomorrow 462 David Schloss From FIGURES IN THE CARPETS [Kazak] 463 CONTENTS

Yusef Komunyakaa Pride 464 Marilyn Hacker From PARAGRAPHS FROM A DAY-BOOK 464 Kenneth Koch To My Old Poems 465 Fleda Brown Industrial Teflon Comes into Domestic Use 466 Joyce Sutphen The Problem Was 467 Curt Anderson Platonic Love 467 Faye George The Charioteer 468 Mark Turcotte Battlefield 468 Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children 469 Test 470 Wendell Berry Dust 470 DC Berry After Finding a One Hundred Dollar Bill 47i Dick Allen Zen Living 472 Agha Shahid AH Land 472 John Skoyles Academic 473 Wesley McNair What Became 474 Eavan Boland How We Made a New Art on Old Ground 475 Stephen Dobyns [His Life Was the Practice] 476 W S. Merwin To Luck 477 George Scarbrough Han-Shan Fashions a Myth 478 Robert West Two Evangelists 478 Catherine Tufariello In Glass 479 Elisavietta Ritchie How to Write aVillanelle 479 Robert Fink For Micha's Mother, Who Signs 480 Ellen Hinsey Update on the Last Judgment 481 W. S. Merwin Lament for the Makers 482

EDITORS AND PRINCIPAL STAFF, 1912-2002 • 489 CREDITS • 491 INDEX • 499

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