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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02524-0 - American Poetry After Modernism: The Power of the Word Albert Gelpi Index More information Index “3 in 1” (Creeley), 218 Ashbery, John, works of: A Wave, 7 9 ; “ A W a v e , ” “6/21” (Rich), 157 – 159 75 , 76 , 81 , 87 , 88 – 90 ; Flow Chart, 8 5 , 12 from r h y m m s (Grenier), 242 87 , 90 – 94 ; “Th e New Spirit,” 87 ; Th e 16 from r h y m m s (Grenier), 242 Prelude, 8 7 ; “ Th e Recital,” 87 ; Selected Poems, 82 , 88 ; Self-Portrait in a Convex Abstract Expressionism, 75 Mirror, 73 – 74 , 75 , 85 ; “Self-Portrait in a “Achilles’ Song” (Duncan), 196 Convex Mirror,” 74 , 75 – 79 , 81 , 87 , 94 ; Acker, Kathy, 9 “ Th e System,” 76 , 81 – 86 , 87 , 88 ; Th ree Acts of the Apostles, Th e (Strauss), 9 , 202 Poems, 76 , 81 , 86 – 87 ; “Tradition and Adler, Ed, 117 Talent,” 141 “Advent 1966” (Levertov), 188 , 193 Ash-Wednesday (Eliot), 14 “After the Surprising Conversions” “As If” (Creeley), 220 , 222 (Lowell), 19 “At a Bach Concert” (Rich), 140 “Age of Lowell, Th e” (Ehrenpreis), 35 Atherton, Rev. Hope, 250 Ahmad, Aijiz, 163 Atlas of the Diffi cult World, An (Rich), 138 , 154 “Air Without Incense” (Rich), 156 “Atlas of the Diffi cult World, An” (Rich), 154 , Allen, Donald, 224 ; Th e New American 155 , 157 , 159 Poetry, 224 “At the Fishhouses” (Bishop), 69 , 72 Altieri, Charles, 4 , 5 , 84 , 86 , 153 ; Painterly “At the Loom” (Levertov), 185 Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: Auden, W. H., 8 , 15 , 41 , 64 , 139 , 141 , 150 , Th e Contemporaneity of Modernism, 4 271 , 276 “America” (Ginsberg), 108 “August” (Everson), 124 – 125 American poetics, 270 – 278 Augustine, 121 , 182 ; Confessions, 121 American Poetry Wax Museum, Th e “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (Rich), 140 (Rasula), 34 – 35 Auroras of Autumn, Th e (Stevens), 7 Amherst College, 250 Autobiography (Creeley), 212 Andrews, Bruce, 9 , 224 , 225 ; “Code Words,” 225 ; “Autobiography” (Creeley), 212 , 223 Th e L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, 9 , 224 “Autobiography, Memory and Mechanisms of Anglophilia, 270 – 271 Concealment” (Palmer), 232 “Annul in Me My Manhood” (Everson), 133 “Avowal, Th e” (Levertov), 202 “Answering” (Duncan), 177 , 190 “Axel Av á kar” (Rich), 163 – 164 Antoninus, Brother. See Everson, William Axelrod, Steven, 37 Arnold, Matthew, 83 , 271 ; Poems, 8 3 “Arrival in Santos” (Bishop), 61 “Ball Poem, Th e” (Berryman), 42 “Ars Poetica” (MacLeish), 274 Baraka, Amiri, 15 , 208 “Articulation of Sound Forms in Time” Bartlett, Lee, 122 ; William Everson: Th e Life of (S. Howe), 250 , 255 Brother Antoninus, 122 Ashbery, John, 8 , 59 , 63 , 73 – 94 , 95 , 100 , 141 , Baudelaire, Charles, 5 , 48 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 79 , 147 , 153 , 170 , 213 , 225 , 276 ; fl ux, 86 – 90 ; 196 , 275 ; “Correspondances,” 66 ; Les Fleurs translations, 79 – 80 du Mal, 48 , 65 , 66 301 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02524-0 - American Poetry After Modernism: The Power of the Word Albert Gelpi Index More information 302 Index Beat Movement. See Beats Bishop, Elizabeth, works of: “Arrival in Beat poetics, 95 , 98 , 101 Santos,” 61 ; “At the Fishhouses,” 69 , 72 ; Beats, 29 , 95 – 100 , 120 , 123 , 126 , 141 , 167 , “ Th e Bight,” 65 – 67 , 69 , 72 , 74 ; Complete 208 , 236 Poems, 74 ; “Correspondences,” 66 – 67 ; Beauvoir, Simone de, 143 “Crusoe in England,” 63 , 69 ; “Eff orts Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne of Aff ection,” 63 ; “Th e End of March,” Moore and Robert Lowell (Kalstone), 59 63 , 68 – 69 ; “Th e Fish,” 73 ; “Geographical “Belief & Technique for Modern Prose” Mirror,” 69 – 72 ; Geography III, 61 , 63 ; “Th e (Kerouac), 98 Imaginary Iceberg,” 62 ; “In the Waiting Bell, Vereen, 35 ; Robert Lowell: Nihilist As Room,” 63 ; “Th e Map,” 61 – 62 , 72 ; “Th e Hero, 3 5 Moose,” 72 – 73 , 109 ; North and South, Bending the Bow (Duncan), 184 , 192 , 196 59 , 61 , 62 ; “North Haven,” 34 ; “One Art,” “Bending the Bow” (Duncan), 183 – 184 68 , 74 , 160 – 161 ; Questions of Travel, 6 1 ; Bernanos, George, 267 “ Th e Sandpiper,” 69 Bernstein, Charles, 9 , 10 , 208 , 224 , 227 , Blackburn, Paul, 208 229 – 230 , 236 ; “Dysraphism,” 229 – 230 , 245 ; Black Mountain College, 98 , 126 , 166 – 167 Th e L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, 9 , 224 Black Mountain Review, 9 8 Berrigan, Fr. Daniel, 149 , 199 Black Mountain school, 166 , 167 , 168 , 203 – 204 , Berrigan, Ted, 208 205 , 208 Berry, Wendell, 15 Blackmur, R. P., 18 Berryman, John, 8 , 15 , 16 , 18 , 24 , 29 , 30 , 35 , Black Sparrow Press, 120 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 – 58 , 60 , 69 , 80 , 81 , 148 , 208 , Blackwood, Lady Caroline, 33 , 37 276 , 277 ; Alcoholics Anonymous, 57 ; Blake, William, 2 , 101 , 103 , 104 , 107 , 108 , 269 alcoholism, 50 , 55 , 57 ; Catholicism, Blast, 224 40 – 41 , 55 – 56 , 57 , 58 ; health, 50 , 53 , 56 – 57 ; Blavatsky, Mme., 181 suicide, 56 – 57 ; theodicy, 41 , 51 – 53 “Blue Ghazals, Th e” (Rich), 163 Berryman, John, works of: “A Prayer After Bollingen Prize, 40 All,” 56 ; “A Prayer for the Self,” 55 ; “Th e Book of Blues, Th e (Kerouac), 119 Ball Poem,” 42 ; Berryman’s Sonnets, 4 4 ; “Book of the Yellow Castle, Th e” (Palmer), 232 “Defensio in Extremis,” 54 ; Delusions, Boston Arts Festival, 30 – 31 Etc., 40 , 54 , 55 ; “Despondency and Bracewell Hall (Irving), 270 Madness,” 30 ; “Th e Disciple,” 42 ; Th e Bradstreet, Anne, 270 , 271 , 272 ; Th e Tenth Muse, Dream Songs, 40 , 41 , 42 , 44 , 47 – 53 , 56 , lately Sprung up in America, 271 148 , 233 , 276 ; “Ecce Homo,” 56 ; “Eleven Bridge, Th e (Crane), 14 , 87 , 92 , 133 Addresses to the Lord,” 54 , 55 ; “Th e Facts Bridges, Robert, 54 & Issues,” 57 ; “Fare Well,” 42 ; Henry’s Fate “Bring It Up from the Dark” (Duncan), 196 & Other Poems, 40 , 55 ; Homage to Mistress Brinnin, John Malcolm, 68 , 69 Broadstreet, 40 , 41 , 43 , 44 – 47 , 48 , 50 ; “King Brown, Dennis, 87 David Dances,” 57 – 58 ; “Lauds,” 55 ; Love & Browning, Robert, 251 ; “Childe Roland to the Fame, 40 , 53 – 54 ; “Opus Dei,” 55 ; “Overseas Dark Tower Came,” 251 Prayer,” 55 ; “Th e Statue,” 42 ; “Winter Bryant, William Cullen, 270 Landscape,” 42 Buber, Martin, 260 Berryman’s Sonnets (Berryman), 44 Buddhism, 97 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 107 , 109 , 110 – 111 , “Between the Porch and the Altar” (Lowell), 19 114 – 116 , 117 “Beyond the Alps” (Lowell), 28 , 29 , 38 , 39 Bundtzen, Lynda, 150 Bible, 213 , 256 Bunyan, John, 213 “Bight, Th e” (Bishop), 65 – 67 , 69 , 72 , 74 “Burning Babe, Th e” (Southwell), 193 Big Sur (Kerouac), 106 , 117 – 118 “Burning of Paper Instead of Children, Th e” Billy Budd (Melville), 250 (Rich), 149 – 150 , 164 Birth-Mark, Th e: Unsettling the Wilderness in Burroughs, William, 95 , 96 , 98 American Literary History (S. Howe), 250 Bishop, Elizabeth, 8 , 20 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 34 , 36 , Cage, John, 75 38 , 55 , 59 – 73 , 74 , 75 , 81 , 85 , 109 , 160 – “Calendar, A” (Creeley), 221 161 , 276 ; alcoholism, 60 ; depression, 60 ; “Calle Visi ó n” (Rich), 154 , 159 , 160 relationships, 60 ; sexuality, 60 Calvinism, 5 , 16 , 31 , 118 , 123 , 195 , 212 , 252 , 256 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02524-0 - American Poetry After Modernism: The Power of the Word Albert Gelpi Index More information Index 303 Campbell, Bruce, 249 Collins, Jess, 171 , 174 , 181 , 185 , 195 ; “Enamourd Campo, Allan, 120 Mage,” 181 , 185 ; “If All the World Were Candles in Babylon (Levertov), 200 Paper and All the Water Sink,” 174 “Canticle for the Waterbirds, A” (Everson), Collins, Judy, 191 130 – 131 “Colloquy in Black Rock” (Lowell), “Canticle to the Christ in the Holy Eucharist, 22 – 24 , 36 , 40 A” (Everson), 134 – 135 “Colonel Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th” “Canto 30” (Pound), 6 (Lowell), 30 – 31 “Canto 81” (Pound), 5 Columbia College, 53 “Canto 116” (Pound), 5 – 6 Columbia University, 95 , 98 Cantos, Th e (Pound), 5 – 6 , 14 , 44 , 47 , 53 , 87 , 92 , Communism, 96 184 , 196 , 226 – 227 , 234 , 240 , 243 , 274 Company of Moths (Palmer), 232 Capote Truman, 102 Complete Poems (Bishop), 74 Carlyle, Th omas, 212 “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Carpenter, David, 120 Existence” (Rich), 152 Carr, Lucien, 95 “Conclusion” (Pater), 83 Cassady, Carolyn, 115 “Concord” (Lowell), 19 Cassady, Neal, 95 – 96 , 98 , 99 , 112 , 115 , 118 Confessions (Augustine), 121 Catholic Art and Culture (Watkin), 26 Confi dence Man, Th e: His Masquerade Catholicism, 5 , 6 , 15 , 17 – 18 , 19 – 29 , 40 – 41 , 55 – 56 , (Melville), 12 57 , 58 , 59 , 111 , 115 , 116 – 117 , 118 , 120 , 121 , Conjunctions, 8 0 122 – 123 , 126 , 127 – 137 , 257 – 258 , 259 – 261 , Conrad, Alfred, 141 , 144 , 145 , 149 , 151 262 , 264 , 267 , 268 Constable, John, 270 Catholic mysticism, 20 , 97 Contemporary American Poetry: Voice of America Catholic mystics, 120 , 257 Forum Lectures (Nemerov), 178 “Caves” (Creeley), 221 , 222 “Contemporary Logos, Th e” (F. Howe), C é zanne, Paul, 101 257 , 263 Change of World, A (Rich), 138 , 139 , 140 , 141 , 143 , “Contradictions: Tracking Poems” (Rich), 150 , 159 , 162 159 – 160 “Change of World, A” (Rich), 139 Cooper, James Fenimore, 270 , 271 “Charles the Fifth and the Peasant” (Lowell), 19 Corman, Cid, 168 Charters, Ann, 113 “Correspondances” (Baudelaire), 66 “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” “Correspondences” (Bishop), 66 – 67 (Browning), 251 Corso, Gregory, 95 , 96 “Child in Old Age, A” (F. Howe), 267 Crane, Hart, 13 , 14 , 92 , 97 , 100 , 123 , 133 , 208 ; Christ and Apollo (Lynch), 122 Th e Bridge, 14 , 87 , 92 , 133 ; “Th e River,” 133 ; Christianity, 100 , 101 , 118 , 126 , 127 , 156 , 182 , 183 , “Voyages,” 14 275 , 276 .
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