THE ADDISON STREET ANTHOLOGY BERKELEY'S POETRY WALK EDITED BY ROBERT HASS AND JESSICA FISHER
HEYDAY BOOKS BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction I
NORTH SIDE of ADDISON STREET, from SHATTUCK to MILVIA
Untitled, Ohlone song 18 Untitled, Yana song 20 Untitied, anonymous Chinese immigrant 22 Copa de oro (The California Poppy), Ina Coolbrith 24 Triolet, Jack London 26 The Black Vulture, George Sterling 28 Carmel Point, Robinson Jeffers 30 Lovers, Witter Bynner 32 Drinking Alone with the Moon, Li Po, translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu 34 Time Out, Genevieve Taggard 36 Moment, Hildegarde Flanner 38 Andree Rexroth, Kenneth Rexroth 40 Summer, the Sacramento, Muriel Rukeyser 42 Reason, Josephine Miles 44 There Are Many Pathways to the Garden, Philip Lamantia 46 Winter Ploughing, William Everson 48 The Structure of Rime II, Robert Duncan 50 A Textbook of Poetry, 21, Jack Spicer 52 Cups #5, Robin Blaser 54 Pre-Teen Trot, Helen Adam , 56 A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, Allen Ginsberg 58 The Plum Blossom Poem, Gary Snyder 60 Song, Michael McClure 62 Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher, Barbara Guest 64 from Cold Mountain Poems, Han Shan, translated by Gary Snyder 66 Untitled, Larry Eigner 68 from Notebook, Denise Levertov 70 Untitied, Osip Mandelstam, translated by Robert Tracy 72 Dying In, Peter Dale Scott 74 The Night Piece, Thorn Gunn 76 from The Tempest, William Shakespeare 78 Prologue to Epicoene, Ben Jonson 80 from Our Town, Thornton Wilder 82 Epilogue to The Good Woman of Szechwan, Bertolt Brecht, translated by Eric Bentley 84 from For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide I When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozake Shange 86 from Hydriotaphia, Tony Kushner 88 Spring Harvest of Snow Peas, Maxine Hong Kingston 90 Untitled, Sappho, translated by Jim Powell 92 The Child on the Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin 94 Postscript, Seamus Heaney 96 Mendodno Memory, June Jordan 98 Untitled, Lyn Hejinian 100 Song, Robert Hass 102 Encounter, Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Lillian Vallee 104 Keep Me, Malka Heifetz Tussman, translated by Kathryn Hellerstein 106 Reassurance, Alice Walker 108 The Panther, Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell 110 Afternoon WalkThe Sea Ranch, Sandra M. Gilbert 112 TheWant Bone, Robert Pinsky 114 Siv, with Ocean (Pacific), Ron Loewinsohn 116 For Jack Spicer, David Meltzer 118 from It's Go In I Quiet Illumined Grass I Land, Leslie Scalapino 120 Hermetic Song, IV, Michael Palmer 122 Left Eye, Brenda Hillman 124 Positions of the Body.VIII, Carol Snow 126 Judy Comes to Visit, Alta 128 Morning Minyan, Marcia Falk 130 5. Detroit Annie, hitchhiking from The Common Woman, Judy Grahn 132 Cotton in a Pill 8ott/e, Dean Young 134 Three Haiku, Matsuo Basho.Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa, translated by Robert Hass 136 Arrival, Patricia Dienstfrey 138 from Ink, Ron Silliman 140 Reservation, Jean Day 142 The Beautiful House, Laura Moriarty 144 from Property, Carla Harryman 146 Room from How to Improve, Bob Perelman 148 from Real Estate, IV, Barrett Watten 150 from Mind Over Matter, Gloria Frym 152 / Danced with You Once Only Onliest One, Ivan Arguelles 154 Ice Cube, Kit Robinson 156 Morcels: Between the Lines, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 158
SOUTH SIDE of ADDISON STREET, from SHATTUCK to MILVIA
Untitied, Ohlone songs 162 from Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in the New World, Bishop George Berkeley 164 Going East, Ishmael Reed 166 Untitied, Angela de Trejo, translated by Antonio Mantilla Sanchez 168 Untitled, Yosano Akiko, translated by Janine Beichman 170 The Drouth, Charles Keeler 172 The Purple Cow, Gelett Burgess 174 Susie Asado, Gertrude Stein 176 Desert Center, Margaret Erwin Schevill 178 Aftermath (1945), Henriette de S. Blanding 180 In Topaz, Toyo Suyemoto 182 Poem About Myself, George P. Elliott 184 Love Song in Summer's Furnace Heat, James Schevill 186 Height, Rosalie Moore 188 We Are Like These Things, Madeline Gleason 190 Homage to a Tom-Cat, Thomas Parkinson 192 Wind, Clouds, and the Delicate Curve of the World, Louis Simpson 194 The Election, Leonard Nathan 196 Dangerous Games, Carolyn Kizer 198 Home Free, Diana O'Hehir 200 Natural History, Chana Bloch 202 The Unswept, Sharon Olds 204 The Eye Behind the I, Adam David Miller 206 In These Dark Times, Julia Vinograd 208 Baseball and Classicism, Tom Clark 210 A Childhood around 1950, Alan Williamson 212 The Cell from Self-Portraits at the Health Museum, Lucille Lang Day 214 first Light, Jim Powell 216 In the NewWorld, Florence Elon 218 The Skeleton's Defense of Carnality, Jack Foley 220 The World, Alice Jones 222 Because We Need Good Maps, Forrest Hamer 224 Caffe Mediterraneum, John Oliver Simon 226 Who I Am in Twilight, Al Young 228 Holy Body, Susan Griffin 230 Amazing Grace, Edward Smallfield 232 0 Blanca Virgen, ballad from Mexican California 234 My Darling Clementine, Percy Montrose 236 CheckYourself, Lowell Fulson 238 This World, Malvina Reynolds 240 Puff tine Magic Dragon, Lenny Lipton 242 l-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag, Joe McDonald 244 Knowledge, Jesse Michaels and Tim Armstrong, Operation Ivy 246 A Gift, Jack Marshall 248 The Impossible Poem, George Oppen 250 Piano Man, Joyce Jenkins 252 The Audience, Richard Silberg . 254 Fennel, Opal Palmer Adisa 256 Premonition, Lucha Corpi, translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto 258 Corrido Blanco, Alfred Arteaga 260 Untitied, Stephen Ratcliffe 262 One, John Roberts 264 The Box, MarkTurpin 266 Temple of the Mariposa, Elizabeth Robinson 268 Feral Floats the Form in Heaven and of Light, Joshua Clover 270
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