Table of Contents
I knew a woman ; Elegy for Jane (Theodore Roethke) --Rough ; Thoughts during an air raid (Stephen Spender) -- My sisters, o my sisters (May Sarton) -- In our time ; Despisals ; The ballad of orange and grape (Muriel Rukeyser) -- The world is so difficult to give up-- ; This is the solution, to be happy with slaughter-- ; Here I am with mike in hand, shooting down the rapids-- ; I killed a fly-- ; What about dying?-- (David Ignatow) -- Scars ; It is (William Stafford) -- Do not go gentle into that good night ; If I were tickled by the rub of love (Dylan Thomas) --Happiness (John Ciardi) -- The old flame ; Skunk hour ; Epilogue (Robert Lowell) -- Crossing over (William Meredith) -- See it was like this when-- ; Underwear (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) -- The secret of my endurance (Charles Bukowski) -- Thanksgiving (Howard Nemerov) --Sonnet for minimalist (Mona van Duyn) -- Shame ; Apology ; Love calls us to the things of this world (Richard Wilbur) -- American haikus (excerpt) (Jack Kerouac) -- Monet refuses the operation (Lisel Mueller) -- America (Allen Ginsberg) -- Song (John Ashbery) -- After making love we hear footsteps ; Last gods (Galway Kinnell) --