CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BY CARMELA CIURARU
Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672): "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied Out of a Loose Paper"
Philip Freneau (1752-1832): "The Indian Burying Ground"
Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784): "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c."
"To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North Carolina"
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865): "The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers"
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): Excerpt, "The Prairies"
George Moses Horton (c.1797-c.1883): "On Liberty and Slavery"
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880): "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day"
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): "Concord Hymn"
"Boston Hymn"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882): "Paul Revere's Ride"
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892): "Barbara Frietchie"
Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895): "America"
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): "Old Ironsides"
Jones Very (1813-1880): "The First Atlantic Telegraph"
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): "Our Country"
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): "An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876"
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910): "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Walt Whitman (1819-1892): "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"City of Orgies"
"A Promise to California"
"I Hear America Singing"
Herman Melville (1819-1891): "Ball's Bluff"
James Monroe Whitfield (1822-1871): "America"
Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911): "The Slave Mother"
"Learning to Read"
Henry Timrod (1828-1867): "Ode Sung at Magnolia Cemetery"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): #389 [There's been a Death, in the Opposite House,"]
#617 ["Don't put up my Thread and Needle -"]
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909): "At Home from Church"
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887): "Long Island Sound"
"The New Colossus"
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916): Excerpt, "The Old Swimmin'-Hole"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): "The Anti-Suffragists"
Frank Bird Linderman (1869-1938): "Cabins"
Stephen Crane (1871-1900): "War Is Kind"
Amy Lowell (1874-1925): "Thompson's Lunch Room -- Grand Central Station"
Arthur Chapman (1874-1935): "The Dude Ranch"
Robert Frost (1874-1963): "After Apple-Picking"
Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935): "I Sit and Sew"
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967): "Work Gangs"
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931): "The Flower-Fed Buffaloes"
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): "Fabliau of Florida"
"Anecdote of the Jar"
Badger Clark Jr. (1883-1957): "The Legend of Boastful Bill"
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963): "The Forgotten City"
Marianne Moore (1887-1972): "Old Amusement Park"
"Love in America -- "
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): "The Boston Evening Transcript"
Claude McKay (1890-1948): "Dawn in New York"
John Peale Bishop (1892-1944): "O Pioneers!"
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950): "From a Train Window"
Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948): "American Farm, 1934"
H. L. Davis (1894-1960): "Proud Riders"
e. e. cummings (1894-1962): "'next to of course god america i"
"THANKSGIVING (1956)"
Hart Crane (1899-1932): "To Brooklyn Bridge"
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): "I Like Americans"
Yvor Winters (1900-1968): "In Praise of California Wines"
Langston Hughes (1902-1967): "We're All in the Telephone Book"
Helene Johnson (1907-1995): "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"
George Oppen (1908-1984): "Product"
"California"
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979): "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"
"Florida"
Josephine Miles (1911-1985): "Tract"
"The Campaign"
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980): Excerpt, "The Outer Banks"
"Despisals"
John Berryman (1914-1972): "American Lights, Seen from off Abroad"
Margaret Walker (1915-1998): "Southern Song"
Robert Lowell (1917-1977): "The Mouth of the Hudson"
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000): "We Real Cool"
May Swenson (1919-1989): "Bronco Busting, Event #1"
"Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-): "The Changing Light"
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994): "vegas"
Hayden Carruth (1921-): "In Georgetown"
Marie Ponsot (1921-): "Pleasant Avenue"
Richard Wilbur (1921-): "Wellfleet: The House"
James Schuyler (1923-1991): "April and Its Forsythia"
Bob Kaufman (1925-1986): "Bagel Shop Jazz"
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966): "Music"
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997): "America"
A. R. Ammons (1926-2001): "First Carolina Said-Song"
Robert Bly (1926-): "Sleet Storm on the Merritt Parkway"
Anne Sexton (1928-1974): "And One for My Dame"
Donald Hall (1928-): "Transcontinent"
"Tomorrow"
Philip Levine (1928-): "Belle Isle, 1949"
Adrienne Rich (1929-): "Prospective Immigrants Please Note"
Excerpt, "From an Old House in America"
Gary Snyder (1930-): "All over the Dry Grasses"
Audre Lorde (1934-1992): "Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem"
Sonia Sanchez (1935-): "Listenen to Big Black at S.F. State"
Charles Wright (1935-): "American Twilight"
Lucille Clifton (1936-): "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989"
Ishmael Reed (1938-): "black power poem"
Michael Dennis Browne (1940-): "Iowa"
William Matthews (1942-1997): "Why We Are Truly a Nation"
Nikki Giovanni (1943-): "Knoxville, Tennessee"
"My Poem"
Wanda Coleman (1946-): "Today I Am a Homicide in the North of the City"
Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946-): "Walking Back Up Depot Street"
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995): "At the Public Market Museum: Charleston, South Carolina"
"The Way Things Are in Franklin"
Reginald Gibbons (1947-): "American Trains"
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-): "Facing It"
Heather McHugh (1948-): "Language Lesson 1976"
Julia Alvarez (1950-): "Queens, 1963"
Sapphire (1950-): "California Dreamin'"
John Yau (1950-): "The Dream Life of a Coffin Factory in Lynn, Massachusetts"
Robin Becker (1951-): "Community Garden, Sixth Street and Avenue B"
Rita Dove (1952-): "Crab-Boil"
"Silos"
Ray Gonzalez (1952-): "I Hear the Bells of the Ice-Cream Vendor Outside My Door"
Mark Doty (1953-): "Adonis Theater"
Dave Alvin (1955-): "Spiderman Versus the Kachinas"
Kimiko Hahn (1955-): "The Hula Skirt, 1959"
Barbara Kingsolver (1955-): "What the Janitor Heard in the Elevator"
David Woo (1959-): "Eden"
Elizabeth Alexander (1962-): "Boston Year"
Campbell McGrath (1962-): "Capitalist Poem #5"
Sherman Alexie (1966-): "At the Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School"