EXTEMPORANEOUS READING - POETRY 2011-2012
The Voice that is Great Within Us, edited by Hayden Carruth
Bantam Books
ISBN 0-553-26263-7
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"Mending Wall" ------------------------------------------------------- by Robert Frost ----------------------------- page 4
"An Old Man’s Winter Night"-------------------------------------- by Robert Frost ----------------------------- page 9
"The Hill Wife" -------------------------------------------------------- by Robert Frost ---------------------------- page 10
"A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears and Some Books"--- by Robert Frost ---------------------------- page12
"Once by the Pacific" ------------------------------------------------ by Robert Frost ---------------------------- page 17
"Acquainted with the Night"--------------------------------------- by Robert Frost ---------------------------- page 18
"The Sins of Kalamazoo" -------------------------------------------- by Carl Sandburg -------------------------- page 23
"No Possum, No Sop, No Taters" --------------------------------- by Wallace Stevens ----------------------- page 38
"Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit" ------------------------ by Wallace Stevens ----------------------- page 39
"The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm" ----------- by Wallace Stevens ----------------------- page 40
"The House" ----------------------------------------------------------- by William Carlos Williams -------------- page 50
"Eurydice" -------------------------------------------------------------- by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) ---------------- page107
"At Ithaca" ------------------------------------------------------------- by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) --------------- page 112
"Preludes"-------------------------------------------------------------- by T. S. Eliot------------------------------- page 128
"Ash-Wednesday" ---------------------------------------------------- by T. S. Eliot------------------------------- page 134
"Here Lies a Lady" ---------------------------------------------------- by John Crowe Ransom ---------------- page 150
"Blue Girls"------------------------------------------------------------- by John Crowe Ransom ---------------- page 150
"In the Dordogne"---------------------------------------------------- by John Peale Bishop ------------------- page 160
"Signature for Tempo" ---------------------------------------------- by Archibald MacLeish ----------------- page 164
"Voyage West" -------------------------------------------------------- by Archibald MacLeish ----------------- page 165
"From Fatal Interview XX" ----------------------------------------- by Edna St. Vincent Millay ------------ page 169
"From Fatal Interview XL" ----------------------------------------- by Edna St. Vincent Millay ------------ page 170
"From Fatal Interview XLVI" --------------------------------------- by Edna St. Vincent Millay ------------ page 170
"The Geraniums" ----------------------------------------------------- by Genevieve Taggard ----------------- page 192
"The Little Girl with Bands on Her Teeth" ---------------------- by Genevieve Taggard ----------------- page 193
"Train Ride" ------------------------------------------------------------ by John Wheelwright ------------------- page 206
"From Voyages I" ----------------------------------------------------- by Hart Crane ---------------------------- page 215
"From Voyages II" ---------------------------------------------------- by Hart Crane ---------------------------- page 216
"O Carib Isle!" --------------------------------------------------------- by Hart Crane ----------------------------- page216
"The Mediterranean"------------------------------------------------ by Allen Tate ----------------------------- page 219
"Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight" ----------------------------- by Yvor Winters-------------------------- page 228
"Time and the Garden" --------------------------------------------- by Yvor Winters-------------------------- page 230
"To the Holy Spirit" -------------------------------------------------- by Yvor Winters-------------------------- page 231
"A Song in Passing" -------------------------------------------------- by Yvor Winters-------------------------- page 232
"The Thief" ------------------------------------------------------------- by Stanley Kunitz ------------------------ page 261
"Fall Comes in Back-Country Vermont" ------------------------- by Robert Penn Warren --------------- page 278
"Journey to the Interior" ------------------------------------------- by Theodore Roethke ------------------ page 297
"The Weepers Tower in Amsterdam" ---------------------------- by Paul Goodman ----------------------- page 334
"Jim Desterland"------------------------------------------------------ by Hyam Plutzik-------------------------- page 347
"Baudelaire" ----------------------------------------------------------- by Delmore Schwartz------------------- page 368
"The Animal That Drank Up Sound"------------------------------ by William Stafford --------------------- page 414
"St. Malachy" ---------------------------------------------------------- by Thomas Merton --------------------- page 417
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"Commander Lowell"------------------------------------------------ by Robert Lowell ------------------------ page 451
"A Part-Sequence for Change" ------------------------------------ by Robert Duncan ----------------------- page 463
"Looking into History" ----------------------------------------------- by Richard Wilbur ----------------------- page 485
"Fence Wire" ---------------------------------------------------------- by James Dickey ------------------------- page 492
"The Driver" ----------------------------------------------------------- by James Dickey ------------------------- page 494
"Spirits, Dancing" ----------------------------------------------------- by Arthur Gregor ------------------------ page 500
"Life at War" ----------------------------------------------------------- by Denise Levertov---------------------- page 515
"My Father in the Night Commanding No" --------------------- by Louis Simpson ------------------------ page 520
"Deer Isle"-------------------------------------------------------------- by Phillip Booth -------------------------- page 534
"To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room" ---------------- by Bob Kaufman ------------------------- page 539
"Looking for Mountain Beavers"---------------------------------- by David Wagoner ---------------------- page 589
"For Robert Frost"---------------------------------------------------- by Galway Kinnell ----------------------- page 600
"The Mountain" ------------------------------------------------------ by W. S. Merwin ------------------------- page 614
"The Last One" -------------------------------------------------------- by W. S. Merwin ------------------------- page 618
"After Dark" ----------------------------------------------------------- by Adrienne Rich ------------------------ page 645
"Autumn Sequence" ------------------------------------------------- by Adrienne Rich ------------------------ page 647