Title: Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms
Abstract: Introduction by P. Dacey and D. Jauss. Poems: Blue Animals, J. Anderson. Some Trees, Pantoum, Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape, J. Ashbery. Ice River, D. Baker. From Escape Into You, Obsessive, M. Bell. True Story of Snow White, B. Bennett. From Dream Songs, 29 (There sat down, once), He Resigns, Poet's Final Instructions, J. Berryman. Is It Well-Lighted, Papa? J. Bertram. Sestina, Armadillo, One Art, E. Bishop. Ballade of the Back Road, R. Block. First Lesson, P. Booth. Song of the Darkness, J. Bricuth. Lying on a Bridge, Sea Birds, V. K. Block. We Real Cool, Rites for Cousin Vit, G. Brooks. Wife of Winter's Tale, M. D. Browne. Havanna Blues, H. Carlile. Loneliness: An Outburst of Hexasyllables, from Asylum, II (Winds words of the wind:). Late Sonnet, H. Carruth. Links, T. Cassity. Rimbaud Fire Letter to Jim Applewhite. My Grandfather's Church Goes Up, F. Chappell. A Scientific Expedition in Siberia, 1913, K. Cherry. At My Father's Grave, J. Ciardi. Kingfisher, A. Clampitt. Story We Know, M. Collins. Naked Poetry, P. Cooley. Faithful, ln the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman, P. Cooley. Tortoise, C. Corman. Remembering Mykinai, A. Corn. Body Fished from the Seine, G. Corso. Oh No, A Wicker Basket, If You, Ballad of the Despairing Husband, R. Creeley. Aged Lover Discourses in the Flat Style, for My Contemporaries. Epitaph for Someone or Other, J. V. Cunningham. Jack. Afterwards, Jill, Afterwards, P. Dacey. Lost Moments, Burial, Rondel G. Davis. Compound Eye, P. Davison. On the Hill Below the Lighthouse, Island, Breath, Dickey. Rapist's Villanelle, T. M. Disch. Elegy for a Puritan Conscience, Poem, A. Dugan. Tangier, S. Dunn. Homer Mitchell Place, J. Engels. L'Art, F. Feirstein. Tiresias, G. Garrett. Meeting My Best Friend from the Eighth Grade, from Letters from Vicksburg, XII (Dear wife and bosom friend), G. Gildner. Father Death Blues, A. Ginsberg. Bridal Piece, Racer's Widow, Phenomenal Survivals of Death in Nantucket, L. Gluck. Wise Owl, P. Goedicke. Joe Gillon Hypnotizes His Son, Psychonaut Sonnets: Jones, A. Goldbarth. Faithful Wife, B. L. Greenberg. Villanelle, Canzone, Sonnet Ending with a Film Subtitle, Rondeau After a Transatlantic Telephone Call, M. Hacker. My Son, My Executioner, Long River, D. Hall. John Clare, M. Halperin. Man in the Recreation Room, E. Harkness. Double Mock Sonnet, A Little Song, C. O. Hartman. Why That's Bob Hope, W. Hathaway. Ballad of Nat Turner, R. Hayden. End of the Week-end, Light! More Light!Double Sonnet, A. Hecht. Daffodils, A Colloquy of Silences, M. Hefferman. I Remember the Room was Filled with Light, J. Hemschemeyer. Arrows, Riddle, W. Heyen. At Kresge's Diner in Stonefalls, Arkansas, E. Hirsch. In the Days of Rin-Tin-Tin, D. Hoffman. From Sonnets for Roseblush, 18 (Why Drink, Why Touch You Now?), J. Hollander. Lament for Turlough O'Carolan, D. B. Hopes. Diver, B. Howard. Personal Values, R. Howard. A Rune for C., Early Supper, Death of a Vermont Farm Woman, B. Howes. Although I Remember the Sound, R. Huff. Way a Ghost Dissolves, Church on Comiaken Hill, Freaks at Spurgin Road Field, R. Hugo. Rural Carrier Stops to Kill a Nine-Foot Cottonmouth, T. R. Hummer. Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh, XXI Dynasty, Snakebite, T. James. Eighth Air Force, A Camp in the Prussian Forest, R. Jarrell. This Fall, D. Jauss. Eve: Night Thoughts, J. Jerome. Passengers, Sway, D. Johnson. Sunflower Sonnet Number One, Sunflower Sonnet Number Two, J. Jordan. First Death, Sestina: Here in Katmandu, Women in Love, Thin Man, In Attic, D. Justice. Elegy for My Mother, R. Katrovas. American Falls, G. Keeler. For My Daughter, from Five Villanelles, 1 (The Crack is Moving Down the Wall), W. Kees. Nude Descending a Staircase, Rondel, Nothing in Functions as It Ought, X. J. Kennedy. For William Carlos Williams, To Christ Our Lord, Fundamental Project of Technology, G. Kinnell. Ellie Mae Leaves in a Hurry. E. Bottle, P. Klappert. Haiku. Anniversary, Wild Pigs, Beer Bottle, T. Kooser. Sestina, J. Kroll. Morning Swim, January 25th, M. Kumin. Three Floors, An Old Cracked Tune, S. Kunitz. By the Beautiful Ohio, J. Labombard. Conversations from Childhood: Victrola, J. Langland. Issues of the Fall, There Should Have Been, Floating Candles: For My Brother Mahlon (1944-1980), S. Lea. Beside My Grandmother, A. Lee. Emily Dickinson's Sestina for Molly Bloom, B. Lefcowitz. Towards the Vanishing Point, D. Lehman. A Quilled Quilt, a Needle Bed, B. Leithauser. Bedtime, Obsessions, D. Levertov. Animals Are Passing from Our Lives, Night Thoughts Over a Sick For Fran, P. Levine. Shore Scene, To a Young Poet Who Fled, J. Logan. Tatiana Kalatschova, W. Logan. Mr. Edwards and the Spider, ln the Cage, Water, R. Lowell. All the Slaves, T. Lux. Sharks at the New York Aquarium, Signs, C. Martin. A Blessing, M. McBride. End of the World, T. McGrath. Lament, with Flesh and Blood, Triolet, S. McPherson. Atomic Pantoum, P. Meinke. Effort at Speech, W. Meredith. A Renewal, Mirror, Swimming by Night, J. Merrill. Drunk in the Furnace, Grandfather in the Old Men's Home River Sound Reme mbered, W. S. Merwin. My Mother, R. Meezy. Time Or, How the Line About Chagall's Lovers Disappears, J. Miller. Without Ceremony, V. Miller. Horse Chestnut, Love Poem, Magician, G. Miranda. Now or Never, Mezzo Cammin, Twinings Orange Pekoe, J. Moffett. Comparatives, N. S. Momaday. Friends, R. Moore. Chant Royal, R. Morgan. Finding Them Lost, To the Islands, H. Moss. Prayer, S. Moss. A Primer of the Daily Round, Goose Fish, Brainstorm, H. Nemerov. Love and Death, J. F. Nims. To the Poem, Poem, You are Gorgeous and I'm Coming, Aubade, F. O'Hara. A Manifesto for the Faint-Hearted, C. Otes. Boat, Cleaning the Fish, R. Pack. Just About Asleep Together, M. Peacock. Rowing Early, In Front of a Japanese Photograph, J. Peck. Memorial, Icicles, R. Pinsky. Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows, Medallion, Stones, Black Rook in Rainy Weather, S. Plath. Tree Ferns, S. Plumly. Ballet Blanc, Of the Scythians, K. Pollitt. Southern Road, D. Randall. Throwing the Racetrack Cats at Saratoga, D. Ray. Belfast, ln Lombardy, D. Revell. At a Bach Concert, Insusceptibles, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, A. Rich. Another Easter, J. Ridland. Nani, A. Rios. Waking, My Papa's Waltz, I Knew a Woman, Dinky, T. Roethke. A Natural History of Dragons and Unicorns My Daughter and I Have Known, KRAA, W. P. Root. Campfire extinguished, R. Roseliep. To the Swallows of Viterbo, Watching You Sleep Under Monet's Water-Lilies, G. Ruark. On the Death of Her Mother, Rune, M. Rukeyser. Consider a Move, Where I'll Be Good, M. Ryan. Breakdown, S. Santos. Dutch Interior, M. Sarton. Gap in the Cedar, R. Scheele. How Did It Seem to Sylvia?, Paperweight, Darwin in 1881, G. Schnackenberg. Moss of His Skin, Abortion, A. Sexton. First Time, K. Shapiro. Spoilers and the Spoils, Ballade of the Grindstones, J. J. Sherwin. My Father in the Night Commanding No, Man Who Married Magdalene, Boarder, To the Western World, L. Simpson. December 27, 1966, L. E. Sissman. Imagine Grass, K. Skinner. My Daughter Considers Her Body, F. Skloot. In Memory of W. H. Auden, Another Letter to Lord Byron, D. R. Slavitt. Old Whore Speaks to a Young Poet, Chopping Wood, Ancestor, Collector of the Sun, D. Smith. Song, from Heart's Needle, 10 (The Vicious Winter Finally Yields), A Visitation, A Flat One, W. D. Snodgrass. From Hitch Haiku, They didn't Hire Him. Riverside Line, October, G. Snyder. Acadian Lane, D. St. John. Traveling Through the Dark, Swerve, Friend Who Never Came, Glances, Winterward, W. Stafford. Childhood, Good People, M. Stanton. Double Semi-Sestina, G. Starbuck. Sapphics Against Anger, T. Steele. Valley Blood, B. Sternlieb. Punk Pantoum, P. Stewart. East Texas, Lover Remembereth Such as He Sometimes Enjoyed and Showeth How He Would Like to Enjoy Her Again, To His Book, L. Stokesbury. Sleeping with One Eye Open, M. Strand. Practice, Discovering My Daughter, D. Stuart. Swedish Lesson, Shoe Shop, B. Sutter. Question, M. Swenson. Line-Up, J. Swift. Book of Lies, Miss Cho Composes in the Cafeteria, J. Tate. From Bordello, Simon Judson, Rick de Travaille, Wind Carol, L. Turco. Ex-Basketball Player, J. Updike. Causes, Ballad of Blossom, Economics, M. Van Doyn. The Wife Takes a Child, Tropics, E. B. Voight. Shooting of John Dillinger Outside the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934, Staying Alive, Canticle for Xmas Eve, D. Wagoner. Sestina to the Common Glass of Beer: I Do Not Drink Beer, D. Wakoski. Grandmother Grace, R. Wallace. Blackbird Sestina, C. Warne. Original Sin: A Short Story, What Voice at Moth-Hour, R. P. Warren. Visionary Oklahoma Sunday Beer, Flood Viewed by the Tourist from Iowa, J. Whitehead. Junk, Piazza di Spagna, Early Morning, A Late Aubade, Year's End, R. Wilbur. Why God Permits Evil: For Answers to This Question of Interest to Many Write Bible Answers Dept. E7, Rubaiyat for Sue Ella Tucker, For Victor Jara, M. Williams. Dream, First Photos of Flu Virus, H. Witt. Floating Houses, D. Wojahn. Heaven In Ordinarie, D. Wolff. Private, B. Wormser. Daughters of Blum, C. Wright. Speak, A Song for the Middle of the Night, Saint Judas, With the Shell of a Hermit Crab, Your Name in Arezzo, J. Wright. Young, Lester Leaps In, A. Young. Still, L. Zeidner. A Zimmershire Lad, P. Zimmer. Appendix A: Meter and Scansion. Appendix B: Definition of Forms and Classification of Poems (Listed by Form). Appendix C: Classification of Poems (Listed by Author). Appendix D: Selected Bibliography of Books and Articles about Traditional Forms and Prosody.
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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