INTRODUCTION A NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION, 2003 ROBERT LOWELL The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Memories of West Street and Lepke Man and Wife Skunk Hour The Mouth of the Hudson For the Union Dead Waking Early Sunday Morning History The Nihilist as Hero Reading Myself Obit Fishnet Dolphin Epilogue ELIZABETH BISHOP The Bight Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance At the Fishhouses The Shampoo Brazil, January 1, 1502 Under the Window: Ouro Prêto The Armadillo Filling Station In the Waiting Room One Art Poem THEODORE ROETHKE Cuttings Root Cellar The Shape of the Fire The Waking I Knew a Woman In a Dark Time JOHN BERRYMAN The Moon and the Night and the Men from The Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46, 76, 77, 143, 257, 384) RANDALL JARRELL 90 North Eighth Air Force The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner The Woman at the Washington Zoo Cinderella Next Day Well Water ROBERT PENN WARREN Masts at Dawn Birth of Love Rattlesnake Country Evening Hawk CHARLES OLSON The Kingfishers J. V. CUNNINGHAM For My Contemporaries To My Wife from ACentury of Epigrams (29, 53, 55, 62, 76) ROBERT HAYDEN Night, Death, Mississippi Frederick Douglass Middle Passage JEAN GARRIGUE Amsterdam Letter Cracked Looking Glass After Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs MAY SWENSON Teleology Unconscious Came a Beauty Stone Gullets Staying at Ed''s Place Strawberrying ROBERT DUNCAN APoem Beginning with a Line by Pindar Styx WILLIAM MEREDITH The Illiterate Thoughts on One''s Head Consequences Country Stars The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi HOWARD NEMEROV Storm Windows Writing Money The Dependencies Learning the Trees Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry The War in the Air RICHARD WILBUR ABaroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra Looking into History Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Mind Advice to a Prophet Walking to Sleep Hamlen Brook MONA VAN DUYN Homework Into Mexico The Twins AView The Stream HOWARD MOSS The Pruned Tree The Wars Ménage à Trois Elegy for My Sister Rules of Sleep Einstein''s Bathrobe JAMES DICKEY The Heaven of Animals The Hospital Window The Sheep Child The Strength of Fields ANTHONY HECHT AHill Third Avenue in Sunlight "More Light! More Light!" Peripeteia The Feast of Stephen JAMES SCHUYLER The Crystal Lithium Shimmer Korean Mums DENISE LEVERTOV Clouds The Ache of Marriage Intrusion Seeing for a Moment Prisoners RICHARD HUGO Graves at Elkhorn The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg The River Now EDGAR BOWERS An Afternoon at the Beach Amor Vincit Omnia from Autumn Shade (3, 6, 8, 9) CAROLYN KIZER AMuse of Water Amusing Our Daughters from Pro Femina (I, II) DONALD JUSTICE The Evening of the Mind Men at Forty The Tourist from Syracuse Variations on a Text by Vallejo The Assassination Mule Team and Poster FRANK O''HARA To the Harbormaster A Step Away from Them Meditations in an Emergency Why I Am Not a Painter The Day Lady Died Having a Coke with You Ave Maria DAVID WAGONER The Best Slow Dancer The Naval Trainees Learn How to Jump Overboard The Excursion of the Speech and Hearing Class Five Dawn Skies in November Making Camp The Source ROBERT CREELEY I Know a Man The Rescue Air: "The Love of a Woman" For Friendship For Love Again The World ALLEN GINSBERG from Howl (I) Sunflower Sutra My Sad Self Wales Visitation W. D. SNODGRASS April Inventory from Heart''s Needle (2, 6) Mementos, 1 ALocked House JAMES MERRILL A Renewal Voices from the Other World Days of 1964 Willowware Cup Lost in Translation W. S. MERWIN The Animals Some Last Questions The River of Bees For the Anniversary of My Death The Asians Dying For a Coming Extinction The Night of the Shirts Bread St Vincent''s A. R.

AMMONS He Held Radical Light Gravelly Run Corsons Inlet Reflective Terrain The City Limits JOHN ASHBERY Glazunoviana Soonest Mended As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat Pyrography And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name Syringa My Erotic Double JAMES WRIGHT At the Executed Murderer''s Grave Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy''s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Beginning ABlessing In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned AWinter Daybreak Above Venice GALWAY KINNELL Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond Last Songs The Bear After Making Love We Hear Footsteps The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak The Vow The Man on the Hotel Room Bed ANNE SEXTON Her Kind Music Swims Back to Me The Truth the Dead Know The Starry Night With Mercy for the Greedy Wanting to Die The Room of My Life PHILIP LEVINE The Horse They Feed They Lion Belle Isle, 1949 You Can Have It Rain Downriver Sweet Will IRVING FELDMAN Family History The Dream from All of Us Here JOHN HOLLANDER The Night Mirror from Powers of Thirteen (3, 29, 69, 82, 87, 130) Swan and Shadow The Mad Potter RICHARD HOWARD Venetian Interior, 1889 At the Monument to Pierre Louÿs ADRIENNE RICH Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law Planetarium The Burning of Paper Instead of Children Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff For the Record For an Album GARY SNYDER Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout Riprap Burning Island The Bath I Went into the Maverick Bar Axe Handles SYLVIA PLATH The Colossus The Hanging Man Morning Song Daddy Fever 103° Ariel Lady Lazarus Edge Words MARK STRAND Keeping Things Whole Coming to This The Prediction <.