Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Fifteen American Poems

John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
W.H. Auden, Epitaph on a Tyrant (Collected Poems)
Frank Bidart, Ellen West (Collected Poems)
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish (Collected Poems)
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man (Collected Poems)
Louise Gluck, The Drowned Children (The First Four)
Andrew Hudgins, Praying Drunk (The Never-Ending)
Mark Jarman, Questions for Ecclesiastes
Rodney Jones, Elegy for the Southern Drawl
Marianne Moore, The Fish (Collected Poems)
Sharon Olds, The Glass (The Father)
Molly Peacock, Why I Am Not a Buddhist (Collected Poems)
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream (Collected Poems)
Joe Wenderoth, Letters to Wendy's

James Wright, At the Executed Murderer's Grave