Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction [organized chronologically by year of poet''s birth], 1803-1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson
	"Woods, A Prose Sonnet", 1809-1849 Edgar Allan Poe
	"Shadow -- A Parable", 1849-1887 Emma Lazarus
	"The Exodus (August 3, 1492)
	"Amy Lowell, 1874-1925
	"Red Slippers", 1874-194622 Gertrude Stein
	"Objects" from Tender ButtonsWilliam, 1883-1963 Carlos Williams
	Three Improvisations from Kora in, 1886-1961 HellH. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
	"Strophe""Antistrophe""Epode", 1888-1965 T. S. Eliot
	"Hysteria"e. e. cummings, 1894-1962
	"i was sitting in mcsorley''s", 1894-1967 Jean Toomer
	"Calling Jesus", 1897-1975 Thornton Wilder
	"Sentences", 1899-1932 Hart Crane
	"Havana Rose", 1899-1961 Ernest Hemingway
	"Montparnasse", 1901-1993 Ruth Krauss
	"News", 1903-19832 Edwin Denby
	"Aaron", 1907-1973 W. H. Auden
	"Vespers", 1911-19792 Elizabeth Bishop
	"12 O''Clock News", 1911- Czeslaw Milosz
	"Esse""Be Like Others", 1911-1972 Kenneth Patchen
	"In Order To""Delighted with Bluepink"
	"The Famous Boating Party", 1913-1966 Delmore Schwartz
	"Justice", 1914-1997 David Ignatow
	"I sink back upon the ground...""The Story of Progress"Barbara Guest, 1920-
	"Color", 1923-1991 James Schuyler
	"Two Meditations""Wonderful World""Footnote", 1925-2002 Kenneth Koch
	"On Happiness""The Allegory of Spring""The Wish to Be Pregnant, 1926-" Robert Bly
	"The Hockey Poem""Warning to the Reader"
	"A Rusty Tin Can""One Day at a Florida Key", 1926-1997" Allen Ginsberg
	A Supermarket in California", 1926-1995 James Merrill
	Three Poems from "Prose of Departure", 1926-1966 Frank O''hara
	"Meditations in an Emergency""Schoenberg", 1927- John Ashbery
	"Whatever It Is, Wherever You Are""Haibun 6"
	"A Nice Presentation"""Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927- W. S. Merwin
	Disagreeable Glimpses""Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland""Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927- W. S. Merwin
	W. S. Merwin, 1927-."Humble Beginning"
	"The Dachau Shoe""Our Jailer""The Lonely Child"
	"Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927-James Wright, 1927-1980" W. S. Merwin
	On Having My Pocket Picked in Rome""Honey"
	"Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927- W. S. Merwin
	John Hollander, 1929-."The Way We Walk Now"
	"Crocus Solus""Not Something for Nothing"
	"Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927-Harry Mathews, 1930- W. S. Merwin
	Three Entries from 20 Lines a Day.t
	"Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", 1927-Mark Strand, 1934- W. S. Merwin
	"In the Privacy of the Home""Success Story"
	"From a Lost Diary""Chekhov: A Sestina", 1935- Michael Benedikt
	"The Doorway of Perception", 1935- Russell Edson
	"A Performance at Hog Theater""The Pilot"
	"The Taxi""The Rat''s Tight Schedule""The Canoeing Trip"
	"The New Father"Rosmarie Waldrop, 1935-
	Five Poems from The Reproduction of Profiles, 1938- Charles Simic
	Three Poems from The World Doesn''t End"The Magic Study of Happiness"
	"Contributor''s Note"Margaret Atwood, 1939-
	"Women''s Novels""In Love with Raymond Chandler", 1939- Frank Bidart
	"Borges and I", 1940- Fanny Howe
	"Everything''s a Fake""Doubt", 1941- Tom Clark
	"Death, Revenge and the Profit Motive", 1941- Billy Collins
	"Five Fondly Remembered Passages from My Childhood Reading", 1941- Robert Hass
	"A Story About the Body""In the Bahamas""Tall Windows", 1941- Lyn Hejinian
	Three Sections From My Life, 1942-1994 Joe Brainard
	"Freud""History", 1942- Louis Jenkins
	"Football""Appointed Rounds""The Prose Poem", 1942- Ron Padgett
	"Light as Air""Album", 1943- Michael Palmer
	"A word is coming up on the screen...", 1943- James Tate
	"The Second Greatest Story Ever Told""Same Tits"
	"The List of Famous Hats""Distance from Loved Ones""Rapture"
	"Bernie at the Pay Phone", 1944- Paul Violi
	"Triptych""Acknowledgments", 1945- John Godfrey
	"So Let''s Look At It Another Way", 1945- Bernadette Mayer
	"Visions or Desolation", 1945- Alice Notley
	"Untitled", 1945- Ira Sadoff
	"Seurat", 1945- Anne Waldman
	"Stereo", 1945- Terence Winch
	"Shoot the Horse", 1946- B.J. Atwood-Fukuda
	"The Wreck of the Platonic", 1946- andrei Codrescu
	"De Natura Rerum""Secret Training""Power", 1947- Rae Armantrout
	"Bases""Middle Men""Imaginary Places", 1947- Michael Burkard
	"A Conversation About Memory", 1947- Lydia Davis
	"The Thirteenth Woman""In the Garment District""Agreement", 1947- Aaron Fogel
	"The Chessboard Is on Fire", 1947- Yusef Komunyakaa
	"Nude Interrogation""The Hanoi Market"
	"A Summer Night in Hanoi", 1947- Maureen Seaton
	"Toy Car""Lateral Time", 1948- Leslie Scalapino
	"That They Were at the Beach", 1948- Tom Whalen
	"Why I Hate the Prose Poem", 1949-2001 Agha Shahid Ali
	"Return to Harmony 3", 1949- Lynn Emanuel
	"inside gertrude stein", 1949- Kit Robinson
	"The Person", 1950- Charles Bernstein
	"Comraderie turns to rivalry...", 1950- Anne Carson
	"On Waterproofing""On Orchids""On Hedonism"
	"On Shelter", 1950- Carolyn ForchÃ©
	"The Colonel", 1950-2 James Richardson
	"Vectors: Thirty-six Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays", 1950- John Yau
	"Predella""Summer Rental", 1951- Peter Johnson
	"Pretty Happy!""Tex-Mex", 1952- Maxine Chernoff
	"His Pastime""Vanity, Wisconsin""The Inner Life", 1952- Rita Dove
	"1833 Kentucky
	"1952- Carla Harryman
	"Magic (or Rousseau)""Matter", 1952- Mark Jarman
	"Epistle", 1952- Mary Ruefle
	"Monument", 1953- Killarney Clary
	"Because the ones I work for..."
	"Life is boundless...", 1954- Fran Carlen
	"Anna Karenina""Anal Nap", 1954- Thylias Moss
	"An Anointing", 1954- Tyrone Williams
	"Cold Calls", ?- Harryette Mullen
	"Variation on a Theme Park,""The Anthropic Principle"
	"Sleeping with the Dictionary", 1955- Susan Wheeler
	"Invective: You Should Know"April Bernard, 1956-
	"Exegesis", 1956- Amy Gerstler
	"Dear Boy George" Bitter Angel
	"The Bear-Boy of Lithuania", 1956- Dionisio D. Mart Ãnez
	"Avant-DerniÃ¨res PensÃ©es", 1957- Catherine Bowman
	"No Sorry", 1957 - Wang Ping
	"of Flesh and Spirit", 1958- Nin andrews
	"Notes on the Orgasm"
	"Always Have a Joyful Mind", 1960- Michael Friedman
	"Lecture""Death""State", 1961- Stephanie Brown
	"Commencement Address", 1961- Denise Duhamel
	"A Nap on the Afternoon of My 39th Birthday", 1961- Christopher Edgar
	"In C", 1962- Campbell Mcgrath
	"The Prose Poem", 1963- Linh Dinh
	"Fish Eyes""The Most Beautiful Word", 1963- Claudia Rankine
	"Intermission in Four Acts", 1966- Gabriel Gudding
	"A Defense of Poetry", 1966- Joe Wenderoth
	Twelve Epistles from Letters to Wendy'', 1967- sLisa Jarnot
	"Still Life""Ode", 1967- Karen Volkman
	"It Could Be a Bird""When Kiss Spells Contradiction", 1968- Mark Bibbins
	Two Poems from "Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs", 1968- Richard Blanco
	"Mango, Number 61", 1968- Jennifer L. Knox
	"Hot Ass Poem", 1970- Richard Deming
	"Requiem", 1972- Anselm Berrigan
	"The Page Torn Out", 1972- Katherine Lederer
	"According to the Appetites", 1972- andrew Zawacki
	Two Poems from Masquerade, 1973- Jamey Dunham
	"An American Story", 1973- Matthea Harvey
	"The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away"308
	Sarah Manguso, 1974-
	"Nepenthe""What We Miss", 1976-- Jenny Boully
	"He appeared then..."
	Notes on Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Index of Poems
	Index of PoetsCopyright Â© 2003 David Lehman

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