The Morrow anthology of younger American poets / edited by Dave Smith & David Bottoms.

A fine, a private place / Diane Ackerman
Space shuttle / Diane Ackerman
Spiders / Diane Ackerman
In the silks / Diane Ackerman
Patrick Ewing takes a foul shot / Diane Ackerman
Twenty-year marriage / Ai
29 (a dream in two parts / Ai
She didn't even wave / Ai
Guadalajara hospital / Ai
Almost grown / Ai
Immortality / Ai
Witness / Jon Anderson
Rosebud / Jon Anderson
American ladscape with clouds & a zoo / Jon Anderson
Homage to Robert Bresson / Jon Anderson
Falling in love / Jon Anderson
The secret of poetry / Jon Anderson
Refusals / Jon Anderson
The milky way / Jon Anderson
Caves / David Baker
Running the river lines / David Baker
The wrecker driver forsees your death / David Baker
8-ball at the Twilite / David Baker
Father Fisheye / Peter Balakian
Jersey bait shack / Peter Balakian
Homage to Hart Crane / Peter Balakian
In the Turkish ward / Peter Balakian
Mowing the lawn / John Bensko
Mail call / John Bensko
A veteran of the Great War / John Bensko
The night-blooming cactus / John Bensko
A life / Chana Bloch
Goodbye / Chana Bloch
Deer in the bush / Chana Bloch
The death of the Bronx / Chana Bloch
Mushroom hunting in late August, Peterborough, N.H. / Michael Blumenthal
Squid / Michael Blumenthal
Today I am envying the glorious Mexicans / Michael Blumenthal
In Assisi / Michael Blumenthal
Under the boathouse / David Bottoms
Sign for my father, who stressed the bunt / David Bottoms
The copperhead / David Bottoms
Wrestling angels / David Bottoms
In a U-Haul north of Damascus / David Bottoms
The desk / David Bottoms
Hollandaise / Sharon Bryan
Big sheep knocks you about / Sharon Bryan
Corner lot / Sharon Bryan
Lunch with Girl Scouts / Sharon Bryan
John Garfield / Nicholas Christopher
Walt Whitman at the reburial of Poe / Nicholas Christopher
The track / Nicholas Christopher
The driver in Italy / Nicholas Christopher
The other / Peter Cooley
Such comfort as the night can bring to us / Peter Cooley
To a wasp caught in the storm sash at the advent of the winter solstice / Peter Cooley
Frog hunting / Peter Cooley
The documentary on Brazil / Alfred Corn
Fire: the people / Alfred Corn
Moving: New York-New Haven line / Alfred Corn
Grass / Alfred Corn
Darkening hotel room / Alfred Corn
Nobody lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard / Gerald Costanzo
Introduction of the shopping cart / Gerald Costanzo
Jeane Dixon's America / Gerald Costanzo
The meeting / Gerald Costanzo
Lines to a friend in trouble / W.S. Di Piero
Second horn / W.S. Di Piero
Four brothers / W.S. Di Piero
Fat Tuesday / W.S. Di Piero
The window / Stephen Dobyns
Getting up / Stephen Dobyns
The white skirt / Stephen Dobyns
The triangular field / Stephen Dobyns
Dream / Stephen Dobyns
Girl in white / Stephen Dobyns
Japanese girl with red table / Stephen Dobyns
Dusting / Rita Dove
O / Rita Dove
Champagne / Rita Dove
Planning the perfect evening / Rita Dove
The funeral / Norman Dubie
Comes winter, the sea hunting / Norman Dubie
The circus ringmaster's apology to God / Norman Dubie
Parish / Norman Dubie
At midsummer / Norman Dubie
Elegy to the Sioux / Norman Dubie
The fox who watched for the midnight sun / Norman Dubie
Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear / Norman Dubie
The orchard / Gretel Ehrlich
Cutting wood on Shell Creek / Gretel Ehrlich
A sheeprancher named John / Gretel Ehrlich
A way of speaking / Gretel Ehrlich
Berlin interior with Jews / Lynn Emanuel
Frying trout while drunk / Lynn Emanuel
Of your father's indiscretions and the train to California / Lynn Emanuel
The sleeping / Lynn Emanuel
Miami / Daniel Mark Epstein
Mannequins / Daniel Mark Epstein
The follies / Daniel Mark Epstein
At the millinery shop / Daniel Mark Epstein
Cash only, no refund, no return / Daniel Mark Epstein
Some pieces / Calvin Forbes
The chocolate soldiers / Calvin Forbes
The other side of this world / Calvin Forbes
M.A.P. / Calvin Forbes
For the stranger / Carolyn Forche
The memory of Elena / Carolyn Forche
Because one is always forgotten / Carolyn Forche
Selective service / Carolyn Forche
Reunion / Carolyn Forche
City walk-up, winter 1969 / Carolyn Forche
Women's tug of war at Lough Arrow / Tess Gallagher
Under stars / Tess Gallagher
Black silk / Tess Gallagher
The shirts / Tess Gallagher
Crepes flambeau / Tess Gallagher
Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher
Skylights / Tess Gallagher
Some painful butterflies pass through / Tess Gallagher
The ruined motel / Reginald Gibbons
Luckies / Reginald Gibbons
The Cedar River / Reginald Gibbons
Breath / Reginald Gibbons
Make me hear you / Reginald Gibbons
Eating / Reginald Gibbons
Catechism elegy / Margaret Gibson
Gemini elegy / Margaret Gibson
To speak of Chile / Margaret Gibson
Burning the root / Margaret Gibson
Long walks in the afternoon / Margaret Gibson
Saturday morning at the laundry / Christopher Gilbert
Now / Christopher Gilbert
Charge / Christopher Gilbert
Touching / Christopher Gilbert
Happiness / Louise Gluck
Palais des Arts / Louise Gluck
Lamentations / Louise Gluck
The mirror / Louise Gluck
Night song / Louise Gluck
Brooding likeness / Louise Gluck
Horse / Louise Gluck
Mock orange / Louise Gluck
A history of civilization / Albert Goldbarth
A film / Albert Goldbarth
A theory of wind / Albert Goldbarth
A history of photography / Albert Goldbarth
Before / Albert Goldbarth
All-nite donuts / Albert Goldbarth
Wanting a child / Jorie Graham
Reading Plato / Jorie Graham
Kimono / Jorie Graham
Salmon / Jorie Graham
My garden, my daylight / Jorie Graham
Erosion / Jorie Graham
The armorer's daughter / Debora Greger
The light passages / Debora Greger
The man on the bed / Debora Greger
Patches of sky / Debora Greger
Goethe's death mask / Linda Gregg
The small lizard / Linda Gregg
Whole and without blessing / Linda Gregg
Summer in a small town / Linda Gregg
The hang-glider's daughter / Marilyn Hacker
Elektra on Third Avenue / Marilyn Hacker
Sonnet ending with a film subtitle / Marilyn Hacker
Lines declining a transatlantic dinner invitation / Marilyn Hacker
The dance / Daniel Halpern
How to eat alone / Daniel Halpern
Snapshot of Hue / Daniel Halpern
Nude / Daniel Halpern
Portoncini dei Morti / Daniel Halpern
Epithalamium / Daniel Halpern
The summer rentals / Daniel Halpern
Return, starting out / Daniel Halpern
Weed / Robert Hass
Meditation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass
Old Dominion / Robert Hass
Child naming flowers / Robert Hass
Late spring / Robert Hass
Rusia en 1931 / Robert Hass
Spring drawing II / Robert Hass
Dark in the reich of the blond / William Heyen
Mantle / William Heyen
Fires / William Heyen
The berries / William Heyen
The elm's home / William Heyen
Auction / William Heyen
The snapper / William Heyen
This night / William Heyen
For the sleepwalkers / Edward Hirsch
Dawn walk / Edward Hirsch
Dino Campana and the bear / Edward Hirsch
In the middle of August / Edward Hirsch
Poor angels / Edward Hirsch
A poem for Ed 'Whitey' Ford / Jonathan Holden
Losers / Jonathan Holden
Liberace / Jonathan Holden
Why we bombed Haiphong / Jonathan Holden
The swimming pool / Jonathan Holden
Yellow light / Garrett Kaoru Hongo
What for / Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Off from swing shift / Garrett Kaoru Hongo
The Hongo store 29 Miles Volcano Hilo, Hawaii / Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Where you go when she sleeps / T.R. Hummer
What shines in the winter burns / T.R. Hummer
The beating / T.R. Hummer
Cruelty / T.R. Hummer
Love poem: the dispossessed / T.R. Hummer
Any time, what may hit you / T.R. Hummer
The boarding / Denis Johnson
A woman / Denis Johnson
Minutes / Denis Johnson
Passengers / Denis Johnson
The sergeant / Don Johnson
Above the falls at Waimea / Don Johnson
Tick picking in the Quetico / Don Johnson
Night dive / Don Johnson
Remembering fire / Rodney Jones
Thoreau / Rodney Jones
The mosquito / Rodney Jones
The first birth / Rodney Jones
For the eating of swine / Rodney Jones
Becoming a nun / Erica Jong
In praise of clothes / Erica Jong
Jubilate Canis / Erica Jong
The Buddha in the womb / Erica Jong
Somewhere near Phu Bai / Yusef Komunyakaa
Starlight scope myopia / Yusef Komunyakaa
April fools' day / Yusef Komunyakaa
Copacetic Mingus / Yusef Komunyakaa
The train out / Sydney Lea
Night trip across the Chesapeake and after / Sydney Lea
Bernie's quick shave (1968) / Sydney Lea
Coon hunt, sixth month (1955) / Sydney Lea
Old dog, new dog / Sydney Lea
The floating candles / Sydney Lea
The ghost of a ghost / Brad Leithauser
Between leaps / Brad Leithauser
Angel / Brad Leithauser
A quilled quilt, a needle bed / Brad Leithauser
An expanded want ad / Brad Leithauser
Canopic jar / Rika Lesser
La banditaccia, 1979 / Rika Lesser
The news & the weather / Rika Lesser
Can zone or the good food guide / Rika Lesser.

Picking grapes in an abandoned vineyard / Larry Levis
To a wall of flame in a steel mill, Syracuse, New York, 1969 / Larry Levis
Sensationalism / Larry Levis
Family romance / Larry Levis
The quilt / Larry Levis
Winter stars / Larry Levis
Whitman / Larry Levis
Irish music / Larry Levis
tSutcliffe and Whitby / William Logan
Summer Island / William Logan
Debora sleeping / William Logan
Green Island / William Logan
The child's dream / Susan Ludvigson
The widow / Susan Ludvigson
On learning that certain peat bogs contain perfectly preserved bodies / Susan Ludvigson
Man arrested in hacking death tells police he mistook mother-in-law for raccoon / Susan Ludvigson
A blessing / MeKeel McBride
Over the phone / MeKeel McBride
Aubade / MeKeel McBride
The will to live / MeKeel McBride
Language lesson, 1976 / Heather McHugh
Lines / Heather McHugh
Impressionist / Heather McHugh
Animal song / Heather McHugh
Capital / Heather McHugh
A physics / Heather McHugh
Centerfold reflected in a jet window / Sandra McPherson
To an alcoholic / Sandra McPherson
Urban ode / Sandra McPherson
Pornography, Nebraska / Sandra McPherson
For Elizabeth Bishop / Sandra McPherson
Lifesaving / Sandra McPherson
Unitarian Easter / Sandra McPherson
Alleys / Sandra McPherson
The lesson / Paul Mariani
Coda: revising history / Paul Mariani
Lines I told myself I wouldn's write / Paul Mariani
Then sings my soul / Paul Mariani
Getting out / Cleopatra Mathis
Aerial view of Louisiana / Cleopatra Mathis
For Maria / Cleopatra Mathis
Mimosa / Cleopatra Mathis
An airline breakfast / William Matthews
On the porch at the Frost place, Franconia, NH / William Matthews
Charming / William Matthews
Loyal / William Matthews
Whiplash / William Matthews
An elegy for Bob Marley / William Matthews
In memory of the Utah Stars / William Matthews
Twins / William Matthews
Bricking the church / Robert Morgan
Mountain bride / Robert Morgan
Horace Kephart / Robert Morgan
Hay scuttle / Robert Morgan
Secret pleasures / Robert Morgan
Passenger pigeons / Robert Morgan
Shopping for midnight / G.E. Murray
On the upside / G.E. Murray
Sketch for a morning in Muncie, Indiana / G.E. Murray
California dead / G.E. Murray
Making a fist / Naomi Shihab Nye
Hugging the jukebox / Naomi Shihab Nye
Where children live / Naomi Shihab Nye
Catalogue army / Naomi Shihab Nye
The use of fiction / Naomi Shihab Nye
The death of Marilyn Monroe / Sharon Olds
Sex without love / Sharon Olds
Race riot, Tulsa, 1921 / Sharon Olds
Things that are worse than death / Sharon Olds
Rite of passage / Sharon Olds
The one girl at the boys party / Sharon Olds
Permission to speak / Stephen Orlen
In praise of Beverly / Stephen Orlen
The madman's wife / Stephen Orlen
The drunken man / Stephen Orlen
Life study / Stephen Orlen
Haitian suite / Gregory Orr
Morning song / Gregory Orr
An abandoned, overgrown cemetery in the pasture near our house / Gregory Orr
The visitor / Gregory Orr
End of August / Gregory Orr
We must make a kingdom of it / Gregory Orr
My father's song / Simon Ortiz
Hunger in New York City / Simon Ortiz
Juanita, wife of Manuelito / Simon Ortiz
A story of how a wall stands / Simon Ortiz
My happiness / Greg Pape
In the city of Bogota / Greg Pape
Sharks, Calooshatchee River / Greg Pape
The porpoise / Greg Pape
Amores (after Ovid / Jay Parini
To his dear friend, Bones / Jay Parini
The missionary visits our church in Scranton / Jay Parini
Snake Hill / Jay Parini
Old roadside resorts / Molly Peacock
So, when I swim to the shore / Molly Peacock
The lull / Molly Peacock
Now look what happened / Molly Peacock
Fire and ice / Michael Petit
Herdsman / Michael Petit
Sunday stroll / Michael Petit
A day in my union suit / Michael Petit
December blues / Robert Pinsky
Local politics / Robert Pinsky
The figured wheel / Robert Pinsky
Ralegh's prizes / Robert Pinsky
Faeryland / Robert Pinsky
Dying / Robert Pinsky
The street / Robert Pinsky
The new Saddhus / Robert Pinsky
Night blooming flowers / Katha Pollitt
Archaeology / Katha Pollitt
A discussion of the vicissitudes of history under a pine tree / Katha Pollitt
In memory / Katha Pollitt
Seal Rock / Katha Pollitt
Country roads / Thomas Rabbitt
The weight room / Thomas Rabbitt
Rape / Thomas Rabbitt
The Dancing Sunshine Lodge / Thomas Rabbitt
Casino Beach / Thomas Rabbitt
Gargoyle / Thomas Rabbitt
The green horse / Bin Ramke
The magician / Bin Ramke
The obscure pleasure of the indistinct / Bin Ramke
Why I am afraid to have children / Bin Ramke
Sandness and still life / Bin Ramke
For my mother, feeling useless / Paula Rankin
Somewhere else / Paula Rankin
Middle age / Paula Rankin
Being refused local credit / Paula Rankin
Morning / Alberto Rios
The purpose of altar boys / Alberto Rios
The man she called Honey, and married / Alberto Rios
Mi Abuelo / Alberto Rios
For Stephen drawing birds / Pattiann Rogers
The man hidden behind the drapes / Pattiann Rogers
Achieving perspective / Pattiann Rogers
Concepts and their bodies (the boy in the field alone) / Pattiann Rogers
Wheel turning on the hub of the sun / William Pitt Root
White horse of the father, white horse of the son / William Pitt Root
Sometimes heaven is a mean machine / William Pitt Root
Answering dance / William Pitt Root
Exchanging glances / William Pitt Root
Nightswim / William Pitt Root
From the other shore / William Pitt Root
Soaping down for St. Francis of Assisi: the canticle of Sister Soap / Gibbons Ruark
Talking myself to sleep in the mountains / Gibbons Ruark
Lost letter to James Wright, with thanks for a map of Fano / Gibbons Ruark
Working the rain shift at Flanagan's / Gibbons Ruark
The goods she can carry: canticle of her basket made of reeds' / Gibbons Ruark
When I was conceived / Michael Ryan
Consider a move / Michael Ryan
In winter / Michael Ryan
After / Michael Ryan
The avenues / David St. John
Hotel Sierra / David St. John
Guitar / David St. John
Blue waves / David St. John
Hush / David St. John
The shore / David St. John
Sirens in bad weather / Sherod Santos
The breakdown / Sherod Santos
The enormous aquarium / Sherod Santos
Evening refrain / Sherod Santos
Goodbye / Sherod Santos
Like wings / Philip Schultz
Balance / Philip Schultz
Mrs. Applebaum's Sunday dance class / Philip Schultz
My guardian angel stein / Philip Schultz
The Hemingway house in Key West / Philip Schultz
Cumberland Station / Dave Smith
The perspective and limits of snapshots / Dave Smith
The roundhouse voices / Dave Smith
Of oystermen, workboats / Dave Smith
Photographic plate, partly spidered, Hampton Roads, Virginia, with Model T Ford mid-channel / Dave Smith
In the house of the judge / Dave Smith
Leafless trees, Chickahominy Swamp / Dave Smith
An antipastoral memory of one summer / Dave Smith
Blue lantern / Cathy Song
Beauty and sadness / Cathy Song
Girl powdering her neck / Cathy Song
The youngest daughter / Cathy Song
The widow Perez / Gary Soto
The morning they shot Tony Lopez, barber and pusher who went too far, 1958 / Gary Soto
At the cantina / Gary Soto
The point / Gary Soto
The map / Gary Soto
A burial, green / Marcia Southwick
Owning a dead man / Marcia Southwick
Dusk / Marcia Southwick
The Marsh / Marcia Southwick
The white dress / Roberta Spear
The bat / Roberta Spear
Boundaries / Roberta Spear
The anniversary / Roberta Spear
Tequila / Elizabeth Spires
Skins / Elizabeth Spires
Widow's walk / Elizabeth Spires
Courtesan with fan / Elizabeth Spires
The wilderness / Maura Stanton
Palinode / Maura Stanton
Biography / Maura Stanton
Little ode for X / Maura Stanton
Childhood / Maura Stanton
Shoplifters / Maura Stanton
A funny joke / Leon Stokesbury
Unsent message to my brother in his pain / Leon Stokesbury
Day begins at Governor's Square Mall / Leon Stokesbury
To Laura Phelan 1880
1906 / Leon Stokesbury
The late show / Janet Sylvester
Hard strain in a delicate place / Janet Sylvester
Arrowhead Christian Center and no-smoking luncheonette / Janet Sylvester
That mulberry wine / Janet Sylvester
Who can tell when he is awake / James Tate
Riven doggeries / James Tate
Land of Little Sticks, 1945 / James Tate
The motorcyclists / James Tate
Constant defender / James Tate
Tall trees by still waters / James Tate
Sloops in the bay / James Tate
If it would all please hurry / James Tate
The flying change / Henry Taylor
To hear my head roar / Henry Taylor
Landscape with tractor / Henry Taylor
Artichoke / Henry Taylor
Shapes, vanishings / Henry Taylor
Taking to the woods / Henry Taylor
The hours / Susan Tichy
Irrigation / Susan Tichy
Identity card / Susan Tichy
In an Arab town / Susan Tichy
The knife / Richard Tillinghast
Hearing of the end of the war / Richard Tillinghast
Return / Richard Tillinghast
Summer rain / Richard Tillinghast
Shooting ducks in south Louisiana / Richard Tillinghast
Our flag was still there / Richard Tillinghast.

Watercress & ice / Chase Twichell
Cedar needles / Chase Twichell
Blurry cow / Chase Twichell
Abandoned house in late light / Chase Twichell
Drive imagining / Arthur Vogelsang
Americans in an orange grove / Arthur Vogelsang
Feeling that way too / Arthur Vogelsang
The clouds / Arthur Vogelsang
The victim / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Exile / Ellen Bryant Voigt
The bat / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Jug Brook / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Blue Ridge / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Pastoral / Ellen Bryant Voigt
The spring / Ellen Bryant Voigt
The lotus flowers / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Old bibles / Marilyn Waniek
Light under the door / Marilyn Waniek
Women's locker room / Marilyn Waniek
Dinosaur spring / Marilyn Waniek
Herbs in the attic / Marilyn Waniek
Daylights / Rosanna Warren
Virgin pictured in profile / Rosanna Warren
Lily / Rosanna Warren
Alps / Rosanna Warren
The mystery of the caves / Michael Waters
Mythology / Michael Waters
Singles / Michael Waters
American bandstand / Michael Waters
The harp / Bruce Weigl
Song of Napalm / Bruce Weigl
1955 / Bruce Weigl
Burning shit at An Khe / Bruce Weigl
Homage to Elvis, homage to the fathers / Bruce Weigl
Snowy egret / Bruce Weigl
Fear / Dara Wier
Keno / Dara Wier
Late afternoon on a good lake / Dara Wier
This cold nothing else / Dara Wier
The man who knew too much / David Wojahn
Cold glow: icehouses / David Wojahn
Weldon Kees in Mexico, 1965 / David Wojahn
Another coast / David Wojahn
Piano lessons / Baron Wormser
Sunday review section / Baron Wormser
The mowing crew / Baron Wormser
By-products / Baron Wormser
Poem to the memory of H.L. Mencken / Baron Wormser.