Where one voice ends another begins : 150 years of Minnesota poetry / edited by Robert Hedin.

Introduction
[pt. 1]. Beginnings
Song-poems of the Dakota / translated by Frances Densmore and Alfred Longley Riggs
Song-poems of the Ojibwe / translated by Frances Densmore
The Seal of Minnesota / Mary Henderson Eastman
A sea song / James H. Baker
A description / Ignatius Donnelly
Revery ; The lark / Richard Burton
From the valley of the wheat ; Among the pines / Arthur Upson
West and East / Henry Adams Bellows
[pt. 2]. 1914-1945
From Minneapolis Skylines : 1915 / Joseph Warren Beach
The road to Asola ; The transport / Beatrice Washburn Jones
We leave to-night / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The only bird that sang ; O this is not spring / Kay Boyle
Autumn paray-le-monial ; Riddles / Sistern Alice Gustava (Maris Stella) Smith
Brushwood / Martha Ostenso
Spring out of Jerusalem ; Surround of rainbows / Meridel LeSueur
Orchard ; The groundhog ; La Crosse at ninety miles an hour / Richard Eberhart.

[pt. 2]. 1945-1965
The heifer ; The old homestead / Carl Rakosi
In 1912, my father buys the Victor record of 'Sextet from Lucia' from Hoegh's Jewelry Store in a small town in Minnesota / Joseph Langland
The fall of the House of Usher ; The high school band in September ; When Father left in the morning / Reed Whittemore
Cicada ; Mote ; Interior decoration / Adrien Stoutenburg
The ball poem ; From 77 dream songs ; Henry's understanding ; Of suicide / John Berryman
Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River ; After drinking all night with a friend, we go out in a boat to see who can write the best poem ; The resemblance between your life and a dog ; Stealing sugar from the castle / James Wright
Praises ; The bread of this world ; Praises III ; The end of the world / Thomas McGrath.

[pt. 3]. 1965-1985
First car ; Santa Lucia / Phebe Hanson
Freight train, freight train ; Cutting birch ; As we, too, grow older / Alvin Greenberg
From Gatherings ; An ordinary composure / James L. White
The Icelandic language ; At the Icelandic Emigration Center in Hofsós ; The Icelandic emigration to Minneota, Minnesota / Bill Holm
From Coal ; The elephant ; The feet man / Philip Dacey
The one song ; Caretaking at the Bohemian Cemetery ; Outside Owatonna, Minnesota / C.G. Hanzlicek
Willmar at night ; Way back ; Growing down / John Calvin Rezmerski
Flat country ; Red River blues ; Still life with thermometer / Mark Vinz
Out of nothing ; Crawling out the window / Tom Hennen
Mine town : knowing where you're at ; The war effort ; Mine towns / John Caddy
Beer barrel polka ; Helen Hart's summer watercolor class/ Jill Breckenridge
Sweet Jesus ; Whistle dance ; Swedish lesson / Barton Sutter.

Basketball ; Mailboxes ; Knife Island / Louis Jenkins
First ties : the father in the mirror ; The dance of the ripples / Bill Meissner
Hard Rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane
The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
Company of love ; To show Peter the world ; Handicapped children swimming / Michael Dennis Browne
Crocus ; Visiting the Mayo Clinic / Cary Waterman
Near herons ; What the bird sees ; I don't think we need to know / Jim Moore
Mother-daughter dance ; Woman before an aquarium ; The moment / Patricia Hampl
Note to Trish from the Flamingo Motel, Long Prairie, Minnesota ; Thaw ; Excelsior Amusement Park, 1932 / John Minczeski
Minor miracle / Marilyn Nelson
The amateur ; Dialogue ; None of this / Deborah Keenan
Creation of the universe ; An elephant ; Chlorine / John Engman
The pallbearer ; The worm-farmer's lament / Mary Karr
Ben fields ; High school boyfriend / Margaret Hasse
Dove ; Essay on leaves / J.P. White
Fort Snelling National Cemetery : St. Paul, Minnesota ; Tribute and ash / David Wojahn
Harvest at Minidoka Internment Camp ; The angel of Phillips Park ; Minneapolis Public / David Mura
Dear John Wayne ; The buffalo prayer ; Rez litany / Louise Erdrich.

[pt. 4. 1985-present
Like a church ; They come humming / Sharon Chmielarz
The forest ; Butterflies ; Sheds / Jim Heynen
How ; Pow wow / Diane Glancy
Stella by starlight ; Poincianna ; Gray strands of hair / Philip Bryant
He confuses the grandchild for the son ; After the miracle ; Near Roslin Institute, Midlothian, Scotland / Richard Robbins
Home to the late late movie ; Death becomes me ; Getting the machine / Joyce Sutphen
From A walk by the river / Dale Jacobson
The pond ; The lost house / David Mason
The wreck / James Armstrong
After us ; Hartley Field / Connie Wanek
What pregnant is like ; Offering words ; Poem for our Ojibwe names / Heid E. Erdrich
Constellations ; Dancing the rice / Denise Sweet
Emerge ; What you will remember ; Celebrate / Ray González
Remembrance ; Autobiography of a Black man / G.E. Patterson
Sunday ; Carrying home / Angela Shannon
First lesson : the anatomist explains the primacy of imagination ; Suppose / Katrina Vandenberg
Birding ; The blue world / Janet Holmes
The harriers ; Mirabilia, 1726 ; Madame du Courdray's woman machine, 1756 / Leslie Adrienne Miller.

I curse because ; Mixed blood / Wang Ping
Sokcho in butterfly dust ; The invisible church / Ed-Bok Lee
We women of the Hmong culture / Mayli Vang
My mother is a coffee table ; Father died twenty-five years ago ; D.C. / Mai Neng Moua
The clerk's tale / Spencer Reece
Selected bibliography of related titles
Permissions
Index of authors, titles, and first lines
Acknowledgments.