Walk on the wild side : urban American poetry since 1975 / edited by Nicholas Christopher.

Ai: The good shepherd : Atlanta, 1981 ; The man with the saxophone
Diane Ackerman: The rumored conversation with oneself continues in Pittsburgh ; Lines written in a Pittsburgh skyscraper
Kathleen de Azevedo: The suicide
Judith Baumel: Doing time in Baltimore ; Thumbs up
Lucie Brock-Broido: The last passenger pigeon in the Cincinnati Zoo
Marilyn Chin: Song of the sad guitar ; Composed near the Bay Bridge ; Nicholas Christopher: 5[degree] ; April in New York ; After hours
Amy Clampitt: Amaranth and moly
Elizabeth Cohen: #2, shoes ; Drive-by shooting
Thulani Davis: in the fire lane
Connie Deanovich: Connie Deanovich ; Road block : Santa Fe, New Mexico ; National assessment
Tom Disch: In praise of New York ; The argument resumed; or, Up through Tribeca
Mark Doty: Harbor lights ; Broadway
Rita Dove: A hill of beans ; The Satisfaction Coal Company
Cornelius Eady: Romare Bearden retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum
Barbara Elovic: Brooklyn bound
Lynn Emanuel: Discovering the photograph of Lloyd, Earl, and Priscilla ; Desire ; The sleeping
Elaine Equi: Words read by lightning ; Breakfast with Jerome ; Ode to Chicago
Martin Espada: Tony went to the bodega but he didn't buy anything ; Latin night at the pawnshop
Alice Fulton: My diamond stud ; Risk management ; The wreckage entrepreneur
Amy Gerstler: Travelogue
Debora Greger: Piranesi in L.A. ; Air-conditioned air
Linda Gregg: The shopping-bag lady ; Lies and longing
Jessica Hagedorn: Solea ; Natural death ; Latin music in New York
Edward Hirsch: Man on a fire escape ; When skycrapers were invented in Chicago ; For the new world
Garrett Hongo: Yellow light ; The underworld ; The legend
Richard Howard: Among the missing
Lynda Hull: Fiat lux
Esther Iverem: The time #2
Mark Jarman: Los Angeles ; The homing instinct
Patricia Spears Jones: Christmas, Boston 1989 ; Day of the Dead ; Prayer
Rodney Jones: Romance of the poor ; Progress Alley
Lawrence Joseph: There I am again ; Sand nigger ; Do what you can
Vickie Karp: A taxi to the flame ; The consequences of waking ; Still-life in the coat factory office
Karl Kirchwey: Natural history ; Rogue hydrant, August ; Ambulance
August Kleinzahler: San Francisco/New York ; East of the library, across from the Odd Fellows Building
Yusef Komunyakaa: The cage walker ; Crack ; "Everybody's reading Li Po" silkscreened on a purple T-shirt
David Lehman: Arrival at Kennedy ; The moment of truth
Philip Levine: An ordinary morning ; Coming home ; Buying and selling
Dionisio D. Martinez: Fuego ; A necessary story
Donna Masini: Nightscape
Robert Mazzocco: Muertes ; Honolulu ; PBS
Susan Mitchell: A story
Carol Moldaw: 64 Panoramic Way
Carol Muske: Field trip ; Little L.A. villanelle
Ron Padgett: Poema del city ; Poema del city 2 ; With Lee Remick at midnight
Molly Peacock: Buffalo
Robert Polito: Animal mimicry
David St. John: The avenues ; Uptown love poem
Mary Jo Salter: The rebirth of Venus
Grace Schulman: For that day only
Laurie Sheck: White noise ; The return
Jason Shinder: Prayer
Elizabeth Spires: Good Friday. Driving westward ; The woman on the dump
Cole Swensen: Line ; Our town
James Tate: What the city was like
Lydia Tomkiw: Last night in Elvisville ; New York love song (Part 1
Lower East Side)
David Trinidad: "C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute" ; Hockney : blue pool
Carolyne Wright: Return to Seattle : Bastille Day
John Yau: New York Map Company (1).