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The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry from The American Poetry Review
by Stephen Berg, David Bonanno, Arthur Vogelsang
Stephen Berg
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- 04/17/2001
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- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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- ISBN-13:
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- 04/17/2001
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- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry from The American Poetry Review
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Overview
"The very existence of this book is news, and its contents are exquisite literature."—Philadelphia Inquirer A breathtaking, incomparable overview of American poetry at the turn of the millennium, from experimental language poetry to traditional formal verse, with all the vital, monumental stops between, The Body Electric captures the spirit of contemporary American poetry. Among the 180 poets included in this collection are Ai, John Ashbery, John Berryman, Charles Bukowski, Lucille Clifton, Carolyn Forche, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hass, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Koch, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Derek Walcott, plus a generous array of exciting new poets from recent years. The breadth and innovation of American poetry as well as the shifting styles and tastes of over a quarter of a century are represented in this volume. No other anthology gives such a complete and wide-ranging representation of American poetry today.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393321708 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 04/17/2001 |
| Pages: | 864 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.70(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d) |
About the Author
Stephen Berg is the founder of The American Poetry Review. He lives in Philadelphia.
David Bonanno has been an editor at APR since 1973.
Arthur Vogelsang has been an editor at APR since 1973.
David Bonanno has been an editor at APR since 1973.
Arthur Vogelsang has been an editor at APR since 1973.
Table of Contents
| Preface | xxix | |
| Introduction | xxxi | |
| 3 | ||
| The Deserter (1973) | 3 | |
| The Anniversary (1973) | 3 | |
| New Crops for a Free Man (1973) | 4 | |
| Everything: Eloy, Arizona 1956 (1973) | 4 | |
| 5 | ||
| Wallpaper (1995) | 5 | |
| Redwing Sonnets (1995) | 5 | |
| 9 | ||
| An Improvisation for the Stately Dwelling (1979) | 9 | |
| An Improvisation for Jerald Bullis (1979) | 9 | |
| Above the Fray Is Only Thin Air (1997) | 11 | |
| Widespread Implications (1997) | 12 | |
| Spit (1997) | 13 | |
| 14 | ||
| Breaking the Rock Down (1984) | 14 | |
| Evolving Similarities (1995) | 15 | |
| Veils of Prayer (1995) | 16 | |
| The Nothing That Is (1995) | 17 | |
| Twilight (1995) | 18 | |
| 18 | ||
| Invisible Hand (1992) | 18 | |
| North Star (1993) | 19 | |
| Crowdoll (1993) | 20 | |
| Starwork (1993) | 21 | |
| 22 | ||
| Business Personals (1977) | 22 | |
| The Couple in the Next Room (1977) | 23 | |
| Variant (1977) | 24 | |
| Saying It to Keep It from Happening (1977) | 24 | |
| Lost and Found and Lost Again (1977) | 25 | |
| The Archipelago (1993) | 25 | |
| My Philosophy of Life (1994) | 26 | |
| Operators Are Standing By (1995) | 27 | |
| Chapter II, Book 35 (1995) | 28 | |
| My Name Is Dimitri (1995) | 29 | |
| The Walkways (1995) | 30 | |
| Limited Liability (1995) | 31 | |
| 32 | ||
| A History of Sexual Preference (1996) | 32 | |
| Sad Sestina (1996) | 33 | |
| Why We Fear the Amish (1999) | 34 | |
| Sonnet to the Imagination (1999) | 35 | |
| Midlife (1999) | 35 | |
| Life Forms (1999) | 36 | |
| 37 | ||
| The Self and the Mulberry (1976) | 37 | |
| Someone Is Probably Dead (1981) | 37 | |
| A True Story (1982) | 39 | |
| How I Got the Words (1982) | 41 | |
| To Be (1984) | 41 | |
| Street Fair: The Quartet (1989) | 42 | |
| Marco Polo (1989) | 43 | |
| 44 | ||
| The Age of Correggio and the Carracci (1989) | 44 | |
| Freud's Butcher (1989) | 45 | |
| Memories (1994) | 45 | |
| 47 | ||
| Six Sonnets (1998) | 47 | |
| 49 | ||
| The Alcoholic in the 3rd Week of the 3rd Treatment (1975) | 49 | |
| [O all the problems other people face] (1975) | 50 | |
| 4th Weekend (1975) | 50 | |
| The Recognition (1975) | 51 | |
| 5th Tuesday (1975) | 51 | |
| Phase Four (1975) | 52 | |
| Group (1975) | 53 | |
| Dry Eleven Months (1975) | 53 | |
| 54 | ||
| Snowbanks North of the House (1975) | 54 | |
| The Exhausted Bug (1993) | 54 | |
| Two Ramages for Old Masters (1993) | 55 | |
| A Dream of William Carlos Williams (1993) | 55 | |
| On the Oregon Coast (1993) | 56 | |
| The Gaiety of Form (1993) | 56 | |
| My Father's Neek (1993) | 57 | |
| 58 | ||
| 62 | ||
| Sixty-Six (1994) | 62 | |
| Fog-Talk (1994) | 64 | |
| 64 | ||
| To Fat Boy, The Bomb (1989) | 64 | |
| 65 | ||
| After The Little Mariner (1989) | 65 | |
| On Earth (1989) | 66 | |
| Next to the Cafe Chaos (1989) | 67 | |
| The Pealing (1989) | 68 | |
| 70 | ||
| Interview with an Alchemist in the New Age (1990) | 70 | |
| Chapter One (1992) | 72 | |
| No, No Nostalgia! (1994) | 73 | |
| Schadenfreude (1994) | 74 | |
| Feminine Intuition (1996) | 75 | |
| I Was a Phony Baloney! (1996) | 76 | |
| Marriage (1996) | 76 | |
| 77 | ||
| The Presocratic, Surfing, Breathing Cosmology Blues ... (1996) | 77 | |
| 80 | ||
| b (1975) | 80 | |
| Drooling Madness at St. Liz (1975) | 80 | |
| not much singing (1993) | 81 | |
| 82 | ||
| The Personal Histories ("More Darkness") (1983) | 82 | |
| Foolish Thing (1983) | 83 | |
| My Aunt and the Sun (1984) | 84 | |
| The Dogs on the Cliffs (1984) | 85 | |
| [I have a silence in the rain] (1986) | 86 | |
| 2 Poems on the Same Theme (1986) | 87 | |
| Breathless Storm (1986) | 89 | |
| Meditation Brought About by George Bogin's Translation of Jules Supervielle's Poem "The Sea" (1998) | 90 | |
| Weather (1998) | 93 | |
| 93 | ||
| The Cows at Night (1974) | 93 | |
| Paragraph 23 (1974) | 94 | |
| Paragraph 36 (1974) | 95 | |
| Essay on Death (1988) | 95 | |
| Crucifixion (1989) | 102 | |
| Quality of Wine (1993) | 102 | |
| 103 | ||
| 8 Poems from "The Truth About God" (1993) | 103 | |
| 107 | ||
| Apology (1978) | 107 | |
| Threnody for Sunrise (1981) | 108 | |
| Threnody for Sunset (1981) | 109 | |
| 110 | ||
| Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky (1994) | 110 | |
| Caught in the Swamp (1994) | 110 | |
| White Fish in Reeds (1994) | 110 | |
| Grow (1994) | 111 | |
| Data (1994) | 111 | |
| 112 | ||
| As the Human Village Prepares for Its Fate (1992) | 112 | |
| [Before dawn there you lie] (1992) | 112 | |
| Time (1992) | 113 | |
| On the Beach (1995) | 113 | |
| 114 | ||
| shapeshifter poems (1987) | 114 | |
| [here is another bone to pick with you] (1987) | 115 | |
| [cruelty. don't talk to me about cruelty] (1987) | 115 | |
| the lost women (1987) | 116 | |
| sorrow song (1987) | 116 | |
| january 1991 (1993) | 117 | |
| [won't you celebrate with me] (1993) | 117 | |
| night vision (1993) | 118 | |
| 118 | ||
| Beckon (1996) | 118 | |
| Beauty and the Beast (1997) | 119 | |
| The Masters (1997) | 120 | |
| The World (1999) | 121 | |
| 122 | ||
| 30th Year Dream (1989) | 122 | |
| 123 | ||
| There Is No Real Peace in the World (1978) | 123 | |
| 124 | ||
| litany (1992) | 124 | |
| 125 | ||
| Buffalo Evening (1983) | 125 | |
| Be of Good Cheer (1983) | 126 | |
| This House (1993) | 126 | |
| The Place (1993) | 127 | |
| Parade (1993) | 128 | |
| Echo (1993) | 129 | |
| The Road (1993) | 129 | |
| Time (1993) | 130 | |
| 131 | ||
| If You Need a Reason (1996) | 131 | |
| Tourism in the Late 20th Century (1996) | 131 | |
| 132 | ||
| Eagles (1987) | 132 | |
| Weeds (1988) | 134 | |
| The One (1988) | 135 | |
| The Three (1988) | 135 | |
| Basics (1988) | 136 | |
| 138 | ||
| Frenchie (1982) | 138 | |
| Caverns of Darkness (1983) | 140 | |
| Tomatoes (1986) | 141 | |
| Allegorical Matters (1995) | 142 | |
| Nouns of Assemblage (1995) | 143 | |
| 144 | ||
| Demeter, Waiting (1995) | 144 | |
| Wiederkehr (1995) | 145 | |
| 145 | ||
| An Annual of the Dark Physics (1984) | 145 | |
| Hummingbirds (1984) | 146 | |
| Danse Macabre (1984) | 147 | |
| Sanctuary (1986) | 147 | |
| The Peace of Lodi (1987) | 149 | |
| Trakl (1987) | 149 | |
| Poem ("A mule kicked out in the trees. An early") (1987) | 150 | |
| Anagram Born of Madness at Czernowitz, 12 November 1920 (1989) | 151 | |
| 152 | ||
| Theory of Tragedy (1994) | 152 | |
| 154 | ||
| Swing Shift Blues (1999) | 154 | |
| Nomenclature (1999) | 154 | |
| Poem for Elliot Carter on His 90th Birthday (1999) | 155 | |
| Barefoot Homiletics, After Wittgenstein and Boswell (1999) | 155 | |
| American Variation on How Rilke Loved a Princess and Got to Stay in Her Castle (1999) | 156 | |
| Drunken Memories of Anne Sexton (1999) | 156 | |
| 157 | ||
| What They Wanted (1990) | 157 | |
| Because You Mentioned the Spiritual Life (1996) | 158 | |
| 159 | ||
| Amagideon; or When Lee Andrews and the Hearts Sang Only for Me (1986) | 159 | |
| Innocency or Not Song X (1988) | 161 | |
| Country or Western Music (1988) | 162 | |
| 164 | ||
| Chart Indent (1988) | 164 | |
| The Immortal Picture (1988) | 164 | |
| The Blunting (1988) | 165 | |
| 166 | ||
| The Technology of Spring (1986) | 166 | |
| She (1998) | 167 | |
| Homage to Sharon Stone (1998) | 168 | |
| Elsewhere (1998) | 169 | |
| 170 | ||
| Whatever Became Of: Freud (1991) | 170 | |
| Callas (1991) | 172 | |
| Oh, the Gingkos (1991) | 173 | |
| 174 | ||
| Return (1980) | 174 | |
| Ourselves or Nothing (1981) | 177 | |
| 180 | ||
| The Hug (1982) | 180 | |
| Monologue at the Chinook Bar and Grill (1987) | 181 | |
| 183 | ||
| A Sinking Feeling (1991) | 183 | |
| A Fan Letter (1996) | 184 | |
| 186 | ||
| Breath (1980) | 186 | |
| We Say (1980) | 187 | |
| The Ruined Motel (1980) | 188 | |
| 190 | ||
| Elephant Hunt in Guadalajara (1980) | 190 | |
| Pewter (1980) | 190 | |
| Getting Ready (1982) | 191 | |
| The Revolution (1982) | 191 | |
| Prospero Listens to the Night (1982) | 191 | |
| To See if Something Comes Next (1994) | 192 | |
| The White Heart of God (1994) | 192 | |
| 193 | ||
| No Way Back to the Past (1979) | 193 | |
| Grim Skeleton (1979) | 195 | |
| The Charnel Ground (1994) | 196 | |
| Who Eats Who? (1994) | 198 | |
| Not Dead Yet (1994) | 199 | |
| Yiddishe Kopf (1994) | 199 | |
| A Thief Stole This Poem (1994) | 200 | |
| Homeless Compleynt (1997) | 200 | |
| 201 | ||
| Aubade (1998) | 201 | |
| The New Life (1998) | 202 | |
| Unwritten Law (1998) | 202 | |
| Roman Study (1998) | 203 | |
| Condo (1998) | 204 | |
| The Winged Horse (1998) | 205 | |
| Mutable Earth (1998) | 206 | |
| Eurydice (1998) | 207 | |
| 207 | ||
| In the Jury Room, in Pain (1983) | 207 | |
| Birthday Cake (1983) | 208 | |
| Sentences After Defence of Poetry (1983) | 209 | |
| [Connary, Blodgett, Day, Hapgood] (1983) | 210 | |
| Ballade of the Moment After (1983) | 210 | |
| [Woman eternal my muse, lean toward me] (1983) | 211 | |
| From Sentences for Matthew Ready, Series II (1983) | 211 | |
| A Gravestone, August 8, 1968 (1983) | 211 | |
| [It was good when you were here,] (1983) | 212 | |
| 213 | ||
| Breakdancing (1986) | 213 | |
| Underneath (1) (1997) | 215 | |
| Underneath (2) (1997) | 218 | |
| Underneath (3) (1997) | 219 | |
| For One Must Want/To Shut the Other's Gaze (1997) | 220 | |
| Underneath (7) (1997) | 221 | |
| 222 | ||
| The Clapping (1993) | 222 | |
| The Edge of Something (1993) | 223 | |
| What Is Kept (1993) | 224 | |
| Fishing in the Keep of Silence (1993) | 224 | |
| Past Perfect (1993) | 225 | |
| Official Love Story (1993) | 225 | |
| 226 | ||
| The Advance of the Grizzly (1992) | 226 | |
| Red Dye (1992) | 228 | |
| You Can Discover (1992) | 228 | |
| Motion Pictures: 4 (1994) | 229 | |
| Motion Pictures: 15 (1997) | 230 | |
| 231 | ||
| To a Waterfowl (1973) | 231 | |
| Eating the Pig (1976) | 232 | |
| 235 | ||
| What the Water Knows (1993) | 235 | |
| Another Duffer (1994) | 236 | |
| Abstract (1994) | 236 | |
| 237 | ||
| The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994) | 237 | |
| A Postcolonial Tale (1994) | 240 | |
| 241 | ||
| Letters to Yesenin (1973) | 241 | |
| 246 | ||
| A Pact (1974) | 246 | |
| Now Winter Nights (1974) | 246 | |
| Elm (1974) | 247 | |
| Elegy: Residence on Earth (1974) | 247 | |
| To Phil Dow, in Oregon (1974) | 248 | |
| Spring Rain (1983) | 249 | |
| 250 | ||
| An Iron Spike (1983) | 250 | |
| From the Republic of Conscience (1987) | 250 | |
| A Shooting Script (1987) | 252 | |
| The Disappearing Island (1987) | 252 | |
| 253 | ||
| Fuselage Installation (1991) | 253 | |
| The Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition (1995) | 253 | |
| Hallucinogenic Bullfighter (1995) | 254 | |
| 255 | ||