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| Foreword | |
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| Walt Whitman (1819-1892) | |
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| Mannahatta Broadway | |
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| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | |
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| Herman Melville (1819-1891) | |
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| The House-Top: A Night Piece | |
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| Amy Lowell (1874-1925) | |
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| The Taxi Anticipation | |
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| Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) | |
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| Arrival at the Waldorf | |
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| William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) | |
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| The Great Figure | |
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| Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) | |
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| Union Square Broadway | |
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| Marianne Moore (1887-1972) | |
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| New York | |
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| Claude Mckay (1889-1948) | |
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| The Tropics in New York The City's Love A Song of the Moon | |
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| Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) | |
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| Recuerdo 'If I should learn' | |
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| Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) | |
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| Observation | |
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| E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) | |
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| "Taxis toot whirl people moving" | |
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| Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) | |
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| "Walk about the subway station" | |
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| Federico Garc�a Lorca (1898-1936) | |
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| Dawn | |
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| Hart Crane (1899-1933) | |
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| To Brooklyn Bridge The Harbor Dawn The Tunnel | |
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| Langston Hughes (1902-1967) | |
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| The Weary Blues Good Morning Harlem Juke Box Love Song Subway Rush Hour | |
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| Helene Johnson (1906-1995) | |
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| The Street to the Establishment | |
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| W. H. Auden (1907-1973) | |
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| Refugee Blues September 1, 1939 | |
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| George Oppen (1908-1984) | |
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| Pedestrian | |
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| Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) | |
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| The Man-Moth Letter to N.Y. | |
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| Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) | |
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| Seventh Avenue | |
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| May swenson (1913-1989) | |
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| Staying at Ed's Place At the Museum of Modern Art | |
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| Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) | |
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| Future-Present | |
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| Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- ) | |
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| "The Pennycandystore beyond the El" | |
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| Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) | |
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| Dancers Exercising | |
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| Grace Paley (1922- ) | |
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| The Nature of This City Fear On Mother's Day | |
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| Howard Moss (1922-1987) | |
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| The Building The Roof Garden | |
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| Denise Levertov (1923-1997) | |
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| The Cabdriver's Smile | |
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| James Schuyler (1923-1991) | |
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| This Dark Apartment An East Window on Elizabeth Street March Here | |
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| Wislawa Szymborska (1923- ) | |
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| Photograph from September 11 | |
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| Kenneth Koch (1925- ) | |
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| Girl and Baby Florist Sidewalk Pram Nineteen Seventy Something | |
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| Gerald Stern (1925- ) | |
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| 96 Vandam Let Me Please Look Into My Window | |
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| Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) | |
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| Steps Gamin | |
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| James Merrill (1926-1995) | |
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| An Urban Convalescence 164 East 72nd Street | |
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| Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) | |
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| I am a Victim of Telephone My Sad Self | |
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| W. S. Merwin (1927- ) | |
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| St. Vincent's | |
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| Galway Kinnell (1927- ) | |
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| Room of Return Running on Silk | |
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| John Ashbery (1927- ) | |
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| A Sendentary Existence So Many Lives | |
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| Charles Tomlinson (1927- ) | |
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| All Afternoon | |
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| Philip Levine (1928- ) | |
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| Get Up | |
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| Richard Howard (1929- ) | |
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| 209 Canal Among the Missing | |
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| L. E. Sissman (1929-1976) | |
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| Tears at Korvette's Visiting Chaos | |
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| Adrienne Rich (1929- ) | |
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| Upper Broadway | |
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| Gregory Corso (1930-2001) | |
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| Eastside Incidents The Whole Mess . . . Almost | |
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| Derek Walcott (1930- ) | |
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| The Bridge | |
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| Amiri Baraka (1934- ) | |