100 Essential Modern Poems

Name: 100 Essential Modern Poems
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ISBN: 9781566636124

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Edition: 2005

Authors: Joseph Parisi

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Inspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny-here in one compact volume are 100 of the greatest poems written in English over the last century, memorable masterpieces that everyone should know and enjoy. From W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot to John Ashbury and A.R. Ammons; Elizabeth Bishop and Mariann Moore to Sylvia Plath and Mary Oliver; Robert Frost and W.B. Yeats to Allen Ginsberg and Thom Gunn, this comprehensive anthology features the poems that have best expressed the spirit of our times and helped create modern culture.

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 8/31/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.20" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Joseph Parisi, editor in chief of Poetry, has been on the magazine's staff for over twenty-five years.



The second coming



Leda and the swan



Sailing to Byzantium



Miniver Cheevy



Mending wall



The road not taken



Stopping by woods on a snowy evening



Chicago



The emperor of ice-cream



Sunday morning



Anecdote of the jar



The red wheelbarrow



Spring and all



The river-merchant's wife : a letter



The study in aesthetics



Helen



Hurt Hawks



The fish



The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock



The soldier



From counter-attack : the general



From counter-attack : base details



Break of day in the trenches



Dulce et Decorum Est



Recuerdo



Resume



[Anyone lived in a pretty how town]



The Persian version



From the bridge : Proem : to Brooklyn Bridge



The weary blues



Columbus



Not waving but drowning



From the great hunger : I



Bearded Oaks



Lullaby



From twelve songs : IX. [stop all the clocks]



Musee des Beaux Arts



Bagpipe music



My papa's waltz



Manners



One art



The alphabet



From the dream songs : 1, 14, 76 : Henry's confession, 143



324 : an elegy for W.C.W., the lovely man, 382



The death of the ball turret gunner



Fern Hill



Do not go gentle into that good night



How to regain your soul



We real cool



For the union dead



The illiterate



The war in the air



Love call us to the things of this world



Church going



Aubade



The hospital window



"More light! More light!"



Tenebrae



Men at forty



To my twenties



Gravelly run



The city limits



Their bodies



From Howl : I



The broken home



The day lady died



Why I am not a painter



April inventory



And Ut Pictura Poesis is her name



My erotic double



After making love we hear footsteps



Losing a language



For a coming extinction



Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio



You can have it



Wanting to die



The missing



Planetarium



Hawk Roosting



Relic



Blues



September song



Lady Lazarus



After minor surgery



Where are the waters of childhood?



Homage to Paul Cezanne



Morning poem



Alzheimer's : the wife



Prodigy



Punishment



Clearances



Two lorries



After making love



Forgetfulness



Dire cure



Young mothers I



That the science of cartography is limited



Patience



Facing it



Having it out with melancholy



They that wash on Thursday



Parsley