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Poetry in motion : 100 poems from the subways and buses

Title: Poetry in motion : 100 poems from the subways and buses / edited by Molly Peacock, Elise Paschen, Neil Neches.
Publication: New York : Norton, [1996], ©1996.

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157 pages : illustrations; 15 x 21 cm

Summary

This rich gathering emanates from the immensely popular placards displayed in the subways and buses of New York City. Starting in October 1992, when Poetry in Motion first appeared, and continuing through August 1997, here are the first hundred poems of the program. The selections, ranging from Sappho to Sylvia Plath, from W. H.
Auden to the ninth-̃century Chinese poet Chu Chen Po, were carefully chosen, after hundreds of hours of reading by the three dedicated editors Molly Peacock, Elise Paschen, and Neil Neches.

Subject

Poetry > Collections

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-139) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Molly Peacock -- Preface / Alan F. Kiepper -- Let there be new flowering / Lucille Clifton -- From Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Walt Whitman -- "Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson -- When You Are Old / William Butler Yeats -- Hermandad/Brotherhood / Octavio Paz -- Travel / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Sir, You Are Tough / Joseph Brodsky -- Magic Words / Anonymous Inuit Poet -- From The Inferno, Canto I / Dante Alighieri -- From What Are Years? / Marianne Moore -- From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot -- Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among Them Nora and Henry III) / Gwendolyn Brooks -- If There Is a Scheme / Charles Reznikoff -- The Armful / Robert Frost -- From To Autumn / John Keats -- Blackberry Eating / Galway Kinnell -- To a Poor Old Woman / William Carlos Williams -- Delta / Adrienne Rich -- Variacion/Variations / Federico Garcia Lorca --
Please Give This Seat to an Elderly or Disabled Person / Nina Cassian -- From The Love Poems of Marichiko / Kenneth Rexroth -- From The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital / Delmore Schwartz -- Luck / Langston Hughes -- Let No Charitable Hope / Elinor Wylie -- From Coal / Audre Lorde -- To My Love, Combing Her Hair / Yehuda Amichai -- Mother of the Groom / Seamus Heaney -- From Riding the A / May Swenson -- Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz -- From I Am Vertical / Sylvia Plath -- Western Wind / Anonymous -- Adolescence - I / Rita Dove -- From Antigone / Sophocles -- Casabianca / Elizabeth Bishop -- A Man Said to the Universe / Stephen Crane -- Summer / Walter Dean Myers -- From Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- From The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage / Walter Ralegh -- Komu to yu mo/You Say, "I Will Come" / Otomo No Sakanoe -- From Riding on a Railroad Train / Ogden Nash -- love is a place / E. E. Cummings -- Unfortunate Coincidence / Dorothy Parker --
From 'Back on Times Square, Dreaming of Times Square' / Allen Ginsberg -- For Friendship / Robert Creeley -- Aspects of Eve / Linda Pastan -- Sandinista Avioncitos / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Thank You, My Dear / Sappho -- Transit / Richard Wilbur -- I Stop Writing the Poem / Tess Gallagher -- From Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird / Wallace Stevens -- First Memory / Louise Gluck -- Hedgehog / Chu Chen Po -- Suspended / Denise Levertov -- Listen to the Mustn'ts / Shel Silverstein -- The Question / Karla Kuskin -- The Bagel / David Ignatow -- Reflective / A. R. Ammons -- My Heart Leaps Up / William Wordsworth -- Heat / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) -- From Ode to the Cat / Pablo Neruda -- First Grade / William Stafford -- From Manhattan / Lorenz Hart -- The Talker / Mona Van Duyn -- Jamesian / Thom Gunn -- From Grasmere / Amy Clampitt -- Revival / Steve Crow -- From Yes / Muriel Rukeyser -- From Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas --
Precautions / Eugenio Montale -- A Renewal / James Merrill -- Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the little girl said) / Vachel Lindsay -- An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape, Trickery and Love / Anne Sexton -- I Am Singing the Cold Rain / Lance Henson -- The Panther / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Cartography / Louise Bogan -- Days / Philip Larkin -- From Lullaby / W. H. Auden -- Wall / Gabriela Mistral -- As Much As You Can / C. P. Cavafy -- Birth / Louise Erdrich -- Take Hands / Laura Riding Jackson -- From The Round / Stanley Kunitz -- You Called Me Corazon / Sandra Cisneros -- My Heart / Frank O'Hara -- Autumn Leaves / Marilyn Chin -- Window / Carl Sandburg -- The Sloth / Theodore Roethke -- Four in the Morning / Wislawa Szymborska -- On imagine les anges/I Imagine Angels / Guillaume Apollinaire -- Star / Derek Walcott -- Happiness / Stephen Dunn -- Winter Poem / Nikki Giovanni --
From Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare -- Along the Hard Crest of the Snowdrift / Anna Akhmatova -- To My Dear and Loving Husband / Anne Bradstreet -- From Marriage / Gregory Corso -- Song of Solomon 2:8-13 / The King James Bible -- Two Haiku Poems / Kobayashi Issa -- From Lost Sister / Cathy Song.

ISBN

0393039773
0393314588 (pbk.)

LCCN

95047922

OCLC

33897692
ocm33897692

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries