Contents xv
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) 1630
A Miracle for Breakfast 1631
The Fish 1632
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance 1633
Visits to St. Elizabeths 1635
Sestina 1637
The Armadillo 1638
Brazil,January 1, 1502 1640
In the Waiting Room 1641
One Art 1643
ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) 1644
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 1645
Mr. Edwards and the Spider 1649
Memories of West Street and Lepke 1651
Skunk Hour 1652
For the Union Dead 1654
Waking Early Sunday Morning 1656
Will Not Come Back 1658
RICHARD WILBUR (1921- ) 1659
Mined Country 1659
Museum Piece 1660
Still, Citizen Sparrow 1661
Juggler 1662
Marginalia 1662
Lamarck Elaborated 1663
A Hole in the Floor 1664
Playboy 1665
Lying 1666
Leaving 1668
Trolling for Blues 1669
A Finished Man 1669
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) 1670
Howl 1671
A Supermarket in California 1679
America 1680
To Aunt Rose 1683