Contents xiii
SUZAN-LORI PARKS (B. 1963) 1207
In the Blood 1208
PART IV AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1945 1267
ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989) 1269
Bearded Oaks 1270
American Portrait: Old Style 1271
Mortal Limit 1275
After tbe Dinner Party 1276
GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984) 1278
The Hills 1279
Workman 1279
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) 1280
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze 1281
My Papa's Waltz 1282
The Waking 1283
Night Crow 1284
I Knew a Woman 1284
In a Dark Time 1285
CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970) 1286
Maximus, to Himself 1287
Celestial Evening, October 1967 1289
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) 1291
The Fish 1292
Sestina 1294
In the Waiting Room 1295
The Moose 1298
One Art 1303
ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980) 1304
Homage to the Empress of the Blues 1305
Those Winter Sundays 1306
Frederick Douglass 1307
DUDLEY RANDALL (1914-2000) 1308
The Melting Pot 1308
WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993) 1310
Traveling Through the Dark 1311