Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review
edited by James Smith
contributions by Billy Collins
contributions by Billy Collins
University of Arkansas Press, 2009
Cloth: 978-1-55728-892-9 | Paper: 978-1-55728-893-6 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-133-9
Library of Congress Classification PS615.D645 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.5408
Cloth: 978-1-55728-892-9 | Paper: 978-1-55728-893-6 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-133-9
Library of Congress Classification PS615.D645 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.5408
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This substantial anthology charts the development of this influential journal decade by decade, making clear that although it has close ties to a particular region, it has consistently maintained a national scope, publishing poets from all over the United States. SPR’s goal has been to celebrate the poem above all, so although there are poems by major poets here, there are many gems by less famous, perhaps even obscure, writers too. Here are 183 poems by nearly as many poets, from A. R. Ammons, Kathryn Stripling Byer, James Dickey, Mark Doty, Claudia Emerson, David Ignatow, and Carolyn Kizer to Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Howard Nemerov, Sharon Olds, Linda Pastan, and Charles Wright.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
James Smith is associate professor of English at Armstrong Atlantic State University and associate editor of Southern Poetry Review.
REVIEWS
“This superb selection from an enduring, flagship journal holds work by many of our most indispensable poets and, remarkably often, what went on to become their signature poems. This anthology reminds us of those poems’ first public life: in the pages of a ‘small’ magazine with, as it turns out, a freighter-sized wake. The prose introductions to each section are lucid microcosms, outlining each decade’s shifting cultural concerns. If some imagined Alexandrian Library of American Poetry were to burn, this anthology could, on its own, convey an important part of our literary seed-stock.” —Jane Hirshfield, author of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and After: Poems “No reader will leave this harvest table hungry—here is nourishment for all. Eleanor Ross Taylor’s title poem invites us to a playful sacrament: eat the ‘bright flesh’ of birdsong, drink the ‘momentary blood’ of a wave, and ‘All thy sins are teggen away, teggen away.’ Fifty years of the best American poetry is spread out before us, grouped by decade with James Smith’s extraordinarily helpful essays giving us a quick context for each, from the ‘Me Decade’ of the seventies to the ‘Greed Decade’ of the eighties and our current ‘Security Decade.’ These poems epitomize their eras yet move beyond, rise beyond as poetry always does, capturing time and place and lived life in a way no other art can manage. . . . This fine collection offers us fare for the journey.” —Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: The Late 1950's and the 1960's 000 Guy Owen Praise be to Eve 000 James Dickey The Falls 000 Dallas Wiebe For Jake Flickner 000 X. J. Kennedy Edgar's Story 000 Desecrations on a Theme 000 Paul Baker Newman Tilghman Point 000 Vassar Miller Lady of Leisure 000 William Matthews The Attic, the House 000 The Risk 000 Joanne de Longchamps Cavafy 000 Annie Dillard Arches and Shadows 000 Charles David Wright Clearing Away 000 Julia Randall A Night Song for Anne Jones 000 A. R. Ammons Periphery 000 Robert Morgan High Country 000 Gary Sange Office Girls 000 Deliveries from Viet Nam 000 E. G. Burrows King Francis and the Maid 000 Wendell Berry To My Children, Fearing for Them 000 Robert Watson Two Old People 000 Larry Rubin The Sons 000 Heather Ross Miller The Comet 000 Dabney Stuart The Warehouse Chute 000 Coleman Barks Goat & Boy 000 Catharine Savage Brosman A Question of Identity 000 Paul Ramsey Yvor Winters 000 Jean Farley Language of Flowers 000 Howard Nemerov A Family Romance 000 Chapter 2: The 1970's 000 Henry Taylor The Flying Change 000 The Muse Once More 000 Denise Levertov Heights, Depths, Silence, Unceasing Sound of the Surf 000 Jim Wayne Miller How America Came to the Mountains 000 David Kirby Letter to Borges 000 Turner Cassity The New Dolores Leather Bar 000 Adding Rattles 000 Charles Wright 6 Lines for Chi K'ang 000 November 000 Venetian Spring 000 Sharon Olds The Domesticators 000 Fred Chappell Dawn Wind Unlocks the River Sky 000 Susan Ludvigson Trainer's Temper Bars Him from His Beloved Elephants 000 W. S. Doxey My Father's Friends 000 Linda Pastan Drift 000 Julie Suk Seeds 000 Will Wells Vertigo 000 Dave Smith Out of the Sea, at Hatteras 000 T. R. Hummer Without Guilt, the Rural Carrier Reads a Postcard 000 Heather McHugh Understanding 000 Cool 000 John Stone He Makes a House Call 000 Carolyn Kizer How It Passes 000 Sam Ragan That Summer 000 George Garrett York Harbor Morning 000 Stephen Dunn The Rider 000 Wendell Berry Creation Myth 000 David Ignatow Two Untitled Poems 000 Robert Morgan Hogpen 000 Plankroad 000 Ronald Wallace St. Louis Pencil Salesman Blues 000 Adrianne Marcus Lines After Larkin: The Pornographic Movie 000 Kathryn Stripling Byer Drought 000 Miller Williams Getting Experience 000 How, Having Given Up the Classical Temper for the Romantic, We Try to Find Meaning in Death 000 Chana Bloch Yom Kippur 000 A. R. Ammons Snow Log 000 James Seay Another Sentimental Journey 000 Gerald W. Barrax There Was a Song 000 In the Restaurant 000 Timothy Steele A Couple, A Domestic Interior 000 Philip Appleman Murder 000 Juanita Tobin Crazy Tuttle 000 Billy Collins L'Histoire 000 Philip Dacey The Birthday 000 Eleanor Ross Taylor Don't Leave Hungry 000 William Stafford Mother Talking in the Porch Swing 000 Chapter 3: The 1980's Maxine Kumin The Poet Visits Egypt and Israel 000 Ruth Daigon Refuge 000 Ed Ochester Mary Mihalik 000 Judson Mitcham Loss of Power 000 R. T. Smith Shrine 000 Judith Kitchen Solstice 000 Dorothy Barresi Pure Jesus, Early Morning Shift 000 Neal Bowers The Rest 000 Michael McFee A Tumbleweed from Texas 000 Susan Ludvigson Burials 000 Dabney Stuart Umpire 000 Jane Hoogestraat Summer Darkness 000 Ed Zahniser Taking Stock of Feelings 000 Charlie Smith The Defiance of Heroes 000 Memye Curtis Tucker Chipped Tooth 000 Joe Bolton A Wreath of Stars: Symsonia, Kentucky, 1914 000 Betty Adcock New South 000 Deborah Pierce Nicklas Daddy-long-legs 000 Nance Van Winckel Somewhere: How Can We Leave It Now? 000 Judith Ortiz Cofer La Tristeza 000 David R. Slavitt The Shadow 000 Nancy Simpson Grass 000 Edward Wilson For the Woman in Her Station Wagon Weeping at a Red Light 000 Billy Collins Last Sunday in October 000 Ted Kooser Spider Eggs 000 James Applewhite Tree of Babel 000 Peter Meinke Sonnets for a Diabetic 000 Bettie Sellers There Was a Place We Could Have Met 000 Mark Doty It Begins 000 Albert Goldbarth Off 000 P. C. Bowman Helen Approaching 000 Eric Trethewey Garbage 000 Kathryn Stripling Byer Jericho's 000 Ron Smith Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery 000 Jody Bolz Bonsai 000 Fred Chappell Forever Mountain 000 B. D. Love Carp 000 Chapter 4: The 1990's Paul Allen Against Healing 000 Cathy Smith Bowers Paleolithic 000 David Axelrod Georgic: For My Friends Who Never Find Any 000 Simeon Berry Los Alamos 000 Phebe Davidson It seems to her now 000 Peter Makuck After 000 Margaret Holley Living Mysteries 000 Deborah Pope Mammogram 000 Charles Harper Webb The Weight of Knowledge 000 Kathy Evans Psychic Healers 000 Nathalie F. Anderson Desire 000 Jesse Lee Kercheval Glass House 000 Barbara Hamby The Word 000 Mark Halperin Webs (I) 000 Robert Collins Making Love at the Budget Host Hotel 000 Katherine Soniat Coming into the River Parishes 000 Graham Duncan The Silence We Cannot Imagine 000 Debra Marquart Somewhere in a House Where You Are Not 000 Neal Bowers A Legacy 000 Rebecca McClanahan Passion Week, 1966 000 James Kimbrell The Trouble Now 000 Bill Brown Mounding Potatoes 000 Michael Chitwood Singing Hymns to Go to Sleep 000 Claudia Emerson Preserves 000 Stable 000 Lisa Erb Stewart Words for the Body 000 Andrea Hollander Budy Permission 000 Wayne Johns First Kiss 000 R. T. Smith To Write the New Yorker Poem 000 Will Wells Hard Water 000 B. H. Fairchild Body and Soul 000 Becky Gould Gibson Laying Out the Dead 000 Judith Tate O'Brien Not Counting the Men 000 Randolph Thomas Finishing the Puzzle 000 Lyn Lifshin Did You Know I Love You 000 Kathryn Kirkpatrick Crossing the Border 000 Starkey Flythe Jr. Paying the Anesthesiologist 000 Gwen Ebert American Insomnia 000 Chapter 5: The 2000's Suzanne Cleary Anyways 000 Philip Memmer Walk 000 Lou Lipsitz Being, 1 000 Philip Dacey New York Postcard Sonnets, #6 000 William Jolliff Mose Whipple Says Good-Bye 000 Kurt Leland Ode 000 Carrie Shipers Last Time, 000 Greg Rappleye Were We Speaking, Had You Asked 000 Andrew Grace For Tityrus 000 David Hernandez Let's Drink Now 000 Robert Bense At Kellogg's Landing 000 Enid Shomer "Gowned Waiting" 000 Marc J. Sheehan A Note on Rejection 000 Harriet Brown On the First Day of Middle School, My Daughter Walks into a Cloud 000 Katherine E. Young HAZMAT 000 Cathy Smith Bowers For Okra 000 Allan Peterson Plenty to Go 000 Temple Cone Calf-Bearer 000 Georgette Perry Names of Small Fish 000 Robert Cording In the Garden 000 Michelle Detorie Doll House 000 Joan Mitchell Drought 000 Peter Makuck Matins 000 Jay Rogoff Mysteries 000 Edison Jennings The Sympathy of Dust 000 Kathleen Flenniken Richland Dock, 1956 000 Gary Fincke The Sum Total 000 Ron Rash Hearth 000 Stephen Gibson Profile of a Young Woman 000 Jeanne Marie Beaumont Getting to Know You 000 Jim Daniels Thorn 000 Linda Pastan Thought Upon Waking 000 Ellen Wehle Pine Tree, Mountain 000 Bill Brown Deep-running 000 Debra A. Daniel Hymn of Invitation 000 Lee Rossi Philip Sleeping 000 Arthur Smith Golden Gate 000 David Citino Shovel 000 Paul Guest Libretto for Insomnia 000 Amy Fleury At Twenty-Eight 000 David Kirby Someone Naked and Adorable 000 James Scruton The Names of Birds 000 Fleda Brown Trillium 000 Robert West At a Loss 000 Toll 000 Veronica Patterson Retriever 000 Chana Bloch Door 000 Contributors 000 Author Index 000 Title Index 000 Appendix: Guy Owen Prize 000
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