REBEL ANGELS 25 POETS OF THE NEW FORMALISM. Edited by Mark Jarman & David Mason

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1 REBEL ANGELS 25 POETS OF THE NEW FORMALISM Edited by Mark Jarman & David Mason Story Line Press 1996

2 Contents Acknowledgements Preface xiii v Elizabeth Alexander Who I Think You Are Deadwood Dick 2 Letter: Blues? i Julia A.ln How I Learned to Sweep Woman's Work 7 from 33 8 Bruce Bawer View from an Airplane at Night over California 10 On Leaving the Artist's Colony // Grand Central Station, 20 December Rafael Campo For J. W. 13 Aunt Toni's Heart 14 Allegory 16 El Dia de los Muertos 18 Tom Disch Entropic Villanelle 20 The Rapist's Villanelle 21 Convalescing in London 22 Zewhyexary 23 A Bookmark 25

3 The Clouds 26 Ballade of the New God 2g Frederick Feirstein Dana Gioia The Rune-Maker 30 Mark Stern Wakes Up 31 Mark Stern 34 Lives of the Great Composers 36 The Country Wife 38 Counting the Children 39 Guide to the Other Gallery 46 Maze Without a Minotaur 47 My Confessional Sestina 48 Summer Storm 50 Emily Grosholz On the Ferry, Toward Patras Remembering the Ardeche The Old Fisherman 4 The Outer Banks JJ Back Trouble 56 Life of a Salesman 37 Eden 59 R. S. Gwynn Among Philistines 61 Anacreontic 64 The Drive-In 66 Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry 68 Body Bags yo The Classroom at the Mall 72 Release j Rebel Angels

4 Marilyn Hacker Wagers j6 "Did you love well what very soon you left?" Nights of : The Old Reliable jg Rune of the Finland Woman 82 Elevens 84 Elysian Fields 86 Cancer Winter 88 j8 Rachel Hadas Journey Out 94 Sentimental Education 515 Moments of Summer gy Three Silences gg The Red Hat 101 Andrew Hudgins Paul Lake Saints and Strangers 102 The Hereafter 112 Dead Christ 114 Praying Drunk IIJ Two Ember Days in Alabama 118 Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead 120 The Telling 121 Crime and Punishment 122 Blue Jay 124 In Rough Weather 125 Introduction to Poetry 126 Sydney Lea The Feud 127 The Wrong Way Will Haunt You 141 Contents

5 Telescope 143 At the Flyfisher's Shack 145 Clouded Evening, Late September 147 Insomnia: The Distances 149 Brad Leithauser Phillis Levin Post-Coitum Tristesse: A Sonnet The Haunted 154 The, Ghost of a Ghost IJJ Old Bachelor Brother 158 The Shadow Returns ijg A Meeting of Friends 160 The Lost Bee 162 Night Coach 164 Charles Martin Satyr, Cunnilinguent: To Herman Melville 166 Sharks at the New York Aquarium 168 Speech Against Stone i6g Metaphor of Grass in California 171 E.S.L. 172 Easter Sunday, Victoria's Secret 176 Marilyn Nelson Balance 177 Chopin 178 The Ballad of Aunt Geneva 179 Molly Peacock Desire 181 Those Paperweights with Snow Inside 182 xii Rebel Angels

6 How I Come to You 183 Dream Come True 184 The Wheel 185 Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm? 186 The Return 187 Wyatt Prunty A Winter's Tale 188 Insomnia i8g To Be Sung on the Fourth of July igo The Ferris Wheel ig3 Elderly Lady Crossing on Green igj A Note of Thanks ig6 Reading Before We Read: Horoscope and Weather ig8 Mary Jo Salter Welcome to Hiroshima 200 What Do Women Want? 202 Summer Frost at Midnight 204 Timothy Stee/e The Wartburg, In the King's Rooms 212 Timothy 213 An Aubade 214 Eros 2/5 The Library 216 Joseph 2ig Frederick Turner Spring Evening 221 April Wind 222 On the Pains of Translating Miklos Radnoti 223 Contents xw

7 Rachel Wetzsteon Three Songs 225 Three Songs 236 Dinner at Le Caprice 232 Greg Williamson Walter Parmer 234 The Counterfeiter 239 Waterfall 241 Annual Returns 242 Index of Forms 243 Key to the Poems 247 Suggestions for Further Reading 253 Notes on the Contributors 255 Notes on the Editors 260 xw Rebel Angels

AFTER FROST. An Anthology of Poetry from New England. Edited with an introduction and commentary by. Henry Lyman

AFTER FROST. An Anthology of Poetry from New England. Edited with an introduction and commentary by. Henry Lyman AFTER FROST An Anthology of Poetry from New England Edited with an introduction and commentary by Henry Lyman UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS Amherst Published in association with THE NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION