Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's preface -- John Trumbull (1750-1831) -- from Progress of Dulness -- from M'Fingal -- Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) -- from Greenfield Hill -- A Song -- David Humphreys (1753-1818) -- The Monkey -- Sonnet I -- from The Address to the Armies of the United States of America -- Joel Barlow (1754-1812) -- from The Hasty Pudding -- from The Columbiad -- James Abraham Hillhouse (1789-1841) -- from The Judgment, A Vision -- from Sachem's Wood -- Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865) -- The Western Emigrant -- Death of an Infant -- The War-Spirit -- Indian Names -- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) -- The Old Psalm Tune -- Above -- The Miserere -- Henry Howard Brownell (1820-1872) -- Suspiria Ensis -- A War Study -- All Together -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -- In Duty Bound -- To the Young Wife -- Anna Hempstead Branch (1875-1937) -- Connecticut Road Song -- Inheritance -- First Letter -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird -- Of Hartford in a Purple Light -- from An Ordinary Evening in New Haven -- The Plain Sense of Things -- The River of Rivers in Connecticut -- Mark Van Doren (1894-1972) -- Going Home -- The Unknown Army -- The Seven Sleepers -- Anger in the Room -- Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) -- Small White House -- Evening Hawk -- Rather Like a Dream -- Heart of Autumn -- Charles Olson (1910-1970) -- from As the Dead Prey upon Us -- Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele -- James Laughlin (1914-1997) -- Is Memory -- The Old Men -- from My Aunt -- What the Pencil Writes -- William Meredith (1919-2OO7) -- The Open Sea -- The Wreck of the Thresher -- Winter Verse for His Sister -- Here and There -- Richard Wilbur (1921- ) -- In Trackless Woods -- In the Field -- Advice to a Prophet -- "A World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness".

The Beautiful Changes -- Hayden Carruth (1921-2008) -- The Sound of Snow -- Stepping Backward -- The Mythology of Dark and Light -- James Merrill (1926-1995) -- A Tenancy -- The Emerald -- The Victor Dog -- from Mirabell: Books of Number -- Dead Center -- F. D. Reeve (1928- ) -- Night River -- Identity Crisis -- Watersong -- what the cranes said -- Donald Hall (1928- ) -- Christmas Eve in Whitneyville -- White Apples -- Kicking the Leaves -- 1943 -- John Hollander (1929- ) -- An Old Song -- Pageant of the Cold -- That's for Oblivion -- Collected Novels -- Adam's Task -- Lewis Turco (1934- ) -- Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 1964 -- The Late, Late Show -- The Recurring Dream -- Wake Disturbing Surfaces -- Russell Edson (1935- ) -- A Chair -- A Stone Is Nobody's -- The Ancestral Mousetrap -- The Ceremony -- The Matter -- Susan Howe (1937- ) -- Silence Wager Stories -- Brendan Galvin (1938- ) -- The Potatoes Have a Word to Say -- The Connecticut River in Flood -- from Wampanoag Traveler -- Dick Allen (1939- ) -- Another Knowledge -- On the New Haven Line -- To a Woman Half a World Away -- A Last Memory of Korea -- The Persistence -- George F. Butterick (1942-1988) -- 1970 -- The Walker -- Gurleyville Road -- The Distances -- Doug Anderson (1943- ) -- First Blood -- History Blues -- The Oracle -- Crows -- Vivian Shipley (1943- ) -- Moonflower -- Digging Up Peonies -- Static Holds a Grudge -- Number Fifty-two: Winifred Benham, Hartford, Connecticut, October 7, 1697 -- Margaret Gibson (1944- ) -- A Ripple of Deer, A Metamorphosis of Bear, A Metaphor of Mountains -- Elegy for a Dancer -- Icon -- Newspaper Photograph -- Gray Jacobik (1944- ) -- Skirts -- The Wooden Egg -- The Banquet -- Of Cos Cob in Snow -- J. D. Mcclatchy (1945- ) -- Late Autumn Walk -- The Bookcase -- E R -- Marilyn Nelson (1946- ) -- Churchgoing -- Sisters -- Juneteenth -- Psalm.

Charles O. Hartman (1949- ) -- Petting Zoo -- A Walk in Winter -- Tuxedo -- Chase Twichell (1950- ) -- Why All Good Music Is Sad -- The Paper River -- Savin Rock -- Rosanna Warren (1953- ) -- World Trade Center -- Snow -- Orchard -- Day Lilies -- Sophie Cabot Black (1958- ) -- Lost -- The Harrowing -- The Climb -- Threshold -- Stacy Doris (1962-2012) -- from Knot -- from Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book -- Elizabeth Alexander (1962- ) -- Tina Green -- Ars Poetica #92: Marcus Garvey on Elocution -- Connecticut -- The Amistad Trail -- Richard Deming (1970- ) -- OH -- Wintering the Turn -- Annus Mirabilis -- Mise En Scene -- Gabrielle Calvocoressi (1974- ) -- The Death of Towns -- Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany -- Final Note -- About the Poets -- Publications and Credits -- Index of Titles.