Drive, they said : poems about Americans and their cars / edited by Kurt Brown.
Presents a collection of poems in homage to America's obsession with the automobile.
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Minneapolis, MN :
Milkweed Editions,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Edward Hirsch
- Driving Montana / Richard Hugo
- Goodbye, Iowa / Richard Hugo
- Expressways / J.D. Reed
- Perpetual Motion / Tony Hoagland
- Sand City / James Haug
- So Long, Tuscaloosa / Michael Pettit
- Hitting the Road / Donald Finkel
- Traveller's Advisory / David Clewell
- So This Is Nebraska / Ted Kooser
- On Our Way / Greg Pape
- Black Road over which Green Trees Grow / Thomas Lux
- A Night and Morning First Time Drive to Portland / Peter Sears
- Driving through Oregon (Dec. 1973) / John Haines
- In the Realm of the Ignition / James Tate
- Losing WSUI / Michael Dennis Browne
- Cutting Loose on an August Night / Jonathan Holden
- Driving Again / Lawrence Joseph
- Road Life / Reg Saner
- Pickup / Philip Booth
- Adrenalin Run / Martha McFerren
- Leaving in 1927 / Martha McFerren
- Every Spring on Certain Nights / Veronica Patterson
- Jurassic / Anne Waldman
- Driving to Houston / Linda Gregg
- Highway / Gene Zeiger
- Leaving the Mountains / Joyce Carol Oates
- Angel Fire / Joyce Carol Oates
- Exodus / Beth Houston
- Route 280 / Martha Hollander
- As the Birds / Terese Svoboda
- There, in My Grandfather's Old Green Buick / Lynne Knight
- Nandia / Joy Harjo
- Alive / Joy Harjo
- Interstate 80 / Barbara M. Smith
- Night Blindness / Barbara M. Smith
- Desert / Barbara M. Smith
- Holding the Family Together / Maggie Anderson
- A Metaphor Crosses the Road / Martha McFerren
- Reasons for Wanting to Have Children / Sheryl St. Germain
- Night Driving / Joyce Carol Oates
- Driving at Night / Linda Hogan
- Scenic Route / Lisel Mueller
- Driving after Supper / Marianne Boruch
- Women in Cars / Martha McFerren
- Mimosa / Deborah Digges
- Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River / Robert Bly
- Driving toward Boston I Run across One of Robert Bly's Old Poems / Thomas McGrath
- To a Wall of Flame in a Steel Mill, Syracuse, New York, 1969 / Larry Levis
- Fences / Ki Davis
- The Sunday Driver in Search of Himself / James Tate
- Walking to Manhattan / Robert Hill Long
- Virginia Evening / Michael Pettit
- Meeting the Dead / Alicia Ostriker
- While Driving North / Alicia Ostriker
- Traffic / Stephen Dobyns
- A Trucker Drives through His Lost Youth / David Bottoms
- Taking a Stepdaughter to College / Kurt Brown
- Driving All Night / William Matthews
- Driving alongside the Housatonic River Alone on a Rainy April Night / William Matthews
- Porcupine on the Road to the River / Linda Hogan
- Toward the Verrazano / Stephen Dunn
- Key to the Highway / Mark Halliday
- For a Friend / Ted Kooser
- Driving into the Hurricane / Sheryl St. Germain
- Encounter / Bruce Berger
- Ranch Exit / Bruce Berger
- There Is No Way Back / Patricia Monaghan
- I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror / Agha Shahid Ali
- Crossing West Nebraska, Looking for Blue Mountain / John Balaban
- Driving Out Again at Night / Stephen Berg
- Lonesome Pine Special / Charles Wright
- At Kresge's Diner in Stonefalls, Arkansas / Edward Hirsch
- Truck Stop: Minnesota / Stephen Dunn
- Little America / Greg Pape
- Rosebud / Jon Anderson
- Interstate / Reg Saner
- At Every Gas Station There Are Mechanics / Stephen Dunn
- Filling Station / Elizabeth Bishop
- Bison and Ass / Karen Swenson
- The Stones of My Women / Karen Swenson
- Hard River / James Finnegan
- The Official Frisbee-Chasing Champion of Colorado / Robert Hill Long
- Rest Stop / Barbara M. Smith
- When the Big Blue Light Comes a Whirling up Behind / Peter Sears
- A Roadside near Ithaca / William Matthews
- On Picking and Smelling a Wild Violet While Wearing Driving Gloves / L.E. Sissman
- Among Blackberries / Stephen Dunn
- The Quilt / Larry Levis
- Beer / Kurt Brown
- The Gas Station / C.K. Williams
- The Cows at Night / Hayden Carruth
- Territory of Night / Linda Hogan
- Fox / Michael Dennis Browne
- Great Basin Blues / Bruce Berger
- Wanting to Be Death Valley / Sheryl St. Germain
- Riding Westward / John Balaban
- "Coming home late from work . . ." from Cora Fry / Rosellen Brown
- Travelling through the Dark / William Stafford
- Painting by Number / Deborah Digges
- At Slim's River / John Haines
- Poem / Denis Johnson
- The Weather Is Brought to You / J.D. Reed
- Scenes from a Text / Robert Sward
- Epistemology / Beth Houston
- Accident / Peter Sears
- Accidents / Martha Hollander
- "I hit the tree . . ." from Cora Fry / Rosellen Brown
- The Scarred Girl / James Dickey
- License to Operate a Motor Vehicle / J.D. Reed
- Highway: Michigan / Theodore Roethke
- The Pileup / Lee Ballentine
- The Wrecker / James Finnegan
- Driving Home / Joseph Hutchison
- Night: Driving the Blizzard / Jonathan Holden
- Ground Blizzard, Interstate 70 / Reg Saner
- Accident in the Snow on the Way to Amadeus / Stephen Dunn
- The Long Drive Home through Heavy Weather / Nick Bozanic
- The House in the Road / Henry Taylor
- Wife Hits Moose / Thomas Lux
- Turnpike / Robert Sward
- Burying an Animal on the Way to New York / Gerald Stern
- Behaving like a Jew / Gerald Stern
- 13th & Aloha / Daniel Hall
- Elegy for Michael, a Friend, Killed in His Car / Joseph Hutchison
- Auto Wreck / Karl Shapiro
- Concerning the Transmission / Donald Finkel
- The Drivers / Len Roberts
- The Driving Lesson / Michael Dennis Browne
- The Metaphysical Automobile / Howard Nemerov
- Fugue / Howard Nemerov
- Gleaning / Linda Pastan
- Night Driving / William Matthews
- The Bumper-Sticker / Laure-Anne Bosselaar
- The Roads into the Country / Thomas McGrath
- Running on Empty / Robert Phillips
- Rootless / Stephen Dobyns
- Highway 30 / Ted Kooser
- Looking for You, Barbara / Ted Kooser
- Truck / Peter Sears
- XIX / e. e. cummings
- Jump Cabling / Linda Pastan
- The Automobile / Russell Edson
- Auto Mobile / A.R. Ammons
- Looking for a Rest Area / Stephen Dunn
- Fiction / Lisel Mueller
- Internal Combustion / Joseph Hutchison
- Journey to the Interior / Theodore Roethke
- Zeros / Philip Booth
- Tumbleweed / Jonathan Holden
- Nigger Song: An Odyssey / Rita Dove
- The Commuter's Dream / Bill Knott
- The Automobile Age / William Bronk
- Wheels / Jim Daniels
- Phaethon / Bruce Berger
- The Road / Susan Mitchell
- The Boarding / Denis Johnson
- Enough / Denis Johnson
- The Flames / Denis Johnson
- The Moose / Elizabeth Bishop
- Winchendon / Mark Halliday
- On the Greyhound / Stephen Dunn
- Before the Credits Appear on the Screen / Lisel Mueller
- Bus Trip / Susan Mitchell
- Love in a Bus / Thomas McGrath
- Another Bus, Coming Home / David Romtvedt
- On the Bus Riding to You / David Romtvedt
- Women on a Bus / Randall Jarrell
- The Bus Home / Shirley Bowers Anders
- Upstate / Derek Walcott
- Passing through Barre / James Haug
- The Blond Road / Richard Hugo
- Red Twilight / Kenneth Rosen
- Recurring Highway / James Tate
- Dream of Darkness / John Calderazzo
- Morning Harvest / Gerald Stern
- Crossing the Desert / William Stafford
- Snow on the Desert / Agha Shahid Ali
- Cross-Country, & Motif Appears / Albert Goldbarth
- What I See When I Drive to Work / Thomas Lux
- On the Way to Work / Stephen Dunn
- Merge / Peter Sears
- A Drive in the Country / Ted Kooser
- Smiling at 180 / Reg Saner
- Car Radio / Donald Revell
- An Introduction to New Jersey / Jonathan Holden
- Coming Home, Garden State Parkway / Stephen Dunn
- Driving the Coeur d'Alene without You / Robert Dana
- Passing through Albuquerque / John Balaban.