Poems of the American West / selected and edited by Robert Mezey.
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| Other title: | Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2002.
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| Series: | Everyman's library pocket poets.
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Table of Contents:
- Once by the Pacific / Robert Frost
- Auspex / Robert Frost
- Gift outright / Robert Frost
- Annie / Guillaume Apollinaire
- Defeat / Witter Bynner
- Compensation / Robinson Jeffers
- Eye / Robinson Jeffers
- Me and my uncle / Folksongs
- Jesse James / Folksongs
- Streets of Laredo / Folksongs
- Buffalo skinners / Folksongs
- Bookmarks / Thomas Hornsby Ferril
- Science came West / Thomas Hornsby Ferril
- Hollywood / Bertolt Brecht
- Landscape of exile / Bertolt Brecht
- For John Muir, a century and more after his time / Janet Lewis
- Chippewa: "Sometimes I go about" / Tribal poems
- Yokuts: Song of the eclipse / Tribal poems
- Makah: Song / Tribal poems
- Hidatsa: We made a fire / Tribal poems
- Papago: Song of the Brown Buzzard / Tribal poems
- Dakota: Song of reproach / Tribal poems
- Chippewa: Where the fight was / Tribal poems
- Pawnee: Better to die young / Tribal poems
- Crow: Prayer offering / Tribal poems
- Malecite: Tale / Tribal poems
- Pawnee: Buffalo Dance Song / Tribal songs
- Chemehuevi: Love song / Tribal poems
- Sanpoil: After hunting / Tribal poems
- Yuma: Death song / Tribal poems
- Sioux: "The earth is all that lives" / Tribal poems
- Journey / Yvor Winters
- On rereading a passage from John Muir / Yvor Winters
- John Sutter / Yvor Winters
- To the Holy Spirit / Yvor Winters
- Rattlesnake / Brewster Ghiselin
- Headland / Brewster Ghiselin
- From Andree Rexroth Kings River Canyon / Kenneth Roxroth
- Rose / Theodore Roethke
- West from Ithaca / Josephine Miles
- Montana pastoral / J. V. Cunningham
- From To what strangers, what welcome / J. V. Cunningham
- Montana fifty years ago / J. V. Cunningham
- California winter / Karl Shapiro
- Western town / Karl Shapiro
- California petrarchan / Karl Shapiro
- Mojave evening / Virginia Hamilton Adair
- Second coming / Virginia Hamilton Adair
- Two cities / Weldon Kees
- At the bomb testing site / William Stafford
- Tillamook burn / William Stafford
- In the Oregon Country / William Stafford
- What ever happened to the Beats? / William Stafford
- Traveling through the dark / William Stafford
- Four horsemen / Ann Stanford
- Vegas / Charles Bukowski
- Genesis / Lee Gerlach
- How everything was in the end resolved in California / Charles Foster
- West / Louis Simpson
- Redwoods / Louis Simpson
- Sequoia / Zbigniew Herbert
- Pawnee dust / John Haines
- Ghost Town / John Haines
- Alive in the world / John Haines
- Men against the sky / John Haines
- Someone in San Francisco / Edgar Bowers
- Breakages / Edgar Bowers
- Henry James by the Pacific / Donald Justice
- Banjo dog variations / Donald Justice
- After work: Foreword / Alan Stephens
- From Water among the stones along the Matilija / Alan Stephens
- End of something (XVI) / Alan Stephens
- Yucca Whipplei (XVII) / Alan Stephens
- Tumbleweed / David Wagoner
- Fire by the river / David Wagoner
- Extras / Henri Coulette
- From The Hermit: Elsewhere / Henri Coulette
- Quake / Henri Coulette
- Garden / Henri Coulette
- Frontier / James Wright
- Outside Fargo, North Dakota / James Wright
- On his way to Wyoming / William Dickey
- Coyote's song / William Dickey
- Hitching into Frisco / Thom Gunn
- Los Angeles place names / Charles Gullans
- From Many houses, part 1 / Charles Gullans
- San Francisco Streets / Thom Gunn
- From Landscapes, The city / Bert Meyers
- Drive / Bert Meyers
- Pity and fear / Miller Williams
- Collecting the animals / Peter Everwine
- Marsh, New Year's Day / Peter Everwine
- How it is / Peter Everwine
- This ain't my first rodeo [Vern Gosden, Max D. Barnes and Hank Cochran] / Country and Western lyrics
- A better class of losers [Randy Travis and Alan Jackson] / Country and Western Lyrics
- Lone Star state of mind [Fred Koller] / Country and Western lyrics
- Faster horses [Tom T. Hall] / Country and Wesern lyrics
- Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Gary Snyder
- Hay for the horses / Gary Snyder
- Granite intrusive / Dick Barnes
- Few and far between / Dick Barnes
- On a painting by David Hockney / Dick Barnes
- Pomona laundresses / Dick Barnes
- Shoot out / Dick Barnes
- Willie Boy / Dick Barnes
- Erles / Dick Barnes
- Trophy hunt / Dick Barnes
- Bagdad Chase Road in July / Dick Barnes
- When we sold the tent / Rhina P. Espaillat
- Sonora wind / Richard Shelton
- From whatever became of me / Richard Shelton
- Requiem for Sonora / Richard Shelton
- Lunch at Deer Creek / John Ridland
- Black Angel / John Ridland
- Shack outside Boise / Vern Rutsala
- Fort Sill / N. Scott Momaday
- Earth and I gave you turquoise / N. Scott Momaday
- Laguna blues / Charles Wright
- From The Donner Party. Land logic / George Keithley
- In Texas: variation on a Theme of Borges' / Robert Mezey
- My fifty-plus years celebrate Spring / Luis Salinas
- Jacumba / Steve Kowit
- Utica, North Platte / Lawson Fusao Inada
- Eagle / Glover Davis
- Abandoned farmhouse / Ted Kooser
- Mrs. Jones / Ted Kooser
- Country-Western music / Ted Kooser
- A summer night / Ted Kooser
- Road kill / Ron Koertge
- Ruidoso, N. M. / Ron Koertge
- Looking West / Olivia Simpson Ellis
- Signing your life away / Olivia Simpson Ellis
- Diary of a lost girl / Michael Shepler
- Out there in the dark / Michael Shepler
- Moment / C. G. Hanzlicek
- Men / B. H. Fairchild
- Brazil / B. H. Fairchild
- No name / Nancy Ware
- Taking a walk on Sunday / Michael Creagan
- Poet at seventeen / Larry Levis
- Winter night under Black Mountain / Greg Pape
- At Rose's Range / R. S. Gwynn
- A shore / Timothy Steele
- One Summer Hurricane Lynn Spawns Tornados as far west as Ely / Lynn Emanuel
- Chapter forever / David St. John
- Buffalo commons / Timothy Murphy
- Last sod busters / Timothy Murphy
- "It is very far north..." / Timothy Murphy
- Failure / Timothy Murphy
- No so much on the land as in the wind / James Galvin
- Three sonnets / James Galvin
- Notes taken at Ocean Beach, San Francisco / Suzanne Lummis
- Poem noir / Suzanne Lummis
- Earthquake / Suzanne Lummis
- Wet Camp / Alberto Rios
- Spring in the only place spring was / Alberto Rios
- Supremes / Mark Jarman
- Saturday at the canal / Gary Soto
- Heart's desire / Suzanne Doyle
- Laguna Beach breakdown / Joe Bolton
- Lights at Newport Beach / Joe Bolton
- Days of summer gone / Joe Bolton.