{"product_id":"poems-of-the-american-west-isbn-9780375414596","title":"Poems of the American West","description":"In this provocative and thoughtful anthology, many voices join in illuminating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected here ranges from American Indian tribal poems to old folk songs like “The Streets of Laredo,” from country-western lyrics to the work of such foreign poets as Bertolt Brecht and Zbigniew Herbert. Here is the West in all its rich variety–the harsh life of farms and ranches; man’s destructive invasion into forest and desert solitudes; the bars and bistros of San Francisco and Hollywood; Pacific surf and endless highways; the ghost towns, the poverty, and the legendary world of cowpunchers and gunslingers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Robert Frost’s “Once by the Pacific” to Charles Bukowski’s “Vegas,” from Fred Koller’s “Lone Star State of Mind” to Thom Gunn’s “San Francisco Streets”–the West is evoked in all its incarnations, both actual and mythic.\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eROBERT FROST (1874–1963)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOnce by the Pacific \u003cbr\u003eAuspex \u003cbr\u003eThe Gift Outright \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE (1880–1918)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAnnie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWITTER BYNNER (1881–1968)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDefeat \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eROBINSON JEFFERS (1887–1962)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eCompensation \u003cbr\u003eThe Eye \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFOLKSONGS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMe and My Uncle \u003cbr\u003eJesse James \u003cbr\u003eThe Streets of Laredo \u003cbr\u003eThe Buffalo Skinners \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHOMAS HORNSBY FERRIL (1896–1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBookmarks \u003cbr\u003eScience Came West \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBERTOLT BRECHT (1898–1956)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHollywood \u003cbr\u003eLandscape of Exile \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJANET LEWIS (1899–1998)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFor John Muir, a Century and More Afte His Time \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTRIBAL POEMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eChippewa: “Sometimes I go about”\u003cbr\u003eYokuts: Song of the Eclipse\u003cbr\u003eMakah: Song\u003cbr\u003eHidatsa: We Made a Fire \u003cbr\u003ePapago: Song of the Brown Buzzard \u003cbr\u003eDakota: Song of Reproach \u003cbr\u003eChippewa: Where the Fight Was \u003cbr\u003ePawnee: Better to Die Young \u003cbr\u003eCrow: Prayer Offering \u003cbr\u003eMalecite: Tale \u003cbr\u003ePawnee: Buffalo Dance Song \u003cbr\u003eChemehuevi: Love Song\u003cbr\u003eSanpoil: After Hunting \u003cbr\u003eYuma: Death Song \u003cbr\u003eSioux: “The earth is all that lives” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYVOR WINTERS (1900–1968)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Journey \u003cbr\u003eOn Rereading a Passage from John Muir \u003cbr\u003eJohn Sutter \u003cbr\u003eTo the Holy Spirit \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBREWSTER GHISELIN (1903–1996)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eRattlesnake \u003cbr\u003eHeadland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKENNETH REXROTH (1905–1982)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eAndree Rexroth\u003cbr\u003e—Kings River Canyon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHEODORE ROETHKE (1908–1963)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Rose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOSEPHINE MILES (1911–1985)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWest from Ithaca \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. V. CUNNINGHAM (1911–1985)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMontana Pastoral \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eTo What Strangers, What Welcome\u003cbr\u003eMontana Fifty Years Ago \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKARL SHAPIRO (1913–2000)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eCalifornia Winter \u003cbr\u003eWestern Town \u003cbr\u003eCalifornia Petrarchan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVIRGINIA HAMILTON ADAIR (b. 1913)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMojave Evening\u003cbr\u003eSecond Coming \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWELDON KEES (1914–1955)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTwo Cities \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWILLIAM STAFFORD (1914–1998)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAt the Bomb Testing Site \u003cbr\u003eThe Tillamook Burn\u003cbr\u003eIn the Oregon Country \u003cbr\u003eWhat Ever Happened to the Beats? \u003cbr\u003eTraveling Through the Dark \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eANN STANFORD (1916–1987)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Four Horsemen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHARLES BUKOWSKI (1920–1994)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eVegas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLEE GERLACH (b. 1920)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGenesis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHARLES FOSTER (1922–1967)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHow Everything Was in the End Resolved in California \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLOUIS SIMPSON (b. 1923)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWest \u003cbr\u003eThe Redwoods \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eZBIGNIEW HERBERT (1924–1998)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSequoia \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOHN HAINES (b. 1924)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePawnee Dust\u003cbr\u003eGhost Town\u003cbr\u003eAlive in the World \u003cbr\u003eMen Against the Sky \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEDGAR BOWERS (1925–2000)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSomeone in San Francisco \u003cbr\u003eBreakages \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDONALD JUSTICE (b. 1925)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHenry James by the Pacific\u003cbr\u003eBanjo Dog Variations \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eALAN STEPHENS (b. 1925)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAfter Work: Foreword \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eWater Among the Stones Along the Matilija\u003cbr\u003e—XVI The End of Something \u003cbr\u003e—XVII Yucca \u003ci\u003eWhipplei\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAVID WAGONER (b. 1926)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTumbleweed\u003cbr\u003eFire by the River \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHENRI COULETTE (1928–1989)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Extras \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eThe Hermit\u003cbr\u003e—Elsewhere\u003cbr\u003eQuake\u003cbr\u003eThe Garden \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJAMES WRIGHT (1928–1980)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Frontier\u003cbr\u003eOutside Fargo, North Dakota \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWILLIAM DICKEY (1928–1994)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOn His Way to Wyoming \u003cbr\u003eCoyote’s Song \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHARLES GULLANS (1929–1993)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLos Angeles Place Names \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eMany Houses, Part 1 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHOM GUNN (1929–2004)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHitching into Frisco\u003cbr\u003eSan Francisco Streets \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBERT MEYERS (1929–1979)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eLandscapes\u003cbr\u003e—The City \u003cbr\u003eThe Drive \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMILLER WILLIAMS (b. 1930)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePity and Fear \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePETER EVERWINE (b. 1930)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eCollecting the Animals \u003cbr\u003eThe Marsh, New Year’s Day \u003cbr\u003eHow It Is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCOUNTRY \u0026amp; WESTERN LYRICS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis Ain’t My First Rodeo [Vern Gosden, Max D. Barnes and Hank Cochran] \u003cbr\u003eA Better Class of Losers [Randy Travis and Alan Jackson] \u003cbr\u003eLone Star State of Mind [Fred Koller] \u003cbr\u003eFaster Horses [Tom T. Hall] \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGARY SNYDER (b. 1930)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout\u003cbr\u003eHay for the Horses \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDICK BARNES (1932–2000)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGranite Intrusive \u003cbr\u003eFew and Far Between \u003cbr\u003eOn a Painting by David Hockney \u003cbr\u003ePomona Laundresses \u003cbr\u003eShoot Out \u003cbr\u003eWillie Boy \u003cbr\u003eErles \u003cbr\u003eTrophy Hunt\u003cbr\u003eBagdad Chase Road in July\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRHINA P. ESPAILLAT (b. 1932)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWhen We Sold the Tent \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRICHARD SHELTON (b. 1933)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSonora Wind\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eWhatever Became of Me \u003cbr\u003eRequiem for Sonora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOHN RIDLAND (b. 1933)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLunch at Deer Creek \u003cbr\u003eBlack Angel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVERN RUTSALA (b. 1934)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Shack Outside Boise \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eN. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFort Sill \u003cbr\u003eEarth and I Gave You Turquoise \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHARLES WRIGHT (b. 1935)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLaguna Blues \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGEORGE KEITHLEY (b. 1935)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eThe Donner Party \u003cbr\u003e—Land Logic \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eROBERT MEZEY (b. 1935)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIn Texas: Variation on a Theme of Borges’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLUIS SALINAS (b. 1937)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMy Fifty-Plus Years Celebrate Spring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSTEVE KOWIT (b. 1938)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJacumba \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLAWSON FUSAO INADA (b. 1939)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eUtica, North Platte \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGLOVER DAVIS (b. 1939)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Eagle \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTED KOOSER (b. 1939)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAbandoned Farmhouse \u003cbr\u003eMrs. Jones: \u003cbr\u003eCountry-Western Music\u003cbr\u003eA Summer Night \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRON KOERTGE (b. 1940)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eRoad Kill\u003cbr\u003eRuidoso, N. M. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOLIVIA SIMPSON ELLIS (b. 1941)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLooking West \u003cbr\u003eSigning Your Life Away\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMICHAEL SHEPLER (b. 1942)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDiary of a Lost Girl\u003cbr\u003eOut There in the Dark \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eC. G. HANZLICEK (b. 1942)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMoment \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eB. H. FAIRCHILD (b. 1942)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Men\u003cbr\u003eBrazil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNANCY WARE (b. 1942)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNo Name\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMICHAEL CREAGAN (b. 1944)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTaking a Walk on Sunday \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLARRY LEVIS (1946–1996)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Poet at Seventeen \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGREG PAPE (b. 1947)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWinter Night Under Black Mountain \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eR. S. GWYNN (b. 1948)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAt Rose’s Range\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIMOTHY STEELE (b. 1948)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA Shore \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLYNN EMANUEL (b. 1949)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOne Summer Hurricane Lynn Spawns Tornados as Far West as Ely\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAVID ST. JOHN (b. 1949)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eChapter Forever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIMOTHY MURPHY (b. 1951)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBuffalo Commons \u003cbr\u003eThe Last Sod Busters \u003cbr\u003e“It is Very Far North . . .” \u003cbr\u003eThe Failure \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJAMES GALVIN (b. 1951)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNot So Much on the Land as in the Wind\u003cbr\u003eThree Sonnets \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUZANNE LUMMIS (b. 1951)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNotes Taken at Ocean Beach, San Francisco \u003cbr\u003ePoem Noir \u003cbr\u003eEarthquake \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWet Camp \u003cbr\u003eSpring in the Only Place Spring Was \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMARK JARMAN (b. 1952)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Supremes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGARY SOTO (b. 1952)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSaturday at the Canal \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUZANNE DOYLE (b. 1954)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHeart’s Desire \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOE BOLTON (1961–1990)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLaguna Beach Breakdown \u003cbr\u003eThe Lights at Newport Beach \u003cbr\u003eDays of Summer Gone \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003eRobert Mezey is an eminent poet, translator, critic, and editor. His books include the Lamont Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Lovemaker\u003c\/i\u003e (1960) and \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1952-1999\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). He lives in Pomona, California.\u003cb\u003eAt the Bomb Testing Site\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt noon in the desert a panting lizard\u003cbr\u003ewaited for history, its elbows tense,\u003cbr\u003ewatching the curve of a particular road\u003cbr\u003eas if something might happen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was looking at something farther off\u003cbr\u003ethan people could see, an important scene\u003cbr\u003eacted in stone for little selves\u003cbr\u003eat the flute end of consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was just a continent without much on it\u003cbr\u003eunder a sky that never cared less.\u003cbr\u003eReady for a change, the elbows waited.\u003cbr\u003eThe hands gripped hard on the desert.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301608378597,"sku":"NP9780375414596","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375414596.jpg?v=1767734911","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/poems-of-the-american-west-isbn-9780375414596","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}