
The Wesleyan Tradition
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Since issuing its first volumes in 1959, the Wesleyan poetry program has challenged the reigning aesthetic of the time and profoundly influenced the development of American poetry. One of the country's oldest programs, its greatest achievement has been the publication of early works by yet undiscovered poetry who have since become major awarded Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, National Book Awards, and many other honors. At a time when other programs are being phased out, Wesleyan takes this opportunity to celebrate its distinguished history and reaffirm its commitment to poetry with publication of The Wesleyan Tradition.
Drawing from some 250 volumes, editor Michael Collier documents the wide-ranging impact of these works. In his introduction, he describes the literary and cultural context of American poetics in more recent decades, tracing the evolution of the Deep Image and Confessional movements of the 50s and 60s, and exploring the emergence of the "prose lyric" style. Although the success of the Wesleyan program has inspired its share of imitators, no other program has had such a fundamental impact. Works by the eighty-six poets included her both document and celebrate that contribution.
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MICHAEL COLLIER has won several awards and fellowships for his poetry, a "Discovery" / The Nation award (1981), the 1988 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Thomas J. Watson fellowship, a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and an NEA creative writing fellowship. A graduate of Connecticut College (B.A. 1976) and the University of Arizona (M.F.A. 1979), Collier has traveled widely-from London to northern Africa to Siberia and Japan-and worked at various times as a house painter and a community activist. He is an assistant professor of English and associate director of creative writing at the University of Maryland and a visiting assistant professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He was director of the summer writers' conference at Johns Hopkins in 1987 and coordinator of poetry programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1983-84. His first book, The Clasp and Other Poems, was published by Wesleyan in 1986.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- First Decade
- Barbara Howes
- Early Supper
- The Blue Garden
- Hyam Plutzik
- Jim Desterland
- The Premonition
- Louis Simpson
- I Dreamed That in a City Dark as Paris
- Landscape with Barns
- Carentan O Carentan
- In California
- In the Suburbs
- My Father in the Night Commanding No
- American Poetry
- The Troika
- On the Lawn at the Villa
- James Wright
- A Fit Against the Country
- At Thomas Hardy's Birthplace, 1953
- Saint Judas
- Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
- Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
- A Blessing
- Two Poems about President Harding
- Outside Fargo, North Dakota
- The Old WPA Swimming Pool in Martins Ferry, Ohio
- Redwings
- The Journey
- David Ferry
- My Parents En Route
- The Soldier
- Robert Francis
- Three Darks Come Down Together
- Blue Jay
- Dog-Day Night
- Donald Justice
- The Poet at Seven
- Here in Katmandu
- On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane
- Houses
- Variations for Two Pianos
- Men at Forty
- Bus Stop
- Vassar Miller
- Adam's Footprint
- Aubade
- Remembering Aunt Helen
- Robert Bagg
- Ezra Pound and Robert Bridges
- Death at Pocono Lake Preserve
- Alan Ansen
- A Fit of Something Against Something
- David Ignatow
- Walt Whitman in the Civil War Hospitals
- Figures of the Human
- Rescue the Dead
- The Refuse Man
- In the Dark
- The dog barks and is for the moment a dog heard
- White-haired, I walk in on my parents
- John Ashbery
- The Tennis Court Oath
- Two Sonnets
- Our Youth
- The Ticket
- from The New Realism
- Robert Bly
- Surprised by Evening
- Sunset at a Lake
- Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River
- Remembering in Oslo the Old Picture of the Magna Carta
- Night
- After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem
- James Dickey
- The Performance
- A Screened Porch in the Country
- Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek
- In the Mountain Tent
- The Dusk of Horses
- Buckdancer's Choice
- The Leap
- Coming Back to America
- Night Bird
- Richard Howard
- Agreement with Sir Charles Sedley
- Seeing Cousin Phyllis Off
- Donald Petersen
- Ballad of Dead Yankees
- Vern Rutsala
- Lovers in Summer
- Late at Night
- Bodies
- W. R. Moses
- Night Wind in Fall
- Dark and Dark
- Turner Cassity
- Junker-Lied
- Epigoni Go French Line
- John Haines
- The Field of the Caribou
- The House of the Injured
- Dürer's Vision
- Choosing a Stone
- There Are No Such Trees in Alpine, California
- Sleep
- Mothball Fleet: Benicia, California
- Harvey Shapiro
- National Cold Storage Company
- For W C W
- Hello There!
- After the Love-making
- Josephine Miles
- When Sanders brings feed to his chickens
- When I was eight, I put in the left-hand drawer
- Michael Benedikt
- Events by Moonlight
- Dossier of the Torturer
- The Nipplewhip
- Philip Levine
- Blasting from Heaven
- To a Child Trapped in a Barber Shop
- The Cemetery at Academy, California
- The Midget
- Baby Villon
- Animals Are Passing from Our Lives
- Marge Piercy
- A Kid on Her Way
- Landed Fish
- The Death of the Small Commune
- Learning Experience
- Leonard Nathan
- The Day the Perfect Speakers Left
- An Answer of Sorts
- Anne Stevenson
- The Suburb
- Apology
- Richard Tillinghast
- Dozing on the Porch with an Oriental Lap-rug
- The Knife
- Our Flag Was Still There
- Second Decade
- James Seay
- Let Not Your Hart Be Truble
- Options
- The Ballet of Happiness
- Charles Wright
- Homecoming
- The New Poem
- Dog Creek Mainline
- Virgo Descending
- Rural Route
- Morandi
- Snapshot
- Remembering San Zeno
- Stone Canyon Nocturne
- William Harmon
- from Treasury Holiday
- from Legion: Civic Choruses, The Ceremony(y)(ies) of Mutability
- Invoice No. 13, A Masque of Resignation
- Clarence Major
- Swallow the Lake
- My Seasonal Body, My Ears
- William Dickey
- Suburban
- So full of sleep are those who lose the way
- Russell Edson
- The Floor
- Lovers
- The Large Thing
- The Tearing and Merging of Clouds . . .
- The Way Things Are
- The Rat's Legs
- Judith Hemschemeyer
- My Grandmother Had Bones
- Giving Birth in Greek
- Eleanor Lerman
- Margaret Whiting Tearfully Sings
- Evenings in the Sea
- Calvin Forbes
- Gabriel's Blues
- My Father's House
- Barbara L. Greenberg
- Mother, R.I.P.
- David Ray
- A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper
- On the Photograph "Yarn Mill," by Lewis W. Hine
- Sherley Williams
- This Is a Sad-Ass Poem for a Black Woman to Be Writing
- Quartet
- For Ronald King Our Brother
- James Tate
- The Lost Pilot
- A Guide to the Stone Age
- A Dime Found in the Snow
- Goodtime Jesus
- Land of Little Sticks, 1945
- Storm
- Consolations After an Affair
- Ellen Bryant Voigt
- Tropics
- At the Edge of Winter
- Claiming Kin
- The Heart is the Target
- The Visit
- Steve Orlen
- Ukrainian Pastoral
- The Biplane
- Anne Hussey
- Saturday Night
- Ezra Pound's Eye
- Third Decade
- Lawrence Kearney
- After the Interrogation
- Elizabeth Spires
- Globe
- Exhumation
- Courtesan with Fan
- Lloyd Schwartz
- 78's
- Self-Portrait
- Garrett Hongo
- Yellow Light
- Stay with Me
- Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?
- The Hongo Store
- Rachel Hadas
- Forgetting Greek
- Kaleidoscope
- Susan Mitchell
- Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana
- The Dead
- Tent Caterpillars
- Colleen McElroy
- Dreams of Johnson Grass
- With Bill Pickett at the 101 Ranch
- For Want of a Male a Shoe Was Lost
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Elegy for Thelonious
- Landscape for the Disappeared
- Starlight Scope Myopia
- Camouflaging the Chimera
- Venus's-flytraps
- My Father's Love Letters
- Jeffrey Skinner
- Ballad of the Swimming Angel
- Rolling in Clover
- Brenda Hillman
- Thoreau's Fossil Lilies
- Cleave and Cleave
- Quartz Tractate
- Mighty Forms
- Thulani Davis
- C.T.'s variation
- telepathy
- Paul Zweig
- A Fly on the Water
- The End Circulates in the Wide Space of Summer
- Poem
- Marianne Boruch
- Krakow and the Girl of Twelve
- My Son and I Go See Horses
- Buick
- Olga Broumas and Jane Miller
- from Black Holes, Black Stockings "Round Sunday
- There's a song of privacy . . .
- Gregory Orr
- A Parable
- Gathering the Bones Together
- The Weeds
- Elegy
- The Mother
- Pattiann Rogers
- Eulogy for a Hermit Crab
- The Objects of Immortality
- Don Bogen
- The House Destroyed by Fire
- The Last Installment
- David Young
- In My Own Back Yard
- Ralph Angel
- As It Is
- Tatters
- Heather McHugh
- Take Care
- I Knew I'd Sing
- 20-200 on 747
- What Hell Is
- Spilled
- Robert Morgan
- Hay Scuttle
- Ghosts in the Carpet
- Agha Shahid Ali
- A Dream of Glass Bangles
- In the Mountains
- Robert Mezey
- Trying to Begin
- The Stream Flowing
- Judith Baumel
- Thirty-six Poets
- Jordan Smith
- Mandolin
- Dean Young
- Twilight with Xs
- Rothko's Yellow
- Jane Hirshfield
- In a Net of Blue and Gold
- Justice without Passion
- For the Women of Poland: December 1981
- Bin Ramke
- Compulsion as the Critical Element in a Defined Perversion
- Buchenwald
- Sherod Santos
- Married Love
- Death
- Near the Desert Test Sites
- Fourth Decade
- Maria Flook
- The Continental Divide
- Joy Harjo
- Legacy
- Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On
- Eagle Poem
- Susan Howe
- from Articulation of Sound Forms in Time
- from 1. The Falls Fight
- from 2. Hope Atherton's Wanderings
- from 3. Taking the Forest
- Mark Jarman
- The Children
- The Black Riviera
- The Gift
- Campbell McGrath
- Sunrise and Moonfall, Rosarito Beach
- What They Drank
- Dialectical Poem #1
- Donald Revell
- Survey
- New Dark Ages
- Muse
- Pamela Alexander
- Audubon Enfant
- At Coueron. My First Gun.
- Claire Bateman
- Distances
- Nancy Eimers
- Another Kimono
- No Friends of the Heart
- Boyer Rickel
- Night Sweats 2
- Poem to Begin the Second Decade of AIDS
- Roberta Spear
- Chestnuts for Verdi
- Jonathan Aaron
- The Sighting
- Walid Bitar
- Kinshasa
- Looking You in the Back of the Head
- Appendix: Wesleyan Poetry
- Copyrights
- Author Index
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