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Connecticut may be a small state, but it is large indeed in its contribution to the nation's literature. Garnet Poems features forty-two poets whose work has a strong connection to Connecticut. The first major anthology of Connecticut poetry to appear since the mid-nineteenth century, it includes the work of such notable poets as Wallace Stevens, Lydia Sigourney, Mark Van Doren, Richard Wilbur,
Susan Howe, and Elizabeth Alexander. Distinguished writer-scholar Dennis Barone has supplemented the poems with an editor's preface, notes that illuminate the poet's (or poem's) relation to the state, and informative biographies. The book also features a foreword by Dick Allen, the current Connecticut state poet laureate.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Foreword
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  1. Editor’s Preface
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  1. John Trumbull (1750–1831)
  1. from Progress of Dulness
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  1. from M’Fingal
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  1. Timothy Dwight (1752–1817)
  1. from Greenfield Hill
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  1. A Song
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  1. David Humphreys (1753–1818)
  1. The Monkey
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  1. Sonnet I
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  1. from The Address to the Armies of the United States of America
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  1. Joel Barlow (1754–1812)
  1. from The Hasty Pudding
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  1. from The Columbiad
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  1. James Abraham Hillhouse (1789–1841)
  1. from The Judgment, A Vision
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  1. from Sachem’s Wood
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  1. Lydia Sigourney (1791–1865)
  1. The Western Emigrant
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  1. Death of an Infant
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  1. The War-Spirit
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  1. Indian Names
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  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
  1. The Old Psalm Tune
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  1. Above
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  1. The Miserere
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  1. Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872)
  1. Suspiria Ensis
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  1. A War Study
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  1. All Together
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  1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
  1. In Duty Bound
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  1. To the Young Wife
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  1. Anna Hempstead Branch (1875–1937)
  1. Connecticut Road Song
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  1. Inheritance
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  1. First Letter
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  1. Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
  1. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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  1. Of Hartford in a Purple Light
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  1. from An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
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  1. The Plain Sense of Things
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  1. The River of Rivers in Connecticut
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  1. Mark Van Doren (1894–1972)
  1. Going Home
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  1. The Unknown Army
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  1. The Seven Sleepers
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  1. Anger in the Room
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  1. Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
  1. Small White House
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  1. Evening Hawk
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  1. Rather Like a Dream
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  1. Heart of Autumn
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  1. Charles Olson (1910–1970)
  1. from As the Dead Prey upon Us
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  1. Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele
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  1. James Laughlin (1914–1997)
  1. Is Memory
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  1. The Old Men
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  1. from My Aunt
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  1. What the Pencil Writes
  2. pp. 79-96
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  1. William Meredith (1919–2007)
  1. The Open Sea
  2. pp. 80-97
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  1. The Wreck of the Thresher
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  1. Winter Verse for His Sister
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  1. Here and There
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  1. Richard Wilbur (1921– )
  1. In Trackless Woods
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  1. In the Field
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  1. Advice to a Prophet
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  1. “A World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness”
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  1. The Beautiful Changes
  2. pp. 93-110
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  1. Hayden Carruth (1921–2008)
  1. The Sound of Snow
  2. pp. 94-111
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  1. Stepping Backward
  2. pp. 95-112
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  1. The Mythology of Dark and Light
  2. pp. 96-101
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  1. James Merrill (1926–1995)
  1. A Tenancy
  2. pp. 102-104
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  1. The Emerald
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  1. The Victor Dog
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  1. from Mirabell: Books of Number
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  1. Dead Center
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  1. F. D. Reeve (1928– )
  1. Night River
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  1. Identity Crisis
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  1. Watersong
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  1. what the cranes said
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  1. Donald Hall (1928– )
  1. Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
  2. pp. 117-118
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  1. White Apples
  2. pp. 119-136
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  1. Kicking the Leaves
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  1. 1943
  2. pp. 124-141
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  1. John Hollander (1929– )
  1. An Old Song
  2. pp. 125-142
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  1. Pageant of the Cold
  2. pp. 126-143
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  1. That’s for Oblivion
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  1. Collected Novels
  2. pp. 128-131
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  1. Adam’s Task
  2. pp. 132-149
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  1. Lewis Turco (1934– )
  1. Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day 1964
  2. pp. 133-134
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  1. The Late, Late Show
  2. pp. 135-136
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  1. The Recurring Dream
  2. pp. 137-154
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  1. Wake Disturbing Surfaces
  2. pp. 138-155
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  1. Russell Edson (1935– )
  1. A Chair
  2. pp. 139-156
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  1. A Stone Is Nobody’s
  2. pp. 140-157
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  1. The Ancestral Mousetrap
  2. pp. 141-158
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  1. The Ceremony
  2. pp. 142-159
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  1. The Matter
  2. pp. 143-160
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  1. Susan Howe (1937– )
  1. Silence Wager Stories
  2. pp. 144-151
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  1. Brendan Galvin (1938– )
  1. The Potatoes Have a Word to Say
  2. pp. 152-169
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  1. The Connecticut River in Flood
  2. pp. 153-154
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  1. from Wampanoag Traveler
  2. pp. 155-157
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  1. Dick Allen (1939– )
  1. Another Knowledge
  2. pp. 158-159
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  1. On the New Haven Line
  2. pp. 160-177
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  1. To a Woman Half a World Away
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  1. A Last Memory of Korea
  2. pp. 162-179
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  1. The Persistence
  2. pp. 163-164
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  1. George F. Butterick (1942–1988)
  1. 1970
  2. pp. 165-166
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  1. The Walker
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  1. Gurleyville Road
  2. pp. 169-186
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  1. The Distances
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  1. Doug Anderson (1943– )
  1. First Blood
  2. pp. 171-188
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  1. History Blues
  2. pp. 172-189
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  1. The Oracle
  2. pp. 173-190
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  1. Crows
  2. pp. 174-175
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  1. Vivian Shipley (1943– )
  1. Moonflower
  2. pp. 176-193
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  1. Digging Up Peonies
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  1. Static Holds a Grudge
  2. pp. 178-195
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  1. Number Fifty-two: Winifred Benham, Hartford, Connecticut, October 7, 1697
  2. pp. 179-181
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  1. Margaret Gibson (1944– )
  1. A Ripple of Deer, A Metamorphosis of Bear, A Metaphor of Mountains
  2. pp. 182-183
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  1. Elegy for a Dancer
  2. pp. 184-186
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  1. Icon
  2. pp. 187-188
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  1. Newspaper Photograph
  2. pp. 189-190
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  1. Gray Jacobik (1944– )
  1. Skirts
  2. pp. 191-208
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  1. The Wooden Egg
  2. pp. 192-209
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  1. The Banquet
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  1. Of Cos Cob in Snow
  2. pp. 194-211
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  1. J. D. McClatchy (1945– )
  1. Late Autumn Walk
  2. pp. 195-196
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  1. The Bookcase
  2. pp. 197-214
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  1. E R
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  1. Marilyn Nelson (1946– )
  1. Churchgoing
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  1. Sisters
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  1. Juneteenth
  2. pp. 204-221
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  1. Psalm
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  1. Charles O. Hartman (1949– )
  1. Petting Zoo
  2. pp. 206-207
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  1. A Walk in Winter
  2. pp. 208-209
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  1. Tuxedo
  2. pp. 210-212
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  1. Chase Twichell (1950– )
  1. Why All Good Music Is Sad
  2. pp. 213-214
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  1. The Paper River
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  1. Savin Rock
  2. pp. 217-219
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  1. Rosanna Warren (1953– )
  1. World Trade Center
  2. pp. 220-237
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  1. Snow
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  1. Orchard
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  1. Day Lilies
  2. pp. 224-241
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  1. Sophie Cabot Black (1958– )
  1. Lost
  2. pp. 225-242
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  1. The Harrowing
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  1. The Climb
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  1. Threshold
  2. pp. 228-245
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  1. Stacy Doris (1962–2012)
  1. from Knot
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  1. from Cheerleader’s Guide to the World: Council Book
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  1. Elizabeth Alexander (1962– )
  1. Tina Green
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  1. Ars Poetica #92: Marcus Garvey on Elocution
  2. pp. 234-251
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  1. Connecticut
  2. pp. 235-252
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  1. The Amistad Trail
  2. pp. 236-253
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  1. Richard Deming (1970– )
  1. OH
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  1. Wintering the Turn
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  1. Annus Mirabilis
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  1. Mise En Scene
  2. pp. 240-242
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  1. Gabrielle Calvocoressi (1974– )
  1. The Death of Towns
  2. pp. 243-245
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  1. Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany
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  1. Final Note
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  1. About the Poets
  2. pp. 253-268
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  1. Publications and Credits
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  1. Index of Titles
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