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- Garnet Poems: An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776
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- 2013
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
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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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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Editor’s Preface
- pp. xi-xiv
- John Trumbull (1750–1831)
- from Progress of Dulness
- pp. 1-3
- from M’Fingal
- pp. 4-5
- Timothy Dwight (1752–1817)
- from Greenfield Hill
- pp. 6-12
- David Humphreys (1753–1818)
- The Monkey
- pp. 15-16
- Joel Barlow (1754–1812)
- from The Hasty Pudding
- pp. 19-21
- from The Columbiad
- pp. 22-23
- James Abraham Hillhouse (1789–1841)
- from The Judgment, A Vision
- pp. 24-25
- from Sachem’s Wood
- pp. 26-43
- Lydia Sigourney (1791–1865)
- The Western Emigrant
- pp. 27-28
- Death of an Infant
- pp. 29-46
- The War-Spirit
- pp. 30-47
- Indian Names
- pp. 31-32
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
- The Old Psalm Tune
- pp. 33-34
- The Miserere
- pp. 37-54
- Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872)
- Suspiria Ensis
- pp. 38-41
- A War Study
- pp. 42-59
- All Together
- pp. 43-44
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
- In Duty Bound
- pp. 45-62
- To the Young Wife
- pp. 46-47
- Anna Hempstead Branch (1875–1937)
- Connecticut Road Song
- pp. 48-49
- Inheritance
- pp. 50-67
- First Letter
- pp. 51-68
- Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
- Of Hartford in a Purple Light
- pp. 55-72
- The Plain Sense of Things
- pp. 60-77
- The River of Rivers in Connecticut
- pp. 61-78
- Mark Van Doren (1894–1972)
- Going Home
- pp. 62-79
- The Unknown Army
- pp. 63-80
- The Seven Sleepers
- pp. 64-81
- Anger in the Room
- pp. 65-82
- Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
- Small White House
- pp. 66-83
- Evening Hawk
- pp. 67-84
- Rather Like a Dream
- pp. 68-85
- Heart of Autumn
- pp. 69-86
- Charles Olson (1910–1970)
- from As the Dead Prey upon Us
- pp. 70-87
- James Laughlin (1914–1997)
- The Old Men
- pp. 76-93
- from My Aunt
- pp. 77-78
- What the Pencil Writes
- pp. 79-96
- William Meredith (1919–2007)
- The Open Sea
- pp. 80-97
- The Wreck of the Thresher
- pp. 81-82
- Winter Verse for His Sister
- pp. 83-100
- Here and There
- pp. 84-85
- Richard Wilbur (1921– )
- In Trackless Woods
- pp. 86-103
- In the Field
- pp. 87-89
- Advice to a Prophet
- pp. 90-91
- The Beautiful Changes
- pp. 93-110
- Hayden Carruth (1921–2008)
- The Sound of Snow
- pp. 94-111
- Stepping Backward
- pp. 95-112
- The Mythology of Dark and Light
- pp. 96-101
- James Merrill (1926–1995)
- The Emerald
- pp. 105-106
- The Victor Dog
- pp. 107-108
- from Mirabell: Books of Number
- pp. 109-110
- Dead Center
- pp. 111-128
- F. D. Reeve (1928– )
- Night River
- pp. 112-129
- Identity Crisis
- pp. 113-114
- what the cranes said
- pp. 116-133
- Donald Hall (1928– )
- Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
- pp. 117-118
- White Apples
- pp. 119-136
- Kicking the Leaves
- pp. 120-123
- John Hollander (1929– )
- An Old Song
- pp. 125-142
- Pageant of the Cold
- pp. 126-143
- That’s for Oblivion
- pp. 127-144
- Collected Novels
- pp. 128-131
- Adam’s Task
- pp. 132-149
- Lewis Turco (1934– )
- Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day 1964
- pp. 133-134
- The Late, Late Show
- pp. 135-136
- The Recurring Dream
- pp. 137-154
- Wake Disturbing Surfaces
- pp. 138-155
- Russell Edson (1935– )
- A Stone Is Nobody’s
- pp. 140-157
- The Ancestral Mousetrap
- pp. 141-158
- The Ceremony
- pp. 142-159
- The Matter
- pp. 143-160
- Susan Howe (1937– )
- Silence Wager Stories
- pp. 144-151
- Brendan Galvin (1938– )
- The Potatoes Have a Word to Say
- pp. 152-169
- The Connecticut River in Flood
- pp. 153-154
- from Wampanoag Traveler
- pp. 155-157
- Dick Allen (1939– )
- Another Knowledge
- pp. 158-159
- On the New Haven Line
- pp. 160-177
- To a Woman Half a World Away
- pp. 161-178
- A Last Memory of Korea
- pp. 162-179
- The Persistence
- pp. 163-164
- George F. Butterick (1942–1988)
- The Walker
- pp. 167-168
- Gurleyville Road
- pp. 169-186
- The Distances
- pp. 170-187
- Doug Anderson (1943– )
- First Blood
- pp. 171-188
- History Blues
- pp. 172-189
- The Oracle
- pp. 173-190
- Vivian Shipley (1943– )
- Moonflower
- pp. 176-193
- Digging Up Peonies
- pp. 177-194
- Static Holds a Grudge
- pp. 178-195
- Margaret Gibson (1944– )
- Elegy for a Dancer
- pp. 184-186
- Newspaper Photograph
- pp. 189-190
- Gray Jacobik (1944– )
- The Wooden Egg
- pp. 192-209
- The Banquet
- pp. 193-210
- Of Cos Cob in Snow
- pp. 194-211
- J. D. McClatchy (1945– )
- Late Autumn Walk
- pp. 195-196
- The Bookcase
- pp. 197-214
- Marilyn Nelson (1946– )
- Churchgoing
- pp. 201-202
- Juneteenth
- pp. 204-221
- Charles O. Hartman (1949– )
- Petting Zoo
- pp. 206-207
- A Walk in Winter
- pp. 208-209
- Chase Twichell (1950– )
- Why All Good Music Is Sad
- pp. 213-214
- The Paper River
- pp. 215-216
- Savin Rock
- pp. 217-219
- Rosanna Warren (1953– )
- World Trade Center
- pp. 220-237
- Day Lilies
- pp. 224-241
- Sophie Cabot Black (1958– )
- The Harrowing
- pp. 226-243
- Stacy Doris (1962–2012)
- Elizabeth Alexander (1962– )
- Tina Green
- pp. 233-250
- Ars Poetica #92: Marcus Garvey on Elocution
- pp. 234-251
- Connecticut
- pp. 235-252
- The Amistad Trail
- pp. 236-253
- Richard Deming (1970– )
- Wintering the Turn
- pp. 238-255
- Annus Mirabilis
- pp. 239-256
- Mise En Scene
- pp. 240-242
- Gabrielle Calvocoressi (1974– )
- The Death of Towns
- pp. 243-245
- Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany
- pp. 246-248
- Final Note
- pp. 249-252
- About the Poets
- pp. 253-268
- Publications and Credits
- pp. 269-272
- Index of Titles
- pp. 273-274
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819573100
Related ISBN(s)
9780819573094
MARC Record
OCLC
813285768
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2013-08-13
Language
English
Open Access
No