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The term "Native American Poetry-Combing" has been searched for 75 times on the American Poems site since February 28th, 2005.
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1. Sympathy - written by Eileen Myles
From American Poetry Review and Best American Poetry 2002.
Read 1162 times on American Poems.
She's rubbing his shoulder
and he's reading about
Western birds. There's a scoop
of light just above my knee
it resembles the world, the one I know
a layer of smoke spread thin, a shelf
my mind returns again &
again to the picture
you gave me.... (Read full poem)
2. July 12 - written by David Lehman
Read 1171 times on American Poems.
Wisteria, hysteria is as obvious a rhyme
as Viagra and Niagara there must be a reason
honeymooners traditionally went to the Falls
which were, said the divine Oscar,
an American bride's second biggest disappointment
tell me which do you like... (Read full poem)
3. Daughter - written by Gertrude Stein
Read 3932 times on American Poems.
Why is the world at peace.
This may astonish you a little but when you realise how
easily Mrs. Charles Bianco sells the work of American
painters to American millionaires you will recognize that
authorities are constrained to be relieved. Let me... (Read full poem)
4. Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton - written by Alan Dugan
From American Poetry Review 25th Anniv. Issue.
Read 1018 times on American Poems.
The first and last time I met
my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at
a protest poetry reading against
some anti-constitutional war in Asia
when some academic son of a bitch,
to test her reputation as a drunk,
gave her a beer glass full of wine
after our... (Read full poem)
5. Nomenclature - written by Alan Dugan
From American Poetry Review 25th Anniv. Issue.
Read 546 times on American Poems.
My mother never heard of Freud
and she decided as a little girl
that she would call her husband Dick
no matter what his first name was
and did. He called her Ditty. They
called me Bud, and our generic names
amused my analyst. That must, she... (Read full poem)
6. Here - written by Grace Paley
From Best American Poetry 2001.
Read 1682 times on American Poems.
Here I am in the garden laughing
an old woman with heavy breasts
and a nicely mapped face
how did this happen
well that's who I wanted to be
at last a woman
in the old style sitting
stout thighs apart under
a big skirt grandchild sliding
on off... (Read full poem)
7. The House Of Dust: Introduction - written by Conrad Aiken
From The House of Dust.
Published in 1917.
Read 2282 times on American Poems.
THE HOUSE OF DUST
A Symphony
BY
CONRAD AIKEN
To Jessie
NOTE
. . . Parts of this poem have been printed in "The North American
Review, Others, Poetry, Youth, Coterie, The Yale Review". . . . I am
indebted to Lafcadio Hearn for the... (Read full poem)
8. Poem To Poetry - written by Bill Knott
Read 5721 times on American Poems.
Poetry,
you are an electric,
a magic, field--like the space
between a sleepwalker's outheld arms!(Read full poem)
9. Of Modern Poetry - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 5216 times on American Poems.
The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.
It has to be living, to... (Read full poem)
10. Swing Shift Blues - written by Alan Dugan
From American Poetry Review 25th Anniv. Issue.
Read 609 times on American Poems.
What is better than leaving a bar
in the middle of the afternoon
besides staying in it or not
having gone into it in the first place
because you had a decent woman to be with?
The air smells particularly fresh
after the stale beer and piss... (Read full poem)
11. The Poet - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1954.
Read 1736 times on American Poems.
The riches of the poet are equal to his poetry
His power is his left hand
It is idle weak and precious
His poverty is his wealth, a wealth which may destroy him
like Midas Because it is that laziness which is a form of impatience
And this... (Read full poem)
12. Rumors from an Aeolian Harp - written by Henry David Thoreau
Read 3609 times on American Poems.
There is a vale which none hath seen,
Where foot of man has never been,
Such as here lives with toil and strife,
An anxious and a sinful life.
There every virtue has its birth,
Ere it descends upon the earth,
And thither every deed... (Read full poem)
13. Returned To Say - written by William Stafford
From Contemporary American Poetry.
Read 2049 times on American Poems.
When I face north a lost Cree
on some new shore puts a moccasin down,
rock in the light and noon for seeing,
he in a hurry and I beside him
It will be a long trip; he will be a new chief;
we have drunk new water from an unnamed stream;
under little... (Read full poem)
14. The Beautiful American Word, Sure - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 1201 times on American Poems.
The beautiful American word, Sure,
As I have come into a room, and touch
The lamp's button, and the light blooms with such
Certainty where the darkness loomed before,
As I care for what I do not know, and care
Knowing for little she might not have... (Read full poem)
15. April 19 - written by David Lehman
Read 2996 times on American Poems.
We have too much exhibitionism
and not enough voyeurism
in poetry we have plenty of bass
and not enough treble, more amber
beer than the frat boys can drink but
less red wine than meets the lip
in this beaker of the best Bordeaux,
too much thesis,... (Read full poem)
16. Poetry Is A Kind Of Lying - written by Jack Gilbert
From Monolithos.
Published in 1962.
Read 4739 times on American Poems.
Poetry is a kind of lying,
necessarily. To profit the poet
or beauty. But also in
that truth may be told only so.
Those who, admirably, refuse
to falsify (as those who will not
risk pretensions) are excluded
from saying even so much.
Degas said he... (Read full poem)
17. Goody For Our Side And Your Side Too - written by Ogden Nash
Read 2507 times on American Poems.
Foreigners are people somewhere else,
Natives are people at home;
If the place you're at
Is your habitat,
You're a foreigner, say in Rome.
But the scales of Justice balance true,
And tit leads into tat,
So the man who's at home
When he stays in... (Read full poem)
18. Thing Language - written by Jack Spicer
Read 1635 times on American Poems.
This ocean, humiliating in its disguises
Tougher than anything.
No one listens to poetry. The ocean
Does not mean to be listened to. A drop
Or crash of water. It means
Nothing.
It
Is bread and butter
Pepper and salt. The death
That young men hope... (Read full poem)
19. Short Order - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 4037 times on American Poems.
I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading,
she said.
yes, yes? I asked.
she's young and pretty, she said.
and? I asked.
she hated your
guts.
then she stretched out on the couch
and pulled off her
boots.
I don't have very good legs,
she... (Read full poem)
20. A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street - written by Amy Clampitt
From Best American Poetry 1994, Touchstone Press.
Published in 1994.
Read 1048 times on American Poems.
While the sun stops, or
seems to, to define a term
for the indeterminable,
the human aspect, here
in the West Village, spindles
to a mutilated dazzle—
niched shards of solitude
embedded in these brownstone
walkups such that the Hudson
at the... (Read full poem)
21. The Story Of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol - written by Eric Torgersen
From Quickly Aging Here: Some Poets of the 1970s; Doubleday Anchor Books, 1969.
Published in 1969.
Read 940 times on American Poems.
The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol
-AP Dispatch, Des Moines Register, August 4, 1968
The slain enemy resembled
an American Marine
who was 18 years old
when he disappeared.
The violent episode
was one of the strangest
in this... (Read full poem)
22. The Story Of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol - written by Eric Torgersen
From Quickly Aging Here: Some Poets of the 1970s; Doubleday Anchor Books, 1969.
Published in 1969.
Read 557 times on American Poems.
The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol
-AP Dispatch, Des Moines Register, August 4, 1968
The slain enemy resembled
an American Marine
who was 18 years old
when he disappeared.
The violent episode
was one of the strangest
in this... (Read full poem)
23. To Various Persons Talked To All At Once - written by Kenneth Koch
From American Poetry Review, M/J 1999.
Published in 1999.
Read 1156 times on American Poems.
You have helped hold me together.
I'd like you to be still.
Stop talking or doing anything else for a minute.
No. Please. For three minutes, maybe five minutes.
Tell me which walk to take over the hill.
Is there a bridge there? Will I want... (Read full poem)
24. The Retreat - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 1733 times on American Poems.
this time has finished me.
I feel like the German troops
whipped by snow and the communists
walking bent
with newspapers stuffed into
worn boots.
my plight is just as terrible.
maybe more so.
victory was so close
victory was there.
as she stood... (Read full poem)
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