NAAL -- Volume E -- American Poetry Since 1945

Scott's Recommendations

Lorine Niedecker

• Poet's Work

Theodore Roethke

• My Papa's Waltz

• The Waking

Elizabeth Bishop

• The Armadillo

• Sestina

• In the Waiting Room

• One Art

Robert Hayden

• Those Winter Sundays

Randall Jarrell

• The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

• Next Day

• Well Water

Robert Lowell

• Memories of West Street and Lepke

• Skunk Hour

Gwendolyn Brooks

• kitchenette building

• the mother

• a song in the front yard

• The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men

• We Real Cool

Denise Levertov

• What Were They Like?

Robert Creeley

• I Know a Man

Allen Ginsberg

• Howl

• A Supermarket in California

Frank O'Hara

• The Day Lady Died

W.S. Merwin

• Lament for the Makers

James Wright

• Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

• To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota

• A Blessing

Anne Sexton

• The Starry Night

• Sylvia's Death

Adrienne Rich

• Storm Warnings

• "I Am in Danger--Sir--"

Gary Snyder

• Riprap

• August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer

Sylvia Plath

• Morning Song

• Lady Lazarus

• Daddy

• The Applicant

Audre Lorde

• Black Mother Woman

Michael S. Harper

• Deathwatch

• Nightmare Begins Responsibility

Billy Collins

• Tuesday, June 4, 1991

Louise Gluck

• Terminal Resemblance

Rita Dove

• Adolescence--I

• Adolescence--II

• Adolescence--III

Cathy Song

• The White Porch

• Lost Sister

• Chinatown

• Heaven