The
Powow River Anthology is a
collection of poetry by 24 award-winning
poets who are members of the prestigious
Powow River Poets of Newburyport,
Massachusetts. Rhina Espaillat, Alfred Nicol,
Len Krisak, David Berman, and Deborah
Warren, among others, are recognized
nationally for their superb poetry that
blends together in this book to form what
has been called "an exemplary collection."
Introduction by award-winning poet X.J.
Kennedy, of Harvard Unversity.
Teachers and
professors are using this book in their
classrooms to illustrate various poetic
styles. A free reading copy is available for
consideration by academics who submit their
request on school stationery.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
by X.J. Kennedy
David Berman
After a Family Reunion
Disjunctures
Future Imperfect
Progressions of the Mind
Patricia Callan
Ruth’s Work
Michael Cantor
The Disappearance
Japanese for Beginners: Ronin
Poem Noir
The Wind Rides a Harley
The Young Men in Their Beauty
Bill
Coyle
Anima
The God of this World to his Prophet
Leave Taking
The Magic Circle
The Moons of Earth
Tjelvars Grav
Robert Crawford
French Braids
Power Failure
A Row of Stones
Salisbury Cathedral
The Swearing In of Calvin Coolidge
Town Roads
The Whole of It
Rhina P. Espaillat
Butchering
Encounter
Hang Gliders
Highway Apple Trees
If You Ask Me
My Cluttered House Accuses Me of Greed
There Is a Man
Vignette
Weighing In
Lois Frankenberger
Kaddish
Midge Goldberg
The Fish
The Flume Ride
Hometown Bars — If I Went Back
On Air
Town Parade
A. M. Juster
Cancer Prayer
Letter to Auden
Los Periquitos
Moscow Zoo
Note From Echo
Visions of the Serengeti
Merrill
Kaitz
Blue Antelope Elegy
Don
Kimball
Deer in a Craft Shop
Milk Can
Elaine
Kimball
Burying Burley
Santi, the Communist Shoemaker
Len
Krisak
Birds from Afar
Common
Constance Marvin
Day-Schoolers on a Walk
Mrs. Henley
On Finishing a Translation of Ovid’s Amores
Plumbing Emergency
A Version of Akhmatova
What of the Night?
Michele
Leavitt
Charm School
Ladies Night
Unspent
Nancy
Bailey Miller
Grief
Noah’s Wife
James Najarian
Armenian Lesson
Goat Song
Mildred
Nash
Hera, Elderly
North Country Graveyard
Vineyard Conjuring
Karen
Nelson
Flamenco Dancer
Alfred
Nicol
Drink & Dial
The Gift
Guinea Pig
His and Hers
Potatoes
Sunday
Wide Brush
Brian T.
O’Brien
Pantry Mouse
Vespers: Canada Geese at the North Pool
Greg
Perry
The Last Man Out of Parker Wildlife Refuge 1984
José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes
Ledger
Paálam, Wallace, Paálam
Deborah
Warren
Aelfgyva
The Crabapple in Flower
Elizabeth’s Dress
Gibbon Motion
Roof-Walker
Thrift Shop
What the Dolphins Know
Richard Wollman
A Cemetery Affair
The Evidence of Things Unseen
Contributors
Acknowledgments
REVIEWS
“Like
an oasis in a desert, this anthology offers a fertile
refuge in the largely arid landscape of contemporary
verse. Here readers can escape the bewildering, coercive
heat of Poetry with a capital “P” and find many
refreshing and memorable individual poems. Hats off to
the remarkable Powow poets: long may they write and
thrive.”
Timothy Steele
“Having
had some experience with the Powow River Poets, I was
aware of just how good this anthology could turn out to
be. It is that good. It’s not just that this group of
people, as a whole and individually, is deeply talented.
No. It’s that they seem to empower one another, to set
standards for each other that every one of them is
determined to achieve and amplify. And it’s not just
that they can write, it’s that they can think as well.
These poems are at once lucid and complex, thoughtful
and full of emotion held in check, often by traditional
craft: rhymes, meters, imagery, song. Truly, I believe
that much has been lost in poetry since the rush to dump
craftsmanship began in the 1950s, and the Powow River
Poets are bringing it back with a flourish.”
Lewis Turco
“For a
number of years, I and many others have marveled at the
phenomenon represented by the Powow River Poets. Any
writer is fortunate to be able to count on the good will
and expertise of even a single fellow writer as a
constantly constructive reader and critic. How fortunate
then are the members of this gifted group, who have
clearly benefited so much from their ongoing dynamic
association. The support and inspiration derived from
such creative collaboration is everywhere apparent in
the Powow River Anthology. It is an exemplary
collection.”
Bruce Bennett
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