Contents							xvii

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)					1714
All the Dead Dears						1715
Two Views of a Cadaver Room					1716
The Bee Meeting							1716
Lady Lazarus							1718
Ariel								1720
The Applicant							1721
Daddy								1723
Fever 103							1725


JAMES DICKEY (1923- 1997)					1727
The Lifeguard							1728
Reincarnation (I)						1729
In the Mountain Tent						1730
Cherrylog Road							1731
The Shark's Parlor						1734


W. S. MERWIN (1927-	)					1736
Grandfather in the Old Men's Home				1737
The Drunk in the Furnace					1738
Noah's Raven							1738
The Dry Stone Mason						1739
Fly								1739
Strawberries							1740
Direction							1740
Thanks								1741
The Morning Train						1742

A. R. AMMONS (1926-2001)					1743
So I Said I Am Ezra						1745
Gravelly Run							1745
Corsons Inlet							1746
The Unifying Principle						1749
Sight Seed							1750
Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything		1751
The Damned							1753