Contents 									xxiii
FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)							1769
	Good Country People							1770

		THE SIXTIES AND AFTER: POETRY

A. R. AMMONS (1926-     )							1783
	Corsons Inlet								1784
	The Wide Land								1787
	Cascadilla Falls							1787
	Poetics									1788
	Easter Morning								1789
	Extrication								1791
	I Could Not Be Here At All						1791

ROBERT BLY (1926-     )								1792
	Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River					1792
	Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter					1793
	Watering the Horse							1793
	The Executive's Death							1793
	Looking at New-Fallen Snow from a Train					1794
	Snowbanks North of the House						1794

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)							1795
	Howl									1796
	America									1801

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)							1804
	A Timepiece								1805
	Charles on Fire								1805
	The Broken Home								1806
	Y‡nnina									1808
	Samos									1812

JOHN ASHBERY (1927-     )							1814
	Some Trees								1815
	The Painter								1815
	Crazy Weather								1816
	As We Know								1817
	A Prison All the Same							1817
	The Desperado								1818
	At North Farm								1818
	The Ongoing Story							1819
	Down by the Station, Early in the Morning				1819

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)							1820
	Morning Hymn to a Dark Girl						1821
	A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack					1822