Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Arsenal at Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- La Belle Dame sans Merci / John Keats -- Blue rim of memory / Denise Levertov -- Cobweb / Raymond Carver -- Driving to town late to mail a letter / Robert Bly -- Early in the morning / Li-Young Lee -- For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton / Richard Hugo -- Having it out with melancholy / Jane Kenyon -- I go back to May 1937 / Sharon Olds -- Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- Mind / Jori Graham -- On his having arrived at the age of twenty-three / John Milton -- Poetry / Marianne Moore -- Rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Singer's house / Seamus Heaney -- Wild swans / Edna St. Vincent Millay.