The New Yorker book of poems

The New Yorker

Viking Press, 1969 - Fiction - 835 pages

Potpourri of poetry includes the work of a diverse group of poets such as Vladimir Nabokov, Ogden Nash, Theodore Roethke and the Beatles

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Review: The New Yorker Book Of Poems

User Review  - Kathleen - Goodreads

have had this book forever.....lots of poems inside to love...

Review: The New Yorker Book of Poems

User Review  - K Nolfi - Goodreads

Wonderful anthology I read about in Nicholson Baker's new book. New Yorker poems used to be really good!

Contents

• The Asians Dying W S Merwin: 3
• 53553SS3?533S3555: 5
• After Reading a Childs Guide to Modern Physics W H Auden: 12
• The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele Robert Graves: 18
• Musee des BeauxArts Alan Ross: 24
• The Artist William Carlos Williams: 30
• Was Going to Saint Ives Daniel G Hoffman: 31
• At Yearsend Richard Wilbur: 38
• A Baby Ten Months Old Looks at the Public: 44
• A Baroque WallFountain in the Villa Sciarra Richard W1lbur: 50
• The Beavers Story Vernon Watkins: 56
• Beyond the Hunting Woods Donald Justice: 62
• The Black Angel Henri Coulette: 68
• Cages: 97
• The Constant Lover Louis Simpson: 140
• The Cutting Edge Philip Levine: 155
• The Enigma Variations Paul Petrie: 196
• Et Quid Amabo Nisi Quod Aenigma Est Stephen Sandy: 202
• ExBasketball Player John Updike: 208
• Falling James Dickey: 216
• Family Evening Dan Huws: 222
• The Figures on the Frieze Alastair Reid: 228
• Fish Emily Townsend: 234
• Flight Barbara Howes: 242
• The Green Shepherd Louis Simpson: 286
• Hengest Cyning Jorge Luis Borges: 292
• Hitchhiker Jack Marshall: 298
• Horatian Variation Leonard Bacon: 304
• Hymn to Proust Gavin Ewart: 310
• In a Dark Time Theodore Roethke: 319
• In Defense of Superficiality Elder Olson: 326
• VThe Lovers Conrad Aiken: 403
• Montana Eclogue William Stafford: 444
• The Morning Track Edward Parone: 450
• The Mud Turtle Howard Nemerov: 456
• My ManyCoated Man Laurie Lee: 468
• Napkin and Stone Vernon Watkins: 474
• News from the House Michael Dennis Browne: 481
• Night Walk Sylvia Plath: 487
• Paphos Lawrence Durrell: 536
• Peasant W S Merwin: 542
• Peter Michael Dennis Browne: 548
• Plainness Jorge Luis Borges: 554
• The Poets of Hell Karl Shapiro: 560
• Powwow W D Snodgrass: 566
• A Room in the Villa William Jay Smith: 612
• Sailing Sailing Gray Burr: 618
• Scene of a Summer Morning Irving Feldman: 624
• Sediment David Ignatow: 630
• She That Is Memorys Daughter Vernon Watkins: 637
• Skin Diving in the Virgins John Malcolm Brinnin: 643
• The Sleepwalker Nelly Sachs: 649
• Suburb Hilltop Richard Moore: 691
• Supper Walter De La Mare: 697
• The Tale of Jorkyns and Gertie or Vice: 703
• That Summer Henry Treece: 710
• They Were All Like Geniuses Horace Gregory: 716
• Three Green Windows Anne Sexton: 727
• To Kate Skating Better Than Her Date David Daiches: 733
• xxvi Contents: 782
• Weather William Meredith: 795
• Why They Waged War John Peale Bishop: 808
• Index: 823

Bibliographic information

• Title: The New Yorker book of poems
• Author: The New Yorker
• Publisher: Viking Press, 1969
• ISBN: 0670509213, 9780670509218
• Length: 835 pages
• Subjects: American poetry; American poetry/ 20th century; English poetry; English poetry/ 20th century; Fiction / General; Poetry; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh