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Summary
This remarkable volume commemorates the diversity, spirit, and freedom of our nation with poems describing the American experience in all its variety, from the late seventeenth century through the present day. Included are poems of place about New York, Boston, Florida, and California; poems honoring quintessentially American institutions such as amusement parks and fast-food restaurants; poems that capture daily life in America, featuring farms, subways, gas stations, and diners; and even poems that illuminate the complexity of the more shameful chapters in U.S. history, including slavery and the oppression of Native Americans. Taken together, these poems -- whether voices of celebration or dissent -- chronicle the astonishing and enduring American spirit.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied Out of a Loose Paper" | p. 5 |
| "The Indian Burying Ground" | p. 7 |
| "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." | p. 9 |
| "To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North Carolina" | p. 11 |
| "The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers" | p. 13 |
| Excerpt, "The Prairies" | p. 15 |
| "On Liberty and Slavery" | p. 17 |
| "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day" | p. 19 |
| "Concord Hymn" | p. 22 |
| "Boston Hymn" | p. 23 |
| "Paul Revere's Ride" | p. 27 |
| "Barbara Frietchie" | p. 32 |
| "America" | p. 35 |
| "Old Ironsides" | p. 37 |
| "The First Atlantic Telegraph" | p. 38 |
| "Our Country" | p. 39 |
| "An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876" | p. 41 |
| "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" | p. 42 |
| "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" | p. 43 |
| "City of Orgies" | p. 50 |
| "A Promise to California" | p. 51 |
| "I Hear America Singing" | p. 52 |
| "Ball's Bluff" | p. 53 |
| "America" | p. 54 |
| "The Slave Mother" | p. 59 |
| "Learning to Read" | p. 61 |
| "Ode Sung at Magnolia Cemetery" | p. 63 |
| #389 [There's been a Death, in the Opposite House,"] | p. 65 |
| #617 ["Don't put up my Thread and Needle--"] | p. 67 |
| "At Home from Church" | p. 68 |
| "Long Island Sound" | p. 70 |
| "The New Colossus" | p. 71 |
| Excerpt, "The Old Swimmin'-Hole" | p. 72 |
| "The Anti-Suffragists" | p. 73 |
| "Cabins" | p. 76 |
| "War Is Kind" | p. 77 |
| "Thompson's Lunch Room--Grand Central Station" | p. 79 |
| "The Dude Ranch" | p. 81 |
| "After Apple-Picking" | p. 82 |
| "I Sit and Sew" | p. 84 |
| "Work Gangs" | p. 85 |
| "The Flower-Fed Buffaloes" | p. 87 |
| "Fabliau of Florida" | p. 88 |
| "Anecdote of the Jar" | p. 89 |
| "The Legend of Boastful Bill" | p. 90 |
| "The Forgotten City" | p. 93 |
| "Old Amusement Park" | p. 95 |
| "Love in America--" | p. 97 |
| "The Boston Evening Transcript" | p. 98 |
| "Dawn in New York" | p. 99 |
| "O Pioneers!" | p. 100 |
| "From a Train Window" | p. 101 |
| "American Farm, 1934" | p. 102 |
| "Proud Riders" | p. 104 |
| "'next to of course god america i" | p. 105 |
| "Thanksgiving (1956)" | p. 106 |
| "To Brooklyn Bridge" | p. 108 |
| "I Like Americans" | p. 110 |
| "In Praise of California Wines" | p. 112 |
| "We're All in the Telephone Book" | p. 114 |
| "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem" | p. 115 |
| "Product" | p. 116 |
| "California" | p. 117 |
| "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore" | p. 118 |
| "Florida" | p. 120 |
| "Tract" | p. 122 |
| "The Campaign" | p. 123 |
| "The Outer Banks" | p. 126 |
| "Despisals" | p. 128 |
| "American Lights, Seen from off Abroad" | p. 130 |
| "Southern Song" | p. 132 |
| "The Mouth of the Hudson" | p. 133 |
| "We Real Cool" | p. 134 |
| "Bronco Busting, Event #1" | p. 135 |
| "Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore" | p. 136 |
| "The Changing Light" | p. 137 |
| "vegas" | p. 139 |
| "In Georgetown" | p. 141 |
| "Pleasant Avenue" | p. 142 |
| "Wellfleet: The House" | p. 145 |
| "April and Its Forsythia" | p. 146 |
| "Bagel Shop Jazz" | p. 148 |
| "Music" | p. 150 |
| "America" | p. 151 |
| "First Carolina Said-Song" | p. 155 |
| "Sleet Storm on the Merritt Parkway" | p. 157 |
| "And One for My Dame" | p. 158 |
| "Transcontinent" | p. 160 |
| "Tomorrow" | p. 161 |
| "Belle Isle, 1949" | p. 163 |
| "Prospective Immigrants Please Note" | p. 164 |
| Excerpt "From an Old House in America" | p. 165 |
| "All over the Dry Grasses" | p. 167 |
| "Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem" | p. 168 |
| "Listenen to Big Black at S.F. State" | p. 169 |
| "American Twilight" | p. 171 |
| "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989" | p. 172 |
| "black power poem" | p. 174 |
| "Iowa" | p. 175 |
| "Why We Are Truly a Nation" | p. 176 |
| "Knoxville, Tennessee" | p. 177 |
| "My Poem" | p. 178 |
| "Today I Am a Homicide in the North of the City" | p. 180 |
| "Walking Back Up Depot Street" | p. 181 |
| "At the Public Market Museum: Charleston, South Carolina" | p. 183 |
| "The Way Things Are in Franklin" | p. 185 |
| "American Trains" | p. 186 |
| "Facing It" | p. 188 |
| "Language Lesson 1976" | p. 190 |
| "Queens, 1963" | p. 191 |
| "California Dreamin'" | p. 194 |
| "The Dream Life of a Coffin Factory in Lynn, Massachusetts" | p. 196 |
| "Community Garden, Sixth Street and Avenue B" | p. 198 |
| "Crab-Boil" | p. 200 |
| "Silos" | p. 202 |
| "I Hear the Bells of the Ice-Cream Vendor Outside My Door" | p. 203 |
| "Adonis Theater" | p. 204 |
| "Spiderman Versus the Kachinas" | p. 207 |
| "The Hula Skirt, 1959" | p. 209 |
| "What the Janitor Heard in the Elevator" | p. 211 |
| "Eden" | p. 212 |
| "Boston Year" | p. 214 |
| "Capitalist Poem #5" | p. 216 |
| "At the Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School" | p. 217 |
| Afterword: Excerpt, "Introduction" | p. 219 |
| Index of First Lines | p. 221 |
| Index of Poem Titles | p. 225 |
| Index of Poets | p. 229 |
| Permissions | p. 233 |
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