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Heartland II, poets of the Midwest, edited by Lucien Stryk

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Heartland II

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edited by Lucien Stryk

poets of the Midwest

"Planning the book, I felt that one of its most important purposes would be to offer proof that what appears to many a colorless region is to some rich, complicated, thrilling. That, in short the Midwest is made up of the stuff of poetry. And once those living in it begin to see the details--cornfields, skyscrapers, small-town streets, whatever--with the help of their poets, they will find it not only possible to live with some measure of contentment among its particulars but even, miraculously, begin to love them and the poems they fill."--Introduction p. xxiii

Introduction / Lucian Stryk -- The homecoming ; Night shift at the plating division of Keeler Brass / James B. Allen -- Return ; Riverson ; Reeving / Michel Anania -- Stories / Jon Anderson -- In pursuit of the family ; Autumn horses ; Words from storms and geese in the morning ; The reach of winter ; Wife ; Sounding / Jenne' Andrews -- A Sunday dreamer's guide to Yarrow, Missouri ; Year's end / Jim Barnes -- From a distance ; About that / Marvin Bell -- The red dress ; Eve of July fourth ; Employed ; Beyond the storm ; The marriage / James Bertolino -- Elegy for a Polish grandaunt ; Acrophobe & lapidary ; Painting an old apartment / James Bonk -- T.C. ; A poem for Foster ; A poem with a conclusion / Walter Bradford -- Roubaix cemetery ; Raingatherer ; Inland sea ; White ropes / Franklin Brainard -- The voice ; The life / George Chambers -- Breathing, at last in the Wichita Art Museum / D. Clinton -- The Kansa / Victor Contoski -- Tracks ; Packer City poem ; The revenant / Peter Cooley -- Thinking back seven years and being here now / David Curry -- Looking at models in the Sears catalogue ; The animals' Christmas ; Anniversary / Philip Dacey -- From "Natural Odes, American Elegies" / Robert Dana -- At the drive-in: "John Wayne vs God" ; The coyote ; The blizzard / A. A. Dewey -- Humidity ; Shazam ; X / R. P. Dickey -- The city boy ; Giraffes: the American version ; The cycle ; For the sleepless ; The dream / Stephen Dunn -- Passing stockyards where they killed the buffalo -- Changing a tire by the Missouri River ; Before the frost -- The resident stranger ; Outside Abilene -- The citizens' complaint ; Neighbors ; Some lines after the razing of the Sioux City Armour's plant / David Allen Evans -- The lake flies of Winnebago ; Raspberries ; Coming on to winter / Doug Flaherty -- State message: a Midwestern small town ; Heirloom ; Atlas / Robert Flanagan -- Homecoming ; The Line ; The tragedy of action / Dan Gerber -- Touring the Hawkeye State / Gary Gildner -- Letter back to Oregon / Albert Goldbarth -- Naming the state bird ; The Gypsy Motorcycle Club of South Minneapolis / Keith Gunderson -- I was proud... ; Today we've moved ; After reading Takahashi / Jim Harrison -- A small tribute ; Another load ; Flowers for the Grangerford girl / William Harrold -- In blessed weather ; A figure of plain force ; The apparition / Michael Heffernan -- Minneapolis ; Smelling a stone in the middle of winter ; Dirt road ; Job hunting ; The new arm ; Going in to the woods ; Old folks home / Tom Hennen -- Timothy ; Spider in the grapes ; Tom O' Bedlam among the sunflowers / Thomas James -- Portage poem -- Library ; Medicine ; A quiet place / Louis Jenkins -- 24 December ; Finding words in winter / John Judson -- A farewell ; Poem for Mother's Day ; Don't put me / Stanley Kiesel -- A place in Kansas ; Deep in the winter ; I put my hand on his head ; The goldfish floats ; The blind always come as such a surprise ; Phoning my son long distance / Ted Kooser -- Darkness comes to the woods ; Skinning a rabbit / Norbert Krapf -- Garden report ; Greens ; Melons ; The weak ; Poppies / Greg Kuzma -- A dream of lakes / Laurence Lieberman -- Medora, N.D. ; Loyal citizen / Richard Lyons -- The graveyard road ; November on Lake Michigan / Tom McKeown -- Photo of a retired farmer, Big Bend, Wisconsin ; Poem for my students / Robert L. McRoberts -- The man, my father ; The house in Chicago ; Figure / Marcia Lee Masters -- On Lake Michigan, 1972 / John Matthias -- When the revolution really ; Parable for our time / Peter Michelson -- The white piano ; Door to the sun / Ralph J. Mills, Jr. -- Finding roots ; Boundaries ; The end of summer / Judith Minty -- The driving wheels ; The plant rhythms ; A pavement artist / G. E. Murray -- Nursing home ; Advice to the lovelorn / Linda Parker-Silverman -- Water and light, light and water ; In praise of lichen / Mark Perlberg -- Porches ; One song ; Pull of the earth / Stanley Plumly -- Nofretete ; Historical society exhibit: old programme ; How I got myself trapped / Felix Pollak -- The country singer ; The old codger's lament / Carl Rakosi -- Stopping near Highway 80 ; Ravenna ; The blue duck / David Ray -- The breathers / James Reiss -- Some good things left after the war with the Sioux ; Pettigrew Museum ; Driving at night / John Calvin Rezmerski -- Hitting fungoes ; Your own image / Michael Ryan -- Mail from Home in the Sky / Ernest Sandeen -- Maps ; Containment ; Love poem / Howard Schwartz -- The villages ; The old ones / R. E. Sebenthall -- Talks with himself ; Finally ; Frames on bright faces ; Crossing into the prairies / Bruce Severy -- Grace / Michael Sheridan -- Flight ; Whether firelocked ; Cattails for Bennett / Mary Shumway -- Pine needles ; Passage ; The green beginning ; Field with figurations / Warren Slesinger -- High are the winter rivers ; The closet ; Pietas: the petrified wood / Dave Smith -- The December sky ; The January sky ; March rite: getting it up / A. G. Sobin -- Songs / David Steingass -- Winter in Elwell ; February I turn off the porch light and go outside ; Now everyone is writing poems about Indians ; Exit, pursued by a bear ; Dialogue ; Pastora / James Tipton -- Harold ; The Augur ; You held the air ; Poem for Nancy ; Winter morning / Stephen Tudor -- Wrists ; Sisters ; Structure ; To Leonard and Kerstin, with a gift of books / Alberta Turner -- Poem for my great grandfather / Michael van Walleghen -- Salvaging spikes ; An impossibility ; Petoskey stone / Robert Vas Dias -- Magic ; My son / Rex Veeder -- Variations on a theme ; North Dakota Gothic ; For the far edge / Mark VInz -- Anderson, Indiana ; Mover ; Minneapolis White Castle, Winter '72 ; Day sleeper / James L. White -- Marijuana patch on the State Hospital's former grounds ; Good-by on an all day bean planter / Nathan Whiting -- At night / Robley Wilson, Jr. -- Navajo poem ; Flitcraft's woods ; Lost country / Warren Woessner