Jon ANDERSON, "The Secret of Poetry"
The Milky Way. Poems 1967-82
The Ecco Press, New York, 1983, p. 151
___________________________________________________________________
W. H. AUDEN, "The Shield of Achilles"
"Secondary Epic"
"Two Don Quixote Lyrics"
"On the Circuit"
Collected Poems ed. by E. Mendelson
Random House, New York, 1976, p.454; 541
___________________________________________________________________
Marvin BELL, "An Introduction to My Anthology"
Stars Which See, Stars Which Don’t See
Atheneum, New York, 1977, p. 45
___________________________________________________________________
Wendell BERRY, "The Venus of Botticelli"
Entries
Counterpoint, Washington D.C., 1977, p. 18
___________________________________________________________________
Paul BLACKBURN, "Brooklyn Narcissus"
The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn ed. by
Edith Jarolim
Persea Books, New York, 1985, p. 120
__________________________________________________________________
Robert BLY, "Bad People"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and yearbook of American Poetry, 1997 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly)
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Beverly Hills,
1997, p. 46
___________________________________________________________________
Louse BOGAN, "Cassandra"
Collected Poems
The Noonday Press, New York, 1959, p. 39
___________________________________________________________________
J. H. BOWDEN, "Verse"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and yearbook of
American Poetry, 1985 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Beverly Hills,
1985, p. 41
___________________________________________________________________
John Malcolm BRINNIN, "Oedipus: His Cradle Song"
The Selected Poems of John Malcolm Brinnin
Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1963
___________________________________________________________________________________
Charles BUKOWSKI, "the poetry reading"
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1972, p.
31
___________________________________________________________________
Hayden CARRUTH, "A Little Old Funky Homeric Blues for Herm"
"Gods"
Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
Copper Canyon Press, 1992, p. 220; 409
__________________________________________________________________
Andrei CODRESCU, "My Mission on Earth"
Another World. A Second Anthology of Works
from the St.Mark’s Poetry Project, ed. by Anne Waldman
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis-New
York, 1971, p. 202
__________________________________________________________________
Robert CREELEY, "The Death of Venus"
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1945-1975
University of California Press, Berkeley and
Los Angeles, 1982, p. 134
__________________________________________________________________
e. e. CUMMINGS, "O sweet spontaneous"
"one April dusk the"
"three wealthy sisters swore"
"in heavenly realms of hellas dwelt"
Complete Poems ed. by G. J. Firmage
Liveright, New York, 1991, p. 58; 84; 621;
799
__________________________________________________________________
Andrew DAVIS, "A Krater: Achilles and Ajax Playing Backgammon"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and yearbook of American Poetry, 1997 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: Poetry)
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Beverly Hills,
1997, p. 125
___________________________________________________________________
James DICKEY, “The Heaven of Animals”
The Whole Motion. Collected Poems
1945-1992
Wesleyan University Press, University
Press of New England
Hanover and London 1992, p.78
_________________________________________________________________________________
Rita DOVE, "Nigger Song: An Odyssey"
Selected Poems
Vintage Books, New York, 1993, p. 14
__________________________________________________________________
Alan DUGAN, "Stentor and Mourning"
New and Collected Poems 1961-1983
The Ecco Press, New York, 1983, p. 238
__________________________________________________________________
Lawrence FERLINGHETTI, "Constantly
risking absurdity"
"In Golden Gate Park that day"
A Coney Island of the Mind
A New Directions Book, New York, 1958, p.30
__________________________________________________________________
Donald FINKEL, "Oedipus at San Francisco"
Simeon
Atheneum Publishers, 1964
__________________________________________________________________
The Sleeping Gypsy
University of Texas Press, Austin TX, 1958
__________________________________________________________________
George GARRETT, "Virtuosity"
For a Bitter Season: New and Selected Poems
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1967,
p. 127
__________________________________________________________________
Sandra M. GILBERT, "The Cassandra Dream"
In the Fourth World
The University of Alabama Press, University,
Alabama, 1979, p. 39
___________________________________________________________________
Dana GIOIA, "The Silence of the Poets"
The Gods of Winter
Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, MN, 1991, p. 30
___________________________________________________________________
Louise GLUCK, "Mythic Fragment"
"The Mountain"
The Triumph of Achilles
The Ecco Press, New York, 1985, p. 13; 44
___________________________________________________________________
Louise GLÜCK, "Telemachus’ Confession"
Meadowlands
The Ecco Press, Hopewell, NJ, 1996, p. 48
___________________________________________________________________
Albert GOLDBARTH, "The Psychonaut Sonnets: Jones"
Strong Measures. Contemporary American Poetry
in Traditional Forms, ed. by Philip Dacey and David Jauss
Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1986,
p. 107
__________________________________________________________________
Paul GOODMAN, "Classics"
Collected Poems, ed. by Taylor Stoehr
Random House, New York, 1973
__________________________________________________________________
Old and New Poems
Ticknor and Fields, New York, 1990, p. 62
__________________________________________________________________
Robert HASS, "Heroic Simile"
Praise
The Ecco Press, New York, 1979, p. 2
___________________________________________________________________
Robert HAYDEN, "O Daedalus, Fly Away Home"
Collected Poems ed. by Frederick Glaysher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York-London,
1985, p. 55
__________________________________________________________________
Robert HAYDEN, "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves"
"Zeus Over Redeye"
Words in the Mourning Time
October House Inc., New York, 1970, p. 18;
30
__________________________________________________________________
H. D., "Pygmalion"
Collected Poems of H. D.
Liveright, New York, 1940, p.70
__________________________________________________________________
Anthony HECHT, "Jason"
Collected Earlier Poems
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990, p.9
___________________________________________________________________
Jane HIRSHFIELD, "Lying"
The Atlantic Monthly; November 1994; Vol. 274, No. 3; p. 72
___________________________________________________________________
John HOLLANDER, "Swan and Shadow"
Spectral Emanations. New and Selected Poems
Atheneum, New York, 1978, p. 144
___________________________________________________________________
Katherine HOSKINS, "Baucis and Philemon"
The Poetry Anthology 1912-1977. Sixty-Five
Years of America’s Most Distinguished Verse Magazine, ed. by Daryl Hine
and Joseph Parisi
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1978, p.445
___________________________________________________________________
John HUMMA, "Actaeoni (Somewhat After Yeats)"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1984 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: The Texas Review)
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Palm Springs,
1984, p. 233
_________________________________________________________________
Rolfe HUMPHRIES, "Proteus, or, The Shapes of Conscience"
Collected Poems of Rolphe Humphries
Indiana University Press, Bloomington and
London, 1966, p. 68
__________________________________________________________________
David IGNATOW, "Oedipus Reformed"
"Last Night"
Poems 1934-1969
Wesleyan University Press, Middeltown, Connecticut,
1970, p. 104; 202
___________________________________________________________________
David IGNATOW, "Melpomene in Manhattan"
New and Collected Poems 1970-1985
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut,
1986, p.
___________________________________________________________________
Randall JARRELL, “Orestes at Tauris”
Losses
Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York,
1948, p. 53
__________________________________________________________________________________
Robinson JEFFERS, "Cassandra"
The Double Axe and Other Poems
Random House, New York, 1948
___________________________________________________________________
Robinson JEFFERS, "Harder than Granite"
The Beginning And The End and Other Poems
Random House, New York, 1963
__________________________________________________________________
Robinson JEFFERS, “Summer Holiday”
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
[from: Roan Stallion]
Random House, New York, 1937, p.181
_________________________________________________________________
Robinson JEFFERS, “Hope is not for the Wise”
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
[from: Such Counsels You Gave To Me]
Random House, New York, 1937, p. 596
___________________________________________________________________
Robinson JEFFERS, “De Rerum Virtute”
Hungerfield and Other Poems
Random House, New York, 1954, p. 93
__________________________________________________________________
Erica JONG, "Alcestis on the Poetry Circuit"
Half-Lives
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1973,
p. 25
_________________________________________________________________
Donald JUSTICE, "The Telephon Number of the
Muse"
Departures
Atheneum, New York, 1973, p. 15
___________________________________________________________________
X. J. KENNEDY, "The Sirens"
"Japanese Beetles (Epigrams and Epitaphs)"
Cross Ties. Selected Poems
The University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1985,
p. 8; 105
___________________________________________________________________
Carolyn KIZER, "Hera, Hung from the Sky"
"Semele Recycled"
Mermaids in the Basement. Poems for Women by
Carolyn Kizer
Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 1984,
p. 65; 70
___________________________________________________________________
Kenneth KOCH, "To My Audience"
Another World. A Second Anthology of Works
from the St.Mark’s Poetry Project, ed. by Anne Waldman
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis-New
York, 1971, p. 76
_________________________________________________________________
Stanley KUNITZ, "Among the Gods"
The Poems of Stanley Kunitz 1928-1978
Little, Brown and Company, Boston-Toronto,
1979, p. 101
___________________________________________________________________
Greg KUZMA, "The Great Poems"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1984 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: The Georgia Review)
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Palm Springs,
1984, p. 263
__________________________________________________________________
Dilys Bennett LAING, "Eros Out of the Sea"
The Collected Poems of Dilys Laing
The Press of Case Western Reserve University,
1967, p.119
(first appeared in: Poetry, 1944)
__________________________________________________________________
Denise LEVERTOV, "The Goddess"
Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960
A New Directions Book, New York, 1979, p.
110
__________________________________________________________________
Denise Levertov, "To the Reader"
"The Jacob's Ladder"
“The Well”
“The Illustration”
The Jacob's Ladder
A New Directions Paperback, New York,
1961, p. vii; 37
__________________________________________________________________
Larry LEVIS, "The Poem You Asked For"
Wrecking Crew
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh,
1972, p. 3
__________________________________________________________________
John LOGAN, "To a Young Poet Who Fled"
"Tale of a Later Leander"
The Collected Poems
Boa Editions Ltd., Brockport, New York, 1989
p. 129; 153
__________________________________________________________________
William LOGAN, "Niobe"
After Ovid. New Metamorphoses, ed. by Michael
Hofmann and James Lasdun
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1995,
p.147
__________________________________________________________________
William LOGAN, "Blues for Penelope"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1997 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: The New Criterion)
Monitor Book Company, Palm Springs, 1997,
p. 317
__________________________________________________________________
Robert LOWELL, "Tenth Muse"
For the Union Dead
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1964,
p.45
_________________________________________________________________
Robert LOWELL, "Ulysses"
History
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1973,
p. 159
__________________________________________________________________
Archibald MACLEISH, "Calypso’s
Island"
"Psyche With the Candle"
Collected Poems 1917-1982
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1985, p.
390
__________________________________________________________________
Paul Mariani, "The Gods Who Come Among Us in the Guise of Strangers"
The Great Wheel
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996
__________________________________________________________________
Paul MARIANI, "Ulysses Weeps"
Prime Mover. Poems 1981-1985
Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1985, p. 38
__________________________________________________________________
Peter MEINKE, "Helen"
Liquid Paper: New and Selected Poems
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh-London,
1991, p.82
__________________________________________________________________
Peter MEINKE, "Prometheus, 1990"
Scars
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh-London,
1996, p. 43
__________________________________________________________________
William MEREDITH, "Homeric Simile"
Earth Walk: New and Selected Poems
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970, p. 42
__________________________________________________________________
Thomas MERTON, "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion"
The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
A New Directions Book, New York, 1977, p.313
__________________________________________________________________
W. S. MERWIN, "Judgment of Paris"
The Carrier of Ladders
Atheneum, New York, 1970, p. 22
__________________________________________________________________
W. S. MERWIN, "Odysseus"
Selected Poems
Atheneum, New York, 1988, p. 51
__________________________________________________________________
Edna St.Vincent MILLAY, "An Ancient Gesture"
Mine the Harvest
Harper and brothers Publishers, New York,
1954, p.65
__________________________________________________________________
Edna St.Vincent MILLAY, "I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields"
Collected Poems [from: Fatal Interview] ed.
by Norma Millay
Harper and Row, Publishers, New York, 1956,
p. 645
___________________________________________________________________
Vassar MILLER, "Metamorphoses"
If I Had Wheels or Love. Collected Poems of
Vassar Miller
Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas,
1991, p.95
__________________________________________________________________
Stephen MITCHELL, "The Myth of Sisyphus"
"Cassandra"
"Cerberus"
"Orpheus"
Parables and Portraits
Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1990,
p. 48; 52; 58
__________________________________________________________________
Albert J. MONTESI, "The Fashionable, Successful Writers"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and yearbook of American Poetry, 1986-8 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: Envy’s Sting)
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Beverly Hills,
1988, p. 367
___________________________________________________________________
Ogden NASH, "Medusa and the Mot Juste"
Verses From 1929 On
Little, Brown and Company, Boston-Toronto,
1959, p.444
___________________________________________________________________
Howard NEMEROV, "To a Scholar in the Stacks"
"Four Ages"
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and
London, 1977, p. 360; 493
__________________________________________________________________
Linda PASTAN, "To a Daughter"
"You Are Odysseus"
"Artificer"
Aspects of Eve
Liveright, New York, 1975, p.9; 21; 36
__________________________________________________________________
Kenneth PATCHEN, “Niobe”
Collected Poems
A New Directions Book, New York, 1968,
p.84
__________________________________________________________________
Robert PINSKY, “Essay on Psychiatrists”
The Figured Wheel. New and Collected
Poems 1966-1996
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York,
1996, p.257
__________________________________________________________________
Katha POLLITT, "Penelope Writes"
Antarctic Traveller
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982, p. 14
__________________________________________________________________
Kenneth REXROTH, "Homer in
Basic"
"Vitamins and Roughage"
The Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
New Directions, New York, 1966, p. 150; 317
__________________________________________________________________
Elizabeth Madox ROBERTS, "Orpheus"
Song in the Meadow
The Viking Press, New York, 1940, p. 93
__________________________________________________________________
Francic Coleman ROSENBERGER, "Reliques of the Poets"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and yearbook of American Poetry, 1986-8 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: Arizona Quarterly)
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Beverly Hills,
1988, p. 450
___________________________________________________________________
Muriel RUKEYSER, "Myth"
A Muriel Rukeyser Reader ed. by Jan Heller
Levi
W.W.Norton and Company, New York-London, 1994,
p. 252
__________________________________________________________________
Dave RUSSO, "Late in Life, Sharky Falls for the Muse"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and yearbook of American Poetry, 1986-8 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: Artemis)
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Beverly Hills,
1988, p. 455
___________________________________________________________________
May SARTON, “The Return of Aphrodite”
Selected Poems ed. by S. S. Hilsinger and L.
Brynes
W. W. Norton and Co., Inc., New York, 1978,
p.169
____________________________________________________________________
James Schevill, "The Birth of Arachne, the
Spider"
Ambiguous Dancers of Fame. Collected Poems
1945-1985
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, Athens,
Ohio, 1987, p.10
__________________________________________________________________
Delmore SCHWARTZ, "In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s
Cave"
"Once and for All"
"Cupid's Chant"
"Psyche Pleads with Cupid"
"Narcissus"
Summer Knowledge. New and Selected Poems 1938-1958
Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York,
1959, p. 25; 222; 223; 224; 226
__________________________________________________________________
Frederick SEIDEL, "The New Cosmology"
These Days
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989, p. 10
__________________________________________________________________
Karl SHAPIRO, "The Poetry Reading"
“Writer in Exile”
Collected Poems 1940-1978
Random House, New York, 1978, p. 248; 306
__________________________________________________________________
Charles SIMIC, "Charon's Cosmology"
Charon's Cosmology
George Braziller, New York, 1977, p. 14
__________________________________________________________________
Louis SIMPSON, "The Psyche of Riverside Drive"
"Mashkin Hill"
Searching for the Ox
William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York,
1976, p. 23; 64
__________________________________________________________________
Louis SIMPSON, "Orpheus in America"
Collected Poems [from: A Dream of Governors,
1959]
Paragon House, New York, 1988
_________________________________________________________________________________
William STAFFORD, “In Medias Res”
Stories That Could Be True. New and Collected
Poems
[from: Traveling Through the Dark, 1962]
Harper and Row, Publ., New York, 1977
________________________________________________________________
Maura STANTON, "Tristia"
Cries of Swimmers
University of Utah Press, Salt Lake
City, 1984, p. 53
__________________________________________________________________
Timothy STEELE, "Sapphics Against Anger"
"The Chorus"
“But Home Is Here”
Sapphics Against Anger & Other Poems
Random House, New York, 1986, p. 17; 56; 58
__________________________________________________________________
Martin STEINGESSER, "Shoplifting Poetry"
The Ardis Anthology of New American Poetry
ed. by David Rigsbey and Ellendea Proffer
Ardis, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1977, p. 157
__________________________________________________________________
Gerald STERN, "My Favorite Farewell"
Lovesick. Poems
Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1987,
p. 72
__________________________________________________________________
Wallace STEVENS, "The World as Meditation"
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972, p. 520
__________________________________________________________________
Mark STRAND, "Eating Poetry"
Selected Poems
Atheneum, New York, 1980, p.43
___________________________________________________________________
Allen TATE, "Aeneas at Washington"
Poems 1922-1947
C. Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1948
__________________________________________________________________
David WAGONER, "The Poets Agree
to Be Quiet by the Swamp"
"Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi"
"Muse"
Collected Poems 1956-76
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1976,
pp. 67; 157; 203
__________________________________________________________________
David WAGONER, "Pandora’s Dream"
First Light
Little, Brown and Company, Boston-Toronto,
1983, p.42
_________________________________________________________________________________
Derek WALCOTT, “Europa”
Collected Poems 1948-1984
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, New York, 1986
__________________________________________________________________
Theodore WEISS, "The Fire at Alexandria"
Outlanders
Macmillan, New York, 1960
_________________________________________________________________________________
Robert F. WHISLER, “Penelope and Me”
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of
American Poetry, 1984 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
[first published in The Arizona Quarterly]
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Palm Springs,
1984
_________________________________________________________________
Richard WILBUR, "Advice to a Prophet"
Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems
Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961
__________________________________________________________________
Oscar WILLIAMS, "The Golden Fleece"
The Poetry Anthology 1912-1977. Sixty-Five Years of America’s Most Distinguished Verse Magazine, ed. by Daryl Hine and Joseph Parisi
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1978, p. 77
__________________________________________________________________
William Carlos WILLIAMS, "Descent"
"Still Lifes"
The Collected Poems of W. C. Williams, vol.II,
ed. by A. W. Litz and C. MacGowan
A New Directions Book, New York, 1988, p.
238; 378
__________________________________________________________________
Yvor WINTERS, "Apollo and Daphne"
"Theseus: A Trilogy"
The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters
Carcanet New Press, Manchester, 1978, p. 118;
150
__________________________________________________________________
David WOJAHN, "God of Journeys and Secret Tidings"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1997 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: The Ohio Review)
Monitor Book Company, Palm Springs, 1997,
p. 569
__________________________________________________________________
James WORLEY, "Mark Van Doren"
Anthology of Magazine Verse and yearbook of American Poetry, 1981 Edition, ed. by Alan F. Pater
(first appeared in: The Christian Century)
Monitor Book Company, Inc., Beverly Hills,
1981, p. 513
___________________________________________________________________
James WRIGHT, "Caprice"
Above the River: The Complete Poems
A Wesleyan University Press Edition
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux and University
Press of New England, 1990
________________________________________________________________
Marya ZATURENSKA, "The Casket of Pandora"
__________________________________________________________________
Paul ZIMMER, "What Zimmer Would Be"