The best American erotic poems : from 1800 to the present, edited by David Lehman

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The best American erotic poems : from 1800 to the present, edited by David Lehman

Title remainder

from 1800 to the present

Statement of responsibility

edited by David Lehman

Instantiates

• The best American erotic poems : from 1800 to the present

Publication

• New York, Scribner Poetry, 2008

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Includes indexes

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• "Come slowly-- Eden!"
• "(The floating poem, unnumbered)"
• Adrienne Rich
• "The beekeeper's daughter"
• Sylvia Plath
• "Fellatio"
• John Updike
• "The couple"
• Mark Strand
• "Dinner at George & Katie Schneeman's"
• Ted Berrigan
• "Wild nights-- wild nights"
• "Conjugal"
• Russell Edson
• "to a dark moses"
• Lucille Clifton
• "Heart art"
• Frederick Seidel
• "Salt in the afternoon
• Marge Piercy
• "Ethics"
• C.K. Williams
• "He fumbles at your soul"
• "Breasts"
• Charles Simic
• "Pinup"
• Billy Collins
• "Desire"
• Stephen Dobyns
• "Against Botticelli"
• Robert Hass
• "Kept burning and distant"
• Linda Gregg
• "I groped for him before I knew"
• "The sisters of sexual treasure"
• Sharon Olds
• "The encounter"
• Louise Gl?ck
• "By the nape"
• Sandra Alcosser
• "Resolution"
• Paul Violi
• "Walter Raleigh, courtier and explorer, beheaded by King James I, 1618"
• Robert Olen Butler
• "In winter in my room"
• "A man and a woman"
• Alan Feldman
• "First turn to me..."
• Bernadette Mayer
• "Disparu"
• Honor Moore
• "The evangelist"
• Star Black
• "Gate C22"
• Ellen Bass
• Emily Dickinson
• "Twenty-year marriage"
• Ai
• "The shirt"
• Jane Kenyon
• "Lust"
• Yusef Komunyakaa
• "She lays"
• Molly Peacock
• "The body is the flower"
• James Cummins
• "Assurance"
• "Gig at Big Al's"
• Heather McHugh
• "Dreaming of Rio at sixteen"
• Lynn Emanuel
• "Poem"
• Denis Johnson
• "Alley cat love song"
• Dana Gioia
• "To his penis"
• Paul Jones
• Emma Lazarus
• "The snake in the garden considers Daphne"
• William Wadsworth
• "It never happened"
• Marc Cohen
• "In an empty garden"
• Judith Hall
• from Shot up in the sexual revolution (The true adventures of Suzy Creamcheese)
• Cynthia Huntington --
• "Terminus"
• Edith Wharton
• "On a young lady's going into a shower bath"
• "The subverted flower"
• Robert Frost
• "Anticipation"
• Amy Lowell
• from Lifting belly
• Gertrude Stein
• "Peter Quince at the clavier"
• Wallace Stevens
• "Young Sycamore"
• William Carlos Williams
• Francis Scott Key
• "Sea Holly"
• Conrad Aiken
• Sonnet ("I too beneath your moon, almighty Sex")
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "as
• we lie side by side
• my little breasts [...]"
• E.E. Cummings
• "Sonnets to some sexual organs"
• H. Phelps Putnam
• "Song" ("I saw thee on thy bridal day")
• "Episode of hands"
• Hart Crane
• "Desire"
• Langston Hughes
• from The love poems of Marichiko
• Kenneth Rexroth
• "The platonic blow"
• W.H. Auden
• "It is marvellous-- "
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Edgar Allan Poe
• "It was in Vegas"
• J.V. Cunningham
• "Life story"
• Tennessee Williams
• "What I see"
• Muriel Rukeyser
• "A new pair"
• May Swenson
• "The milkman"
• Isabella Stewart Gardner
• "I sing the body electric"
• "Coffee and sweet rolls"
• Ruth Stone
• from Letter to an imaginary friend
• Thomas McGrath
• "The torso"
• Robert Duncan
• "Hunk of rock"
• Charles Bukowski
• "Assignment"
• Hayden Carruth
• Walt Whitman
• "A late aubade"
• Richard Wilbur
• "A photograph"
• James Schuyler
• "Summer storm"
• Louis Simpson
• "2nd tale : return
• Robin Blaser
• "To orgasms"
• Kenneth Koch
• from Sonnets : a sequence on profane love
• "Their sex life"
• A.R. Ammons
• "The once-over"
• Paul Blackburn
• "Love poem on theme by Whitman"
• Allen Ginsberg
• "Peeled wands"
• James Merrill
• "To the harbormaster"
• Frank O'Hara
• George Henry Boker
• "Trying to write a poem while the couple in the apartment overhead make love"
• David Wagoner
• "Last gods"
• Galway Kinnell
• "When I was young"
• Donad Hall
• "December 11th"
• Anne Sexton
• "Move still, still so"
• Richard Howard
• "After school, street football, eighth grade"
• Dennis Cooper
• "Lilacs in NYC"
• Mark Doty
• "Visitation"
• Tony Hoagland
• "Wan Chu's wife in bed"
• Richard Jones
• "Pretty piece of tail"
• Harryette Mullen
• "The little black book"
• "The divorc?e and gin"
• Kim Addonizio
• "Mirrors"
• Sarah Arvio
• "Platypus"
• Dean Young
• "Ode to semen"
• Amy Gerstler
• "My lavenderdom"
• Sarah Maclay
• Paul Muldoon
• "Bareback pantoum"
• Cecilia Woloch
• "Demographics"
• Catherine Bowman
• "Poem"
• Ed Smith
• "How to have an orgasm : examples"
• Nin Andrews
• "I see a man"
• Carl Phillips
• from Slave sonnets ("I've been a shit and I hate fucking you now")
• "House-sitting"
• Denise Duhamel
• "At seventeen"
• Elizabeth Alexander
• "Francesca says more"
• Olena Kalytiak Davis
• "Preference"
• Beth Gylys
• "On not using the word 'cunt' in a poem"
• Lisa Williams
• Bob Flanagan
• "August in West Hollywood"
• Deborah Landau
• "When a man hasn't been kissed"
• Jeffrey McDaniel
• "Little beast"
• Richard Siken
• "Another motive for metaphor"
• Jennifer L. Knox
• "The temp"
• Janice Erlbaum
• "The shipfitter's wife"
• "Misapprehension"
• Jenny Factor
• "Me and men"
• Cate Marvin
• "Lover"
• Catherine Wagner
• "Maelstrom"
• C. Dale Young
• "Voluptuary"
• Brenda Shaughnessy
• Dorianne Laux
• "?tude"
• Kevin Young
• "On reading poorly transcribed erotica"
• Jill Alexander Essbaum
• "Why we shouldn't write love poems, or if we must, why we shouldn't publish them"
• Beth Ann Fennelly
• "Preface"
• Terrance Hayes
• "Eye-fucked"
• Catherine Wing
• "The naked woman"
• "Body cavity"
• Ross Martin
• "Reverence"
• Sarah Manguso
• "Lucia"
• Ravi Shankar
• "From the other"
• Laura Cronk
• "Courtesy"
• Danielle Pafunda
• Peter Serchuk
• "February"
• Michael Quattrone
• "Sonnet from the groin"
• Maggie Wells
• "Valentine"
• Noah Michelson
• "Letter to my love"
• Heather Christle
• "Subterranean gnomesick blues, or, the gnome who whet my fleshy tent."
• Rachel Shukert

Dimensions

22 cm.

Edition

First Scribner edition

Extent

xxv, 300 pages

Isbn

9781416537458

Lccn

2007047100

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

539879

System control number

• (OCoLC)ocn166373207
• (Sirsi) o166373207
• (OCoLC)166373207