Modernist Women Poets : an anthology

392 Pages·2014·0.95 MB·English

by  Ebenkamp

Modernist Women Poets
An Anthology

Copyright © 2014
by Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Modernist Women Poets : an anthology / edited by
Robert Hass, Paul Ebenkamp.
pages cm 1. American poetry—Women authors. 2. American poetry—20th century. 3. Modernism
(Literature) 4. Women—United States--poetry. I. Hass, Robert, editor of compilation. II. Ebenkamp, Paul,
editor of compilation.
PS589.M53 2014
811’.50809287—dc23
2013047445
ISBN 978-1-61902-382-6
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Contents
PREFACE BY C.D. WRIGHT
LOLA RIDGE
from The Ghetto
Flotsam
Death Ray
The Fifth-Floor Window
Appulse
GERTRUDE STEIN
from Tender Buttons: Objects
from Tender Buttons: Roastbeef
Susie Asado
Yet Dish
Idem The Same: A Valentine To Sherwood Anderson
from Lifting Belly
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
from Stanzas in Meditation
AMY LOWELL
The Pike
Patterns
Thompson’s Lunch Room—Grand Central Station
Spring Longing
Venus Transiens
Bright Sunlight
New Heavens for Old
Dissonance
ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN
Analytical Chemistry of Progeny
A Dozen Cocktails Please
Subjoyride
Ostentatious
Ohio—Indiansummer
All’s Well
Ultramundanity
Constitution
Game Legend
FLORENCE WHEELOCK AYSCOUGH AND AMY LOWELL
from Fir-Flower Tablets
Autumn River Song: On the Broad Reach
The Heaven’s Gate Mountains
The Retreat of Hsieh Kung
On the Subject of Old Tai’s Wine-Shop
In The Province of Lu, to the East of the Stone Gate Mountain, Taking Leave of
Tu Fu
At the Edge Of Heaven, Thinking of Li Po
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY
November Night
Release
Triad
Snow
Anguish
Trapped
Moon-Shadows
Languor After Pain
The Guarded Wound
Night Winds
Arbutus
“He’s killed the may and he’s laid her by To bear the red rose company.”
Amaze
The Warning
Saying Of Il Haboul, Guardian Of The Treasure Of Solomon And Keeper Of
The Prophet’s Armor
Laurel in The Berkshires
Niagara—Seen on a Night in November
On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees
Fragment
ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE
Grass Fingers
Tenebris
A Mona Lisa
The Black Finger
Under The Days
ANNE SPENCER
At the Carnival
Lines to a Nasturtium
Translation
MINA LOY
Songs to Joannes
Poe
Lunar Baedeker
Der Blinde Junge
Brancusi’s Golden Bird
FRANCES GREGG
To H.D.
HAZEL HALL
Seams
Two Sewing
The Listening Macaws
Footfalls
Woman Death
Riddle
The Unuttered
H.D.
Sea Rose
Sea Lily
Garden
Sea Violet
Orchard
Storm
Hermes of the Ways
For Bryher and Perdita
Hymen
Song
Helen
Fragment Forty
Fragment Forty-one
Fragment Sixty-eight
Lethe
Christmas 1944
from The Walls Do Not Fall
MARIANNE MOORE
The Past Is The Present
Those Various Scalpels,
The Fish
Marriage
An Octopus
The Steeple-Jack
In Distrust Of Merits
DJUNA BARNES
Portrait of a Lady Walking
The Walking-Mort
Seen from the ‘L’
Suicide
Quarry
Dereliction
As Cried
Verse
HILDEGARDE FLANNER
Moment
Fern Song
True Western Summer
LAURA RIDING
Named
Summons
Incarnations
So Slight
Take Hands
The Quids
The Rugged Black of Anger
The Map of Places
O Vocables of Love
Come, Words, Away
AFTERWORD BY ROBERT HASS
APPENDIX
Marianne Moore: Excerpts from Selected Letters and Complete Prose
H. D.: Egoist Review of Moore