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Introduction: Irish American Poetry and the Question of Tradition xxxiii

P A R T O N E . A F L U E N T D R I F T

G B (–)

Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America

M C (–)

(from) The Porqupiniad

J O ( –)

Song Composed on the Banks of Newfoundland

T B ( –)

(from) Avenia

J MH ( –)

The Haunts of Larne

S H W (– )

Don Isle

H D T (–)

I Am the Little Irish Boy

W W (–)

Old Ireland

A C (– )

The Bridal Veil

Snowed Under

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C G. H (–)

(from) On Raising a Monument to the Irish Legion

J B O’R (–)

At Fredericksburg

The Exile of the Gael

Crispus Attucks

J J R (–)

Persepolis

Netchaieff

D O’C (– ?)

Monterey

The Workers

J W R (–)

John Boyle O’Reilly

M F E (– )

Maurice De Guérin

L I G (–)

Gloucester Harbor

An Epitaph for Wendell Phillips

Two Irish Peasant Songs

The Wild Ride

Monochrome

K MP C (–)

The Fettered

E A R (–)

Shadrach O’Leary

A Song at Shannon’s

The Dark Hills

The Sheaves

P O’H ( –)

Ochón! A Dhonncha (My Sorrow, Donncha)

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P L D (–)

John Boyle O’Reilly

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P A R T T W O . M O D E R N T I D E

L R ( – )

(from) The Ghetto

Brooklyn Bridge

The Edge

To Larkin

(from) Death Ray

R F (–)

The Cow’s in the Corn

O S. J G ( – )

To a Friend in the Country

W S (–)

Our Stars Come from Ireland

The Irish Cliffs of Moher

P C (–)

Hawaiian

A Rann of Exile

J G F (–)

(from) Sand and Spray: A Sea Symphony

(from) Elegy in a Civil War Graveyard

S O’S (–)

They Went Forth to Battle but They Always Fell

R J (–)

Continent’s End

Shane O’Neill’s Cairn

The Broadstone

Antrim

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Iona: The Graves of the Kings

An Irish Headland

The Stone Axe

Carmel Point

Patronymic

M M (–)

The Fish

The Pangolin

Spenser’s Ireland

E W (–)

Irish

Saint Patrick’s Day,

Poem

Poem for a Negro Voice

L B (–)

Medusa

Women

Cassandra

Hypocrite Swift

Zone

H G (–)

Longface Mahoney Discusses Heaven

Among the Shades I Heard My Father’s Father

(from) Fortune for Mirabel

Seascape at Evening: Cape Ann

On a Celtic Mask by Henry Moore

R F (–)

The Celt

Hermit

Ireland

Cromwell

St. Brigid’s

K B (–)

A Poem of Gratitude

The New Emigration

To America

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R F (–)

Phrase

Atlantic Song

History

B C (–)

from Missouri Sequence

Nightfall, Midwinter, Missouri

Muse, June, Related

Missouri, Midsummer, Closure

P MG (– )

June in the Suburbs

Blues for a Melodeon

L MN (–)

Last before America

J J (–)

Mr. Mahoney

First Woman

Voyage

T R (–)

Gob Music

The Shy Man

C O (–)

Pacific Lament

Enniscorthy Suite

The Grandfather-Father Poem

J. V. C (–)

Agnosco Veteris Vestigia Flammae

“You Have Here No Otherness”

Montana Fifty Years Ago

C M (–)

To Robinson Jeffers

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J B (–)

(from) The Dream Songs

R J (–)

A Rhapsody on Irish Themes

J L (–)

Martha Graham

E MC (–)

No Country for the Young

T MG (–)

Ode for the American Dead in Asia

The End of the World

Columbus

The Topography of History

Love in a Bus

G B (–)

Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat

R L (– )

For Eugene McCarthy

Milgate

R W (– )

The Storing of the Soul

Let It Blow

A D (– )

Gaelic Legacy

Flying the Zuni Mountains

J S (– )

For the Old Yeats

D B (– )

The Big Wind

Dachau Is Now Open for Visitors

Immanence

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H C (– )

Her Song

A D (–)

The So-Called Wild Horses of the Water

Mockery Against the Irish Censorship

Sailing to Jerusalem

On Voyage

Note: The Sea Grinds Things Up

J L (–)

At Drumcliffe Churchyard, County Sligo

Dublin Suite: Homage to James Joyce

J S (–)

Our Father

Poem

Salute

L S (– )

The Peat-Bog Man

The Middleaged Man

P W (–)

Homage to St. Patrick, García Lorca, & the Itinerant Grocer

P F ( – )

Our Father

Brendan Gone

Old Poet

A. R. A (–)

The Pieces of My Voice

Hymn

Expressions of Sea Level

Passage

Easter Morning

Night Finding

Feel Like Traveling On

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R C (–)

Theresa’s Friends

An Irishman’s Lament on the Approaching Winter

Water

For Ted Berrigan

America

For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley

F O’H (–)

A Note to Harold Fondren

Walking with Larry Rivers

On a Passage in Beckett’s Watt & About Geo. Montgomery

Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets

The Day Lady Died

G K (– )

Goodbye

(from) The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the

New World

The Shoes of Wandering

L C (–)

York Maine

Jazz

Oscar Wilde Lament

Dark Horses Rushing

X. J. K ( – )

In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day

Aunt Rectita’s Good Friday

Celebrations After the Death of John Brennan

Ool About to Proclaim a Parable

T K (– )

The Good Fight

J M (– )

The Cage

A Muddy Cup

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A Christmas Card

A Flowering Absence

The Locket

All Legendary Obstacles

N O’G (– )

Looking Upward at a Waterford Glass Chandelier

The Harvesters’ Vase

Wittgenstein Reads Finnegans Wake in Provence:

A Pauline Reflection

The Five Seasons of Obsession

D O’H (– )

Spell for Not Dying Again

Empty God

Some of Us Are Exiles from No Land

K S (– )

The Cold Irish Earth

Location

The Beautiful White Cow

J E (– )

Walking to Cootehill

Saying the Names

The Storm

T B (–)

Frank O’Hara

Heloise

C S B (– )

Indian Paintbrush

Into the Wind

Sunset, with Red Rain

J L (– )

A White Thought in a White Shade

I Hear the Wife of the Governor of Wisconsin Singing

Lines for Gareth and Janet Dunleavy

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Wonderful Tennessee

Gold Set Dancing

J MC (– )

The Magpies of Dublin

W MD (– )

My Father on His Shield

The Waltz We Were Born For

Heirlooms

T MN (–)

Good Sweat

The Immigrant

G S (– )

In Ireland

Veracruz

J V (– )

Pilgrims

The River at Wolf

To Ireland

Eighteen

R K (– )

Haruspex

A Woman from Connaught

Towards the Day of Liberation

Poem for the Jews

A K (–)

With One Continuous Breath

Burial Instructions

J J. MA (– )

A Famine Field

Sea Writer: Sands

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P A R T T H R E E . F U R T H E R H A R B O R S

B G (– )

My Grandmother Steals Her Last Trout

A Holy Well

Carrowkeel

Hearing Irish Spoken

Brother Francisco Anthony Eats an Apple

R G (– )

Letter to Maryknoll

S H (– )

(from) Hinge Picture

Closed Fist Withholding an Open Palm

S L (– )

The Alphabet of Singing

Etruscan

The Ship

M C (– )

The Letter

P D (– )

Inheriting the Gift of Blarney

Why Jesus Was Crucified

Portrait, with Lightning Rod

S D (– )

The House of My Birth

The Tile Setter

The Gospel Singer Testifies

S D (– )

Regardless

The Resurrection

Oklahoma City

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Something Like Happiness

Afterlife

I MK (– )

Twilight in West Virginia: Six O’Clock Mine Report

Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia

J MM (– )

(from) The Begotten

P C (– )

Ararat

The Soul

For Jay Gatsby

J D (– )

Revision

Space

F H (– )

Seven Poems

F M (– )

Directions Down

The Afterlife on Squaw Peak

St. John’s Point

S O’D (– )

The Big House

T S (– )

The Alaska Range

Homecoming

R T (– )

A Quiet Pint in Kinvara

A Backward Glance at Galway

K B ( – )

My Mother and the Shepherdess

Grandfather

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T C ( – )

The Black Weir

Prolepsis

B C ( – )

Tourist: Dromahair, Co. Sligo

Afternoon with Irish Cows

Home Again

Design

Questions About Angels

The Afterlife

E G ( – )

Traveller

Men Roofing

Walk, Night Falling, Memory of My Father

Levitations

D M ( – )

Global Village

Beauty and the Beast

Key West

‘To Mrs. Moore at Inishannon’

W MN ( – )

To My Father, Dying in a Supermarket

Blame

History by George B. Yeaton

G R ( – )

Words for Unaccompanied Voice at Dunmore Head

Working the Rain Shift at Flanagan’s

With Thanks for a Shard from Sandycove

The Enniskillen Bombing

Miles from Newgrange at the Winter Solstice

M H (– )

Kennedy

To Cathleen at Patricktide

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The Atonement

A Rhetoric Upon the Window

A Highway Brook in Dingle

Merciless Beauty

M L (– )

(from) The South Orange Sonnets

K C (– )

Love in the Western World

T G (– )

Still Moment at Dún Laoghaire

Second Language

Disappearances in the Guarded Sector

The Ballad of Ballymote

Lie Down with the Lamb

K L (– )

Hanging Family Photographs

L MC (– )

To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons

October

Local

M O (– )

She had her socks rolled up over her pants

like an Irish brat.

Anonymous

“Can I Still Love You & Hate the Word Husband?”

E B (– )

The Emigrant Irish

In a Bad Light

Home

In Exile

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K S B (– )

Lineage

Alma

The Ballad Singers

Backwater

J C (– )

Farewell to My Protestant Cousins at Inch

Wilton Castle, County Wexford

T D R (– )

Rowen

Liús

Yarrow Charm

B H (– )

(from) The Mother Tongue

(from) The Holy Alls

J. D. MC (– )

Irish Prospects

G. E. M (– )

Caitlin’s Poem

On Laying Keel

M D. R (– )

Passage Graves

In the Garden

B S (– )

Sweeney at Prayer

Two Worlds

The Past

T W (– )

A Short History of th-Century Irish Music in America

Shadow Grammar

Noise Under Glass

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C J C (– )

The Annunciation

Magdalen’s Song

Water

E C (–)

The Other Side

D F (– )

The Irish Wilderness

Tongue. The End of the World Is Roadless. Exile

The Cloud of Unknowing

V H (–)

Soliloquy of the Irish Poet

The American Dream

J H (– )

Somnambulist

Waked by wind, sea talk

P M (– )

What the Wind Said

Kevin Barry Gave His Young Life

M R (– )

The Pure Loneliness

The Past

God Hunger

Switchblade

A Version of Happiness

God

M S (– )

Elegy for Snow

The Tidal Wave

Ode to Berryman

Croagh Patrick

S W (– )

Geography

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K B (– )

Inchemekinna

A Granite Stairway: St. Joseph’s School for Boys

Sailing to Thai Binh

M C (– )

A Bummer

Learning

G C (– )

Our Mother Tongue

Procession of All Souls

J M (– )

Steady Dreamers

Lace Stone Walls

M S (– )

Vows of Chastity and Indulgence

Saved

After Sinéad O’Connor Appears on Saturday Night Live, the Pope

R. T. S (– )

Waterford

Leabai

Passage to Kilronin

Road Fever

N A (– )

Slow Airs

Féis

Country Night, County Donegal

S F (– )

My Mothers’ Rosaries

The Lives of the Saints

R K (– )

The Uilleann Pipes

(from) The Invention of the Zero

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M L (–)

Among Things Held at Arm’s Length

Madrigal

T L (– )

The Moveen Notebook

A Rhetoric Upon Brother Michael’s Rhetoric Upon the Window

H MH (– )

Faith

Message at Sunset for Bishop Berkeley

A Physics

Nano-Knowledge

R B (– )

Johnny Broderick

L L (– )

Irish Music

Bunny Mayo in the New World

M W (– )

The Mystery of the Caves

Mythology

Brooklyn Waterfall

Christ at the Apollo,

C W (– )

Ancestress

In the Yeats Class, Summer Term

Clairvoyant’s Reading

T D (– )

Translations from the Irish

Midsummer’s Night, Cape Clear

M H (– )

The Dream

From Nowhere

Encounter

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M MB (– )

Metaphor for the Past

Transmigration

Strauss and the Cows of Ireland

R MN (– )

Sati, Seventh Month, By the Sea

On the ‘7 ’ Train

M S (– )

Lynch’s Window

For Mary Lynch

Scales

Swift

Succession

E B ( – )

Homecoming

Listening to Lester Young

D C ( – )

It’s So Much Like Missiles

The Middleman

P F ( – )

from The Deerfield Series

Bloody Brook

Mehuman Hinsdale

Strength of Heart

J G ( – )

Navigation

For Our Better Graces

Misericord

Materialism

B P K ( – )

The Place of Trumpets

Of Ancient Origins and War

Song

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E MK ( – )

Céilí Mór

To Inishmore

Driving the Coast Road to Dingle

L MM ( – )

Wedding Ring

We Take Our Children to Ireland

Glasnevin

In Love With It, If It Requires No Tending

J MM ( – )

Two Songs for Hendrix

The Unnamable

P M ( – )

Immrama

Promises, Promises

(from) , Middagh Street

Milkweed and Monarch

H C (– )

Euclid Avenue

Absinthe at New Orleans

A F (– )

Everyone Knows the World Is Ending

Days Through Starch and Bluing

Maidenhead

Industrial Lace

J K (– )

Connemara

Ode to the Big Muddy

M L (– )

Song in Killeshandra

J S R (– )

Three Things Remembered from a Life of Georgia O’Keeffe

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A S (– )

from After the Digging

Randolph Routh to Charles Trevelyan

Memorandum

The Dublin Evening Mail

(from) Passage Out

E S (– )

The Travellers

K C (– )

(from) Who Whispered Near Me

(from) By Common Salt

R MD (– )

The Islander

Prayers That Open Heaven

K B (– )

The Lullaby of History

M C (– )

The Islandman

Aubade for Allihies, County Cork

M C (– )

Mid-life, Looking North

The Saranac River

M D (–)

City of God

The Classics

Pentecost

Reliquary

Caliban’s Books

Exile’s End

M MF (– )

Family Reunion Near Grape Creek Church,

Four Miles West of Murphy, N.C.,

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The Family Laugh

The All-Dog Siren Choir

J F S (– )

The Sirens

Where the Roads Lead

N A (– )

Emigrant

Between Swilly and Sewanee

J O’C (– )

The Long Room Gallery

The Great Blasket Island

Home

E W (– )

Hart Crane’s Bridge

At the Edges of the Nerve: Song for the Americas

Song at Lake Michigan

Four Stern Faces/South Dakota

The Westward Journey

C A (– )

Thistledown

Offing

By the HARP Brewery

First Light

P D (–)

I am a virus

How the Age of Iron Turned to Gold

M J N (– )

Heirlooms Not Relinquished in the Great Depression

T O’G (– )

East Side Story

As in Wild Earth a Grecian Vase

Exile

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M C (– )

The Great Wagon Road, or How History Knocked the Professor Cold,

or A Storyteller’s Story, or Why Appalachians Are Mountains

and a People

N C (– )

Drinking: A Suite

G D (– )

We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No

On the Renovation of Ellis Island

The Shrinking World

Homage to the God of Pollution in Brooklyn

(from) The Hellbox

K F (– )

Migration

Tympani

L M (– )

The Surface

Long Coat

D T (– )

Double Life

A Mosque in Brooklyn

St. John

J M (– )

Woman Falls Asleep Doing the Sunday Crossword

G D (– )

(from) Columbus Rides Again

They Write

On a Trawler to the Mainland

J F (– )

Pow Wow at Greenbriar

N F (– )

The ocean is always looking for a way into your boat

Father Outside

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C F (– )

Family History

The Vastness. The Distant Twinkling

The Fidgeting

C K (– )

The Secularist

Ave Verum Corpus

C MG (– )

Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory

Angels and the Bars of Manhattan

Sunrise and Moonfall, Rosarito Beach

E O (– )

Belleek

First Frost

C C (– )

Learning Death

A T (– )

Pattern for a Sweater

Irish

Evening Burning

E M (– )

Sacrifice

Aisling

S MN (– )

Snow

The Adventure

J O’G (– )

The Miraculous Draft of Fishes

Blue Heron

M K (– )

The Prodigal Father

Gin

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C C (– )

Sandalwood

Lamplighting

A R (– )

Safe Haven

Holy Water

The Island of Women

J L (–)

(from) th Birthday

B A F ( –)

The Names of Things

J MD (–)

(from) The Execution Sonnets

B S (– )

The Question and Its Mark

T F ( – )

Letter from Madeline Island

K R (– )

Hometown

C A (– )

On Touring the U.N. with My Mother-in-Law

General Historical Chronology

Biographical and Explanatory Notes

Bibliography

Bibliography for General Reading

Permissions and Acknowledgments

Index of Poems

Index of Poets

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