Table of Contents
Preface C.D. Wright 1
Lola Ridge
from The Ghetto 9
Flotsam 24
Death Ray 27
The Fifth-Floor Window 30
Appulse 32
Gertrude Stein
from Tender Buttons: Objects 33
from Tender Buttons: Roastbeef 50
Susie Asado 55
Yet Dish 56
Idem The Same: A Valentine To Sherwood Anderson 66
from Lifting Belly 70
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso 88
from Stanzas in Meditation 92
Amy Lowell
The Pike 104
Patterns 105
Thompson's Lunch Room-Grand Central Station 109
Spring Longing 111
Venus Transiens 112
Bright Sunlight 113
New Heavens for Old 114
Dissonance 116
Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
Analytical Chemistry of Progeny 117
A Dozen Cocktails Please 118
Subjoyride 120
Ostentatious 124
Ohio-Indiansummer 125
All's Well 126
Ultramundanity 128
Constitution 132
Game Legend 135
Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell
from Fir-Flower Tablets
Autumn River Song: On the Broad Reach 137
The Heaven's Gate Mountains 138
The Retreat of Hsieh Kung 139
On the Subject of Old Tai's Wine-Shop 140
In The Province of Lu, to the East of the Stone Gate Mountain, Taking Leave of Tu Fu 141
At the Edge Of Heaven, Thinking of Li Po 142
Adelaide Crapsey
November Night 143
Release 143
Triad 143
Snow 144
Anguish 144
Trapped 144
Moon-Shadows 145
Languor After Pain 145
The Guarded Wound 145
Night Winds 146
Arbutus 146
"He's killed the may and he's laid her by To bear the red rose company." 146
Amaze 147
The Warning 147
Saying Of Il Haboul, Guardian Of The Treasure Of Solomon And Keeper Of The Prophet's Armor 147
Laurel in The Berkshires 148
Niagara-Seen on a Night in November 148
On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees 148
Fragment 149
Angelina Weld Grimke
Grass Fingers 150
Tenebris 151
A Mona Lisa 152
The Black Finger 153
Under The Days 154
Anne Spencer
At the Carnival 155
Lines to a Nasturtium 157
Translation 158
Mina Loy
Songs to Joannes 159
Poe 176
Lunar Baedeker 177
Der Blinde Junge 179
Brancusi's Golden Bird 181
Frances Gregg
To H.D. 183
Hazel Hall
Seams 184
Two Sewing 185
The Listening Macaws 186
Footfalls 187
Woman Death 193
Riddle 195
The Unuttered 196
H.D.
Sea Rose 197
Sea Lily 198
Garden 199
Sea Violet 201
Orchard 202
Storm 204
Hermes of the Ways 205
For Bryher and Perdita 207
Hymen 208
Song 218
Helen 219
Fragment Forty 220
Fragment Forty-one 224
Fragment Sixty-eight 228
Lethe 231
Christmas 1944 232
from The Walls Do Not Fall 236
Marianne Moore
The Past Is The Present 259
Those Various Scalpels 260
The Fish 262
Marriage 264
An Octopus 273
The Steeple-Jack 280
In Distrust Of Merits 283
Djuna Barnes
Portrait of a Lady Walking 286
The Walking-Mort 287
Seen from the 'L' 288
Suicide 289
Quarry 290
Dereliction 291
As Cried 292
Verse 293
Hildegarde Flanner
Moment 294
Fern Song 295
True Western Summer 296
Laura Riding
Named 297
Summons 298
Incarnations 300
So Slight 301
Take Hands 302
The Quids 303
The Rugged Black of Anger 305
The Map of Places 307
O Vocables of Love 308
Come, Words, Away 309
Afterword Robert Hass 313
Appendix
Marianne Moore: Excerpts from Selected Letters and Complete Prose 333
H. D.: Egoist Review of Moore 346
Mina Loy: Feminist Manifesto 350
Mina Loy: Aphorisms on Futurism 354
Amy Lowell: Prefaces 358
Acknowledgments 361
Notes 364
Textual Note 371
Editor's Note 372
