Author Description

America, America / Saadi Youssef -- An attempt at jealousy / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Babii Yar / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- From the rising of the sun / Czeslaw Milosz -- Heart's needle / W. D. Snodgrass -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- Howl / Allen Ginsberg -- Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- Native guard / Natasha Trethewey -- The night piece: to Julia / Robert Herrick -- On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley -- Pantoun for Chinese women / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Poem in which my legs are accepted / Kathleen Fraser -- St. Roach / Muriel Rukeyser -- When we two parted / Lord George Gordon Byron.