Poem List for Midterm

Though I'm loathe to provide a list like this, I understand that (too) many of you might be wholly unable to take the midterm without being able to gather copies of these poems. This is by no means a complete list of poems which might turn up on the midterm — for the essay questions especially, there might be additional poems you might want to bring into the discussion — but it will give you some general idea of where to focus your attentions.


John Ashbery:

The Instruction Manual
These Lacustrine Cities
Into the Dusk-Charged Air
To a Waterfowl
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
The Other Tradition
What is Poetry
My Erotic Double
At North Farm
37 Haiku


Frank O'Hara:

Autobiographia Literaria
Poem ("The eager note on my door said 'Call me,")
To the Harbormaster
At the Old Place
Homosexuality
To the Film Industry in Crisis
A Step Away From Them
The Day Lady Died
You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming
Personal Poem
Having a Coke with You
Ave Maria
Lines for the Fortune Cookies


Kenneth Koch:

To You
In Love with You
The Circus
Collected Poems
Fresh Air
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
The Circus
The Magic of Numbers
In Bed
One Train May Hide Another
Passing Time in Skansen
To Life
To My Old Addresses