List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword Anne Pierson Wise Preface Shawkat M. Toorawa New York Valzhyna Mort MORNING Awaking in New York Maya Angelou Dawn in New York Claude McKay New York at Sunrise Anna Hempstead Branch Manhattan Dawn (1945) Donald Justice From "A Grave for New York" Adonis ('Ali Ahmad Sa'id) New York (Office and Denunciation) Federico Garcia Lorca The morning James Schuyler Early Morning in July Charles Simic Sunday Morning Kenneth McClane West Side Story Sasha Skenderija Cyclone Stephanie Krueger Sonnet XXXVI Ted Berrigan The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) Paul Simon The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernandez Cruz DAY From "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World" Galway Kinnell From "As Fate Would Have It" Mahmoud Darwish A Step Away from Them Frank O'Hara Why I Hate New York Meredith Shepard August Walk Luis Cabalquinto Made in India, Immigrant Song #3 Purvi Shah Resurrection Nicanor Parra "at the ferocious phenomenon" e. e. cummings I Had This Dream/the city of shadows Shokry Eldaly Rain David Semanki Central Park Robert Lowell From "Peacocks on Broadway" Durs Grunbein Summer Solstice, New York City Sharon Olds The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him Martin Espada EVENING The New Yorkers Nikki Giovanni MacDougal Street Edna St. Vincent Millay From "Mugging" Allen Ginsberg From "New York" John Hollander February Evening in New York Denise Levertov Body Elite Anne Pierson Wiese Schubertiana Tomas Transtromer Wiseguy Type Herman Spector Latin Music in New York Jessica Hagedorn Broadway Carl Sandburg A Rhyme about an Electrical Advertising Sign Vachel Lindsay September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden To Brooklyn Bridge Hart Crane 123rd Street Rap Willie Perdomo NIGHT When I Heard at the Close at the Close of Day Walt Whitman Evening on Fifth Avenue Anna Margolin Street Lamps in Early Spring Gwendolyn Bennett From "New York American Spell, 2001" Tom Sleigh Autobiography: New York Melanie Rehak Snow Fay Chiang Season of Death Edwin Rolfe From the Woolworth Tower Sara Teasdale From "Twenty-One Love Poems" Adrienne Rich God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Derek Walcott Arriving in the City Franz Wright City Lyrics Nathaniel Parker Willis Maria's Journey Alberto O. Cappas New York at Night Amy Lowell From "Desolation Row" Bob Dylan To New York Leopold Sedar Senghor Juke Box Love Song Langston Hughes These Ever Just So Six Million New York Hearts and Dorothy Robert Clairmont Further Reading Biographical Details Chronology of Poems Index of First Lines Index of Titles Index of Poets
Shawkat M. Toorawa is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at Cornell University. He has written, edited, and translated many books, including the collection of Adonis's poetry A Time Between Ashes and Roses: Poems.
"Shawkat Toorawa has selected a thrilling chorus of voices, familiar and new, formal and slangy, immigrant and native. A perfect companion for your day or night on the town." - Robyn Creswell, poetry editor of The Paris Review "A strength of this collection is its rich mix of female and male poets, and its wide range of demographic, racial, linguistic, aesthetic, and other multicultural perspectives across a period of time ranging from the late nineteenth century to our own decade. The poems are as various and full of elan as the city itself." - Lisa Russ Spaar, editor of All That Mighty Heart: London Poems "There are almost as many anthologies of New York poems as there are skyscrapers, but in terms of sheer reading pleasure The City That Never Sleeps towers over them all." - Don Share, Editor, Poetry magazine
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