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Garnet Poems
An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776
Edited Dennis Barone
Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
Sales Date: 2012-09-06
Landmark collection illuminates the state through the work of its most prominent poets
Connecticut may be a small state, but it is large indeed in its contribution to the nation's literature. Garnet Poems features forty-two poets whose work has a strong connection to Connecticut. The first major anthology of Connecticut poetry to appear since the mid-nineteenth century, it includes the work of such notable poets as Wallace Stevens, Lydia Sigourney, Mark Van Doren, Richard Wilbur,
Susan Howe, and Elizabeth Alexander. Distinguished writer-scholar Dennis Barone has supplemented the poems with an editor's preface, notes that illuminate the poet's (or poem's) relation to the state, and informative biographies. The book also features a foreword by Dick Allen, the current Connecticut state poet laureate.
A Driftless Connecticut Series Book, funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
FOREWORD – DICK ALLEN
EDITOR'S PREFACE – DENNIS BARONE
JOHN TRUMBULL (1750 – 1831)
from Progress of Dulness
from M'Fingal
TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752 – 1817)
from Greenfield Hill
A Song
DAVID HUMPHREYS (1753 – 1818)
The Monkey
Sonnet I
from The Address to the Armies of the United States of America
JOEL BARLOW (1754 – 1812)
from The Hasty Pudding
from The Columbiad
JAMES ABRAHAM HILLHOUSE (1789 – 1841)
from The Judgment, A Vision
from Sachem's Wood
LYDIA SIGOURNEY (1791 – 1865)
The Western Emigrant
Death of an Infant
The War-Spirit
Indian Names
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811 – 1896)
The Old Psalm Tune
Above
The Miserere
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL (1820 – 1872)
Suspiria Ensis
A War Study
All Together
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860 – 1935)
In Duty Bound
To the Young Wife
ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH (1875 – 1937)
Connecticut Road Song
Inheritance
First Letter
WALLACE STEVENS (1879 – 1955)
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird
Of Hartford In A Purple Light
from An Ordinary Evening In New Haven
The Plain Sense Of Things
The River Of Rivers In Connecticut
MARK VAN DOREN (1894 – 1972)
Going Home
The Unknown Army
The Seven Sleepers
Anger in the Room
ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905 – 1989)
Small White House
Evening Hawk
Rather Like a Dream
Heart of Autumn
CHARLES OLSON (1910 – 1970)
from As The Dead Prey Upon Us
Variations Done For Gerald Van De Wiele
JAMES LAUGHLIN (1914 – 1997)
Is Memory
The Old Men
from My Aunt
What The Pencil Writes
WILLIAM MEREDITH (1919 – 2007)
The Open Sea
The Wreck of the Thresher
Winter Verse for His Sister
Here and There
RICHARD WILBUR (1921 – )
In Trackless Woods
In The Field
Advice To A Prophet
"A World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness"
The Beautiful Changes
HAYDEN CARRUTH (1921 – 2008)
The Sound of Snow
Stepping Backward
The Mythology Of Dark And Light
JAMES MERRILL (1926 – 1995)
A Tenancy
The Emerald
The Victor Dog
from Mirabell: Books Of Number
Dead Center
F. D. REEVE (1928 – )
Night River
Identity Crisis
Watersong
what the cranes said
DONALD HALL (1928 – )
Christmas Eve In Whitneyville
White Apples
Kicking the Leaves
1943
JOHN HOLLANDER (1929 – )
An Old Song
Pageant of the Cold
That's for Oblivion
Collected Novels
Adam's Task
LEWIS TURCO (1934 – )
Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 1964
The Late, Late Show
The Recurring Dream
Wake Disturbing Surfaces
RUSSELL EDSON (1935 – )
A Chair
A Stone Is Nobody's
The Ancestral Mousetrap
The Ceremony
The Matter
SUSAN HOWE (1937 – )
Silence Wager Stories
BRENDAN GALVIN (1938 – )
The Potatoes Have a Word to Say
The Connecticut River in Flood
from Wampanoag Traveler
DICK ALLEN (1939 – )
Another Knowledge
On The New Haven Line
To A Woman Half A World Away
A Last Memory Of Korea
The Persistence
GEORGE F. BUTTERICK (1942 – 1988)
1970
The Walker
Gurleyville Road
The Distances
DOUG ANDERSON (1943 – )
First Blood
History Blues
The Oracle
Crows
VIVIAN SHIPLEY (1943 – )
Moonflower
Digging Up Peonies
Static Holds a Grudge
Number Fifty-two: Winifred Benham, Hartford, Connecticut, October 7, 1697
MARGARET GIBSON (1944 – )
A Ripple of Deer, A Metamorphosis of Bear, A Metaphor of Mountains
Elegy For A Dancer
Icon
Newspaper Photograph
GRAY JACOBIK (1944 – )
Skirts
The Wooden Egg
The Banquet
Of Cos Cob in Snow
J. D. MCCLATCHY (1945 –
Late Autumn Walk
The Bookcase
E R
MARILYN NELSON (1946 – )
Churchgoing
Sisters
Juneteenth
Psalm
CHARLES O. HARTMAN (1949 – )
Petting Zoo
A Walk In Winter
Tuxedo
CHASE TWICHELL (1950 – )
Why All Good Music Is Sad
The Paper River
Savin Rock
ROSANNA WARREN (1953 – )
World Trade Center
Snow
Orchard
Day Lilies
SOPHIE CABOT BLACK (1958 – )
Lost
The Harrowing
The Climb
Threshold
STACY DORIS (1962 – )
from Knot
from Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER (1962 – )
Tina Green
Ars Poetica
#92: Marcus Garvey on Elocution
Connecticut
The Amistad Trail
RICHARD DEMING (1970 – )
OH
Wintering The Turn
Annus Mirabilis
Mise En Scene
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI (1974 – )
The Death of Towns
Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany
A FINAL NOTE
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES
PERMISSIONS
INDEX OF TITLES
DENNIS BARONE is a professor of English at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut, author of fourteen books, and editor of seven, including New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry. DICK ALLEN is a retired professor and director of creative writing at the University of Bridgeport.
"If states were poets, California would be big and craggy like Robinson Jeffers, but who would Connecticut be? A consensus of Nutmeg Staters might say Wallace Stevens, the stolid, conservative insurance executive by day who, in his spare hours, transmogrified into the Emperor of Ice Cream and helped usher modernism into American literature. But then, consider the evidence presented by editor Dennis Barone in Garnet Poems. From the get go, our little rectangular state was home to sonnet slingers."
~Alan Bisbort, The Hartford Advocate
""If states were poets, California would be big and craggy like Robinson Jeffers, but who would Connecticut be? A consensus of Nutmeg Staters might say Wallace Stevens, the stolid, conservative insurance executive by day who, in his spare hours, transmogrified into the Emperor of Ice Cream and helped usher modernism into American literature. But then, consider the evidence presented by editor Dennis Barone in Garnet Poems. From the get go, our little rectangular state was home to sonnet slingers.""
~Alan Bisbort, The Hartford Advocate
""Connecticut emerges in the collection as a complicated place, it is ultimately reflected most in hillsides like those found in Litchfield County. Beyond its hills and history, Barone reflected on attributes that seemingly shaped Connecticut poets, including 'the countryside, the educational institutions, intellectual curiosity and criticism of the past.'""
~Brynn Mandel, Waterbury Republican-American
"It was Whitman who told us that America was a poem in our eyes. This remains true, and is no more obvious than in these memorable poems, each of them rooted in the landscape and people of Connecticut. It's a sumptuous collection, full of surprises, and something all serious readers of poetry will enjoy."
~Jay Parini, author of Why Poetry Matters
"The power of poetry in Connecticut, as revealed in this collection, is great and will continue to be great. The poems in this book are a gift to all of us.""
~Lee A. Jacobus, professor emeritus, University of Connecticut
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