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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 35th printing; 139 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780688412319, 0688412319 ; OCLC 416332224 ; gold and white cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Here are modern poems chosen for their individual excellence and their special appeal to young people. Exciting photographs accent the contemporary tone of the collection. From lighthearted Phyllis Mc-Ginley to pessimistic Ezra Pound; from the lyricism of Edna St. Vincent Millay to the vigor of Lawrence Ferlinghette; from Carl Sandburg on loneliness to Paul Dehn on the bomb. The little known or unknown poet and the widely recognized appear side by side. ; The editors spent several years bringing together 1200 poems they considered fine enough to include, then slowly and carefully sifted out of 114 which appear in the book. ; Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, and has been described as a classic. ; Contents: How to Eat a Poem/Eve Merriam- Unfolding Bud/Naoshi Koriyama- Gone Forever/Barriss Mills- Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway/Gregory Corso- To Look at Any Thing/John Moffitt- Absolutes/Gustave Keyser- The Crows/Leah Bodine Drake- Crows/David McCord- Some Brown Sparrows/Bruce Fearing- Swallows/Thomas Hornsby Ferril- Seal/William Jay Smith- Boy with Frogs/Sy Kahn- Giraffes/Sy Kahn- Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo/John Ciardi- The Bat/Ruth Herschberger- The Bat/Theodore Roethke- Deer Hunt/Judson Jerome- Steam Shovel/Charles Malam- The Toaster/William Jay Smith- On Watching the Construction of a Skyscraper/Burton Raffel- Apartment House/Gerald Raftery- The Builders/Sara Henderson Hay- Transcontinent/Donald Hall- Advice to Travelers/Walker Gibson- Crossing/Philip Booth- Crossing Kansas by Train/Donald Justice- African Sunrise/Gertrude May Lutz- Central Park Tourney/Mildred Weston- August from My Desk/Roland Flint- Kansas Boy/Ruth Lechlitner- Wonder Wander/Lenore Kandel- Reflections Dental/Phyllis McGinley- The Microscope/Maxine Kumin- Child on Top of a Greenhouse/Theodore Roethke- Loneliness/Brooks Jenkins- Indians/John Fandel- Arithmetic/Carl Sandburg- Husbands & Wives/Miriam Hershenson- This Is Just to Say/William Carlos Williams- The Ne'er-Do-Well/Arthur M. Sampley- Meditatio/Ezra Pound- Summons/Robert Francis- Ancient History/Arthur Guiterman- On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness/Arthur Guiterman- Dust/Sydney King Russell- Rebecca/Hilaire Belloc- Bones/Walter de la Mare- Overheard on a Saltmarsh- Harold Monro- Resume/Dorothy Parker- Lost/Carl Sandburg- Fifteen/William Stafford- Interlude III/Karl Shapiro- War/Dan Roth- Too Blue/Langston Hughes- From Two Jazz Poems/Carl W. Hines, Jr.- A Coney Island Life/James L. Weil- Carmel Point/Margaret Phyllis MacSweeney- Forgive My Guilt/Robert P. Tristram Coffin- The Term/William Carlos Williams- Sonic Boom/John Updike- Hey Diddle Diddle/Paul Dehn- Little Miss Muffet/Paul Dehn- Earth/Oliver Herford- Earth/John Hall Wheelock- Southbound on the Freeway/May Swenson- Fueled/Marcie Hans- Unsatisfied Yearning/Richard Kendall Munkittrick- Puppy/Robert L. Tyler- Sunning/James S. Tippett- Elegy for Jog/John Ciardi- Catalogue/Rosalie Moore- Poem/William Carlos Williams- On a Night of Snow/Elizabeth Coatsworth- For a Dead Kitten/Sara Henderson Hay- Oz./Eve Merriam- April/Marcia Masters- in Just/E.E. Cummings- The Child's Morning/Winfield Townley Scott- Four Little Foxes/Lew Sarett- Four Ducks on a Pond/William Allingham- Counting-Out Rhyme/Edna St. Vincent Millay- April/Yvor Winters- Swift Things Are Beautiful/Elizabeth Coatsworth- Fortune/Lawrence Ferlinghetti- Fish Story/Richard Armour- Angler's Choice/H.J. Gottlieb- The Fisher/Lyle Glazier- Hunting Song/Donald Finkel- The Trap/William Beyer- Fireworks/Babette Deutsch- The Garden Hose/Beatrice Janosco- Lullaby/Robert Hillyer- The Base Stealer/Robert Francis- Foul Shot/Edwin A. Hoey- Millions of Strawberries/Genevieve Taggard- Cheers/Eve Merriam- The Forecast/Dan Jaffe- Mother's Biscuits/Freda Quenneville- Two Lives & Others/Winfield Townley Scott- ; FINE/FINE. Book.