Contents
 
 Preface
 Aaron Kramer, American Prophet
 Part 1: A Consumer Culture
 See America First (1948)
 Switch to Calvert (1948)
 Encyclopedia (1948)
 Treatment (1958)
 Part 2: New York, New York
 Esmerelda (from Coney Island) (1943)
 April on Avenue C (1958)
 Carousel Parkway (1980)
 Part 3: The Poetry of Work
 Ballad of Tom Mooney (1937)
 Thought on a Train (1938)
 The Shoe-Shine Boy (1938)
 Help Wanted (1948)
 Unemployed Song (1948)
 from "The Minotaur" (1954)
 Eight O'Clock Whistle
 All Hail!
 A Trick on Nick
 In the Lunch Wagon
 The Trap-Door Shuts
 Five O'Clock Whistle
 Work Day (1958)
 Song No. 1 from Santa Fe Night (a hobo fantasy) (1962)
 Nick (1981)
 Elegy for a Carpet Boy (1995)
 Part 4: African-American History and Struggle
 Paul Robeson (1943)
 Natchez (1943)
 Isaac Woodard (1948)
 Denmark Vesey (1952)
 The Bell and the Light (1954)
 Blues for Emmett Till (____)
 Blues for Medgar Evers (1964)
 St. Nicholas Avenue Blues (____)
 Calvary: Philadelphia, Mississippi (1968)
 Judgment (1997)
 Part 5: Friends and Family
 Mother (1940)
 The Rockabye Love (1943)
 Serenade No. 1 (1948)
 Serenade No. 2 (1948)
 Prothalamium (1948)
 Dogs (1964)
 Uncles N. 1 (1967)
 For My Grandmother (1967-74)
 Homecoming (1968)
 Ghosts (1971)
 Quebec (1972)
 Granddaughter on Beach (1975)
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 Words (1975)
 Thanksgiving Day (1978)
 Now, Before Shaving (1979)
 Matilda (1979)
 Phone Call (1980)
 On the Death of Someone Else's Grandchild (1986)
 Home (1995)
 Part 6: Elegies
 Ernst Toller (1940)
 Einstein (1955)
 The Consummation (1961)
 Rumshinsky's Hat (1961)
 The Pigeons of Maspeth (1974)
 Uncle (1980)
 Bella (1980)
 The Ides of March (____)
 Elegy for Muriel Rukeyser (1980-81)
 The Chair: Notes for an Elegy (1983)
 The Death of a Friend (1986)
 Alfred Kreymborg's Coat (1991)
 Part 7: The Loyal Opposition
 Have You Felt the Heart of America? (1938)
 The Breeze (1940)
 May First 1940 (1940)
 The Golden Trumpet (1949)
 Ballad of Washington Heights (1949)
 Monticello: A Jefferson Cantata (1951)
 The Crucifixion (1954)
 Patriotism (1954)
 New Jersey--December 1776 (1954)
 In Power (1960)
 A Man Is on the Hill Again (1962)
 Henry at the Grating (1968)
 Lullaby (1968)
 Loyalty March (1968)
 The Bloodied Young: August, 1968 (1968)
 Considering My Country (1968)
 Des Moines and Council Bluffs (1976)
 Seven Days (____)
 In Wicked Times (1982)
 Fourth of July Dialog (1983)
 All-Star Neutron Day: August 9, 1981 (1983)
 Grenada Symphony: First Movement (____)
 Bhopal (1991)
 Bitburg (1991)
 Part 8: Against McCarthyism
 The Soul of Martin Dies (1940)
 Peekskill (1950)
 Halloween (1950)
 Is This the City? (1951)
 October in "Freedom" Land (1952)
 Visit (1954)
 To the Silencers (1961)
 Called In (1980)
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 Part 9: Judaica
 To My People (1940)
 The Thunder of the Grass (1948)
 The Hour (1954)
 A Ballad of August Bondi (1955)
 A Word of Thanks (1961)
 The Rising in the Warsaw Ghetto (1962)
 Night at the Concertgebouw (1968)
 Tour (1969)
 View of Delft (1980)
 Zudioska (1980)
 Westminster Synagogue (1980)
 A Wedding in Los Angeles (1980)
 Gimpl (1980)
 The Dance (1980)
 May 4, 1986: Austria Acquits Herself (with Waldheim) (____)
 1906 (1995)
 Bath Beach (1995)
 Part 10: A Century of Wars
 A Song for Freedom (1940)
 The Ballad of Two Heroes (1940)
 Maria (1941)
 France (1943)
 Sunrise in Paris (1945)
 Victory Comes to the Unbombed Cities (1946)
 The Real Ogre (1950)
 Panic (1950)
 Prayer (1950)
 Efstratia Nikolaidu (1952)
 The Rebels of Greece (1954)
 The Tinderbox (1954)
 To a Dark-Skinned People (1967)
 Newscast (April 20, 1967) (1967)
 Part 11: Journeys
 After the Tour (1961)
 A Good Buy (1971)
 Last Night in Brussels (1972)
 The Last Supper (1972)
 On the Way to Palermo (1973)
 Victoria Station (1975)
 My Mexico Is Not Your Mexico (____)
 In the Geneve Lobby: Mexico City (1975)
 Mycenae: On Brusing One's Shoes in Athens (1975)
 Location (1975)
 At Four Minutes to One (1975)
 Macedonia (1976)
 Grandparents in London (1976)
 Nafplion: Snapshot (1977)
 Thessaloniki: Three Sleeps (1977)
 Dogs of San Miguel (1978)
 Visiting Hour: At the Swanholm, St. Petersburg (1978)
 Sunday in the Square: San Miguel de Allende (1979)
 Gilbert and Sullivan Night at the Proms (1979)
 Journal Entry (1980)
 9
 Toluca: The Friday Market (1980)
 Delphi: Slide 62 (1980)
 Herakleion: The Hidden Beach (1980)
 Reunion (____)
 Indigo (1985)
 Flood (1985)
 Part 12: The Map of Spain
 In the Land of Olives (1938)
 Smiles and Blood (1938)
 Garcia Lorca (1940)
 Barcelona Celebrates Three Years of Franco (1943)
 Guernica (1945)
 Tidings from Spain (1962)
 Madrid: Coming Home (1979)
 Sevilla: July 18th (1979)
 Granada: The Rose (1979)
 Cordoba: Nocturne (1980)
 Malaga: A Prayer (1980)
 Barcelona (1983)
 Granada: The Rose (1983)
 Madrid: The Ghosts of Its Defenders (1983)
 Barcelona: The Last Night (1990)
 Madrid: July 1978 (1991)
 Granada: First Showing (1991)
 Córdoba (1991)
 Part 13: Runes, Riddles, and Darkness
 The Flowers of Georgia O'Keeffe (1954)
 His Something (1960)
 Lesson (1961)
 Lines on a Museum Postcard (1964)
 Midsummer (1964)
 Air for Bagpipe (1973)
 The Redwing's Cry (1974)
 Falling Asleep (1983)
 Night Thoughts (1991)
 Part 14: Poet's Work
 Singing (1953)
 Neruda in Hiding (1949)
 The Widower (1958)
 Threnody (1958)
 And I Looked and Behold a Whirlwind (1962)
 Dialogue (1962)
 Sunday Morning (1964)
 To Himself (1964)
 The Count (1964)
 The Swan (1964)
 To the Countrymen of Alfred Kreymbord (1966)
 Not Being Vevtushenko (1969)
 To the White Minority of South Africa (1991)
 Paul Celan (1997)
 Notes to the Poems
 Aaron Kramer Bibliography
 Index of Titles




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