| Aaron Kramer: American Prophet | p. xvii |
| A Consumer Culture | |
| See America First! (1948) | p. 3 |
| Switch to Calvert (1948) | p. 3 |
| Encyclopedia (1948) | p. 4 |
| Treatment (1948) | p. 5 |
| Prayer (1963) | p. 5 |
| Progress (1986) | p. 6 |
| New York, New York | |
| Esmeralda (from "Coney Island") (1943) | p. 9 |
| April on Avenue C (1958) | p. 9 |
| Carousel Parkway (1980) | p. 12 |
| The Poetry of Work | |
| Ballad of Tom Mooney (1937) | p. 25 |
| Thought on a Train (1937) | p. 26 |
| The Shoe-Shine Boy (1937) | p. 27 |
| Work Day (1941) | p. 27 |
| Unemployed Song (1946) | p. 27 |
| Help Wanted! (1948) | p. 28 |
| from "The Minotaur" (1954) | |
| Eight O'Clock Whistle | p. 29 |
| All Hail! | p. 29 |
| A Trick on Nick | p. 30 |
| In the Lunch Wagon | p. 31 |
| The Trap-Door Shuts | p. 32 |
| Five O'Clock Whistle | p. 33 |
| Song No. 1 from Santa Fe Night (a hobo fantasy) (1962) | p. 33 |
| Nick (1981) | p. 34 |
| Elegy for a Carpet Boy (1995) | p. 35 |
| African American History and Struggle | |
| Paul Robeson (1943) | p. 39 |
| Natchez (1943) | p. 40 |
| Isaac Woodard (1948) | p. 42 |
| The Seamstress (1950) | p. 42 |
| Denmark Vesey (1952) | p. 44 |
| The Bell and the Light (1954) | p. 65 |
| Blues for Emmett Till (1955) | p. 70 |
| Blues for Medgar Evers (1964) | p. 72 |
| Calvary: Philadelphia, Mississippi (1965) | p. 72 |
| St. Nicholas Avenue Blues (1967) | p. 73 |
| Judgment (1988) | p. 74 |
| Friends and Family | |
| Mother (1940) | p. 79 |
| The Rockabye Love (1943) | p. 79 |
| Serenade No. 1 (1948) | p. 80 |
| Serenade No. 2 (1948) | p. 80 |
| Prothalamium (1948) | p. 81 |
| Winter Song (1962) | p. 81 |
| Dogs (1964) | p. 82 |
| Uncles, No. 1 (1967) | p. 82 |
| For My Grandmother (1967-74) | p. 84 |
| Homecoming (1968) | p. 86 |
| Ghosts (1971) | p. 86 |
| Quebec (1972) | p. 88 |
| Granddaughter on Beach (1975) | p. 89 |
| Words (1975) | p. 90 |
| Thanksgiving Day (1978) | p. 91 |
| Now, Before Shaving (1979) | p. 92 |
| Matilda (1979) | p. 93 |
| Phone Call (1980) | p. 93 |
| On the Death of Someone Else's Grandchild (1986) | p. 95 |
| Home (1995) | p. 95 |
| Elegies | |
| Ernst Toller (1940) | p. 101 |
| Einstein (1955) | p. 101 |
| The Consummation (1961) | p. 102 |
| Rumshinsky's Hat (1961) | p. 102 |
| The Pigeons of Maspeth (1974) | p. 104 |
| Uncle (1980) | p. 105 |
| Bella (1980) | p. 106 |
| The Ides of March (for Allard Lowenstein) (1980) | p. 107 |
| Elegy for Muriel Rukeyser (1981) | p. 108 |
| The Chair: Notes for an Elegy (1983) | p. 111 |
| The Death of a Friend (1984) | p. 113 |
| Alfred Kreymborg's Coat (1991) | p. 114 |
| The Loyal Opposition | |
| Have You Felt the Heart of America? (1938) | p. 119 |
| The Breeze (1939) | p. 121 |
| May First 1940 (1940) | p. 122 |
| The Golden Trumpet (1949) | p. 122 |
| Ballad of Washington Heights (1949) | p. 124 |
| Patriotism (1950) | p. 125 |
| Monticello: A Jefferson Cantata (1951) | p. 125 |
| The Crucifixion (1954) | p. 127 |
| New Jersey--December 1776 (1954) | p. 128 |
| In Power (1960) | p. 128 |
| A Man Is on the Hill Again (1962) | p. 129 |
| Des Moines and Council Bluffs (1964) | p. 130 |
| Lullaby (1966) | p. 131 |
| Henry at the Grating (1968) | p. 132 |
| Loyalty March (1968) | p. 133 |
| The Bloodied Young: August, 1968 (1968) | p. 134 |
| Considering My Country (1968) | p. 134 |
| Fourth of July Dialog (1976) | p. 135 |
| Seven Days (1979) | p. 136 |
| In Wicked Times (1982) | p. 138 |
| All-Star Neutron Day, 9 August 1981 (1982) | p. 139 |
| Grenada Symphony: First Movement (1984) | p. 139 |
| Bitburg (1988) | p. 140 |
| Bhopal (1991) | p. 141 |
| Against McCarthyism | |
| The Soul of Martin Dies (1940) | p. 145 |
| Peekskill (1949) | p. 147 |
| Halloween (1950) | p. 149 |
| Is This the City? (1951) | p. 150 |
| October in "Freedom" Land (1952) | p. 150 |
| Visit (1954) | p. 153 |
| To the Silencers (1961) | p. 153 |
| Called In (1980) | p. 154 |
| Judaica | |
| To My People: (1940) | p. 157 |
| The Thunder of the Grass (1948) | p. 157 |
| The Hour (1954) | p. 165 |
| A Ballad of August Bondi (1955) | p. 165 |
| A Word of Thanks (1961) | p. 176 |
| The Rising in the Warsaw Ghetto (1962) | p. 176 |
| Night at the Concertgebouw (1968) | p. 178 |
| Zudioska (1970) | p. 180 |
| Gimpl (1972) | p. 181 |
| A Wedding in Los Angeles (1976) | p. 182 |
| View of Delft (1977) | p. 183 |
| Tour (1978) | p. 184 |
| Westminster Synagogue (1980) | p. 185 |
| The Dance (1980) | p. 187 |
| May 4, 1986: Austria Acquits Herself (1986) | p. 189 |
| 1906 (1995) | p. 190 |
| Bath Beach (1995) | p. 190 |
| A Century of Wars | |
| A Song for Freedom (1940) | p. 193 |
| The Ballad of Two Heroes (1940) | p. 194 |
| Maria (1941) | p. 196 |
| France (1943) | p. 202 |
| Sunrise in Paris (1945) | p. 203 |
| Victory Comes to the Unbombed Cities (1946) | p. 203 |
| The Real Ogre (1950) | p. 204 |
| Panic (1950) | p. 205 |
| Prayer (1950) | p. 205 |
| Efstratia Nikolaidu (1952) | p. 205 |
| The Tinderbox (1952-54) | p. 207 |
| The Rebels of Greece (1954) | p. 229 |
| To a Dark-Skinned People (1967) | p. 230 |
| Newscast (April 20, 1967) (1968) | p. 230 |
| Journeys | |
| After the Tour (1961) | p. 233 |
| A Good Buy (1971) | p. 233 |
| Last Night in Brussels (1972) | p. 235 |
| The Last Supper (1972) | p. 236 |
| On the Way to Palermo (1973) | p. 238 |
| Victoria Station (1975) | p. 245 |
| My Mexico Is Not Your Mexico (1975) | p. 246 |
| In the Geneve Lobby: Mexico City (1975) | p. 247 |
| Mycenae: On Brushing One's Shoes in Athens (1975) | p. 249 |
| Location (1975) | p. 249 |
| At Four Minutes to One (1975) | p. 250 |
| Macedonia (1976) | p. 253 |
| Grandparents in London (1976) | p. 255 |
| Nafplion: Snapshot (1977) | p. 256 |
| Thessaloniki: Three Sleeps (1977) | p. 258 |
| Dogs of San Miguel (1978) | p. 259 |
| Visiting Hour: At the Swanholm, St. Petersburg (1978) | p. 262 |
| Sunday in the Square: San Miguel de Allende (1979) | p. 263 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan Night at the Proms (1979) | p. 264 |
| Toluca: The Friday Market (1980) | p. 265 |
| Delphi: Slide 62 (1980) | p. 266 |
| Herakleion: The Hidden Beach (1980) | p. 268 |
| Reunion (1980) | p. 270 |
| Indigo (1985) | p. 271 |
| Flood (1985) | p. 273 |
| The Map of Spain | |
| In the Land of Olives (1938) | p. 277 |
| Smiles and Blood (1938) | p. 278 |
| Garcia Lorca (1940) | p. 279 |
| Barcelona Celebrates Three Years of Franco (1943) | p. 279 |
| Guernica (1945) | p. 280 |
| Tidings from Spain (1962) | p. 281 |
| Barcelona (1978) | p. 281 |
| Madrid: Coming Home (1979) | p. 283 |
| Sevilla: July 18th (1979) | p. 285 |
| Granada: The Rose (1979) | p. 288 |
| Malaga: A Prayer (1980) | p. 289 |
| Cordoba: Nocturne (1981) | p. 290 |
| Granada (1983) | p. 290 |
| Madrid: The Ghosts of Its Defenders (1983) | p. 291 |
| Barcelona: The Last Night (1990) | p. 292 |
| Madrid: July 1978 (1991) | p. 293 |
| Granada: First Showing (1991) | p. 294 |
| Cordoba (1991) | p. 295 |
| Runes, Riddles, and Darkness | |
| The Flowers of Georgia O'Keeffe (1954) | p. 299 |
| His Something (1960) | p. 299 |
| Lesson (1961) | p. 300 |
| Lines on a Museum Postcard (1962) | p. 300 |
| Midsummer (1963) | p. 300 |
| Air for Bagpipe (1969) | p. 301 |
| The Redwing's Cry (1974) | p. 301 |
| Falling Asleep (1982) | p. 302 |
| Night Thoughts (1991) | p. 302 |
| Poet's Work | |
| Neruda in Hiding (1949) | p. 307 |
| Singing (1953) | p. 307 |
| Threnody (1956) | p. 309 |
| The Widower (1958) | p. 310 |
| And I Looked, and, Behold, a Whirlwind (1962) | p. 310 |
| Dialogue (1962) | p. 311 |
| The Count (1962) | p. 312 |
| To Himself (1963) | p. 312 |
| Sunday Morning (1964) | p. 313 |
| The Swan (1964) | p. 315 |
| To the Countrymen of Alfred Kreymborg (1966) | p. 315 |
| Not Being Yevtushenko (1969) | p. 316 |
| To the White Minority of South Africa (1988) | p. 316 |
| Paul Celan (1997) | p. 317 |
| Notes to the Poems | p. 319 |
| Aaron Kramer Bibliography | p. 371 |
| Index of Titles | p. 375 |
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