Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Hayden, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Remembering Hayden A Ballad of Remembrance (1962), (1966)

The Diver Electrical Storm Full Moon Dawnbreaker The Rabbi Belsen, Day of Liberation Approximations Snow The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield Night, Death, Mississippi “An Inference of Mexico”

1. Day of the Dead 2. Mountains 3. Veracruz 4. Idol 5. Sub Specie Aeternitatis 6. Market 7. Kid 8. La Corrida

A Ballad of Remembrance Tour 5 Gulls A Road in Kentucky Homage to the Empress of the Blues “The Burly Fading One” “Incense of the Lucky Virgin” Witch Doctor Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday “Summertime and the Living . . .” The Whipping Those Winter Sundays The Web The Wheel Perseus Theme and Variation “From the Corpse Woodpiles, from the Ashes” Bahá’u’lláh in the Garden of Ridwan Middle Passage O Daedalus, Fly Away Home The Ballad of Nat Turner Runagate Runagate Frederick Douglass

Words in the Mourning Time (1970)

Sphinx The Dream “ ‘Mystery Boy’ Looks for Kin in Nashville” The Broken Dark The Mirages Soledad Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves Locus On Lookout Mountain Kodachromes of the Island Zeus over Redeye Unidentified Flying Object El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Words in the Mourning Time Monet’s “Waterlilies” The Lions October The Return “Lear Is Gay” A Plague of Starlings

The Night-Blooming Cereus (1972)

Richard Hunt’s “Arachne” The Night-Blooming Cereus The Performers The Peacock Room Smelt Fishing “Dance the Orange” Traveling through Fog

Angle of Ascent (1975)

Beginnings Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers For a Young Artist Stars Two Egyptian Portrait Masks

I. Nefert-iti II. Akhenaten

Butterfly Piece The Moose Wallow Crispus Attucks

American Journal (1978), (1982)

A Letter from Phillis Wheatley John Brown Theory of Evil Paul Laurence Dunbar Homage to Paul Robeson The Rag Man The Prisoners The Tattooed Man Elegies for Paradise Valley Names Double Feature The Dogwood Trees Letter Ice Storm “As My Blood Was Drawn” Killing the Calves The Year of the Child The Point Zinnias The Islands Bone-Flower Elegy from THE SNOW LAMP Astronauts [American Journal]

Afterword Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines Copyright Also by Robert Hayden