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		Poems about Dancing
		A Peacock in Spring by Joyelle McSweeney

		Complaint of Isadora Duncan's Scarf by Charles Jensen

		Latin & Soul by Victor Hernández Cruz

		M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 by Philip Levine

		My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke

		The Waltz We Were Born For by Walt McDonald

		Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance by John Cage, read by Susan Howe

		Poems About Work and Money
		A Situation for Mrs. Biswas by Prageeta Sharma

		Blues by Elizabeth Alexander

		Coming Close by Philip Levine

		Engines Within the Throne by Cathy Park Hong

		Hay for the Horses by Gary Snyder

		I am the People, the Mob by Carl Sandburg

		i am witness to the threshing of the grain by John Hoffman

		Odd Jobs by Jericho Brown

		On Quitting by Edgar Guest

		One of the Monkeys by Nicholas Johnson

		Personals by C. D. Wright

		Po' Boy Blues by Langston Hughes

		Proximity by Randall Mann

		Song of Myself by John Canaday

		Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood

		Testament by Carl Sandburg

		The Debt by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		The Eternal City by Jim Simmerman

		The Orange Bears by Kenneth Patchen

		The Telephonist by Susan Yuzna

		The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden

		The Whistle by Yusef Komunyakaa

		The World is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth

		Thinking of Work by James Shea

		Vocation by Sandra Beasley

The Dance
by Humberto Ak'Abal translated by Ilan Stavans

All of us dance on a cent's edge. The poor—because they are poor— lose their step, and fall and everyone else falls on top.


Copyright © 2011 by Ilan Stavans and Humberto Ak'Abal. Reprinted from The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry with the permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.