| Edition |
First Scribner edition, September 2014. |
| Description |
xxxiv, 203 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The best American poetry series
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Best American poetry.
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| Contents |
Sonnet, with pride / Sherman Alexie -- Control / Rae Armantrout -- Breezeway / John Ashbery -- With birds / Erin Belieu -- On reflection / Linda Bierds -- To survive the revolution / Traci Brimhall -- Bird, singing / Lucie Brock-Broido -- Host / Jericho Brown -- Pan del muerto / Kurt Brown -- Wondering about our demise while driving to Disneyland with abandon / CAConrad -- A fragment of Ibykos translated 6 ways / Anne Carson -- Hidden bird / Joseph Ceravolo -- City horse / Henri Cole -- Helmet / Michael Earl Craig -- Julliard cento sonnet / Philip Dacey -- It is to have or nothing / Olena Kalyitak Davis -- News from Harlem / Kwame Dawes -- Elegy indigo / Joel Dias-Porter -- These hands, if not gods / Natalie Diaz -- Deep lane / Mark Doty -- Blues is a verb / Sean Thomas Dougherty -- Spring cricket repudiates his parable of negritude / Conspiracy (to breathe together) / Camille Dungy -- Overturned / Cornelius Eady -- Fallen / Vievee Francis -- To the fig tree on 9th and Christian / Ross Gay -- Liner notes for Monk / Eugene Gloria -- One El Paso, two El Paso / Ray Gonzalez -- River twice / Kathleen Graber -- SCRIPT POEM / Rosemary Griggs -- As like / Adam Hammer -- Blue prints / Bob Hicok -- No doubt about it (I gotta get another hat) / Le Hinton -- Write Whiter / Tony Hoagland -- OK cupid / Major Jackson -- L.A. police chief Daryl Gates dead at 83 / Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- Labor of Stagger Lee: boar / Douglas Kearney -- Negritude / Yusef Komunyakaa -- In my last past life / Hailey Leithauser -- Elegy with a darkening trapeze inside it / Larry Levis -- Sermon of the dreadnought / Gary Copeland Lilley -- Elegy for my mother / Frannie Lindsay -- Rape joke / Patricia Lockwood -- Oldtime ending / Nathaniel Mackey -- An etiquette for eyes / Cate Martin -- Masticated light / Jamaal May -- Parasol / Shara McCallum -- Vivisection (you're going to break my heart) / Marty McConnell -- Sylt I / Valzhyna Mort -- Selection from Tanka Diary / Harryette Mullen -- Paint me a penis / Eileen Myles -- Release from Stella Maris / D. Nurkse -- Stanley Kunitz ode / Sharon Olds -- Wishing well / Gregory Pardlo -- Story problem / Kiki Petrosino -- See you later / D.A. Powell -- Field Museum / Roger Reeves -- To Shakespeare d / Donald Revell -- You cannot go to the god you love with your two legs / Patrick Rosal -- Saga / Mary Ruefle -- Decoded / Jon Sands -- Thank you Lord for this dark ablaze / Steve Scafidi -- To Philip Roth, for his eightieth / Frederick Seidel -- Free beer / Diane Seuss -- I grade online humanities tests / Sandra Simonds -- Forties war widows, stolen grain / Jane Springer -- During the autopsy / Corey Van Landingham -- Passing through Indian territory / Afaa Michael Weaver -- Sowing / Eleanor Wilner -- My father's soul departing / David Wojahn -- Detainment / Greg Wrenn -- Blessed are / Robert Wrigley -- Calendar days / Jake Adam York -- Emerald spider between rose thorns / Dean Young -- Mindful / Rachel Zucker. |
| Summary |
Collects poems chosen by editor Terrance Hayes as the best of 2014, featuring 75 poets including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Mary Ruefle and Frederick Seidel. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. |
| Added Author |
Hayes, Terrance, editor.
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Lehmann, David, editor.
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| Added Title |
Best American poetry |
| ISBN |
9781476708157 |
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1476708150 |
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