| Edition |
First Scribner edition. |
| Description |
xxvi, 225 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The best American poetry
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Best American poetry.
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| Contents |
"Weapons discharge report" / Dan Albergotti -- "Commotion of the birds" / John Ashbery -- "Admission" / Mary Jo Bang -- "On a Shaker admonition" / David Barber -- "Apophatic" / Dan Beachy-Quick -- "Homage to a painter of small things" / Bruce Bond -- "Intrigue in the trees" / John Brehm -- "Bullet points" / Jericho Brown -- "The Dead" / Nickole Brown -- "Elegy with a gold cradle" / Cyrus Cassells -- "Fidelity and the dead singer" / Isaac Cates -- "I forgive you" / Allison Cobb -- "Steer your way" / Leonard Cohen -- "A wild tom turkey" / Michael Collier -- "The present" / Billy Collins -- "Two lives" / Carl Dennis -- "Spontaneous remission" / Claudia Emerson -- "Kaddish" / David Feinstein -- "The boatman" / Carolyn Forche -- "Given to these proclivities, by God" / Vievee Francis -- "Dead butterfly" / Amy Gerstler -- "Canasta" / Reginald Gibbons -- "Passage" / Margaret Gibson -- "From The Black Maria" / Aracelis Girmay -- "Higher education" / Jeffrey Harrison -- "Ars Poetica with bacon" / Terrance Hayes -- "Mounting the dove box" / W. J. Herbert -- "Cause of death: Fox News" / Tony Hoagland -- "Hamlet texts Guildenstern about playing upon the pipe" / John Hodgen -- "Certain things" / David Brendan Hopes -- "The Flaneur tends a well-liked summer cocktail" / Major Jackson -- "History (n.)" / John James -- "Homecoming" / Rodney Jones -- "Progress notes" / Fady Joudah -- "Grackle" / Meg Kearney -- "The age of anxiety" / John Koethe -- "from The Last Bohemian of Avenue A" / Yusef Komunyakaa -- "The watch" / Danusha Lameris -- "Lapse" / Dorianne Laux -- "Rain in winter" / Philip Levine -- "Kill list" / Amit Majmudar -- "Things that break" / Jamaal May -- "White" / Judson Mitcham -- "Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds" / John Murillo -- "To Marlon Brando in hell" / Joyce Carol Oates -- "Ode to the glans" / Sharon Olds -- "Letter beginning with two lines by Czeslaw Milosz" / Matthew Olzmann -- "Three dark proverb sonnets" / Gregory Orr -- "Rockabye" / Carl Phillips -- "Halo" / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- "Names" / Robert Pinsky -- "Poliomyelitis" / Stanley Plumly -- "Assemblage of ruined plane parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi" / Paisley Rekdal -- "The mercy home" / Michael Ryan -- "Emanations" / David St. John -- "I went for a walk in winter" / Sherod Santos -- "Where to put it" / Taije Silverman -- "Seeing things" / Charles Simic -- "last summer of innocence" / Danez Smith -- "Good bones" / Maggie Smith -- "Maricon" / R. T. Smith -- "Shattered" / A. E. Stallings -- "Afraid to pray" / Pamela Sutton -- "Sad song" / Chase Twichell -- "Something" / James Valvis -- "Dear skull" / Emily Van Kley -- "Deconstruction" / Wendy Videlock -- "Scheherazade." / Lucy Wainger -- "Double Helix" / Crystals Williams -- "Prelude" / Christian Wiman -- "Greenacre" / Monica Youn -- "Precatio simplex" / C. Dale Young -- "Infinitives" / Dean Young -- "Money road" / Kevin Young -- "Poem for vows" / Matthew Zapruder. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- editor.
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Lehman, David, 1948- editor.
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| Note |
Best American poetry 2017 |
| ISBN |
9781501127632 (hardcover) |
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1501127632 |
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