The best American poetry 2009 /
David Wagoner, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
- 1st Scribner ed.
- New York : Scribner Poetry, 2009.
- xxix, 207 p. ; 22 cm.
They knew what they wanted / Beasts and violins / Concerning the land to the south of our neighbors to the north / Ringtone / doctor / Roofers / book of Steve / From The boy's own book : a compleat encyclopedia of all the diversions athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth by William Clarke / great American poem / song of America / Freud / Apparition (favorite poem) / How it will end / Getting serious / Black snake / First time reading Freud / Zones / fullness thereof / Definition of terms / Eve in the fall / record / Ode to airheads, hairdos, trains to and from Paris / safe house / Houses / Sunday discordancies / Grave goods / house is not a home / way of all the earth / Mum's the word / democratic vista / Arthur Englander's back in school / In winter / How to be eaten by a lion / To Yahweh / What I think of death, if anyone's asking / Why do you keep putting animals in your poems? / Open field / Words on the wind / Tell the bees / happy majority / Boarding : Hemaris thysbe / Sweat / Canis / Lingering doubts / silence of the mine canaries / insect collector's demise / Self-exam / Red / Insomnia / On mercy / Pickled heads : St. Petersburg / Turn / Tonight no poetry will serve / Subject, verb, object / blind astronomer in the age of stars / John Clare's finches / This tape measure made of light / Gravity and grace / Love / Like a monkey / At the pool / At the New York Public Library, I heard Derek Walcott dismiss the prose poem / Forty / Heartlines / Ultimately justice directs them / Liturgy / sea-change / Holding action / No Pegasus / Her last conflagration / Leaving Saint Peter's basilica / This dream the world is having about itself-- / Cinderella's last will & testament / I shall be released / Never to return / John Ashbery -- Caleb Barber -- Mark Bibbins -- Bruce Bond -- Marianne Boruch -- Fleda Brown -- Catherine Carter -- Suzanne Cleary -- Billy Collins -- Rob Cook -- James Cummins -- Mark Doty -- Denise Duhamel -- Alice Friman -- Margaret Gibson -- Douglas Goetsch -- Albert Goldbarth -- Barbara Goldberg -- Michael J. Grabell -- Debora Gregor -- Jennifer Grotz -- Barbara Hamby -- Sarah Hannah -- Jerry Harp -- Jim Harrison -- Delores Hayden -- Terrance Hayes -- K.A. Hayes -- Bob Hicok -- Daniel Hoffman -- Richard Howard -- P. Hurshell -- Michael Johnson -- Tina Kelley -- Maud Kelly -- Lance Larsen -- Phillis Levin -- Philip Levine -- Sarah Linday -- Thomas Lux -- Joanie Mackowski -- Christine Marshall -- Cleopatra Mathis -- J.D. McClatchy -- W.S. Merwin -- Jude Nutter -- Sharon Olds -- Mary Oliver -- Linda Pastan -- Kevin Prufer -- Susan Blackwell Ramsey -- Keith Ratzlaff -- Adrienne Rich -- James Richardson -- Pattiann Rogers -- Gibbons Ruark -- John Rybicki -- Betsy Sholl -- Martha Silano -- Mitch Sisskind -- Tom Sleigh -- Vincent Stanley -- Pamela Sutton -- Alexandra Teague -- Craig Morgan Teicher -- Natasha Trethewey -- Derek Walcott -- Jeanne Murray Walker -- Ronald Wallace -- Charles Harper Webb -- Lisa Williams -- Carolyne Wright -- Debbie Yee -- Kevin Young -- Matthgew Zapruder. The The The The The The The A The A The The The A A
0743299779 (pbk.) 9780743299770 (pbk.)
American poetry--21st century.
They knew what they wanted / Beasts and violins / Concerning the land to the south of our neighbors to the north / Ringtone / doctor / Roofers / book of Steve / From The boy's own book : a compleat encyclopedia of all the diversions athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth by William Clarke / great American poem / song of America / Freud / Apparition (favorite poem) / How it will end / Getting serious / Black snake / First time reading Freud / Zones / fullness thereof / Definition of terms / Eve in the fall / record / Ode to airheads, hairdos, trains to and from Paris / safe house / Houses / Sunday discordancies / Grave goods / house is not a home / way of all the earth / Mum's the word / democratic vista / Arthur Englander's back in school / In winter / How to be eaten by a lion / To Yahweh / What I think of death, if anyone's asking / Why do you keep putting animals in your poems? / Open field / Words on the wind / Tell the bees / happy majority / Boarding : Hemaris thysbe / Sweat / Canis / Lingering doubts / silence of the mine canaries / insect collector's demise / Self-exam / Red / Insomnia / On mercy / Pickled heads : St. Petersburg / Turn / Tonight no poetry will serve / Subject, verb, object / blind astronomer in the age of stars / John Clare's finches / This tape measure made of light / Gravity and grace / Love / Like a monkey / At the pool / At the New York Public Library, I heard Derek Walcott dismiss the prose poem / Forty / Heartlines / Ultimately justice directs them / Liturgy / sea-change / Holding action / No Pegasus / Her last conflagration / Leaving Saint Peter's basilica / This dream the world is having about itself-- / Cinderella's last will & testament / I shall be released / Never to return / John Ashbery -- Caleb Barber -- Mark Bibbins -- Bruce Bond -- Marianne Boruch -- Fleda Brown -- Catherine Carter -- Suzanne Cleary -- Billy Collins -- Rob Cook -- James Cummins -- Mark Doty -- Denise Duhamel -- Alice Friman -- Margaret Gibson -- Douglas Goetsch -- Albert Goldbarth -- Barbara Goldberg -- Michael J. Grabell -- Debora Gregor -- Jennifer Grotz -- Barbara Hamby -- Sarah Hannah -- Jerry Harp -- Jim Harrison -- Delores Hayden -- Terrance Hayes -- K.A. Hayes -- Bob Hicok -- Daniel Hoffman -- Richard Howard -- P. Hurshell -- Michael Johnson -- Tina Kelley -- Maud Kelly -- Lance Larsen -- Phillis Levin -- Philip Levine -- Sarah Linday -- Thomas Lux -- Joanie Mackowski -- Christine Marshall -- Cleopatra Mathis -- J.D. McClatchy -- W.S. Merwin -- Jude Nutter -- Sharon Olds -- Mary Oliver -- Linda Pastan -- Kevin Prufer -- Susan Blackwell Ramsey -- Keith Ratzlaff -- Adrienne Rich -- James Richardson -- Pattiann Rogers -- Gibbons Ruark -- John Rybicki -- Betsy Sholl -- Martha Silano -- Mitch Sisskind -- Tom Sleigh -- Vincent Stanley -- Pamela Sutton -- Alexandra Teague -- Craig Morgan Teicher -- Natasha Trethewey -- Derek Walcott -- Jeanne Murray Walker -- Ronald Wallace -- Charles Harper Webb -- Lisa Williams -- Carolyne Wright -- Debbie Yee -- Kevin Young -- Matthgew Zapruder. The The The The The The The A The A The The The A A
0743299779 (pbk.) 9780743299770 (pbk.)
American poetry--21st century.