The best American poetry, 2019 /
The best American poetry, 2019 /
Major Jackson, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
- First Scribner edition.
- xxxiii, 231 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Phase one / You & the raw bullets / Update on werewolves / Central Park / American will be / Afternoons at the lake / Essay on joy / Six obits / I invite my parents to a dinner pary / Drank a lot / Like a cat / Metaphor-less / Armed neighbor / An apology to the reader / Brilliant corners / Skin-light / Decline in the adoration of jack-in-the-pulpits / I now pronounce you dead / The analytic hour / Canzone in blue, then bluer / Guantanamera / Update / Virgil, hey / Dark and lovely after take-off (a future) / Dancing / American sonnet for my past and future assassin / Roll under the waves / Stranger by night / Ledger / Sunflowers / All praise Cecil Taylor / The bathers, Cassis / Sympathy of a clear day / The burning bush / In memory of Derek Alton Walcott / From 'Last will and testament' / We may no longer consider the end / Soft targets / Higher calling / The undressing / It could happen to you / Cannibal woman / A brief history of the future apocalypse / The S in 'I loves you, Porgy' / Hair / At land's end / The President visits the storm / Bio from a parallel world / Miles Davis: Birth of the cool;the founding of Brasilia (1950) / Sleepwalking in Venice / Fannie Lou Hamer / The last of England / Aubade / On confessionalism / You are your own state department / Rasputin aria / Nord-sud / The black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth / Head crack head crack / Star map with action figures -- Carl Phillips -- Just rollin' along / Four Marys / Belly, buttocks, and straight spines / #MeToo / The women's march / Vermeer's pearl / Encore / Who knows one / The greatest personal privation / Harm's way / The white orchard / Duty / Partly true poem reflected in a mirror / Still life: Steven's wallet on a Key West hotel dresser -- Hive / Dilruba Ahmed -- Rosa Alcalá -- Margaret Atwood -- Catherine Barnett -- Johsua Bennett -- Fleda Brown -- Sumita Chakraborty -- Victoria Chang -- Chen Chen -- Leonard Cohen -- Laura Cronk -- Kate Daniels -- Carl Dennis -- Toi Derricotte -- Thomas Devaney -- Natalie Diaz -- Joanne Dominique Dwyer -- Martín Espada -- Nausheen Eusuf -- Vievee Francis -- Gabriela García -- Amy Gerstler -- Camille Guthrie -- Yona Harvey -- Robert Hass -- Terrance Hayes -- Juan Felipe Herrera -- Edward Hirsch -- Jane Hirshfield -- James Hoch -- Bob Holman -- Garrett Hongo -- Ishion Hutchinson -- Didi Jackson -- Major Jackson -- Ilya Kaminsky -- Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Deborah Landau -- Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Li-Young Lee -- David Lehman -- Ada Limón -- Rebecca Lindenberg -- Nabila Lovelace -- Clarence Major -- Gail Mazur -- Shane McCrae -- Jeffrey McDaniel -- Campbell McGrath -- Ange Mlinko -- Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Andrew Motion -- Paul Muldoon -- John Murillo -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Sharon Olds -- Michael Palmer -- Morgan Parker -- Willie Perdomo -- Ishmael Reed -- Paisley Rekdal -- Sonia Sanchez -- Nicole Santalucia -- Philip Schultz -- Lloyd Schwartz -- Alan Shapiro -- Jane Shore -- Tracy K. Smith -- A.E. Stallings -- Arthur Sze -- Natasha Trethewey -- Ocean Vuong -- Kevin Young.
The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry--"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets)--now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, "The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today...While readers may question some of the selections--an annual sport with this series--most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology."The state of the world has inspired many to write poetry, and to read it--to share all the rage, beauty, and every other thing under the sun in the way that only poetry can. Now the foremost anthology of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Major Jackson, the poet and editor who, "makes poems that rumble and rock" (poet Dorianne Laux). This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year's most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.
1982106573 9781982106560 1982106565 9781982106577 9781982106584 1982106581
88644281
Poetry--Collections.
American poetry--21st century.
PS580 / .B478 2019
Includes bibliographical references.
Phase one / You & the raw bullets / Update on werewolves / Central Park / American will be / Afternoons at the lake / Essay on joy / Six obits / I invite my parents to a dinner pary / Drank a lot / Like a cat / Metaphor-less / Armed neighbor / An apology to the reader / Brilliant corners / Skin-light / Decline in the adoration of jack-in-the-pulpits / I now pronounce you dead / The analytic hour / Canzone in blue, then bluer / Guantanamera / Update / Virgil, hey / Dark and lovely after take-off (a future) / Dancing / American sonnet for my past and future assassin / Roll under the waves / Stranger by night / Ledger / Sunflowers / All praise Cecil Taylor / The bathers, Cassis / Sympathy of a clear day / The burning bush / In memory of Derek Alton Walcott / From 'Last will and testament' / We may no longer consider the end / Soft targets / Higher calling / The undressing / It could happen to you / Cannibal woman / A brief history of the future apocalypse / The S in 'I loves you, Porgy' / Hair / At land's end / The President visits the storm / Bio from a parallel world / Miles Davis: Birth of the cool;the founding of Brasilia (1950) / Sleepwalking in Venice / Fannie Lou Hamer / The last of England / Aubade / On confessionalism / You are your own state department / Rasputin aria / Nord-sud / The black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth / Head crack head crack / Star map with action figures -- Carl Phillips -- Just rollin' along / Four Marys / Belly, buttocks, and straight spines / #MeToo / The women's march / Vermeer's pearl / Encore / Who knows one / The greatest personal privation / Harm's way / The white orchard / Duty / Partly true poem reflected in a mirror / Still life: Steven's wallet on a Key West hotel dresser -- Hive / Dilruba Ahmed -- Rosa Alcalá -- Margaret Atwood -- Catherine Barnett -- Johsua Bennett -- Fleda Brown -- Sumita Chakraborty -- Victoria Chang -- Chen Chen -- Leonard Cohen -- Laura Cronk -- Kate Daniels -- Carl Dennis -- Toi Derricotte -- Thomas Devaney -- Natalie Diaz -- Joanne Dominique Dwyer -- Martín Espada -- Nausheen Eusuf -- Vievee Francis -- Gabriela García -- Amy Gerstler -- Camille Guthrie -- Yona Harvey -- Robert Hass -- Terrance Hayes -- Juan Felipe Herrera -- Edward Hirsch -- Jane Hirshfield -- James Hoch -- Bob Holman -- Garrett Hongo -- Ishion Hutchinson -- Didi Jackson -- Major Jackson -- Ilya Kaminsky -- Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Deborah Landau -- Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Li-Young Lee -- David Lehman -- Ada Limón -- Rebecca Lindenberg -- Nabila Lovelace -- Clarence Major -- Gail Mazur -- Shane McCrae -- Jeffrey McDaniel -- Campbell McGrath -- Ange Mlinko -- Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Andrew Motion -- Paul Muldoon -- John Murillo -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Sharon Olds -- Michael Palmer -- Morgan Parker -- Willie Perdomo -- Ishmael Reed -- Paisley Rekdal -- Sonia Sanchez -- Nicole Santalucia -- Philip Schultz -- Lloyd Schwartz -- Alan Shapiro -- Jane Shore -- Tracy K. Smith -- A.E. Stallings -- Arthur Sze -- Natasha Trethewey -- Ocean Vuong -- Kevin Young.
The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry--"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets)--now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, "The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today...While readers may question some of the selections--an annual sport with this series--most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology."The state of the world has inspired many to write poetry, and to read it--to share all the rage, beauty, and every other thing under the sun in the way that only poetry can. Now the foremost anthology of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Major Jackson, the poet and editor who, "makes poems that rumble and rock" (poet Dorianne Laux). This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year's most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.
1982106573 9781982106560 1982106565 9781982106577 9781982106584 1982106581
88644281
Poetry--Collections.
American poetry--21st century.
PS580 / .B478 2019