The best American poetry 2021 /
The best American poetry 2021 /
Tracy K. Smith, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
- First Scribner edition.
- xxiii, 215 pages ; 22 cm.
- Best American poetry. .
- Best American poetry. .
Includes bibliographical references.
The Pyramid Scheme / Divination / Some Call It God / Benediction / love poem that ends at popeyes / Further Exercises / Work / After Tu Fu / Marfa, Texas / The School of Eternities / Abecedarian for ESL in West Lafayette, Indiana / After the Apocalypse / Gross National Unhappiness / On the Deaths of Friends / Interstate Highway System / Before the Riot / The Great Beauty / A Child's Guide to Grasses / lake-loop / Love / Naji, 14. Philadelphia / This'll hurt me more / Stone Love / Conqueror / They Ran and Flew from You / I Feel Good / Night School / Tilt-A-Whirl / I Won't Live Long / Hunger / Sonata in F Minor, K. 183: Allegro / George Floyd / Waste Management / David / Two Mule Deer / Double Major / So Much for America / Wheelchair / Immigrant Song / The End of Poetry / In the Village / Meditations on a Photograph of Historic Rail Women / When My Sorrow Was Born / All the Stops / Playing Dead / Provincetown / This Is a Love Poem to Trees / The Hastily Assembled Angel on Care and Vitality / There Is Only You / Since Time Immemorial / a brief meditation on breath / Irony / A Smiling Understanding / When White Hawks Come / December / Elegy with Table Saw & Cobwebs / For Black Children at the End of the World... and the Beginning / For Air / Blood / black and brown people on shark tank / Pages 5-8 (An excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure / women's voting rights at one hundred (but who's counting?) / What Is There to Do in Akron, Ohio? / The Stuff of Astounding: A Golden Shovel for Juneteenth / Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me / Chinese Restaurant Syndrome / Acequia del Llano / Copernicus / The Beginning of the Beginning / The Dead Just Need to Be Seen. Not Forgiven / Red Wine Spills / How to Live in Southern California / Overnight / Caution (from "Deracinations: Seven Sonigrams") / Dog Tags / Rosa Alcalá -- Lauren K. Alleyne -- Jabari Asim -- Joshua Bennett -- Destiny O. Birdsong -- Susan Briante -- Jericho Brown -- Christopher Buckley -- Victoria Chang -- Chen Chen -- Su Cho -- Ama Codjoe -- Henri Cole -- Billy Collins -- Adam O. Davis -- Kwame Dawes -- Toi Derricotte -- Jay Deshpande -- Natalie Diaz -- Alex Dimitrov -- Rita Dove -- Camille T. Dungy -- Louise Erdrich -- Kathy Fagan -- Chanda Feldman -- Nikky Finney -- Louise Glück -- Nancy Miller Gomez -- Jorie Graham -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- francine j. harris -- Terrance Hayes -- Edward Hirsch -- Ishion Hutchinson -- Didi Jackson -- Major Jackson -- Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Dana Levin -- Ada Limón -- James Longenbach -- Warren C. Longmire -- Emily Lee Luan -- Dora Malech -- Sally Wen Mao -- Francisco Márquez -- Hannah Marshall -- Shane McCrae -- Lupe Mendez -- Francine Merasty -- Yesenia Montilla -- Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Stanley Moss -- dg nanouk okpik -- Cecily Parks -- Patrick Phillips -- Roger Reeves -- Ed Roberson -- Margaret Ross -- Angbeen Saleem -- Nicole Sealey -- Evie Shockley -- Darius Simpson -- Patricia Smith -- Monica Sok -- Adrienne Su -- Arthur Sze -- Paul Tran -- Phuong T. Vuong -- John Sibley Williams -- L. Ash Williams -- Shelley Wong -- John Yau -- Monica Youn -- Kevin Young.
"Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene" in their surfaces with an underlying "sense of an unknown vastness." In The Best American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young." --Provided by publisher.
9781982106638 (pbk.) : £12.99 1982106638 (pbk.) : £12.99
American poetry--21st century.
Poetry--Collections.
PS580 .B478 / 2021
811.608
Includes bibliographical references.
The Pyramid Scheme / Divination / Some Call It God / Benediction / love poem that ends at popeyes / Further Exercises / Work / After Tu Fu / Marfa, Texas / The School of Eternities / Abecedarian for ESL in West Lafayette, Indiana / After the Apocalypse / Gross National Unhappiness / On the Deaths of Friends / Interstate Highway System / Before the Riot / The Great Beauty / A Child's Guide to Grasses / lake-loop / Love / Naji, 14. Philadelphia / This'll hurt me more / Stone Love / Conqueror / They Ran and Flew from You / I Feel Good / Night School / Tilt-A-Whirl / I Won't Live Long / Hunger / Sonata in F Minor, K. 183: Allegro / George Floyd / Waste Management / David / Two Mule Deer / Double Major / So Much for America / Wheelchair / Immigrant Song / The End of Poetry / In the Village / Meditations on a Photograph of Historic Rail Women / When My Sorrow Was Born / All the Stops / Playing Dead / Provincetown / This Is a Love Poem to Trees / The Hastily Assembled Angel on Care and Vitality / There Is Only You / Since Time Immemorial / a brief meditation on breath / Irony / A Smiling Understanding / When White Hawks Come / December / Elegy with Table Saw & Cobwebs / For Black Children at the End of the World... and the Beginning / For Air / Blood / black and brown people on shark tank / Pages 5-8 (An excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure / women's voting rights at one hundred (but who's counting?) / What Is There to Do in Akron, Ohio? / The Stuff of Astounding: A Golden Shovel for Juneteenth / Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me / Chinese Restaurant Syndrome / Acequia del Llano / Copernicus / The Beginning of the Beginning / The Dead Just Need to Be Seen. Not Forgiven / Red Wine Spills / How to Live in Southern California / Overnight / Caution (from "Deracinations: Seven Sonigrams") / Dog Tags / Rosa Alcalá -- Lauren K. Alleyne -- Jabari Asim -- Joshua Bennett -- Destiny O. Birdsong -- Susan Briante -- Jericho Brown -- Christopher Buckley -- Victoria Chang -- Chen Chen -- Su Cho -- Ama Codjoe -- Henri Cole -- Billy Collins -- Adam O. Davis -- Kwame Dawes -- Toi Derricotte -- Jay Deshpande -- Natalie Diaz -- Alex Dimitrov -- Rita Dove -- Camille T. Dungy -- Louise Erdrich -- Kathy Fagan -- Chanda Feldman -- Nikky Finney -- Louise Glück -- Nancy Miller Gomez -- Jorie Graham -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- francine j. harris -- Terrance Hayes -- Edward Hirsch -- Ishion Hutchinson -- Didi Jackson -- Major Jackson -- Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Dana Levin -- Ada Limón -- James Longenbach -- Warren C. Longmire -- Emily Lee Luan -- Dora Malech -- Sally Wen Mao -- Francisco Márquez -- Hannah Marshall -- Shane McCrae -- Lupe Mendez -- Francine Merasty -- Yesenia Montilla -- Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Stanley Moss -- dg nanouk okpik -- Cecily Parks -- Patrick Phillips -- Roger Reeves -- Ed Roberson -- Margaret Ross -- Angbeen Saleem -- Nicole Sealey -- Evie Shockley -- Darius Simpson -- Patricia Smith -- Monica Sok -- Adrienne Su -- Arthur Sze -- Paul Tran -- Phuong T. Vuong -- John Sibley Williams -- L. Ash Williams -- Shelley Wong -- John Yau -- Monica Youn -- Kevin Young.
"Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene" in their surfaces with an underlying "sense of an unknown vastness." In The Best American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young." --Provided by publisher.
9781982106638 (pbk.) : £12.99 1982106638 (pbk.) : £12.99
American poetry--21st century.
Poetry--Collections.
PS580 .B478 / 2021
811.608