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The best American poetry, 2009 / David Wagoner, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Scribner Poetry, 2009.Description: xxix, 207 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 33039001058881 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS580 .B478 2009
Contents:
They knew what they wanted / John Ashbery -- Beasts and violins / Caleb Barber -- Concerning the land to the south of our neighbors to the north / Mark Bibbins -- Ringtone / Bruce Bond -- The doctor / Marianne Boruch -- Roofers / Fleda Brown -- The book of Steve / Catherine Carter -- From The boy's own book : a compleat encyclopedia of all the diversions athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth by William Clarke / Suzanne Cleary -- The great American poem / Billy Collins -- The song of America / Rob Cook -- Freud / James Cummins -- Apparition (favorite poem) / Mark Doty -- How it will end / Denise Duhamel -- Getting serious / Alice Friman -- Black snake / Margaret Gibson -- First time reading Freud / Douglas Goetsch -- Zones / Albert Goldbarth -- The fullness thereof / Barbara Goldberg -- Definition of terms / Michael J. Grabell -- Eve in the fall / Debora Gregor -- The record / Jennifer Grotz -- Ode to airheads, hairdos, trains to and from Paris / Barbara Hamby -- The safe house / Sarah Hannah -- Houses / Jerry Harp -- Sunday discordancies / Jim Harrison -- Grave goods / Delores Hayden -- A house is not a home / Terrance Hayes -- The way of all the earth / K.A. Hayes -- Mum's the word / Bob Hicok -- A democratic vista / Daniel Hoffman -- Arthur Englander's back in school / Richard Howard -- In winter / P. Hurshell -- How to be eaten by a lion / Michael Johnson -- To Yahweh / Tina Kelley -- What I think of death, if anyone's asking / Maud Kelly -- Why do you keep putting animals in your poems? / Lance Larsen -- Open field / Phillis Levin -- Words on the wind / Philip Levine -- Tell the bees / Sarah Linday -- The happy majority / Thomas Lux -- Boarding : Hemaris thysbe / Joanie Mackowski -- Sweat / Christine Marshall -- Canis / Cleopatra Mathis -- Lingering doubts / J.D. McClatchy -- The silence of the mine canaries / W.S. Merwin -- The insect collector's demise / Jude Nutter -- Self-exam / Sharon Olds -- Red / Mary Oliver -- Insomnia / Linda Pastan -- On mercy / Kevin Prufer -- Pickled heads : St. Petersburg / Susan Blackwell Ramsey -- Turn / Keith Ratzlaff -- Tonight no poetry will serve / Adrienne Rich -- Subject, verb, object / James Richardson -- A blind astronomer in the age of stars / Pattiann Rogers -- John Clare's finches / Gibbons Ruark -- This tape measure made of light / John Rybicki -- Gravity and grace / Betsy Sholl -- Love / Martha Silano -- Like a monkey / Mitch Sisskind -- At the pool / Tom Sleigh -- At the New York Public Library, I heard Derek Walcott dismiss the prose poem / Vincent Stanley -- Forty / Pamela Sutton -- Heartlines / Alexandra Teague -- Ultimately justice directs them / Craig Morgan Teicher -- Liturgy / Natasha Trethewey -- A sea-change / Derek Walcott -- Holding action / Jeanne Murray Walker -- No Pegasus / Ronald Wallace -- Her last conflagration / Charles Harper Webb -- Leaving Saint Peter's basilica / Lisa Williams -- This dream the world is having about itself-- / Carolyne Wright -- Cinderella's last will & testament / Debbie Yee -- I shall be released / Kevin Young -- Never to return / Matthgew Zapruder.
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Includes bibliographical references.

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

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