The best American poetry, 2019 / Major Jackson, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.

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text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

1982106573
9781982106560
1982106565
9781982106577
9781982106584
1982106581

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LOC classification:

PS580 .B478 2019

Contents:

Phase one / Dilruba Ahmed -- You & the raw bullets / Rosa Alcalá -- Update on werewolves / Margaret Atwood -- Central Park / Catherine Barnett -- American will be / Johsua Bennett -- Afternoons at the lake / Fleda Brown -- Essay on joy / Sumita Chakraborty -- Six obits / Victoria Chang -- I invite my parents to a dinner pary / Chen Chen -- Drank a lot / Leonard Cohen -- Like a cat / Laura Cronk -- Metaphor-less / Kate Daniels -- Armed neighbor / Carl Dennis -- An apology to the reader / Toi Derricotte -- Brilliant corners / Thomas Devaney -- Skin-light / Natalie Diaz -- Decline in the adoration of jack-in-the-pulpits / Joanne Dominique Dwyer -- I now pronounce you dead / Martín Espada -- The analytic hour / Nausheen Eusuf -- Canzone in blue, then bluer / Vievee Francis -- Guantanamera / Gabriela García -- Update / Amy Gerstler -- Virgil, hey / Camille Guthrie -- Dark and lovely after take-off (a future) / Yona Harvey -- Dancing / Robert Hass -- American sonnet for my past and future assassin / Terrance Hayes -- Roll under the waves / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Stranger by night / Edward Hirsch -- Ledger / Jane Hirshfield -- Sunflowers / James Hoch -- All praise Cecil Taylor / Bob Holman -- The bathers, Cassis / Garrett Hongo -- Sympathy of a clear day / Ishion Hutchinson -- The burning bush / Didi Jackson -- In memory of Derek Alton Walcott / Major Jackson -- From 'Last will and testament' / Ilya Kaminsky -- We may no longer consider the end / Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Soft targets / Deborah Landau -- Higher calling / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- The undressing / Li-Young Lee -- It could happen to you / David Lehman -- Cannibal woman / Ada Limón -- A brief history of the future apocalypse / Rebecca Lindenberg -- The S in 'I loves you, Porgy' / Nabila Lovelace -- Hair / Clarence Major -- At land's end / Gail Mazur -- The President visits the storm / Shane McCrae -- Bio from a parallel world / Jeffrey McDaniel -- Miles Davis: Birth of the cool;the founding of Brasilia (1950) / Campbell McGrath -- Sleepwalking in Venice / Ange Mlinko -- Fannie Lou Hamer / Kamilah Aisha Moon -- The last of England / Andrew Motion -- Aubade / Paul Muldoon -- On confessionalism / John Murillo -- You are your own state department / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Rasputin aria / Sharon Olds -- Nord-sud / Michael Palmer -- The black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth / Morgan Parker -- Head crack head crack / Willie Perdomo -- Star map with action figures -- Carl Phillips -- Just rollin' along / Ishmael Reed -- Four Marys / Paisley Rekdal -- Belly, buttocks, and straight spines / Sonia Sanchez -- #MeToo / Nicole Santalucia -- The women's march / Philip Schultz -- Vermeer's pearl / Lloyd Schwartz -- Encore / Alan Shapiro -- Who knows one / Jane Shore -- The greatest personal privation / Tracy K. Smith -- Harm's way / A.E. Stallings -- The white orchard / Arthur Sze -- Duty / Natasha Trethewey -- Partly true poem reflected in a mirror / Ocean Vuong -- Still life: Steven's wallet on a Key West hotel dresser -- Hive / Kevin Young.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	PS580 .B478 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		33039001485654

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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.