TY - BOOK AU - Komunyakaa,Yusef AU - Lehman,David TI - The best American poetry, 2003 SN - 0743203887 AV - PS580 .B478 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Scribner Poetry KW - American poetry KW - 21st century KW - Collections KW - Poetry KW - marcgt N1 - Includes bibliographical references; The end of 'Out of the past' / Jonathan Aaron -- from 'A locked room' / Beth Anderson -- Dedicated to the one I love / Nin Andrews -- Some further words / Wendell Berry -- Curse / Frank Bidart -- Rambling on my mind / Diann Blakely -- Art Tatum / Bruce Bond -- from '1000 lines' / Catherine Bowman -- Perfect attendance: Short subjects made form the staring photos of strangers / Rosemary Catacalos -- Aeon flux: June / Joshua Clover -- Litany / Billy Collins -- Six sketches: When a soul breaks / Michael S. Collins -- World history / Carl Dennis -- Skin / Susan Dickman -- Fox Trot Fridays / Rita Dove -- Open door blues / Stephen Dunn -- Journal / Stuart Dybek -- The Vagrant hours / Charles Fort -- Ponderosa / James Galvin -- An offer received in this mornings mail / Amy Gerstler -- Landscape / Louise Gluck -- Report on human beings / Michael Goldman -- Max Jacob's shoes / Ray Gonzalez -- Beauty / Linda Gregg -- The opaque / Mark Halliday -- Rhythmic arrangements (on prosody) / Michael S. Harper -- Sad little breathing machine / Matthea Harvey -- Villanelle / George Higgins -- The desire manuscripts / Edward Hirsch -- Summer night / Tony Hoagland -- Success/ Richard Howard -- Ten sighs from a sabbatical / Rodney Jones -- Some rain / Joy Katz -- The dragon / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- When the towers fell / Galway Kinnell -- After Horace / Carolyn Kizer -- Love blooms at Chimsbury after the war / Jennifer L. Knox -- Proverb / Kenneth Koch -- Y2K (1933) / John Koethe -- In the hall of bones / Ted Kooser -- The music of time / Philip Levine --Jihad / J.D. McClatchy -- To Zbigniew Herbert's bicycle / W.S. Merwin -- Dear Alter Ego / Heather Moss -- A history of color / Stanley Moss -- The loaf / Paul Muldoon -- Four deaths that happened daily / Peggy Munson -- Asparagus / Marilyn Nelson -- Poem for the novelist whom I forced to write a poem / Daniel Nester -- What happened to everybody / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Queen Min Bi / Ishle Yi Park -- Anniversary / Robert Pinsky -- What the paymaster said / Kevin Prufer -- Sequoia sempervirens / Ed Roberson -- The disappearances / Vijay Seshadri -- Sleet / Alan Shapiro -- For Nazim Hikmet in the Old Prison, Now a Four Seasons Hotel / Myra Shapiro -- Song with a child's pacifier in it / Bruce Smith -- There's trouble everywhere / Charlie Smith -- Translating / Maura Stanton -- Lines / Ruth Stone -- The restaurant business / James Tate -- The lost boy / William Tremblay -- After your death / Natasha Trethewey -- On being asked to discuss poetic theory / David Wagoner -- In a rut / Ronald Wallace -- Premonition / Lewis Warsh -- In sky / Susan Wheeler -- Man running / Richard Wilbur -- The world / C.K. Williams -- My work / Terence Winch -- Scrabble with Matthews / David Wojahn -- Clemency / Robert Wrigley -- After the opening, 1932 / Anna Ziegler -- Reading the bones: a Blackjack Moses nightmare / Ahmos Zu-Bolton II ER -