The best of the best American poetry / Robert Pinsky, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.

Terminal nostalgia / Sherman Alexie
Garbage / A.R. Ammons
Soft money / Rae Armantrout
Wakefulness / John Ashbery
Bored / Margaret Atwood
Injunction / Frank Bidart
Feminine intuition / Stephanie Brown
Three oranges / Charles Bukowski
The life of towns / Anne Carson
Self-portrait as four styles of Pompeian wall painting / Henri Cole
Dharma / Billy Collins
En famille / Robert Creeley
You art a scholar, Horatio, speak to it / Olena Kalytiak Davis
Our generation / Carl Dennis
Skin / Susan Dickman
Desire / Stephen Dobyns
Difference / Mark Doty
All souls' / Rita Dove
How it will end / Denise Duhamel
The imagined / Stephen Dunn
Powers of Congress / Alice Fulton
Salutations to Fernando Pessoa / Allen Ginsberg
Landscape / Louise Glück
Manifest destiny / Jorie Graham
Safe / Linda Gregerson
The war / Linda Gregg
Cafeteria in Boston / Thom Gunn
Prophecy / Donald Hall
The opaque / Mark Halliday
Bush's war / Robert Hass
A house is not a home / Terrance Hayes
The polar circle / Lyn Hejinian
Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry / Bob Hicok
Phone booth / Brenda Hillman
Man on a fire escape / Edward Hirsch
In praise of coldness / Jane Hirshfield
In a quiet town by the sea / Tony Hoagland
The see-saw / John Hollander
Like most revelations / Richard Howard
9-11-01 / Fanny Howe
Magdalene : the seven devils / Marie Howe
From "Urban renewal" / Major Jackson
Plea for forgiveness / Rodney Jones
So where are we? / Lawrence Joseph
Reading aloud to my father / Jane Kenyon
Proverb / Kenneth Koch
Sally's hair / John Koethe
Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa
Touch me / Stanley Kunitz
Operation memory / David Lehman
The return / Philip Levine
The autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim / Amit Majmudar
Hell / Sarah Manguso
My mammogram / J.D. McClatchy
Past all understanding / Heather McHugh
From "The person she is" / James McMichael
The 'ring' cycle / James Merrill
The stranger / W.S. Merwin
There will be animals / Thylias Moss
The loaf / Paul Muldoon
From Muse & drudge / Harryette Mullen
Hate mail / Carol Muske-Dukes
Q / Sharon Olds
The window at Arles / Meghan O'Rourke
I do not / Michael Palmer
Fretwork / Carl Phillips
Samurai song / Robert Pinsky
A short narrative of breasts and wombs in service of plot entitled / Claudia Rankine
Ends of the earth / Adrienne Rich
The Rev. Larry Love is dead / David Rivard
Discounting Lynn / J. Allyn Rosser
Middle school / Mary Ruefle
Outsider art / Kay Ryan
Switchblade / Michael Ryan
Let's all hear it for Mildred Bailey! / James Schuyler
Pornography / Lloyd Schwartz
The death of the shah / Frederick Seidel
Country western singer / Alan Shapiro
Country fair / Charles Simic
At the pool / Tom Sleigh
Building / Gary Snyder
Asphodel / A.E. Stallings
The latest hotel guest walks over particles that revolve in seven other dimensions controlling latticed space / Ruth Stone
From "Dark harbor" / Mark Strand
Forty / Pamela Sutton
Bounden duty / James Tate
Elegy / Natasha Trethewey
Counterman / Paul Violi
Necrophiliac / Rosanna Warren
Time pieces / Rachel Wetzsteon
A filial republic / Susan Wheeler
This pleasing anxious being / Richard Wilbur
A hundred bones / C.K. Williams
The mill-race / Anne Winters
American twilight / Charles Wright
A happy thought / Franz Wright
Religion / Robert Wrigley
Vespers / C. Dale Young
No forgiveness ode / Dean Young
Lime light blues / Kevin Young.