The best American poetry 2008 / Charles Wright, editor.
2008
PS617 .B474 2008
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Title
The best American poetry 2008 / Charles Wright, editor.
Edition
1st Scribner ed.
ISBN
9780743299756 (pbk.)
0743299752 (pbk.)
9780743299749
0743299744
0743299752 (pbk.)
9780743299749
0743299744
Imprint
New York : Scribner Poetry, 2008.
Description
xxi, 197 p. ; 23 cm.
Exhibited
2009 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PS617 .B474 2008
Summary
An anthology of poetry selected as the best published in magazines and periodicals in 2007 by editor Charles Wright, featuring seventy-five poems by Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Alex Lemon, and others.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-197).
Formatted Contents Note
Evening song / Tom Andrews
Exceptions and melancholies / Ralph Angel
Framing / Rae Armantrout
Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees / John Ashbery
Untitled / Joshua Beckman
Poseur / Marvin Bell
Ku(na)hay / Charles Bernstein
Electrocuting an elephant / Ciaran Berry
If see no end in is / Frank Bidart
Wanting sumptuous heavens / Robert Bly
Night hunting / John Casteen
Entering / Laura Cronk
Homage to Calvin Spotswood / Kate Daniels
Men / Lydia Davis
Parallax / Erica Dawson
Handymen / Cornelius Eady
Millay goes down / Moira Egan
Aubade in autumn / Peter Everwine
The museum of stones / Carolyn Forché
Rock polisher / Chris Forhan
In the book of the disappearing book / John Gallaher
Girl without her nightgown / James Galvin
Threshing / Louise Glück
Futures / Jorie Graham
I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri / Robert Hass
O my pa-pa / Bob Hicok
Phone booth / Brenda Hillman
Muchness / Tony Hoagland
Cane fire / Garrett Hongo
The rape of the daughters of Leucippus by Castor and Pollux / Richard Howard
Snoring / Mark Jarman
Francis Ponge is on fire / George Kalamaras
Recuperation from the dead love through Christ and Isaac Babel / Mary Karr
Though he tarry / Maxine Kumin
Skull trees, South Sudan / Adrie Kusserow
from Hallelujah blackout / Alex Lemon
Of love and other disasters / Philip Levine
Resignation / J.D. McClatchy
The last wolf in Edmonson County / Davis McCombs
A letter to Su Tong P'o / W.S. Merwin
Ritual / Susan Mitchell
The water cooler / Paul Muldoon
The gate of Abraham / D. Nurkse
Every night / Debra Nystrom
The window at Arles / Meghan O'Rourke
Method, or Kenneth Koch / Ron Padgett
The classical study (4) / Michael Palmer
Cosmos, late blooming / D.A. Powell
The rain that falls here / Alberto Ríos
Then let fall your horrible pleasure / Tim Ross
Three lanterns / John Rybicki
American / Ira Sadoff
The aurora of the new mind / David St. John
World news / Sherod Santos
Evening man / Frederick Seidel
Listen / Charles Simic
Tara / Patti Smith
Pentecost / R.T. Smith
Hexagon: on truth / Dave Snyder
Cricket / Lisa Ross Spaar
The shoe / Kathryn Starbuck
Divide and conquer / Alan Sullivan
The sentence / Chad Sweeney
The troubadours etc. / Mary Szybist
National security / James Tate
On captivity / Natasha Trethewey
Thomas Hardy / Lee Upton
Faithful / Dara Wier
Light / C.K. Williams
Passing scenes (while reading Basho) / Franz Wright
Language exists because
/ Lynn Xu
Sepsis / C. Dale Young
The dead from Iraq / David Young
No forgiveness ode / Dean Young
from Book of hours / Kevin Young.
Exceptions and melancholies / Ralph Angel
Framing / Rae Armantrout
Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees / John Ashbery
Untitled / Joshua Beckman
Poseur / Marvin Bell
Ku(na)hay / Charles Bernstein
Electrocuting an elephant / Ciaran Berry
If see no end in is / Frank Bidart
Wanting sumptuous heavens / Robert Bly
Night hunting / John Casteen
Entering / Laura Cronk
Homage to Calvin Spotswood / Kate Daniels
Men / Lydia Davis
Parallax / Erica Dawson
Handymen / Cornelius Eady
Millay goes down / Moira Egan
Aubade in autumn / Peter Everwine
The museum of stones / Carolyn Forché
Rock polisher / Chris Forhan
In the book of the disappearing book / John Gallaher
Girl without her nightgown / James Galvin
Threshing / Louise Glück
Futures / Jorie Graham
I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri / Robert Hass
O my pa-pa / Bob Hicok
Phone booth / Brenda Hillman
Muchness / Tony Hoagland
Cane fire / Garrett Hongo
The rape of the daughters of Leucippus by Castor and Pollux / Richard Howard
Snoring / Mark Jarman
Francis Ponge is on fire / George Kalamaras
Recuperation from the dead love through Christ and Isaac Babel / Mary Karr
Though he tarry / Maxine Kumin
Skull trees, South Sudan / Adrie Kusserow
from Hallelujah blackout / Alex Lemon
Of love and other disasters / Philip Levine
Resignation / J.D. McClatchy
The last wolf in Edmonson County / Davis McCombs
A letter to Su Tong P'o / W.S. Merwin
Ritual / Susan Mitchell
The water cooler / Paul Muldoon
The gate of Abraham / D. Nurkse
Every night / Debra Nystrom
The window at Arles / Meghan O'Rourke
Method, or Kenneth Koch / Ron Padgett
The classical study (4) / Michael Palmer
Cosmos, late blooming / D.A. Powell
The rain that falls here / Alberto Ríos
Then let fall your horrible pleasure / Tim Ross
Three lanterns / John Rybicki
American / Ira Sadoff
The aurora of the new mind / David St. John
World news / Sherod Santos
Evening man / Frederick Seidel
Listen / Charles Simic
Tara / Patti Smith
Pentecost / R.T. Smith
Hexagon: on truth / Dave Snyder
Cricket / Lisa Ross Spaar
The shoe / Kathryn Starbuck
Divide and conquer / Alan Sullivan
The sentence / Chad Sweeney
The troubadours etc. / Mary Szybist
National security / James Tate
On captivity / Natasha Trethewey
Thomas Hardy / Lee Upton
Faithful / Dara Wier
Light / C.K. Williams
Passing scenes (while reading Basho) / Franz Wright
Language exists because
/ Lynn Xu
Sepsis / C. Dale Young
The dead from Iraq / David Young
No forgiveness ode / Dean Young
from Book of hours / Kevin Young.
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