| Description |
x, 207 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword / David Lehman -- Introduction / Paul Muldoon -- In view of the fact / A.R. Ammons -- In dearest, deepest winter / John Ashbery -- Catholic Encyclopedia / Maureen Bloomfield -- I want to be your shoebox / Catherine Bowman -- Roommates: noblesse oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane / Stephanie Brown -- Beats / Charles Bukowski -- Irregular masks / Elena Karina Byrne -- Seven Changs / Victoria Chang -- To Jacques Pépin / Shanna Compton -- Poets march on Washington / James Cummins -- Urban myth / Jamey Dunham / Five roses in the morning / Stephen Dunn / Everything I needed to know / Karl Elder -- Revolution / Lynn Emanuel -- Pre-Raphaelite pinups / Elaine Equi -- Magical sadness of Omar Cáceres / Clayton Eshleman -- 19--:an elegy / Andrew Feld -- I need to be more French. Or Japanese / Beth Ann Fennelly -- In praise of my prostate / Edward Field -- Adam and Eve's dog / Richard Garcia -- Watch / Amy Gerstler -- Blue on her hands / Leonard Gontarek -- Advice for a stegosaurus / Jessica Goodheart -- Searchers George Green -- Turn of the screw / Arielle Greenberg -- For Kateb Yacine / Marilyn Hacker -- I may after leaving you walk quickly or even run / Matthea Harvey -- Contributors' notes / Stackey Harwood -- Variations on two black cinema treasures / Terrance Hayes -- Seesaws / Samuel Hazo -- Motes / Anthony Hecht -- Propagation of the species / Jennifer Michael Hecht -- from The fatalist / Lyn Hejinian -- Remorse after a panic attack in a Wisconsin field, 1975 / Ruth Herschberger / Burlap sack / Jane Hirshfield -- In a quiet town by the sea / Tony Hoagland -- Ants / Vicki Hudspith -- Chapter in the life of Mr. Kehoe, fisherman / Donald Justice -- Blessing from my sixteen years' son / Mary Karr -- Hell and love / Garret Keizer -- Wolf / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Shelley / Galway Kinnell -- In the graveyard of fallen monuments / Rachel Loden -- Hell / Sarah Manguso -- Ill-made almighty / Heather McHugh -- Space marriage / D. Nurske -- Song: I love you; who are you? / Steve Orlen -- Dear owl / Eugene Ostashevsky -- Death is intended / Linda Pastan -- Dislocations: seven scenarios / Adrienne Rich -- All the ghosts / James Richardson -- How I became impossible / Mary Ruefle -- Home to roost / Kay Ryan -- Media effects / Jerome Sala / Constanza Bonarelli / Mary Jo Salter -- Grilled cheese sandwich / Christine Scanlon -- Moscow / Jason Schneiderman -- Hate poem / Julie Sheehan -- Sunlight / Charles Simic -- Impasse / Louis Simpson -- For Hughes Cuenod, in his 100th year / W.D. Snodgrass -- Waiting for a ride / Gary Snyder -- Twenty questions / Maura Stanton -- End of the day on second / Dorothea Tanning -- Swing / James Tate -- Marijuana / Chase Twichell -- For a man who wrote CUNT on a motel bathroom mirror / David Wagoner -- From the notebooks of Anne Verveine, VII / Rosanna Warren -- Ballad of the subcontractor / Marlys West -- from The Maud Project / Susan Wheeler -- Some words inside of words / Richard Wilbur -- Bareback Pantoum / Cecilia Woloch -- Short history of my life / Charles Wright -- Big ball of foil in a small New York apartment / Matthew Yeager -- Black cat blues / Kevin Young. |
| Summary |
This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the last word in poetry today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- from a pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year. "The all-consuming interests of American poetry are the all-consuming interests of poetry all over," writes Muldoon in his incisive introduction to the volume. The Best American Poetry 2005 features a superb company of artists ranging from established masters of the craft, such as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, and Charles Wright, to rising stars like Kay Ryan, Tony Hoagland, and Beth Ann Fennelly. With insightful comments from the poets elucidating their work, and series editor David Lehman's perspicacious foreword addressing the state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2005 is indispensable for every poetry enthusiast. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Collections.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Genre/Form |
Collections. (OCoLC)fst01424032
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| Added Author |
Muldoon, Paul.
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Lehman, David, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0743257383 |
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9780743257381 |
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0743257588 (pbk.) |
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9780743257589 (pbk.) |
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