Title:
The best American poetry 2016 / Edward Hirsch, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
ISBN:
9781501127557
9781501127564
Edition:
First Scribner edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner Poetry, 2016.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 211 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Sentence / Christopher Bakken -- O Esperanza! / Catherine Barnett -- Whitman, 1841 / Rick Barot -- Daylight Savings / Jill Bialoskey -- Fruits de Mer / Paula Bohince -- Ugglig / Michelle Boisseau -- I get to float invisible / Marianne Boruch -- Hubert Blankenship / David Bottoms -- 32 fantasy football teams / Joseph Chapman and Laura Eve Engel -- Last morning with Steve Orlen / Michael Collier -- Heart of it all + a free beer / Allison Davis -- On the certainty of Bryan / Olena Kalytiak Davis -- How the Milky Way was made / Natalie Diaz -- Humanity 101 / Denise Duhamel -- My life / Lynn Emanuel -- Cyst / Claudia Emerson -- Here I am / Martin Espada -- Kiskiminetas River / Peter Everwine -- When I turned fourteen, my mother's sister took me to lunch and said: / Alexis Rhone Fancher -- One had lived in a room and loved nothing / Charles Fort -- Sadness of clothes / Emily Fragos -- A drop of seawater under the microscope / Amy Gerstler -- Meet me at the lighthouse / Dana Gioia -- Reading to my father / Jorie Graham -- Lady responds / Juliana Gray -- Font / Linda Gregerson -- Self-portrait on the street of an unnamed foreign city / Jennifer Grotz -- Doctor Scheef / Mark Halliday -- Afterword / Jeffrey Harrison -- Barberism / Terrance Hayes -- Bible study / Tony Hoagland -- Unwritten volume / Cynthia Hogue -- I got heaven... / Garrett Hongo -- Girls / Erin Hoover -- 85 off & on / Richard Howard -- Minutiae / T. R. Hummer -- Morning tableau / Ishion Hutchinson -- Aubade / Major Jackson -- Visions of labor / Lawrence Joseph -- As if / Julie Kane -- Return of the native / Suji Kwock Kim -- Tissue Gallery / Loretta Collins Klobah -- Swimmer / John Koethe -- Fool / Yusef Komunyakaa -- We drive home from the lake, sand in our shoes / Keetje Kuipers -- Solitaire / Deborah Landau -- Folding a five-cornered star so the corners meet / Li-Young Lee -- More than you gave / Philip Levine -- If he came & diminished me & mapped my way / Larry Levis -- On the road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari / Robin Coste Lewis -- Ode while awaiting execution / Thomas Lux -- Psalm for the lost / Paul Mariani -- Lament / Debra Marquart -- High school in Schuzou / Cate Martin -- Everything will be taken away / Morgan Parker -- My father's 'Norton Introduction to Literature' third edition (1981) / Hai-Dang Phan -- First last light in the sky / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- Variation on a line from Elizabeth Bishop's 'Five Flights Up' / Stanley Plumly -- Late Aubade / James Ricahrdson -- At the tribunals / Patrick Rosal -- Vineyard / David St. John -- But I'm the only one / Brenda Shaughnessy -- Maid Maleen / Anya Silver -- Grief / Taije Silverman -- Prayer of recovery / Tom Sleigh -- Alice, bewildered / A. E. Stallings -- Cotton you lose in the field / Frank Stanford -- What Piranesi knew / Susan Stewart -- Drones: an exercise in awe-terror / Nomi Stone -- Peaches / Adrienne Su -- Dome of the hidden temple / James Tate -- Apology / Lee Upton -- Hog / C. K. Williams -- To think of how cold / Eleanor Wilner -- Drummer Omar: poet of percussion / Al Young.
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OCLC Number:
ocn928481194
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