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Best American Poetry 2017
David Lehman, Natasha Trethewey
- 256 pages
- English
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Best American Poetry 2017
David Lehman, Natasha Trethewey
About This Book
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers "a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable" (Robert Pinsky). Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey "consistently and dramatically expanded the power" of the role of US Poet Laureate, holding office hours with the public, traveling the country, and reaching millions through her innovative PBS NewsHour segment "Where Poetry Lives." Marilyn Nelson says "the wide scope of Trethewey's interests and her adept handling of form have created an opus of classics both elegant and necessary." With her selections and introductory essay for The Best American Poetry 2017, Trethewey will be highlighting even more "elegant and necessary" poems and poets, adding to the national conversation of verse and its role in our culture.The Best American Poetry is not just another anthology; it serves as a guide to who's who and what's happening in American poetry and is an eagerly awaited publishing event each year. With Trethewey's insightful touch and genius for plumbing the depths of history and personal experience to shape striking verse, The Best American Poetry 2017 is another brilliant addition to the series.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Foreword by David Lehman
- Introduction by Natasha Trethewey
- Dan Albergotti, âWeapons Discharge Reportâ
- John Ashbery, âCommotion of the Birdsâ
- Mary Jo Bang, âAdmissionâ
- David Barber, âOn a Shaker Admonitionâ
- Dan Beachy-Quick, âApophaticâ
- Bruce Bond, âHomage to a Painter of Small Thingsâ
- John Brehm, âIntrigue in the Treesâ
- Jericho Brown, âBullet Pointsâ
- Nickole Brown, âThe Deadâ
- Cyrus Cassells, âElegy with a Gold Cradleâ
- Isaac Cates, âFidelity and the Dead Singerâ
- Allison Cobb, âI Forgive Youâ
- Leonard Cohen, âSteer Your Wayâ
- Michael Collier, âA Wild Tom Turkeyâ
- Billy Collins, âThe Presentâ
- Carl Dennis, âTwo Livesâ
- Claudia Emerson, âSpontaneous Remissionâ
- David Feinstein, âKaddishâ
- Carolyn ForchĂ©, âThe Boatmanâ
- Vievee Francis, âGiven to These Proclivities, By Godâ
- Amy Gerstler, âDead Butterflyâ
- Reginald Gibbons, âCanastaâ
- Margaret Gibson, âPassageâ
- Aracelis Girmay, âfrom The Black Mariaâ
- Jeffrey Harrison, âHigher Educationâ
- Terrance Hayes, âArs Poetica with Baconâ
- W. J. Herbert, âMounting the Dove Boxâ
- Tony Hoagland, âCause of Death: Fox Newsâ
- John Hodgen, âHamlet Texts Guildenstern about Playing upon the Pipeâ
- David Brendan Hopes, âCertain Thingsâ
- Major Jackson, âThe FlĂąneur Tends a Well-Liked Summer Cocktailâ
- John James, âHistory (n.)â
- Rodney Jones, âHomecomingâ
- Fady Joudah, âProgress Notesâ
- Meg Kearney, âGrackleâ
- John Koethe, âThe Age of Anxietyâ
- Yusef Komunyakaa, âfrom The Last Bohemian of Avenue Aâ
- Danusha LamĂ©ris, âThe Watchâ
- Dorianne Laux, âLapseâ
- Philip Levine, âRain in Winterâ
- Amit Majmudar, âKill Listâ
- Jamaal May, âThings That Breakâ
- Judson Mitcham, âWhiteâ
- John Murillo, âUpon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds,â
- Joyce Carol Oates, âTo Marlon Brando in Hellâ
- Sharon Olds, âOde to the Glansâ
- Matthew Olzmann, âLetter Beginning with Two Lines by CzesĆaw MiĆoszâ
- Gregory Orr, âThree Dark Proverb Sonnetsâ
- Carl Phillips, âRockabyeâ
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips, âHaloâ
- Robert Pinsky, âNamesâ
- Stanley Plumly, âPoliomyelitisâ
- Paisley Rekdal, âAssemblage of Ruined Plane Parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoiâ
- Michael Ryan, âThe Mercy Homeâ
- David St. John, âEmanationsâ
- Sherod Santos, âI Went for a Walk in Winterâ
- Taije Silverman, âWhere to Put Itâ
- Charles Simic, âSeeing Thingsâ
- Danez Smith, âlast summer of innocenceâ
- Maggie Smith, âGood Bonesâ
- R. T. Smith, âMaricĂłnâ
- A. E. Stallings, âShatteredâ
- Pamela Sutton, âAfraid to Prayâ
- Chase Twichell, âSad Songâ
- James Valvis, âSomethingâ
- Emily Van Kley, âDear Skullâ
- Wendy Videlock, âDeconstructionâ
- Lucy Wainger, âScheherazade.â
- Crystal Williams, âDouble Helixâ
- Christian Wiman, âPreludeâ
- Monica Youn, âGreenacreâ
- C. Dale Young, âPrecatio simplexâ
- Dean Young, âInfinitivesâ
- Kevin Young, âMoney Roadâ
- Matthew Zapruder, âPoem for Vowsâ
- Contributorsâ Notes and Comments
- Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- Copyright