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The best American poetry 2017
Publisher
Scribner Poetry
Publication Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner edition.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First Scribner edition.
Weapons discharge report / Dan Albergotti
Commotion of the birds / John Ashbury
Admission / Mary Jo Bang
On a Shaker admonition / David Barber
Apophatic / Dan Beachy-Quick
Homage to a painter of small things / Bruce Bond
Intrigue in the trees / John Brehm
Bullet points / Jericho Brown
The dead / Nickole Brown
Elegy with a gold cradle / Cyrus Cassells
Fidelity and the dead singer / Isaac Cates
I forgive you / Allison Cobb
Steer your way / Leonard Cohen
A wild tom turkey / Michael Collier
The present / Billy Collins
Two lives / Carl Dennis
Spontaneous remission / Claudia Emerson
Kaddish / David Feinstein
The boatman / Carolyn Forché
Given to these proclivities, by God / Vievee Francis
Dead butterfly / Amy Gerstler
Canasta / Reginald Gibbons
Passage / Margaret Gibson
from The Black Maria / Aracelis Girmay
Higher education / Jeffrey Harrison
Ars poetica with Bacon / Terrance Hayes
Mounting the Dove Box / W. J. Herbert
Cause of death: Fox News / Tony Hoagland
Hamlet texts Guildenstern about playing upon the pipe / John Hodgen
Certain things / David Brendan Hopes
The Flâneur tends a well-liked summer cocktail / Major Jackson
History (n.) / John James
Homecoming / Rodney Jones
Progress notes / Fady Joudah
Grackle / Meg Kearney
The age of anxiety / John Koethe
from The Last Bohemian of Avenue A / Yusef Komunyakaa
The watch / Danusha Laméris
Lapse / Dorianne Laux
Rain in winter / Philip Levine
Kill list / Amit Majmudar
Things that break / Jamaal May
White / Judson Mitcham
Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds / John Murillo
To Marlon Brando in hell / Joyce Carol Oates
Ode to the glans / Sharon Olds
Letter beginning with two lines by Czesław Miłosz
Three dark proverb sonnets / Gregory Orr
Rockabye / Carl Phillips
Halo / Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Names / Robert Pinsky
Poliomyelitus / Stanley Plumly
Assemblage of ruined plane parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi / Paisley Rekdal
The mercy home / Michael Ryan
Emanations / David St. John
I went for a walk in winter / Sherod Santos
Where to put it / Taije Silverman
Seeing things / Charles Simic
Last summer of innocence / Danez Smith
Good bones / Maggie Smith
Maricón / R. T. Smith
Shattered / A. E. Stallings
Afraid to pray / Pamela Sutton
Sad song / Chase Twichell
Something / James Valvis
Dear skull / Emily Van Kley
Deconstruction / Wendy Videlock
Scheherazade / Lucy Wainger
Double helix / Crystal Williams
Prelude / Christian Wiman
Greenacre / Monica Youn
Precatio simplex / C. Dale Young
Infinitives / Dean Young
Money road / Kevin Young
Poem for vows / Matthew Zapruder.
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Contributors
Trethewey, Natasha D.,1966- editor
ISBN
9781501127755
9781501127632
9781501127632
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