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The best American poetry: 2009
Publisher
Scribner Poetry
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st Scribner ed.
They knew what they wanted / John Ashbery
Beasts and violins / Caleb Barber
Concerning the land to the south of our neighbors to the north / Mark Bibbins
Ringtone / Bruce Bond
The doctor / Marianne Boruch
Roofers / Fleda Brown
The book of Steve / Catherine Carter
From The boy's own book : a compleat encyclopedia of all the diversions atheletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth by William Clarke / Suzanne Cleary
The great American poem / Billy Collins
The song of America / Rob Cook
Freud / James Cummins
Apparition (favorite poem) / Mark Doty
How it will end / Denise Duhamel
Getting serious / Alice Friman
Black snake / Margaret Gibson
First time reading Freud / Douglas Goetsch
Zones / Albert Goldbarth
Definition of terms / Michael J. Grabell
Eve in the fall / Debora Gregor
The record / Jennifer Grotz
Ode to airheads, hairdos, trains to and from Paris / Barbara Hamby
The safe house / Sarah Hannah
Houses / Jerry Harp
Sunday discordancies / Jim Harrison
Grave goods / Delores Hayden
A house is not a home / Terrance Hayes
The way of all the earth / K.A. Hayes
Mum's the word / Bob Hicok
A democratic vista / Daniel Hoffman
Arthur Englander's back in school / Richard Howard
In winter / P. Hurshell
How to be eaten by a lion / Michael Johnson
To Yahweh / Tina Kelley
What I think of death, if anyone's asking / Maud Kelly
Why do you keep puttihg animals in your poems? / Lance Larsen
Open field / Phillis Levin
Words on the wind / Philip Levine
Tell the bees / Sarah Linday
The happy majority / Thomas Lux
Boarding : Hemaris thysbe / Joanie Mackowski
Sweat / Christine Marshall
Canis / Cleopatra Mathis
Lingering doubts / J.D. McClatchy
The silence of the mine canaries / W.S. Merwin
The insect collector's demise / Jude Nutter
Self-exam / Sharon Olds
Red / Mary Oliver
Insomnia / Linda Pastan
On mercy / Kevin Prufer
Pickled heads : St. Petersburg / Susan Blackwell Ramsey
Turn / Keith Ratzlaff
Tonight no poetry will serve / Adrienne Rich
Subject, verb, object / James Richardson
A blind astronomer in the age of stars / Pattiann Rogers
John Clare's finches / Gibbons Ruark
This tape measure made of light / John Rybicki
Gavity and grace / Betsy Sholl
Love / Martha Silano
Like a monkey / Mitch Sisskind
At the pool / Tom Sleigh
At the New York Public Library, I heard Derek Walcott dismiss the prose poem / Vincent Stanley
Forty / Pamela Sutton
Heartlines / Alexandra Teague
Ultimately justice directs them / Craig Morgan Teicher
Liturgy / Natasha Trethewey
A sea-change / Derek Walcott
Holding action / Jeanne Murray Walker
No Pegasus / Ronald Wallace
Her last conflagraton / Charles Harper Webb
Leaving Saint Peter's basilica / Lisa Williams
This dream the world is having about itself
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Carolyne Wright
Cindrella's last will & testament / Debbie Yee
I shall be released / Kevin Young
Never to return / Matthgew Zapruder.
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9780743299770
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