| Description |
xiv, 263 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"This anthology offers a comprehensive look at contemporary American poetry, demonstrating that poets are moving at once toward a new engagement with public concerns and toward a focus on the problems of representation. A detailed introduction by the editors along with statements by many of the poets add depth and context to the book."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction : saying what happened in the 21st century -- Rae Armantrout. New ; Previews ; Bubble wrap ; Action poem -- Frank Bidart. Curse ; The soldier who guards the frontier ; To the republic ; Inauguration day -- Robert Bly. Call and answer ; Let sympathy pass ; The stew of discontents ; Those being eaten ; Here the sleepers sleep -- Bruce Bond. The altars of September ; Flag ; Ringtone -- Joel Brouwer. Lines from the reports of the investigative committees -- Timothy Donnelly. Partial inventory of airborne debris ; Dream of Arabian hillbillies -- Carolyn Forche. The ghost of Heaven -- Katie Ford. Flee ; Earth ; Fish market ; The vessel bends the water -- Forrest Gander. Background check -- Peter Gizzi. Protest song -- Louise Gluck. October -- Albert Goldbarth. Some common terms in Latin that are larger than our lives -- Kenneth Goldsmith. "A1" from The day -- Jorie Graham. Little exercise ; Praying (Attempt of June 14 '03) ; Guantanamo ; Employment -- Linda Gregerson. Sweet ; Father Mercy, Mother Tongue ; Still life ; The selvage -- Eamon Grennan. Y2K -- Marilyn Hacker. Letter to Hayden Carruth ; From Names ; Ghazal : min al-hobbi m'a qatal -- Forrest Hamer. Aftermath ; What happened ; Conference -- Robert Hass. I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri ; Ezra Pound's Proposition ; On visiting the DMZ at Panmunjom : a haibun ; Some of David's story -- Bob Hicok. Happy anniversary ; Full flight ; Troubled times ; In the loop ; Stop-loss -- Brenda Hillman. From Nine untitled epyllions ; Reportorial poetry, trance & activism ; In a Senate Armed Services hearing ; Request to the Berkeley City Council concerning Strawberry Creek ; In high desert under the drones -- Galway Kinnell. When the towers fell -- Yusef Komunyakaa. From "Love in the time of war" ; Grenade ; The towers ; Heavy metal soliloquy ; The warlord's garden ; Surge ; Clouds -- Maxine Kumin. Extraordinary rendition ; On reading The age of innocence in a troubled time ; Entering houses at night ; Still we take joy ; Just deserts -- Ann Lauterbach. Victory ; Hum ; Echo revision -- Ben Lerner. Didactic elegy -- Timothy Liu. Ready-mades ; Vita Breva ; Beauty ; Elegy for Oum Kolsoum written across the sky -- John Matthias. Column I, tablet XIII -- J.D. McClatchy. Jihad -- Raymond McDaniel. Assault to Abjury ; Sen Jak's advice to the tropically depressed -- Sandra McPherson. On being transparent : Cedar Rapids Airport -- W.S. Merwin. To the light of September ; To the words ; To the grass of autumn ; To ashes ; To the coming winter -- Philip Metres. From "Hung lyres" ; Asymmetries ; Testimony ; Compline ; From "Homefront/removes" -- Naomi Shihab Nye. Dictionary in the dark ; Interview, Saudi Arabia ; I never realized they had aspirations like ours -- Geoffrey O'Brien. A history -- Sharon Olds. September, 2001 -- Robert Pinsky. Poem of disconnected parts ; The forgetting ; The anniversary -- Kevin Prufer. National anthem ; Dead soldier ; Those who could not flee ; Recent history ; God bless our troops -- Claudia Rankine. From Don't let me be lonely : an American lyric : "Cornel West makes the point" ; "Timothy McVeigh died at 7:14 a.m." -- Donald Revell. Given days ; Vietnam epic treatment ; Election year -- Frederick Seidel. God exploding ; The black-eyed virgins ; Eurostar ; Song : "The swollen river overthrows its banks" ; The Bush administration -- Hugh Seidman. Found poem : Microloans ; Thinking of Baghdad -- Lisa Sewell. The anatomy of melancholy -- Susan Stewart. When I'm crying, I'm not speaking ; When I'm speaking, I'm not crying ; Elegy against the massacre at the Amish school in West Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, autumn 2006 -- David Wagoner. In rubble -- C.K. Williams. War ; Fear ; The future ; Cassandra, Iraq ; Lies -- Eleanor Wilner. Found in the free library ; In a time of war ; Back then, we called it "The war" ; The show must go on ; Rendition, with flag ; Colony collapse disorder (CCD) -- C.D. Wright. From Rising, falling, hovering : "He slept with the dead then" ; "One bright night" ; "I was just thinking" -- Robert Wrigley. Exxon -- The poets : profiles and statements. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Keniston, Ann, 1961-
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Gray, Jeffrey, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9780786464678 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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0786464674 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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