| Description |
xxi, 275 pages ; 21 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Best American poetry |
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PSU Alumi Author.
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Best American poetry.
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| Note |
"A Touchstone book." |
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PSU Alumni Author. |
| Contents |
A short history of the Vietnam War years / Dick Allen -- Cinema Vérité / Tom Andrews -- Myrtle / John Ashbery -- Tremendous mood swings / Burlin Barr -- What you want means what you can afford / Cynthia Bond -- Demographics / Catherine Bowman -- The fire fetched down / George Bradley -- Me against the world / Charles Bukowski -- The only dance there is / Rebecca Byrkit -- A catalpa tree on West twelfth street / Amy Clampitt -- Tantrum girl responds to death / Michelle T. Clinton -- Sestina / James Cummins -- Full of rain, the word / Ramola Dharmaraj -- The Cardinal Detoxes: A play in one act / Thomas M. Disch -- Difference / Mark Doty -- Bulimia / Denise Duhamel -- Northwestern mathematics / Tony Esolen -- Life drawing / Richard Foerster -- The priming is a negligee / Alice Fulton -- After dark / Allison Funk -- In the hotel / Jorie Graham -- The frog in the swimming pool / Debora Greger -- Another elegy / Donald Hall -- Getting happy / Forrest Hamer -- The polar circle / Lyn Hejinian -- Deceptively like a solid / Roald Hoffmann -- Variations on a fragment by Trumbull Stickney / John Hollander -- The love of the flesh / Janet Holmes -- Baseball / Paul Hoover -- A lost art / Richard Howard -- The necessary angel / Phyllis Janowitz -- Unholy sonnets / Mark Jarman -- the foot / Alice Jones -- Contempt / Rodney Jones -- Courting the famous figures at the Grotto of improbable thought / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- A Rune / Caroline Knox -- One train may hide another / Kenneth Koch -- Avant-Dernières Pensées / Dionisio D. Martínez -- Found parable / J.D. McCatchy -- Following her to sleep / Jeffrey McDaniel -- Spike logic / James McManus -- Family week at Oracle Ranch / James Merrill -- One of the lives / W.S. Merwin -- I was on a golf course the day John Cage died of a stroke / Stephen Paul Miller -- Allegory / Jenny Mueller -- From muse & drudge / Harryette Mullern -- At the Lakehouse / Brighde Mullins -- Sensible qualities / Fred Muratori -- The knowing / Sharon Olds -- Them / Maureen Owen -- Divided touch, divided color / Kathleen Pierce -- A mathematcis of breathing / Carl Phillips -- Pornography / Lloyd Schwartz -- Pol pot / Frederick Seidel -- he letter / Alan Shapiro -- Courtesan / Angela Shaw -- Read your fate / Charles Simic -- Snow songs / W.D. Snodgrass -- The robed heart / Elizabeth spires -- Apollo takes charge of his muses / A.E. Stallings -- The mysterious maps / Mark Strangd -- Offering / Sharan Strange -- Sleeping with Boa / May Swenson -- Modern times / Janet Sylvester -- Like a scarf / James Tate -- Death of a distant in-law / Patricia Trxler -- The snake in the garden considers Daphne / William Wadsworth -- My talk with an elegant man / Kevin Walker -- Putting in a word / Rosanne Wasserman -- The one / Burce Weigl -- Who they were / Joshua Weiner -- Song for the in-itself and for-itself / Henry Weinfield -- Camille Monet sur son lit de mort / Michael White -- A digression / Richard Wilbur -- Upon hearing of my friend's marriage breaking up / Dean Young. |
| Summary |
An anthology of contemporary poets presents the best work of the previous year, reflecting the diversity in American poetry. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry genre.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Ammons, A. R., 1926-2001, editor.
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Lehman, David, 1948-
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Tate, James, 1943-2015.
Like a scarf.
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| ISBN |
0671899481 (pbk.) |
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9780671899486 (pbk.) |
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0671510045 (cloth) |
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9780671510046 (cloth) |
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