The Best American poetry, 2001 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lehman, David, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, [2001]
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Table of Contents:
  • Notes for a Sermon on the Mount / Nin Andrews
  • The plan / Rae Armantrout
  • Crossroads in the past / John Ashbery
  • Jazz / Angela Ball
  • Crossed-over, fiend-snitched, x-ed out / Mary Jo Bang
  • When the gods put on meter / Cal Bedient
  • Vague poem / Elizabeth Bishop
  • The French generals / Robert Bly
  • Sonnet around Stephanie / Lee Ann Brown
  • Notes about my face / Michael Burkard
  • Heartland / Trench Busch
  • Blouse of felt / Amina Calil
  • Longing, a documentary / Anne Carson
  • Ceriserie / Joshua Clover
  • Snow day / Billy Collins
  • En famille / Robert Creeley
  • A mown lawn / Lydia Davis
  • Ma Ramon / R. Erica Doyle
  • The cloud of unknowing / Christopher Edgar
  • T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. / Thomas Sayers Ellis
  • The art of the snake story / Amy England
  • Contemporary American poetry / Alan Feldman
  • Little Dantesque / James Galvin
  • Time / Louise Gluck
  • My Chakabuku mama, a comic tale / Jewelle Gomez
  • Gulls / Jorie Graham
  • Waterborne / Linda Gregerson
  • The singers change, the music goes on / Linda Gregg
  • Enough rain for Agnes Walquist
  • Her garden / Donald Hall
  • Sarabande on attaining he age of seventy-seven / Anthony Hecht
  • Nights / Lyn Hejinian
  • The formation of soils / Brenda Hillman
  • In praise of coldness / Jane Hirshfield
  • What the lovers in old songs thought / John Hollander
  • After 65 / Richard Howard
  • Doubt / Fanny Howe
  • Sweet reader, flanneled and tulled / Olena Kalytiak Davis
  • The Emperor of China / Shirley Kaufman
  • The quick and the dead / Galway Kinnell
  • Dear Derrida / David Kirby
  • The ashes / Carolyn Kizer
  • To World War Two / Kenneth Koch
  • Consolations before an affair, Upper West Side / Noelle Kocot
  • Songs of the valley / John Koethe
  • Seven deadly sins / Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Wedding day / Mark Levine
  • The rider / Sarah Manguso
  • Tattoos / J. D. McClatchy
  • Mae West chats it up with Bessie Smith / Colleen J. McElroy
  • My one / Heather McHugh
  • Music for homemade instruments / Harryette Mullen
  • Our Kitty / Carol Muske Dukes
  • When leftover misery goes / Alice Notley
  • His costume / Sharon Olds
  • The nature of things / Kathleen Ossip
  • Here / Grace Paley
  • Untitled (February 2000) / Michael Palmer
  • A metal denser than, and liquid / John Peck
  • The ghost shirt / Lucia Perillo
  • The clearing / Carl Phillips
  • Jersey rain / Robert Pinsky
  • A short narrative of breats and womb in the service of Plot entitled / Claudia Rankine
  • Architect / Adrienne Rich
  • Vectors: forty-five aphorisms and ten-second essays / James Richardson
  • What we heart about the Japanese / Rachel Rose
  • What the Japanese perhaps heard / Rachel Rose
  • Furtherness / Mary Ruefle
  • Along overgrown paths / James Schuyler
  • Night picnic / Charles Simic
  • Apple / Susan Stewart
  • Meteor / Larissa Szporluk
  • The diagnosis / James Tate
  • I stopped writing poetry ... / Bernard Welt
  • Sources of the Delaware / Dean Young
  • In your version of Heaven I am younger / Rachel Zucker.