The best American poetry, 2014 /
Collects poems chosen by editor Terrance Hayes as the best of 2014, featuring 75 poets including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Mary Ruefle and Frederick Seidel.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner Poetry,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Scribner edition. |
| Series: | Best American poetry.
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Table of Contents:
- Sonnet, with pride / Sherman Alexie
- Control / Ray Armantrout
- Breezeway / John Ashbery
- With birds / Erin Belieu
- On reflection / Linda Bierds
- To survive the revolution / Traci Brimhall
- Bird, singing / Lucie Brock-Broido
- Host / Jericho Brown
- Pan del muerto / Kurt Brown
- wondering about our demise while driving to Disneyland with abandon / CAConrad
- A fragmant of Ibykos translated 6 ways / Anne Carson
- Hidden bird / Joseph Ceravolo
- City horse / Henri Cole
- The helmet / Michael Earl Craig
- Juilliard cento sonnet / Philip Dacey
- It is to have or nothing / Olena Kalytiak Davis
- News from Harlem / Kwame Dawes
- Elegy indigo / Joel Dias-Porter
- These hands, if not gods / Natalie Diaz
- Deep lane / Mark Doty
- The blues is a verb / Sean Thomas Dougherty
- The spring cricket repudiates his parable of negritude / Rita Dove
- Conspiracy (to breathe together) / Camille Dungy
- Overturned / Cornelius Eady
- Fallen / Vievee Francis
- To the fig tree on 9th and Christian / Ross Gay
- Liner notes for monk / Eugene Gloria
- One El Paso, Two El Paso / Ray Gonzalez
- The river twice / Kathleen Graber
- Script poem / Rosemary Griggs
- As like / Adam Hammer
- Blue prints / Bob Hicok
- No doubt about it (I gotta get another hat) / Le Hinton
- Write whiter / Tony Hoagland
- OK Cupid / Major Jackson
- L.A. police chief Daryl Gates dead at 83 / Amaud Jamaul Johnson
- The labor of Stagger Lee: boar / Douglas Kearney
- Negritude / Yusef Komunyakaa
- In my past life / Hailey Leithauser
- Elegy with a darkening trapeze inside it / Larry Levis
- Sermon of the dreadnaught / Gary Copland Lilley
- Elegy for my mother / Frannie Lindsay
- Rape joke / Patricia Lockwood
- Oldtime ending / Nathaniel Mackey
- An etiquette for eyes / Cate Marvin
- Masticated light / Jamaal May-- Parasol / Shara McCallum
- vivisection (you're going to break my heart) / Marty McConnell
- Sylt I / Valzhyna Mort
- Selection from tanka diary / Harryette Mullen
- Paint me a penis / Eileen Myles
- Release from Stella Maris / D. Nurske
- Stanley Kunitz Ode / Sharon Olds
- Wishing well / Gregory Pardlo-- Story problem / Kiki Petrosino
- See you later / D.A. Powell
- The Field Museum / Roger Reeves
- To Shakespeare / Donald Revell
- You cannot go to the god you love with your two legs / Patrick Rosal
- Saga / Mary Ruefle
- Decoded / Jon Sands
- Thank you Lord for the dark ablaze / Steve Scafidi
- To Philip Roth, for his eightieth / Frederick Seidel-- Free beer / Diane Seuss
- I grade online humanities tests / Sandra Simonds
- Forties war widows, stolen grain / Jane Springer
- During the autopsy / Corey Van Landingham
- Passing through Indian territory / Afaa Michael Weaver
- Sowing / Eleanor Wilner
- My father's soul departing / David Wojahn
- Detainment / Greg Wrenn
- Blessed are / Robert Wrigley
- Calendar days / Jake Adam York
- Emerald spider between rose thorns / Dean Young
- Mindful/ Rachel Zucker.