The Best American Poetry 2005
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The Best American Poetry 2005 was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Paul Muldoon.
Contents |
[edit] Poets and poems included
| Poet | Poem | Publication(s) where poem previously appeared |
| A.R. Ammons | "In View of the Fact" | Epoch |
| John Ashbery | "In Dearest, Deepest Winter" | Crazyhorse |
| Maureen Bloomfield | "The Catholic Encyclopedia" | The Cincinnati Review |
| Catherine Bowman | "I Want to Be Your Shoebox" | Open City |
| Stephanie Brown | "Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane" |
POOL |
| Charles Bukowski | "The Beats" | New York Quarterly' |
| Elena Karina Byrne | "Irregular Masks" | The Los Angeles Review |
| Victoria Chang | "Seven Changs" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Shanna Compton | "To Jaques Pepin" | Gastronomica |
| James Cummins | "The Poets March on Washington" | Jacket |
| Jamey Dunham | "Urban Myth" | Sentence |
| Stephen Dunn | "Five Roses in the Morning" | Iowa Review |
| Karl Elder | "Everything I Needed to Know" | Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily |
| Lynn Emanuel | "The Revolution" | Slate |
| Elaine Equi | "Pre-Raphaelite Pinups" | The New Yorker |
| Clayton Eshleman | "The Magical Sadness of Omar Caceres" | FENCE |
| Andrew Feld | "19--: An Elegy" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Beth Ann Fennelly | "I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese." | Ploughshares |
| Edward Field | "In Praise of My Prostate" | Hanging Loose |
| Richard Garcia | "Adam and Eve's Dog" | Notre Dame Review |
| Amy Gerstler | "Watch" | Sycamore Review |
| Leonard Gontarek | "Blue on Her Hands" | American Poetry Review |
| Jessica Goodheart | "Advice for a Stegosaurus" | The Antioch Review |
| George Green | "The Searchers" | Court Green |
| Arielle Greenberg | "The Turn of the Screw" | American Letters & Commentary |
| Marilyn Hacker | "For Kateb Yacine (Algerian playwrite, novelist, poet, and activist, 1929-89)" |
New England Review, PN Review |
| Matthea Harvey | "I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run" |
88 |
| Stacey Harwood | "Contributors' Notes" | LIT |
| Terrance Hayes | "Variations on Two Black Cinema Treasures" | CROWD |
| Samuel Hazo | "Seesaws" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Anthony Hecht | "Motes A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye." | The New Yorker |
| Jennifer Michael Hecht | "The Propogation of the Species" | In Posse Review |
| Lyn Hejinian | "from The Fatalist" | Bomb |
| Ruth Herschberger | "Remorse After a Panic Attack in a Wisconsin Field, 1975" |
New Letters |
| Jane Hirshfield | "Burlap Sack" | Runes |
| Tony Hoagland | "In a Quiet Town by the Sea" | The Cincinnati Review |
| Vicki Hudspith | "Ants" | Mudfish |
| Donald Justice | "A Chapter in the Life of Mr. Kehoe, Fisherman" | The New Criterion |
| Mary Karr | "A Blessing from My Sixteen Years' Son" | The New Yorker |
| Garret Keizer | "Hell and Love" | Image |
| Brigit Pegeen Kelly | "The Wolf" | 32 Poems |
| Galway Kinnell | "Shelley" | The New Yorker |
| Rachel Loden | "In the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments" | Denver Quarterly, Poetry Daily |
| Sarah Manguso | "Hell" | Conduit |
| Heather McHugh | "Ill-Made Almighty" | 32 Poems, Verse Daily |
| D. Nurske | "Space Marriage" | FENCE |
| Steve Orlen | "Song: I Love You. Who are You?" | Gulf Coast |
| Eugene Ostashevsky | "Dear Owl" | jubilat |
| Linda Pastan | "Death Is Intended" | Shenandoah |
| Adrienne Rich | "Dislocations: Seven Scenarios" | Boston Review |
| James Richardson | "All the Ghosts" | The Paris Review |
| Mary Ruefle | "How I Became Impossible" | Court Green |
| Kay Ryan | "Home to Roost" | Poetry |
| Jerome Sala | "Media Effects" | Insurance Magazine |
| Mary Jo Salter | "Costanza Bonarelli" | The American Scholar |
| Christine Scanlon | "The Grilled Cheese Sandwich An Elusive Essential to Social Success" |
Barrow Street, Good Foot |
| Jason Schneiderman | "Moscow" | Shankpainter |
| Julie Sheehan | "Hate Poem" | Pleiades |
| Charles Simic | "Sunlight" | New England Review |
| Louis Simpson | "An Impasse" | The Hudson Review |
| W.D. Snodgrass | "For Hughes Cuenod — in his 100th year." | The New Criterion, Early Music America |
| Gary Snyder | "Waiting for a Ride" | The New Yorker |
| Maura Stanton | "Twenty Questions" | POOL |
| Dorothea Tanning | "End of the Day on Second" | The Antioch Review |
| James Tate | "The Swing" | New American Writing |
| Chase Twichell | "Marijuana" | The Yale Review |
| David Wagoner | "For a Man Who Wrote CUNT on a Motel Bathroom Mirror" |
Hanging Loose |
| Rosanna Warren | "From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine, VII" | The New Yorker, Pleine Marge |
| Marlys West | "Ballad of the Subcontractor" | Notre Dame Review |
| Susan Wheeler | "from The Maud Project" | Salt |
| Richard Wilbur | "Some Words Inside of Words (for children and others)" |
The Atlantic Monthly |
| Cecilia Woloch | "Bareback Pantoum" | New Letters |
| Charles Wright | "A Short History of My Life" | The New Yorker |
| Mattew Yeager | "A Big Ball of Foil in a Small New York Apartment" |
New York Quarterly |
| Kevin Young | "Black Cat Blues" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
[edit] External links
- Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
- [1] "Play for Mortal Stakes" Marion K. Stocking's review in The Beloit Poetry Journal
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