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The best American poetry 2008 / Charles Wright, editor.

First Scribner edition.

New York : Scribner Poetry, 2008.

©2008

xxi, 197 pages ; 23 cm

An anthology of poetry selected as the best published in magazines and periodicals in 2007 by editor Charles Wright, featuring seventy-five poems by Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Alex Lemon, and others.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.

Wright, Charles, 1935- editor.

Lehman, David, 1948- series editor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197).

Evening song / Tom Andrews -- Exceptions and melancholies / Ralph Angel -- Framing / Rae Armantrout -- Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees / John Ashbery -- Untitled / Joshua Beckman -- Poseur / Marvin Bell -- Ku(na)hay / Charles Bernstein -- Electrocuting an elephant / Ciaran Berry -- If see no end in is / Frank Bidart -- Wanting sumptuous heavens / Robert Bly -- Night hunting / John Casteen -- Entering / Laura Cronk -- Homage to Calvin Spotswood / Kate Daniels -- Men / Lydia Davis -- Parallax / Erica Dawson -- Handymen / Cornelius Eady -- Millay goes down / Moira Egan -- Aubade in autumn / Peter Everwine -- The museum of stones / Carolyn Forché -- Rock polisher / Chris Forhan -- In the book of the disappearing book / John Gallaher -- Girl without her nightgown / James Galvin -- Threshing / Louise Glück -- Futures / Jorie Graham -- I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri / Robert Hass -- O my pa-pa / Bob Hicok -- Phone booth / Brenda Hillman -- Muchness / Tony Hoagland -- Cane fire / Garrett Hongo -- The rape of the daughters of Leucippus by Castor and Pollux / Richard Howard -- Snoring / Mark Jarman -- Francis Ponge is on fire / George Kalamaras -- Recuperation from the dead love through Christ and Isaac Babel / Mary Karr -- Though he tarry / Maxine Kumin -- Skull trees, South Sudan / Adrie Kusserow -- from Hallelujah blackout / Alex Lemon -- Of love and other disasters / Philip Levine -- Resignation / J.D. McClatchy -- The last wolf in Edmonson County / Davis McCombs -- A letter to Su Tong P'o / W.S. Merwin -- Ritual / Susan Mitchell -- The water cooler / Paul Muldoon -- The gate of Abraham / D. Nurkse -- Every night / Debra Nystrom -- The window at Arles / Meghan O'Rourke -- Method, or Kenneth Koch / Ron Padgett -- The classical study (4) / Michael Palmer -- Cosmos, late blooming / D.A. Powell -- The rain that falls here / Alberto Ríos -- Then let fall your horrible pleasure / Tim Ross -- Three lanterns / John Rybicki -- American / Ira Sadoff -- The aurora of the new mind / David St. John -- World news / Sherod Santos -- Evening man / Frederick Seidel -- Listen / Charles Simic -- Tara / Patti Smith -- Pentecost / R.T. Smith -- Hexagon: on truth / Dave Snyder -- Cricket / Lisa Ross Spaar -- The shoe / Kathryn Starbuck -- Divide and conquer / Alan Sullivan -- The sentence / Chad Sweeney -- The troubadours etc. / Mary Szybist -- National security / James Tate -- On captivity / Natasha Trethewey -- Thomas Hardy / Lee Upton -- Faithful / Dara Wier -- Light / C.K. Williams -- Passing scenes (while reading Basho) / Franz Wright -- Language exists because-- / Lynn Xu -- Sepsis / C. Dale Young -- The dead from Iraq / David Young -- No forgiveness ode / Dean Young -- from Book of hours / Kevin Young.

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