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Title:

The best American poetry, 2013 / Denise Duhamel, editor ; David Lehman, senior editor.

Edition:

First Scribner edition.

Publisher:

Scribner Poetry,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxviii, 212 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American poetry.

Other Authors:

Duhamel, Denise, editor of compilation.
Lehmann, David, editor of compilation.

Contents:

Albert Einstein / Matthew Zapruder. Pachyderm / Sherman Alexie -- Stupid sandwich / Nathan Anderson -- The art of drinking tea / Nin Andrews -- Resisting arrest / John Ashbery -- Books, bath towels, and beyond / Wendy Barker -- Youngest known savior / Jan Beatty -- The unfinished slave / Bruce Bond -- Dear Thanatos / Traci Brimhall -- Hustle / Jericho Brown -- Five one-minute eggs / Andrei Codrescu -- Foundling / Billy Collins -- [white paper 24] / Martha Collins -- Death / Kwame Dawes -- Divestiture / Connie Deanovich -- Apologies from the ground up / Timothy Donnelly -- The statue of responsibility / Stephen Dunn -- This need not be a comment on death / Daisy Fried -- Womanishness / Amy Gerstler -- Afterword / Louise Glück -- Henry's song / Beckian Fritz Goldberg -- New Jersey poem / Terrance Hayes -- Book of forget / Rebecca Hazelton -- Thanatosis / Elizabeth Hazen -- Green man, blue pill / John Hennessy -- All-American / David Hernandez -- Wrong question / Tony Hoaglan -- A parable / Anna Maria Hong -- Why I write poetry / Major Jackson -- George W. Bush / Mark Jarman -- It's hard as so much is / Lauren Jensen -- Blazing saddles / A. Van Jordan -- Syria / Lawrence Joseph -- Wedding night : we share an heirloom tomato on our hotel balcony overlooking the ocean in which Natalie Wood drowned / Anna Journey -- Perspective / Laura Kasischke -- When the men go off to war / Victoria Kelly -- Pink is the navy blue of India / David Kirby -- Aphids / Noelle Kocot -- Eggheads / John Koethe -- Poem for Anne Sexting / Dorothea Lasky -- Song / Dorianne Laux -- I take your t-shirt to bed again / Amy Lemmon -- Outline for my memoir / Thomas Lux -- Once upon a time / Anthony Madrid -- XX / Sally Wen Mao -- My lie / Jen McClanaghan -- January 17 / Campbell McGrath -- In praise of small gods / Jesse Millner -- Psalm to be read with closed eyes / D. Nurske -- New Year / Ed Ochester -- Birthday poem / Paisley Rekdal -- Endpapers / Adrienne Rich -- Lake sonnet / Anne Marie Rooney -- Intro to happiness / J. Allyn Rosser -- Little golf pencil / Mary Ruefle -- Chelsea/suicide / Maureen Seaton -- Sotto voce : Othello unplugged / Tim Seibles -- Trailing clouds of glory / Vijay Seshadri -- Western civilization / Peter Jay Shippy -- Joe Adamczyk / Mitch Sisskind -- What it feels like to be Aaron Smith / Aaron Smith -- Introductions / Stephanie Strickland -- On writing / Adrienne Su -- The baby / James Tate -- Florida poem / Emma Trelles -- From Peyton Place : a Haiku Soap Opera, season two, 1965-1966 / David Trinidad -- 1945 / Jean Valentine -- Now I'll never be able to finish that poem to Bob / Paul Violi -- Casting aspersions / David Wagoner -- The kind of man I am at the DMV / Stacey Waite -- Sugar maples, January / Richard Wilbur -- It can feel amazing to be targeted by a narcissist / Angela Veronica Wong and Amy Lawless -- Where the hero speaks to others / Wendy Xu -- Wintering / Kevin Young -- Albert Einstein / Matthew Zapruder.

ISBN:

9781476708133 (pbk.)
1476708134 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)816512827

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)