The best of the best American poetry /

100 poems selected by Robert Pinsky that represent each volume in The best American poetry series.

Other Authors: Pinsky, Robert, (Editor), Lehman, David, 1948- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language: English
Institution: Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak
Library: Main Library
Record Id / ISBN-0: ppap.53980 / 9781451658873 (hardcover)
Online Public Access Catalog: Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak
Published: New York : Scribner Poetry, 2013.
Edition: 25th Anniversary ed.; 1st Scribner ed.
Series: Best American poetry
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Table of Contents:
  • Terminal nostalgia /
  • Sherman Alexie
  • Garbage /
  • A.R. Ammons
  • Soft money /
  • Rae Armantrout
  • Wakefulness /
  • John Ashbery
  • Bored /
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Injunction /
  • Frank Bidart
  • Feminine intuition /
  • Stephanie Brown
  • Three oranges /
  • Charles Bukowski
  • The life of towns /
  • Anne Carson
  • Self-portrait as four styles of Pompeian wall painting /
  • Henri Cole
  • Dharma /
  • Billy Collins
  • En famille /
  • Robert Creeley
  • You art a scholar, Horatio, speak to it /
  • Olena Kalytiak Davis
  • Our generation /
  • Carl Dennis
  • Skin /
  • Susan Dickman
  • Desire /
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Difference /
  • Mark Doty
  • All souls' /
  • Rita Dove
  • How it will end /
  • Denise Duhamel
  • The imagined /
  • Stephen Dunn
  • Powers of Congress /
  • Alice Fulton
  • Salutations to Fernando Pessoa /
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Landscape /
  • Louise Glück
  • Manifest destiny /
  • Jorie Graham
  • Safe /
  • Linda Gregerson
  • The war /
  • Linda Gregg
  • Cafeteria in Boston /
  • Thom Gunn
  • Prophecy /
  • Donald Hall
  • The opaque /
  • Mark Halliday
  • Bush's war /
  • Robert Hass
  • A house is not a home /
  • Terrance Hayes
  • The polar circle /
  • Lyn Hejinian
  • Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry /
  • Bob Hicok
  • Phone booth /
  • Brenda Hillman
  • Man on a fire escape /
  • Edward Hirsch
  • In praise of coldness /
  • Jane Hirshfield
  • In a quiet town by the sea /
  • Tony Hoagland
  • The see-saw /
  • John Hollander
  • Like most revelations /
  • Richard Howard
  • 9-11-01 /
  • Fanny Howe
  • Magdalene : the seven devils /
  • Marie Howe
  • From "Urban renewal" /
  • Major Jackson
  • Plea for forgiveness /
  • Rodney Jones
  • So where are we? /
  • Lawrence Joseph
  • Reading aloud to my father /
  • Jane Kenyon
  • Proverb /
  • Kenneth Koch
  • Sally's hair /
  • John Koethe
  • Facing it /
  • Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Touch me /
  • Stanley Kunitz
  • Operation memory /
  • David Lehman
  • The return /
  • Philip Levine
  • The autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim /
  • Amit Majmudar
  • Hell /
  • Sarah Manguso
  • My mammogram /
  • J.D. McClatchy
  • Past all understanding /
  • Heather McHugh
  • From "The person she is" /
  • James McMichael
  • The 'ring' cycle /
  • James Merrill
  • The stranger /
  • W.S. Merwin
  • There will be animals /
  • Thylias Moss
  • The loaf /
  • Paul Muldoon
  • From Muse & drudge /
  • Harryette Mullen
  • Hate mail /
  • Carol Muske-Dukes
  • Q /
  • Sharon Olds
  • The window at Arles /
  • Meghan O'Rourke
  • I do not /
  • Michael Palmer
  • Fretwork /
  • Carl Phillips
  • Samurai song /
  • Robert Pinsky
  • A short narrative of breasts and wombs in service of plot entitled /
  • Claudia Rankine
  • Ends of the earth /
  • Adrienne Rich
  • The Rev. Larry Love is dead /
  • David Rivard
  • Discounting Lynn /
  • J. Allyn Rosser
  • Middle school /
  • Mary Ruefle
  • Outsider art /
  • Kay Ryan
  • Switchblade /
  • Michael Ryan
  • Let's all hear it for Mildred Bailey! /
  • James Schuyler
  • Pornography /
  • Lloyd Schwartz
  • The death of the shah /
  • Frederick Seidel
  • - Country western singer /
  • Alan Shapiro
  • Country fair /
  • Charles Simic
  • At the pool /
  • Tom Sleigh
  • Building /
  • Gary Snyder
  • Asphodel /
  • A.E. Stallings
  • The latest hotel guest walks over particles that revolve in seven other dimensions controlling latticed space /
  • Ruth Stone
  • From "Dark harbor" /
  • Mark Strand
  • Forty /
  • Pamela Sutton
  • Bounden duty /
  • James Tate
  • Elegy /
  • Natasha Trethewey
  • Counterman /
  • Paul Violi
  • Necrophiliac /
  • Rosanna Warren
  • Time pieces /
  • Rachel Wetzsteon
  • A filial republic /
  • Susan Wheeler
  • - This pleasing anxious being /
  • Richard Wilbur
  • A hundred bones /
  • C.K. Williams
  • The mill-race /
  • Anne Winters
  • American twilight /
  • Charles Wright
  • A happy thought /
  • Franz Wright
  • Religion /
  • Robert Wrigley
  • Vespers /
  • C. Dale Young
  • No forgiveness ode /
  • Dean Young
  • Lime light blues /
  • Kevin Young.