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The Best American Poetry 2011
Publisher
Scribner Poetry
Publication Date
c2011
Language
English
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From the Book
Rally / Elizabeth Alexander
Valediction / Sherman Alexie
Soft money / Rae Armantrout
Postlude and prequel / John Ashbery
To my lover, concerning the yird-swine / Julianna Baggott
When at a certain party in NYC / Erin Belieu
Banking / Cara Benson
Mine is the first rodeo, mine is the last accolade / Jaswinder Bolina
The Sink / Catherine Bowman
Off the Nollendorfplatz / Turner Cassity
Dead ass / Michael Cirelli
Here and there / Billy Collins
Three sonnets [Sonnet (division), Sonnet (motion), Sonnet (silenced)] / Olena Kalytiak Davis
Coffee / Matthew Dickman
From the lives of my friends / Michael Dickman
My strip club / Denise Duhamel
Emmett Till's glass-top casket / Cornelius Eady
Stays / Jill Alexander Essbaum
In November / Alan Feldman
The Amy poems ("Amy survives another apocalypse" and "You're really starting to suck, Amy") / Farrah Field
Morning on the island / Carolyn Forché
Everything is nervous / Beckian Fritz Goldberg
The space traveler talks frankly about desire / Benjamin S. Grossberg
Poppies / Jennifer Grotz
August notebook : a death / Robert Hass
Lighthead's guide to the galaxy / Terrance Hayes
Just as, after a point, Job cried out / K.A. Hays
Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry / Bob Hicok
The cloudy vase / Jane Hirshfield
God's promises / Paul Hoover
The Funeral sermon / Andrew Hudgins
From Holding company ("Bereft", "Lying", "The Giant swing ending in a split," " Narcissus") / Major Jackson
Notebooks / Allison Joseph
Andrew Wyeth, painter, dies at 91 / L. S. Klatt
Kiri Te Kanawa singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" / Jennifer Knox
A Voice on an answering machine / Yusef Komunyakaa
Snow / James Longenbach
The Pilgrim is bridled and bespectacled / Bridget Lowe
The Complaint against Roney Laswell's rooster / Maurice Manning
Pears / Morton Marcus
Dear gaybashers / Jill McDonough
Elegy with construction sounds, water, fish / Erika Meitner
The Side project / Paul Muldoon
Word / Jude Nutter
Pillow talk / Jeni Olin
Cogitatio Mortis / Eric Pankey
Family math / Alan Michael Parker
Postcards from her alternate lives / Catherine Pierce
Horn / Robert Pinsky
Angels / Katha Pollitt
Bugcatching at twilight / D.A. Powell
To my father on the anniversary of his death / Gretchen Steele Pratt
Even more aphorisms and ten-second essays from vectors 3.0 / James Richardson
What my heart is turning / Anne Marie Rooney
Provenance / Mary Ruefle
Ghost aurora / David St. John
The Afterlife / Mary Jo Salter
The Smallest / James Schuyler
Nineteen thirty-eight / Charles Simic
Nowhere / Matthew Buckly Smith
Motown crown / Patricia Smith
Dream IV / Gerald Stern
Pantoum for the imperceptible / Bianca Stone
The Poem of the Spanish poet / Mark Strand
Thirteen months / Mary Jo Thompson
Elegy / Natasha Trethewey
Drunk at a party / Lee Upton
Thoreau and the lightning / David Wagoner
The Latch / Rosanna Warren
Time pieces / Rachel Wetzsteon
Ecclesiastes II:I / Richard Wilbur
A Hundred bones / C. K. Williams
Mix tape to be brought to her in rehab / David Wojahn
Toadstools / Charles Wright
Cycladic idyll : an apologia / Stephen Yenser.
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9781439181492
9781439181508
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