The best American poetry 2020 /
The best American poetry 2020 /
Paisley Rekdal, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
- First Scribner edition.
- xxxiii, 265 pages ; 22 cm.
- Best American poetry .
- Best American poetry. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Introduction / "Saving the Children" / "Customer Loyalty Program" / from "The Galleons" / "Invention of I" / "A Man Drops a Coat on the Sidewalk and Almost Falls into the Arms of Another" / Nothing Beats a Fair" / "Bells" / "Orange" / "Tender" / "Obit [Privacy-died]" / "The Waking Life" / "Becoming a Forest" / "In Line to Vote on Our Future Climate" / "All Through the War" / "In Which the Devil Asks Me for My Name" / "The Shore" / "Little Death" / "To X (Written on This Device You Made)" / "Birches Are the Gods' Favorite Tree" / "Sex" / "It Cannot Be" / "On Patmos, Kneeling in the Panagia" / "Big Gay Ass Poem" / "Good Mother" / "The Conversion of Paul" / "During the Middle Ages" / "Putting the Pieces Together" / "Sunday at the Mall" / "Fifteen" / "The Garden of Earthly Delights" / "In a Time of Peace" / "Sho" / "I Never Figured How to Get Free" / "After," / "Bear" / "The Gift" / "The Jungle" / "After a Transcript of the Final Voicemails of 9/11 Victims" / "On Faith" / "When I Feel a Whoop Comin' On" / "Locomotion" / "Qassida to the Statue of Sappho in Mytilini" / "The Punishment of One Is the Love Song of Another" / "Night of the Living" / "A Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn" / "Chasm" / "Hyacinth Aria" / "Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice" / "Climate Is Something Different" / "The Seeds" / "Something to Believe In" / "At Night" / "Fox" / "Archaeology" / "A Partial History" / "The Poorly Built House" / "The Keeper Will Enter the Cage" / "American Cockroach" / "Shainadas" / "Dysphonia" / "Sprang" / "The Prayer" / "Sitting Isohydric Meditation" / "I Am a Father Now" / "She talk like this 'cause me Mum born elsewhere, say" / "The Stag" / "Isfahan, 2010" / "Recessional" / "Samson, 1674" / "Machinery" / "Reading Not Reading" / "The President's Telegram" / "Opioid, Alcohol, Despair" / "Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)" / "My Life" / David Lehman -- Paisley Rekdal -- Julia Alvarez -- Brandon Amico -- Rick Barot -- Kaveh Bassiri -- Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Ryan Black -- Bruce Bond -- William Brewer -- Lucie Brock-Broido -- Victoria Chang -- Heather Christle -- Ama Codjoe -- Meg Day -- Timothy Donnelly -- Hazem Fahmy -- Vievee Francis -- Rachel Galvin -- Julian Gewirtz -- Regan Good -- Christine Gosnay -- Jorie Graham -- Samuel Green -- BC Griffith -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Jennifer Grotz -- Camille Guthrie -- Janice N. Harrington -- Tony Hoagland -- Kimberly Johnson -- Troy Jollimore -- Ilya Kaminsky -- Douglas Kearney -- Donika Kelly -- Christopher Kempf -- Steven Kleinman -- Jennifer L. Knox -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nick Lantz -- Shara Lessley -- Steven Leyva -- Cate Lycurgus -- Khaled Mattawa -- Jennifer Militello -- Susan Leslie Moore -- John Murillo -- Hieu Minh Nguyen -- Sharon Olds -- Matthew Olzmann -- Paul Otremba -- Cecily Parks -- Carl Phillips -- Stanley Plumly -- Jana Prikryl -- Kevin Prufer -- Ariana Reines -- Max Ritvo -- Clare Rossini -- Robyn Schiff -- Brandon Som -- Jon William Stout -- Arthur Sze -- James Tate -- Brian Teare -- Craig Morgan Teicher -- Lynne Thompson -- Matthew Thorburn -- Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad -- Corey Van Landingham -- Rosanna Warren -- Robert Wrigley -- Ryo Yamaguchi -- John Yau -- Emily Yong -- Monica Youn -- Matthew Zapruder.
"For this year's volume, guest editor Paisley Rekdal has selected seventy-five thought-provoking, surprising, unsettling, exhilarating poems."--Page 4 of cover. The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year's most remarkable poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah's Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called "a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries" by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the "contraries" of our present moment in time.
9781982106591 198210659X 9781982106607 1982106603
American poetry--21st century.
Poetry--Collections.
Poetry.
Poetry.
PS617 / .B474 2020
811/.608
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Introduction / "Saving the Children" / "Customer Loyalty Program" / from "The Galleons" / "Invention of I" / "A Man Drops a Coat on the Sidewalk and Almost Falls into the Arms of Another" / Nothing Beats a Fair" / "Bells" / "Orange" / "Tender" / "Obit [Privacy-died]" / "The Waking Life" / "Becoming a Forest" / "In Line to Vote on Our Future Climate" / "All Through the War" / "In Which the Devil Asks Me for My Name" / "The Shore" / "Little Death" / "To X (Written on This Device You Made)" / "Birches Are the Gods' Favorite Tree" / "Sex" / "It Cannot Be" / "On Patmos, Kneeling in the Panagia" / "Big Gay Ass Poem" / "Good Mother" / "The Conversion of Paul" / "During the Middle Ages" / "Putting the Pieces Together" / "Sunday at the Mall" / "Fifteen" / "The Garden of Earthly Delights" / "In a Time of Peace" / "Sho" / "I Never Figured How to Get Free" / "After," / "Bear" / "The Gift" / "The Jungle" / "After a Transcript of the Final Voicemails of 9/11 Victims" / "On Faith" / "When I Feel a Whoop Comin' On" / "Locomotion" / "Qassida to the Statue of Sappho in Mytilini" / "The Punishment of One Is the Love Song of Another" / "Night of the Living" / "A Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn" / "Chasm" / "Hyacinth Aria" / "Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice" / "Climate Is Something Different" / "The Seeds" / "Something to Believe In" / "At Night" / "Fox" / "Archaeology" / "A Partial History" / "The Poorly Built House" / "The Keeper Will Enter the Cage" / "American Cockroach" / "Shainadas" / "Dysphonia" / "Sprang" / "The Prayer" / "Sitting Isohydric Meditation" / "I Am a Father Now" / "She talk like this 'cause me Mum born elsewhere, say" / "The Stag" / "Isfahan, 2010" / "Recessional" / "Samson, 1674" / "Machinery" / "Reading Not Reading" / "The President's Telegram" / "Opioid, Alcohol, Despair" / "Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)" / "My Life" / David Lehman -- Paisley Rekdal -- Julia Alvarez -- Brandon Amico -- Rick Barot -- Kaveh Bassiri -- Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Ryan Black -- Bruce Bond -- William Brewer -- Lucie Brock-Broido -- Victoria Chang -- Heather Christle -- Ama Codjoe -- Meg Day -- Timothy Donnelly -- Hazem Fahmy -- Vievee Francis -- Rachel Galvin -- Julian Gewirtz -- Regan Good -- Christine Gosnay -- Jorie Graham -- Samuel Green -- BC Griffith -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Jennifer Grotz -- Camille Guthrie -- Janice N. Harrington -- Tony Hoagland -- Kimberly Johnson -- Troy Jollimore -- Ilya Kaminsky -- Douglas Kearney -- Donika Kelly -- Christopher Kempf -- Steven Kleinman -- Jennifer L. Knox -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nick Lantz -- Shara Lessley -- Steven Leyva -- Cate Lycurgus -- Khaled Mattawa -- Jennifer Militello -- Susan Leslie Moore -- John Murillo -- Hieu Minh Nguyen -- Sharon Olds -- Matthew Olzmann -- Paul Otremba -- Cecily Parks -- Carl Phillips -- Stanley Plumly -- Jana Prikryl -- Kevin Prufer -- Ariana Reines -- Max Ritvo -- Clare Rossini -- Robyn Schiff -- Brandon Som -- Jon William Stout -- Arthur Sze -- James Tate -- Brian Teare -- Craig Morgan Teicher -- Lynne Thompson -- Matthew Thorburn -- Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad -- Corey Van Landingham -- Rosanna Warren -- Robert Wrigley -- Ryo Yamaguchi -- John Yau -- Emily Yong -- Monica Youn -- Matthew Zapruder.
"For this year's volume, guest editor Paisley Rekdal has selected seventy-five thought-provoking, surprising, unsettling, exhilarating poems."--Page 4 of cover. The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year's most remarkable poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah's Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called "a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries" by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the "contraries" of our present moment in time.
9781982106591 198210659X 9781982106607 1982106603
American poetry--21st century.
Poetry--Collections.
Poetry.
Poetry.
PS617 / .B474 2020
811/.608