The Best American poetry, 2005 / Paul Muldoon, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.

In View of the Fact / A.R. Ammons -- In Dearest, Deepest Winter / John Ashbery -- The Catholic Encyclopedia / Maureen Bloomfield -- I Want to Be Your Shoebox / Catherine Bowman -- Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane / Stephanie Brown -- The Beats / Charles Bukowski -- Irregular Masks / Elena Karina Byrne -- Seven Changs / Victoria Chang -- To Jaques Pepin / Shanna Compton -- The Poets March on Washington / James Cummins -- Urban Myth / Jamey Dunham -- Five Roses in the Morning / Stephen Dunn -- Everything I Needed to Know / Karl Elder -- The Revolution / Lynn Emanuel -- Pre-Raphaelite Pinups / Elaine Equi -- The Magical Sadness of Omar Caceres / Clayton Eshleman -- 19--: An Elegy / Andrew Feld -- I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese. / Beth Ann Fennelly -- In Praise of My Prostate / Edward Field -- Adam and Eve's Dog / Richard Garcia -- Watch / Amy Gerstler -- Blue on Her Hands / Leonard Gontarek -- Advice for a Stegosaurus / Jessica Goodheart -- The Searchers / George Green -- The Turn of the Screw / Arielle Greenberg -- For Kateb Yacine (Algerian playwrite, novelist, poet, and activist, 1929-89) / Marilyn Hacker -- I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run / Matthea Harvey -- Contributors' Notes / Stacey Harwood -- Variations on Two Black Cinema Treasures / Terrance Hayes -- Seesaws / Samuel Hazo -- Motes A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. / Anthony Hecht -- The Propogation of the Species / Jennifer Michael Hecht -- from The Fatalist / Lyn Hejinian -- Remorse After a Panic Attack in a Wisconsin Field, 1975 / Ruth Herschberger -- Burlap Sack / Jane Hirshfield -- In a Quiet Town by the Sea / Tony Hoagland -- Ants / Vicki Hudspith -- A Chapter in the Life of Mr. Kehoe, Fisherman / Donald Justice -- A Blessing from My Sixteen Years' Son / Mary Karr -- Hell and Love / Garret Keizer -- The Wolf / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Shelley / Galway Kinnell -- In the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments / Rachel Loden -- Hell / Sarah Manguso -- Ill-Made Almighty / Heather McHugh -- Space Marriage / D. Nurske -- Song: I Love You. Who are You? / Steve Orlen -- Dear Owl / Eugene Ostashevsky -- Death Is Intended / Linda Pastan -- Dislocations: Seven Scenarios / Adrienne Rich -- All the Ghosts / James Richardson -- How I Became Impossible / Mary Ruefle -- Home to Roost / Kay Ryan -- Media Effects / Jerome Sala -- Costanza Bonarelli / Mary Jo Salter -- The Grilled Cheese Sandwich An Elusive Essential to Social Success / Christine Scanlon -- Moscow / Jason Schneiderman -- Hate Poem / Julie Sheehan -- Sunlight / Charles Simic -- An Impasse / Louis Simpson -- For Hughes Cuenod - in his 100th year. / W.D. Snodgrass -- Waiting for a Ride / Gary Snyder -- Twenty Questions / Maura Stanton -- End of the Day on Second / Dorothea Tanning -- The Swing / James Tate -- Marijuana / Chase Twichell -- For a Man Who Wrote CUNT on a Motel Bathroom Mirror / David Wagoner -- From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine, VII / Rosanna Warren -- Ballad of the Subcontractor / Marlys West -- from The Maud Project / Susan Wheeler -- Some Words Inside of Words (for children and others) / Richard Wilbur -- Bareback Pantoum / Cecilia Woloch -- A Short History of My Life / Charles Wright -- A Big Ball of Foil in a Small New York Apartment / Mattew Yeager -- Black Cat Blues / Kevin Young.