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Contents Rick Barot · Many Are Called · Eight Elegies · Reading Plato Dan Beachy-Quick · Prologue · Psalm (Traherne) · Unworn · Afterword Joshua Beckman · [Final poem for the gently sifting public begins on the streetsÉ] · [I like your handsome drugs. Your pleasantÉ] · [The thirst of the crowd. We laid the body downÉ] [The canals. The liquor coming throughÉ] · Ode to an Air Traffic Controller Josh Bell · Poem to Line My Casket With, Ramona · Zombie Sunday (had we but world enough and time) · Meditation on The Consolation of Philosophy · Sleeping with Artemis David Berman · Democratic Vistas · April 13, 1865 · Community College in the Rain · From His Bed in the Capital City Erica Bernheim · I Love How Your Eyes Close Every Time You Kiss Me · Anne Boleyn · Pavese Said Death Will Come Bearing Your Eyes Mark Bibbins · Just Yesterday · All But Lost · Groupie · Slutty Sherwin Bitsui · The Northern Sun · Apparition · Chrysalis Richard Blanco · Elegant Endings · We're Not Going to Malta · Perfect City Code · How It Begins/How It Ends Joel Brouwer · Aesthetics · Divorce · Hamartia Symbolized by the Stray · Kelly, Ringling Bros. Oldest Elephant, Goes On Rampage · The Spots Oni Buchanan · The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia · The Girls · The Term · Room 40 · Transporter Stephen Burt · Ocean State · Persephone (Unplugged) · Paysage MoralisÄ · Morningside Park Dan Chiasson · My Ravine · Vermont · Boston · Song for a Play · The Elephant Carrie St. George Comer · The Long Goodbye · Shelburne Falls · Arbor Olena Kalyitiak Davis · sweet reader, flannelled and tulled · Thirty Years Rising · All the Natural Movements of the Soul · the unbosoming · keep some stuff for yourself Monica de la Torre · How to Look at Mexican Highways · Driven by a Strange Desire · Golfers in the Family Timothy Donnelly · Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit · Three Panels Depending on the Heart · Birdsong From Inside the Egg · The New Intelligence Ben Doyle · The War Is Over · Forensics · Our Man Thomas Sayers Ellis · Sticks · Atomic Bride · Slow Fade to Black · Zapruder Andrew Feld · On Fire · Intermission · The Boxers Monica Ferrell · Myths of the Disappearance ("I rise like a red balloon . . .") · Geburt des Monicakinds · Stories from the Tower Miranda Field · Children's House · Miraculous Image · Scold's Mask · Subway · Housefire Nick Flynn · Swarm · Hive · Emptying Town · Cartoon Physics, part 1 · Cartoon Physics, part 2 Katie Ford · Flesh · Nocturne · The Hands of the Body Without the Body and Nothing to Hold · Colosseum Arielle Greenberg · Afterwards, There Will Be a Hallway · Berlin Series · Nostalgia, Cheryl, is the Best Heroin · Saints Jennifer Grotz · The Last Living Castrato · Not Body · The Wolf · Kiss of Judas Matthea Harvey · Ideas Go Only So Far · Abandoned Conversation With the Senses · Definition of Weather · Our Square of Lawn · Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form Terrance Hayes · Wind In A Box ("I claim in the last hour of this known hysterical breathing . . .") · The Blue Terrance · The Elegant Tongue · A Postcard From *Okemah · Talk Steve Healey · My Wrist Split Open · As Western Culture Declined Without Its Knowing · Where Spring Is Thomas Heise · Corrections · My Pietê · Zombie Brian Henry · The Pyramid · Skin · Rooms · Submarine Christine Hume · Explanation · Hume's Suicide of the External World · Sampler City · Comprehension Questions Major Jackson · Blunts · Euphoria · Pest · Don Pullen at the Zanzibar Blue Jazz CafÄ Lisa Jarnot · Poem Beginning With a Line by Frank Lima · The New Life · Song of the Chinchilla · The United States of America · The Girl Who Couldn't Be Loved A.Van Jordan · Beggar's Song · Kind of Blue · Public Radio Plays Eddie Harris Ilya Kaminsky · Author's Prayer · Dancing in Odessa · Maestro Sally Keith · Orphean Song · Mechanics · The Gallery · Subtraction Song Suji Kwock Kim · Occupation · Monologue for an Onion · On Sparrows James Kimbrell · Empty House · Letters to a Vanishing FiancÄe · Salvation · My Psychic Joanna Klink · Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes. · Porch and Snow · Mariana Trench · And Having Lost Track Noelle Kocot · An Ordinary Evening · Bad Aliens · Gypsy Summer · Civilization Day · I Am Like a Desert Owl, An Owl Among the Ruins Katy Lederer · Sympathy and Envy · A Dream of Mimesis · In Las Vegas Dana Levin · Ars Poetica (the idea) · Chill Core · Glass Heart · Cinema VeritÄ Maurice Manning · First · A Condensed History of Beauty · On Death · On God · boss of ashes boss of dust Sabrina Orah Mark · Hello · The Babies · The Mustache · Transylvania, 1919 · The Experiments Lasted Through the Winter Corey Marks · Portrait of a Child · Three Bridges · After the Shipwreck Khaled Mattawa · I Was Buried in Janzoor · Growing Up With A Sears Catalogue in Benghazi, Libya · Echo & Elixir 1 · Echo & Elixir 2 Jeffrey McDaniel · Logic in the House of Sawed-Off Telescopes · Lineage · Opposites Attack · The Archipelago of Kisses · Dear America Joyelle McSweeeney · Still Life W/Influences · The Wind Domes · Persuasion Sarah Messer · Look, · With This Change to Indoor Lighting · Rendered Dog · Marriage Proposal Ethan Paquin · Hearing Music Through Dark Trees · Capstone · When I Don't Think of This World Alan Michael Parker · Driving Past My Exit · The Vandals · The Vandals Dying · Practicing Their Diffidence, The Vandals D.A. Powell · [sleek mechanical dart: the syringe noses into the blue vein marking the target of me] · [when you touch down upon this earth.little reindeers] · [tall and thin and young and lovely the michael with kaposi's sarcoma goes walking] · [writing for a young man on the redtrain: "to his boy mistress"] · [coda & discography] Kevin Prufer · For the Unfortunates · The End of the City · A Car Has Fallen From a Bridge · The Rise of Rome · On Finding a Swastika Carved on a Tree in the Hills Above Heidelberg Srikanth Reddy · Corruption · Scarecrow Eclogue · Second Circle · Evening With Stars · Burial Practice Paisley Rekdal · Strawberry · Stupid · What Was There to Bring Me to Delight But to Love and Be Loved? · A Crash of Rhinos Matthew Rohrer · Childhood Stories · From The World at Night ("I went out one night with people from workÉ") · My Government · We Never Should Have Stopped at Pussy Island Tessa Rumsey · More Important Than the Design of Cities Will Be the Design of Their Decay · Man-Torpedo-Boat · Assembling My Shepherd ("Thrown out of a third story window on acid late spring") · Never Morocco · Big Rig the Baroque Sky Patty Seyburn · The Alphabetizer Speaks · First Bookshelf · What I Disliked about the Pleistocene Era Robyn Schiff · At the Shedd Aquarium · Chanel No. 5 · Vampire Finch · Woodpecker Finch · House of Dior Brenda Shaugnessy · Your Name On It · Epithalament · Post-Feminism · You Love, You Wonder · Panopticon Richard Siken · Boot Theory · A Primer For the Small Weird Loves · Saying Your Names Tracy K. Smith · Self-Portrait as the Letter Y · History · Duende Juliana Spahr · localism or t/here · December 1, 2002 · December 4, 2002 · January 28, 2003 Larissa Szporluk · Meteor · One Thousand Bullfrogs Rejoice · Holy Ghost · Eohippus · Elsewhere Brian Teare · First Person Plural as a House · Set for a Southern Gothic · Detail From "Set From a Southern Gothic" · Dead House, Sonnet · Trick Noir Ann Townsend · They Call You Moody · Touch Me Not · Modern Love Natasha Trethewey · Miscegenation · Genus Narcissus · Countess P; Ôs Advice for New Girls · Native Guard Pimone Triplett · For the Mother Tongue · Next to Last Prayer · Portraits at the Epicenter Karen Volkman · [Now I promise . . . ] · [If it be event . . . ] · The Case · May · Kiss Me Deadly G.C. Waldrep · The Miracles of St. Sebastian · What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem · Hotel d'Avignon · Canada! Joe Wenderoth · As Hour and Year Collapsed · Send New Beasts · Narrative Poem · Where I Stand With Regard to the Game Greg Williaamson · Italics, Mine · Nervous Systems · Junkyard Emily Wilson · [Wind in bare vinesÉ] · Relict · Coal Age · The Fossil Garden Suzanne Wise · Testimony · Confession · Fifty Years in the Career of an Aspiring Thug · Advice Rebecca Wolff · Press Play · Sybil · Lamb, Willow: An Arch Dolefulness Has Taken Me This Far Mark Wunderrlich · Amaryllis · Voluntary Servitude · Fourteen Things We're Allowed to Bring to the Underworld · Predictions About a Black Car Monica Youn · Naglfar · Night Ferry to Naxos 1 · Night Ferry to Naxos 2 · Flatlanders C. Dale Young · Proximity · Torn · Infidelity Kevin Young 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Matthew Zapruder · Canada · School Street · Whoever You Are Andrew Zawacki · Credo · Velocity among the Ruins of Angel Republic · Vertigo · [one of me stuttered and oneÉ] Rachel Zucker · Diary: Underworld ("Only a mother . . .") · Not Knowing Nijinsky or Diaghilev · In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger Further Reading Credits
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
American poetry -- 21st century.