TitleThe best American poetry 2001 / Robert Hass, editor ; David Lehman, series editor
Imprint New York : Scribner Poetry, c2001
Descript 287 p. ; 22 cm

CONTENT

Notes for a sermon on the mount -- The plan -- Crossroads in the past -- Jazz -- Crossed-Over, fiend-snitched,X-ed out -- When the gods put on meter -- Vague poem -- The french generals -- Sonnet around Stephanie -- Notes about my face -- Heartland -- Blouse of felt -- Longing a documentary -- Ceriserie -- Snow day -- En famille -- A mown lawn -- Ma ramon -- The cloud of unknowing -- T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. -- The art of the snake story -- Contemporary American poetry -- Little dantesque -- Time -- My chakabuku mama: a comic tale -- Gulls -- Waterborne -- The singers change, The music goes on -- Enough rain for Agnes Walquist -- Her garden -- Sarabande on attaining the age of seventy-seven -- Nights -- The formation of soils -- In praise of coldness -- What the lovers in the old songs thought -- After 65 -- Doubt -- Sweet reader, flanneled and tulled -- The emperor of China -- The quick and the dead -- Dear derrida -- The ashes -- To world war two -- Consolations before an affair, upper west side -- Songs of the valley -- Seven deadly sins -- Wedding day -- The rider -- Tattoos -- Mae west Chats it up with Bessie Smith -- My one -- Music for homemade instruments -- Our kitty -- Where leftover misery goes -- His costume -- The nature of things -- Here -- Untitled (February 2000) -- A metal denser than, and liquid -- The ghost shirt -- The clearing -- Jersey rain -- A short narrative of breasts and womb in service of plot entitled -- Architect -- Vectors: Forty-five aphorisms and ten-second essays -- "What we heard about the Japanese" and "What the Japanese perhaps heard -- Furtherness -- Along overgrown paths -- Night picnic -- Apple -- Meteor -- The diagnosis -- I stopped writing poetry... -- Sources of the delaware -- In your version of heaven I am younger


SUBJECT

  1. American poetry -- 21st century

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Central Library (4th Floor)811 B561 2001 CHECK SHELVES