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The best American poetry 2008
Publisher
Scribner Poetry
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st Scribner ed.
Evening song / Tom Andrews
Exceptions and melancholies / Ralph Angel
Framing / Rae Armantrout
Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees / John Ashbery
Untitled / Joshua Beckman
Poseur / Marvin Bell
Ku(na)hay / Charles Bernstein
Electrocuting an elephant / Ciaran Berry
If see no end in is / Frank Bidart
Wanting sumptuous heavens / Robert Bly
Night hunting / John Casteen
Entering / Laura Cronk
Homage to Calvin Spotswood / Kate Daniels
Men / Lydia Davis
Parallax / Erica Dawson
Handymen / Cornelius Eady
Millay goes down / Moira Egan
Aubade in autumn / Peter Everwine
The museum of stones / Carolyn Forché
Rock polisher / Chris Forhan
In the book of the disappearing book / John Gallaher
Girl without her nightgown / James Galvin
Threshing / Louise Glück
Futures / Jorie Graham
I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri / Robert Hass
O my pa-pa / Bob Hicok
Phone booth / Brenda Hillman
Muchness / Tony Hoagland
Cane fire / Garrett Hongo
The rape of the daughters of Leucippus by Castor and Pollux / Richard Howard
Snoring / Mark Jarman
Francis Ponge is on fire / George Kalamaras
Recuperation from the dead love through Christ and Isaac Babel / Mary Karr
Though he tarry / Maxine Kumin
Skull trees, South Sudan / Adrie Kusserow
from Hallelujah blackout / Alex Lemon
Of love and other disasters / Philip Levine
Resignation / J.D. McClatchy
The last wolf in Edmonson County / Davis McCombs
A letter to Su Tong P'o / W.S. Merwin
Ritual / Susan Mitchell
The water cooler / Paul Muldoon
The gate of Abraham / D. Nurkse
Every night / Debra Nystrom
The window at Arles / Meghan O'Rourke
Method, or Kenneth Koch / Ron Padgett
The classical study (4) / Michael Palmer
Cosmos, late blooming / D.A. Powell
The rain that falls here / Alberto Ríos
Then let fall your horrible pleasure / Tim Ross
Three lanterns / John Rybicki
American / Ira Sadoff
The aurora of the new mind / David St. John
World news / Sherod Santos
Evening man / Frederick Seidel
Listen / Charles Simic
Tara / Patti Smith
Pentecost / R.T. Smith
Hexagon: on truth / Dave Snyder
Cricket / Lisa Ross Spaar
The shoe / Kathryn Starbuck
Divide and conquer / Alan Sullivan
The sentence / Chad Sweeney
The troubadours etc. / Mary Szybist
National security / James Tate
On captivity / Natasha Trethewey
Thomas Hardy / Lee Upton
Faithful / Dara Wier
Light / C.K. Williams
Passing scenes (while reading Basho) / Franz Wright
Language exists because
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Lynn Xu
Sepsis / C. Dale Young
The dead from Iraq / David Young
No forgiveness ode / Dean Young
from Book of hours / Kevin Young.
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