| Description |
xxiii, 215 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Best American poetry.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The Pyramid Scheme / Rosa Alcalá -- Divination / Lauren K. Alleyne -- Some Call It God / Jabari Asim -- Benediction / Joshua Bennett -- love poem that ends at popeyes / Destiny O. Birdsong -- Further Exercises / Susan Briante -- Work / Jericho Brown -- After Tu Fu / Christopher Buckley -- Marfa, Texas / Victoria Chang -- The School of Eternities / Chen Chen -- Abecedarian for ESL in West Lafayette, Indiana / Su Cho -- After the Apocalypse / Ama Codjoe -- Gross National Unhappiness / Henri Cole -- On the Deaths of Friends / Billy Collins -- Interstate Highway System / Adam O. Davis -- Before the Riot / Kwame Dawes -- The Great Beauty / Toi Derricotte -- A Child's Guide to Grasses / Jay Deshpande -- lake-loop / Natalie Diaz -- Love / Alex Dimitrov -- Naji, 14. Philadelphia / Rita Dove -- This'll hurt me more / Camille T. Dungy -- Stone Love / Louise Erdrich -- Conqueror / Kathy Fagan -- They Ran and Flew from You / Chanda Feldman -- I Feel Good / Nikky Finney -- Night School / Louise Glück -- Tilt-A-Whirl / Nancy Miller Gomez -- I Won't Live Long / Jorie Graham -- Hunger / Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Sonata in F Minor, K. 183: Allegro / francine j. harris -- George Floyd / Terrance Hayes -- Waste Management / Edward Hirsch -- David / Ishion Hutchinson -- Two Mule Deer / Didi Jackson -- Double Major / Major Jackson -- So Much for America / Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- Wheelchair / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Immigrant Song / Dana Levin -- The End of Poetry / Ada Limón -- In the Village / James Longenbach -- Meditations on a Photograph of Historic Rail Women / Warren C. Longmire -- When My Sorrow Was Born / Emily Lee Luan -- All the Stops / Dora Malech -- Playing Dead / Sally Wen Mao -- Provincetown / Francisco Márquez -- This Is a Love Poem to Trees / Hannah Marshall -- The Hastily Assembled Angel on Care and Vitality / Shane McCrae -- There Is Only You / Lupe Mendez -- Since Time Immemorial / Francine Merasty -- a brief meditation on breath / Yesenia Montilla -- Irony / Kamilah Aisha Moon -- A Smiling Understanding / Stanley Moss -- When White Hawks Come / dg nanouk okpik -- December / Cecily Parks -- Elegy with Table Saw & Cobwebs / Patrick Phillips -- For Black Children at the End of the World... and the Beginning / Roger Reeves -- For Air / Ed Roberson -- Blood / Margaret Ross -- black and brown people on shark tank / Angbeen Saleem -- Pages 5-8 (An excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure / Nicole Sealey -- women's voting rights at one hundred (but who's counting?) / Evie Shockley -- What Is There to Do in Akron, Ohio? / Darius Simpson -- The Stuff of Astounding: A Golden Shovel for Juneteenth / Patricia Smith -- Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me / Monica Sok -- Chinese Restaurant Syndrome / Adrienne Su -- Acequia del Llano / Arthur Sze -- Copernicus / Paul Tran -- The Beginning of the Beginning / Phuong T. Vuong -- The Dead Just Need to Be Seen. Not Forgiven / John Sibley Williams -- Red Wine Spills / L. Ash Williams -- How to Live in Southern California / Shelley Wong -- Overnight / John Yau -- Caution (from "Deracinations: Seven Sonigrams") / Monica Youn -- Dog Tags / Kevin Young. |
| Summary |
"Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene" in their surfaces with an underlying "sense of an unknown vastness." In The Best American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Tracy K., editor.
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Lehman, David, 1948- series editor.
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| ISBN |
9781982106621 |
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198210662X |
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9781982106638 (paperback) |
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1982106638 (paperback) |
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