| Description |
xxxiii, 231 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / David Lehman ; Introduction / Major Jackson ; "Phase One" / Dilruba Ahmed ; "You & the raw bulletts" / Rosa Alcald ; "Update on Werewolves" / Margaret Atwood ; "Central Park" / Catherine Barnett ; "America will be" / Joshua Bennett ; "Afternoons at the Lake" / Fleda Brown ; "Essay on joy" / Sumita Chakraborty ; "Six Obits" / Victoria Chang ; " I invite my parents to a dinner party" / Chen Chen ; " Drank a Lot" / Leonard Cohen ; "Like a Cat" / Laura Cronk ; "Metaphor-less" / Kate Daniels ; "Armed Neighbor" / Carl Dennis ; "An apology to the reader" / Toi Derricotte ; "Brilliant Corners" / Thomas Devaney ; "Skin-Light" / Natalie Diaz ; "Decline in the adoration of Jack-in the-Puloits" / Joanne Dominique Dwyer ; "I now pronounce you dead" / Martin Espada ; "The analytic hour" / Nausheen Eusuf ; "Canzone in blue, then bluer" / Vievee Francis ; "Guantanamera" / Gabriela Garcia ; "Update" / Amy Gerstler ; "Virgil, hey" / Camille Guthrie ; "Dark and lovely after take-off (A future) / Yona Harvey ; "Dancing" / Robert Hass ; "American sonnet for my past and future assassin" / Terrance Hayes ; "Roll under the waves" / Juan Felipe Herrera ; "Stranger by night" / Edward Hirsch ; "Ledger" / Jane Hirshfteld ; "Sunflowers" / James Hoch ; "All praise Cecil Taylor" / Bob Holman ; "The bathers, cassis" / Garrett Hongo ; "Sympathy of a clear day" / Ishion Hutchinson ; "The burning bush" / Didi Jackson ; "In memory of Derek Alton Walcott" / Major Jackson ; "from 'Last Will and Testament" / Itya Kaminsky ; "We may no longer consider teh end" / Ruth Ellen Kocher ; "Soft targets" / Deborah Landau ; "Higher calling" / Quraysh Ali Lansana ; "The undressing" / Li-Young Lee ; "It could happen to you" / David Lehman ; "Cannibal woman" / Ada Limon ; "A brief history of the future apocalypse" / Rebecca Lindenberg ; "The S in "I loves you, Porgy'" / Nabila Lovelace ; "Hah" / Clarence Major ; "At land's end" / Gail Mazur ; "The President cisits the storm" / Shane McCrae ; "Bio from a parallel world" / Jeffrey McDaniel ; "Miles Davis: Birth of the cool/the founding of Brasilia (1950)" / Campbell McGrath "Sleepwalking in Venice" / Ange Mlinko ; "Fannie Lou Hamer" / Kamilah Aisha Moon ; "The last of England" / Andrew Motion ; "Aubade" / Paul Muldoon ; "On confessionalism" / John Murillo ; "You are your own State Department" / Naomi Shihab Nye ; "Rasputin Aria" / Sharon Olds ; "Nord-sud" / Michael Palmer ; "The black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth" / Morgan Parker ; "Head crack head crack" / Willie Perdomo ; "Star map with action figures" / Carl Phillips ; "Just rollin' along" / Ishmael Reed ; "Four Mary's" / Paisley Rekdal ; "Belly, buttocks, and straight spines" / Sonia Sanchez ; "#MeToo" / Nicole Santalucia ; "The women's march" / Philip Schultz ; "Vermeer's pearl" / Lloyd Schwartz ; "Encore" / Alan Shapiro ; "Who knows one" / Jane Shore ; "The greatest personal privation" / Tracy K. Smith ; "Harm's way" / A.E. Stallings ; "The white orchard" / Arthur Sze ; "Duty" / Natasha Trethewey ; "Partly true poem reflected in a mirror" / Ocean Vuong ; "Still life: Steven's wallet on a Key West hotel dresser" / David Wojahn ; "Hive" / Kevin Young. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Collections.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Jackson, Major, 1968- editor.
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Lehman, David, 1948- editor.
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| ISBN |
1982106573 |
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9781982106560 |
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1982106565 |
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9781982106577 (pbk) |
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