The Best American Poetry 2005
The Best American Poetry 2005, a volume in
The volume is "one of the series' best books in years", according to Maureen N. McLane, reviewing the book in
Poets and poems included
Poet | Poem | Publication(s) where poem previously appeared |
A.R. Ammons |
"In View of the Fact" | Epoch |
John Ashbery | "In Dearest, Deepest Winter" | Crazyhorse |
Maureen Bloomfield | "The Catholic Encyclopedia" | The Cincinnati Review |
Catherine Bowman | "I Want to Be Your Shoebox" | Open City |
Stephanie Brown | "Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane" |
POOL |
Charles Bukowski | "The Beats" | New York Quarterly |
Elena Karina Byrne | "Irregular Masks" | The Los Angeles Review |
Victoria Chang | "Seven Changs" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
Shanna Compton | "To Jaques Pepin" | Gastronomica |
James Cummins | "The Poets March on Washington" | Jacket |
Jamey Dunham | "Urban Myth" | Sentence |
Stephen Dunn | "Five Roses in the Morning" | Iowa Review
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Karl Elder | "Everything I Needed to Know" | Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily |
Lynn Emanuel | "The Revolution" | Slate |
Elaine Equi | "Pre-Raphaelite Pinups" | The New Yorker |
Clayton Eshleman | "The Magical Sadness of Omar Caceres" | FENCE |
Andrew Feld | "19--: An Elegy" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
Beth Ann Fennelly | "I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese." | Ploughshares |
Edward Field | "In Praise of My Prostate" | Hanging Loose |
Richard Garcia | "Adam and Eve's Dog" | Notre Dame Review |
Amy Gerstler | "Watch" | Sycamore Review |
Leonard Gontarek | "Blue on Her Hands" | American Poetry Review
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Jessica Goodheart | "Advice for a Stegosaurus" | The Antioch Review |
George Green | "The Searchers" | Court Green |
Arielle Greenberg | "The Turn of the Screw" | American Letters & Commentary |
Marilyn Hacker | "For Kateb Yacine (Algerian playwright, novelist, poet, and activist, 1929-89)" |
New England Review, PN Review |
Matthea Harvey | "I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run" |
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Stacey Harwood | "Contributors' Notes" | LIT |
Terrance Hayes | "Variations on Two Black Cinema Treasures" | CROWD |
Samuel Hazo | "Seesaws" | The Atlantic Monthly
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Anthony Hecht | "Motes A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye." | The New Yorker |
Jennifer Michael Hecht | "The Propagation of the Species" | In Posse Review |
Lyn Hejinian | "from The Fatalist" | Bomb |
Ruth Herschberger | "Remorse After a Panic Attack in a Wisconsin Field, 1975" |
New Letters
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Jane Hirshfield | "Burlap Sack" | Runes |
Tony Hoagland | "In a Quiet Town by the Sea" | The Cincinnati Review |
Vicki Hudspith | "Ants" | Mudfish |
Donald Justice | "A Chapter in the Life of Mr. Kehoe, Fisherman" | The New Criterion |
Mary Karr | "A Blessing from My Sixteen Years' Son" | The New Yorker |
Garret Keizer | "Hell and Love" | Image |
Brigit Pegeen Kelly | "The Wolf" | 32 poems
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Galway Kinnell | "Shelley" | The New Yorker |
Rachel Loden | "In the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments" | Denver Quarterly, Poetry Daily |
Sarah Manguso | "Hell" | Conduit |
Heather McHugh | "Ill-Made Almighty" | 32 poems , Verse Daily
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D. Nurkse | "Space Marriage" | Fence |
Steve Orlen | "Song: I Love You. Who are You?" | Gulf Coast |
Eugene Ostashevsky | "Dear Owl" | jubilat |
Linda Pastan | "Death Is Intended" | Shenandoah |
Adrienne Rich | "Dislocations: Seven Scenarios" | Boston Review |
James Richardson | "All the Ghosts" | The Paris Review |
Mary Ruefle | "How I Became Impossible" | Court Green |
Kay Ryan | "Home to Roost" | Poetry |
Jerome Sala | "Media Effects" | Insurance Magazine |
Mary Jo Salter | "Costanza Bonarelli" | The American Scholar |
Christine Scanlon | "The Grilled Cheese Sandwich An Elusive Essential to Social Success" |
Barrow Street, Good Foot |
Jason Schneiderman | "Moscow" | Shankpainter |
Julie Sheehan | "Hate Poem" | Pleiades
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Charles Simic | "Sunlight" | New England Review |
Louis Simpson | "An Impasse" | The Hudson Review |
W.D. Snodgrass |
"For Hughes Cuenod — in his 100th year." | The New Criterion, Early Music America |
Gary Snyder | "Waiting for a Ride" | The New Yorker |
Maura Stanton | "Twenty Questions" | POOL |
Dorothea Tanning | "End of the Day on Second" | The Antioch Review |
James Tate | "The Swing" | New American Writing |
Chase Twichell | "Marijuana" | The Yale Review
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David Wagoner | "For a Man Who Wrote CUNT on a Motel Bathroom Mirror" |
Hanging Loose |
Rosanna Warren | "From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine, VII" | The New Yorker, Pleine Marge |
Marlys West | "Ballad of the Subcontractor" | Notre Dame Review |
Susan Wheeler | "from The Maud Project" | Salt |
Richard Wilbur | "Some Words Inside of Words (for children and others)" |
The Atlantic Monthly
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Cecilia Woloch | "Bareback Pantoum" | New Letters
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Charles Wright | "A Short History of My Life" | The New Yorker |
Matthew Yeager | "A Big Ball of Foil in a Small New York Apartment" |
New York Quarterly |
Kevin Young | "Black Cat Blues" | The Virginia Quarterly Review
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See also
Notes
- The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 2006, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ [2]Library Journal brief review as presented on a Web page titled "Death by Pad Thai: And Other Unforgettable Meals / Editorial Reviews" (click on tab "for more reviews" at bottom of that Web page) at the Barnes & Noble Web site, the book in which Lehman and Harwood appear was published in October 2006; accessed October 13, 2007 ("A Feast of Preparations" finds writer David Lehman's wife, Stacey, aspiring to create the perfect meal for poet John Ashbery")
External links
- Web page for contents of the book, with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared
- [3] "Play for Mortal Stakes" Marion K. Stocking's review in The Beloit Poetry Journal