Imprint:New York : Scribner Poetry, 2013.
Description:xxviii, 322 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Terminal nostalgia (Sherman Alexie) -- Garbage (A.R. Ammons) -- Soft money (Rae Armantrout) -- Wakefulness (John Ashbery) -- Bored (Margaret Atwood) -- Injunction (Frank Bidart) -- Feminine intuition (Stephanie Brown) -- Three oranges (Charles Bukowski) -- The Life of towns (Anne Carson) -- Self-portrait as four styles of Pompeian wall painting (Henri Cole) -- Dharma (Billy Collins) -- En famille (Robert Creeley) -- You art a scholar, Horatio, speak to it (Olena Kalytiak Davis) -- Our generation (Carl Dennis) -- Skin (Susan Dickman) -- Desire (Stephen Dobyns) -- Difference (Mark Doty) -- All souls' (Rita Dove) -- How it will end (Denise Duhamel) -- The Imagined (Stephen Dunn) -- Powers of Congress (Alice Fulton) -- Salutations to Fernando Pessoa (Allen Ginsberg) -- Landscape (Louise Gluck) -- Manifest destiny (Jorie Graham) -- Safe (Linda Gregerson) -- The War (Linda Gregg) -- Cafeteria in Boston (Thom Gunn) -- Prophecy (Donald Hall) -- The Opaque (Mark Halliday) -- Bush's war (Robert Hass) -- A House is not a home (Terrance Hayes) -- The Polar circle (Lyn Hejinian) -- Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry (Bob Hicok) -- Phone booth (Brenda Hillman) -- Man on a fire escape (Edward Hirsch) -- In praise of coldness (Jane Hirshfield) -- In a quiet town by the sea (Tony Hoagland) -- The See-saw (John Hollander) -- Like most revelations (Richard Howard) -- 9-11-01 (Fanny Howe) -- Magdalene : the seven devils (Marie Howe) -- From "Urban renewal" (Major Jackson) -- Plea for forgiveness (Rodney Jones) -- So where are we? (Lawrence Joseph)
Note:Reading aloud to my father (Jane Kenyon) -- Proverb (Kenneth Koch) -- Sally's hair (John Koethe) -- Facing it (Yusef Komunyakaa) -- Touch me (Stanley Kunitz) -- Operation memory (David Lehman) -- The Return (Philip Levine) -- The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim (Amit Majmudar) -- Hell (Sarah Manguso) -- My mammogram (J.D. McClatchy) -- Past all understanding (Heather McHugh) -- From "The person she is" (James McMichael) -- The ring cycle (James Merrill) -- The Stranger (W.S. Merwin) -- There will be animals (Thylias Moss) -- The Loaf (Paul Muldoon) -- From Muse & drudge (Harryette Mullen) -- Hate mail (Carol Muske-Dukes) -- Q (Sharon Olds) -- The Window at Arles (Meghan O'Rourke) -- I do not (Michael Palmer) -- Fretwork (Carl Phillips) -- Samurai song (Robert Pinsky) -- A Short narrative of breasts and wombs in service of plot entitled (Claudia Rankine) -- Ends of the earth (Adrienne Rich) -- The Rev. Larry Love is dead (David Rivard) -- Discounting Lynn (J. Allyn Rosser) -- Middle school (Mary Ruefle) -- Outsider art (Kay Ryan) -- Switchblade (Michael Ryan) -- Let's all hear it for Mildred Bailey! (James Schuyler) -- Pornography (Lloyd Schwartz) -- The Death of the shah (Frederick Seidel) --- Country western singer (Alan Shapiro) -- Country fair (Charles Simic) -- At the pool (Tom Sleigh) -- Building (Gary Snyder) -- Asphodel (A.E. Stallings) -- The Latest hotel guest walks over particles that revolve in seven other dimensions controlling latticed space (Ruth Stone) -- From "Dark harbor" (Mark Strand) -- Forty (Pamela Sutton) -- Bounden duty (James Tate) -- Elegy (Natasha Trethewey) -- Counterman (Paul Violi) -- Necrophiliac (Rosanna Warren) -- Time pieces (Rachel Wetzsteon) -- A Filial republic (Susan Wheeler) -- This pleasing anxious being (Richard Wilbur) -- A Hundred bones (C.K. Williams) -- The Mill-race (Anne Winters) -- American twilight (Charles Wright) -- A Happy thought (Franz Wright) -- Religion (Robert Wrigley) -- Vespers (C. Dale Young) -- No forgiveness ode (Dean Young) -- Lime light blues (Kevin Young).
Note:Presents an anthology of one hundred top-selected poems culled from the poetry publication's first quarter century, and offers insight into the art form's flourishing status.
