Imprint:New York : Persea Books, c2009.
Description:xxii, 272 p. ; 23 cm. + 1 compact disc (4 3/4 in.)
Note:"A Karen & Michael Braziller Book."
Note:"Accompanying compact disc features dynamic recitations of 36 of the poems in the book.
Note:I : To whoever set my truck on fire : poems that make various sorts of address -- An Early snow and winter comes into kilter (Anthony Deaton) -- To the men who mow the county graveyards (Charlotte Matthews) -- A Windmill makes a statement (Cate Marvin) -- Wolf (Lindsay Ahl) -- Gone before (Dobby Gibson) -- Here, bullet (CD) (Brian Turner) -- To whoever set my truck on fire (CD) (Steve Scafidi) -- Tonight I doze (Reb Livingston) -- Correspondence (Diana Marie Delgado) -- Letter to Cain (Maria Hummel) -- To certain students (V. Penelope Pelizzon) -- Questions for godzilla (CD) (Paul Guest) -- Hello (Oliver de la Paz) -- The Film (CD) (Kate Northrop) -- II : Alexander leaves Babylon : poems that tell other people's stories -- Servitude (Tina Chang) -- Sea watchers, oil paint on canvas, 1952 (Ravi Shankar) -- Mangoes (Tracy K. Smith) -- Double dutch (CD) (Gregory Pardlo) -- Who says the eye loves symmetry (Patrick Rosal) -- Burlesque (CD) (Amaud Jamaul Johnson) -- The One (Shane Book) -- Alexander leaves Babylon (Monica Ferrell) -- The State of Virginia after Southampton, 1831 (Geoffrey Brock) -- The Battlefield (Kyle G. Dargan) -- Cheese penguin (Sarah Lindsay) -- Late autumn wasp (James Hoch) -- Colony (David Roderick) -- The Way we were (Charles Flowers) -- Imaginary numbers (CD) (Jeffrey Thomson) -- III : A splinter becoming a burning plank : poems disguised as short stories, condensed novels, and movie treatments -- Coos Bay (Michael McGriff) -- Why the marriage failed (CD) (Adrian Blevins) -- a table (Evie Shockley) -- We lived happily during the war (Ilya Kaminsky) -- Atlas (Sherwin Bitsui) -- Last day with Mayflower (CD) (Eliot Khalil Wilson) -- Third shift (CD) (Anthony Walton) -- Oakland work crew (Gibson Fay-LeBlanc) -- Selling out (CD) (Major Jackson) -- A Splinter becoming a burning plank (CD) (Curtis Bauer) -- How to fall in love with your father (Ross Gay) -- called: Eurydice (Roger Bonair-Agard) -- Invention (CD) (Tina Chang) -- I am the real Jesse James (Sarah Messer).
Note:IV : Late twentieth century in the form of litany : poems that use repetition very very well -- The Phoenix (Christian Barter) -- I'll say it this way (Curtis Bauer) -- After I said it (Kazim Ali) -- Jorie Graham (John Poch) -- The Barrel is surely coming down the hill (Gillian Kiley) -- to crave what the light does crave (Kevin Goodan) -- what the water gave me (Kevin Goodan) -- Echocardiogram (Suzanne Cleary) -- This might be real (Sarah Manguso) -- Second ending of the fairy tale (Ilya Kaminsky) -- gigan:xi (CD) (Ruth Ellen Kocher) -- Lines written before the day shift (Michael McGriff) -- America, the Hallelujah (Sarah Messer) -- Late twentieth century in the form of litany (CD) (Gabrielle Calvocoressi) -- The Hurt locker (Brian Turner) -- Cousin drowses on the flight to Kuwait (CD) (Ross Gay) -- V : Spangling the sea : poems with convincing consonance and chimes of internal rhyme -- Song (John Poch) -- All effect (Anthony Deaton) -- Living on nothing but honey and smoke (CD) (Sean Singer) -- The First sturdy bee begins (Kevin Goodan) -- Tar on the roof (Rodger LeGrand) -- The Court of forgetting (CD) (James Hoch) -- Down south, all it takes / to be a church (Stacey Lynn Brown) -- A Love supreme (Gabrielle Calvocoressi) -- The Fire of despair (Monica Ferrell) -- The Future of terror / 11 (Matthea Harvey) -- Spangling the sea (CD) (Ravi Shankar) -- Human field (V. Penelope Pelizzon) -- Leaving Saturn (Major Jackson) -- VI : Understanding Al Green : poems written to music -- What love is (Sebastian Matthews) -- Ellingtonia (Sean Singer) -- Piccolo black art (Kyle G. Dargan) -- black spoon (Camille T. Dungy) -- gamelan (LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs) -- Prayer at the opera (Patrick Donnelly) -- Poem (CD) (Christian Barter) -- Understanding Al Green (Adrian Matejka) -- On this side of mercy (Amaud Jamaul Johnson) -- For Charles Mingus & that ever-living "love chant" (CD) (Matthew Shenoda) -- leadbelly vs. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934 (CD) (Tyehimba Jess) -- Dissidence (Anthony Walton).
Note:VII : Cleopatra's bra : poems about the body, the bawdy, the sensual, and the sexy -- Bad language (Dan Albergotti) -- someone calls (Erika Meitner) -- Small murders (Aimee Nezhukumatathil) -- Cleopatra's bra (Chad Davidson) -- Love (Matthew Dickman) -- Cultural slut (Kevin A. Gonzalez) -- Uncommon denominators (CD) (Patrick Rosal) -- Marginalia on our bodies (Mark Conway) -- The Light behind her head, the bright honeycomb of the sky (Keetje Kuipers) -- Ode to the perineum (Steve Scafidi) -- mothafucka (Tyehimba Jess) -- The Tongue (CD) (John Poch) -- Afternoons (Camille-Yvette Welsch) -- Little church (Anne Marie Macari) -- VIII : Death and taxus : poems serious about puns and word play -- Renunciation (Kazim Ali) -- Cowrie apostophe (Stuart Greenhouse) -- The Preachers eat out (Camille T. Dungy) -- Scene : a loom (CD) (Sarah Gambito) -- Contraction (Ravi Shankar) -- The Basque nose (Patrick Rosal) -- Infidelity (CD) (April Ossmann) -- Quisiera Seclarar (CD) (Erika Meitner) -- fabulous ones (Jeffrey Thomson) -- Quelquechose (Dana Levin) -- Doorstep ecologist (Laura-Gray Street) -- Under the veil of wildness (Sarah Gridley) -- Diva (Chad Davidson) -- The Past described, as a figure (CD) (Mark Conway) -- Death and taxus (Gabriel Welsch) -- IX : In the romantic longhand of the night : formal and informal uses of poetic form -- Eve's sestina for Adam (Lucy Anderton) -- In the romantic longhand of the night (CD) (Diana Marie Delgado) -- Alphabet for Tamar (CD) (Eugene Ostashevsky) -- Dolores' blues (CD) (Hermine Pinson) -- Battle rhyme for the rhetorical disenfranchisers (Adrian Matejka) -- Melting (Douglas Woodsum) -- Can you (Christian Barter) -- Ideas go only so far (Matthea Harvey) -- Walter B.'s extraordinary cousin arrives for a visit (CD) (Sabrina Orah Mark) -- Chattooga (Thorpe Moeckel) -- Stark room (Shane Book) -- The Place above the river (Kate Northrop) -- Doppleganger (CD) (Rigoberto Gonzalez) -- Cottonlandia (Rebecca Black) -- Body bags (Brian Turner) -- X : Self-portrait with sadness, wild turkey, and Denis Johnson : aubades, elegies, odes, and other traditional modes -- Aubade (Charles Flowers) -- Aubade with a book and the rattle from a string of pearls (CD) (Oliver de la Paz) -- Self-portrait with sadness, wild turkey, and Denis Johnson (Matthew Dickman) -- Ars poetica (CD) (Dana Levin) -- In praise of laughter (Ilya Kaminsky) -- My sister, who died young, takes up the task (Jon Pineda) -- gigan: v (Ruth Ellen Kocher) -- Corpus (Leslie McGrath) -- A Prayer for my people (Matthew Shenoda) -- Confession (Rigoberto Gonzalez) -- Confession (Suzanne Wise) -- Prayer (CD) (Paula Bohince) -- Seven penitential psalms (V. Penlope Pelizzon) -- Lullaby after midnight (Sarah Linsday).
