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The best American poetry, 2003
The best American poetry series
Best American poetry.
The end of Out of the past / A locked room / Dedicated to the one I love / Some further words / Curse / Rambling on my mind / Art tatum / 1000 lines / Perfect attendance : short subjects made from the staring photos of strangers / Aeon Flux : June / Litany / Six sketches : when a soul breaks / World history / Skin / Fox trot Fridays / Open door blues / Journal / The vagrant hours / Ponderosa / An offer received in this morning's mail : / Landscape / Report on human beings / Max Jacob's shoes / Beauty
The opaque / Rhythmic arrangements (on prosody) / Sad little breathing machine / Villanelle / The desire manuscripts / Summer night / Success / Ten sighs from a sabbatical / Some rain / The dragon / When the towers fell / After Horace / Love blooms at Chimsbury after the war / Proverb / Y2K (1933) / In the hall of bones / The music of time / Jihad / To Zbigniew Herbert's bicycle / Dear alter ego / A history of color / The loaf / Four deaths that happened daily / Asparagus / Poem for the novelist whom I forced to write a poem
What happened to everybody / Queen Min Bi / Anniversary / What the paymaster said / Sequoia sempervirens / The disappearances / Sleet / For Nazim Hikmet in the old prison, now a Four Seasons Hotel / Song with a child's pacifier in it / There's trouble everywhere / Translating / Lines / The restaurant business / The lost boy / After your death / On being asked to discuss poetic theory / In a rut / Premonition / In sky / Man running / The world / My work / Scrabble with Matthews / Clemency / After the opening, 1932 / Reading the bones : a Blackjack Moses nightmare
Komunyakaa, Yusef.
Lehman, David, 1948-
Jonathan Aaron -- Beth Anderson -- Nin Andrews -- Wendell Berry -- Frank Bidart -- Diann Blakely -- Bruce Bond -- Catherine Bowman -- Rosemary Catacalos -- Joshua Clover -- Billy Collins -- Michael S. Collins -- Carl Dennis -- Susan Dickman -- Rita Dove -- Stephen Dunn -- Stuart Dybek -- Charles Fort -- James Galvin -- Amy Gerstler -- Louise Glück -- Michael Goldman -- Ray Gonzalez -- Linda Gregg.
Mark Halliday -- Michael S. Harper -- Matthea Harvey -- George Higgins -- Edward Hirsch -- Tony Hoagland -- Richard Howard -- Rodney Jones -- Joy Katz -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Galway Kinnell -- Carolyn Kizer -- Jennifer L. Knox -- Kenneth Koch -- John Koethe -- Ted Kooser -- Philip Levine -- J.D. McClatchy -- W.S. Merwin -- Heather Moss -- Stanley Moss -- Paul Muldoon -- Peggy Munson -- Marilyn Nelson -- Daniel Nester.
Naomi Shihab Nye -- Ishle Yi Park -- Robert Pinsky -- Kevin Prufer -- Ed Roberson -- Vijay Seshadri -- Alan Shapiro -- Myra Shapiro.-- Bruce Smith -- Charlie Smith -- Maura Stanton -- Ruth Stone -- James Tate -- William Tremblay -- Natasha Trethewey -- David Wagoner -- Ronald Wallace -- Lewis Warsh -- Susan Wheeler -- Richard Wilbur -- C.K. Williams -- Terence Winch -- David Wojahn -- Robert Wrigley -- Anna Ziegler -- Ahmos Zu-Bolton II.
Yusef Komunyakaa, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
The best American poetry, 2003
