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Index
Cover
Foreword by David Lehman
Introduction by Edward Hirsch
Christopher Bakken, “Sentence”
Catherine Barnett, “O Esperanza!”
Rick Barot, “Whitman, 1841”
Jill Bialosky, “Daylight Savings”
Paula Bohince, “Fruits de Mer”
Michelle Boisseau, “Ugglig”
Marianne Boruch, “I Get to Float Invisible”
David Bottoms, “Hubert Blankenship”
Joseph Chapman and Laura Eve Engel, “32 Fantasy Football Teams”
Michael Collier, “Last Morning with Steve Orlen”
Allison Davis, “The Heart of It All + A Free Beer”
Olena Kalytiak Davis, “On the Certainty of Bryan”
Natalie Diaz, “How the Milky Way Was Made”
Denise Duhamel, “Humanity 101”
Lynn Emanuel, “My Life”
Claudia Emerson, “Cyst”
Martín Espada, “Here I Am”
Peter Everwine, “The Kiskiminetas River”
Alexis Rhone Fancher, “When I turned fourteen, my mother’s sister took me to lunch and said:”
Charles Fort, “One Had Lived in a Room and Loved Nothing”
Emily Fragos, “The Sadness of Clothes”
Amy Gerstler, “A Drop of Seawater Under the Microscope”
Dana Gioia, “Meet Me at the Lighthouse”
Jorie Graham, “Reading to My Father”
Juliana Gray, “The Lady Responds”
Linda Gregerson, “Font”
Jennifer Grotz, “Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City”
Mark Halliday, “Doctor Scheef”
Jeffrey Harrison, “Afterword”
Terrance Hayes, “Barberism”
Tony Hoagland, “Bible Study”
Cynthia Hogue, “The Unwritten Volume”
Garrett Hongo, “I Got Heaven . . .”
Erin Hoover, “Girls”
Richard Howard, “85 Off & On”
T. R. Hummer, “Minutiae”
Ishion Hutchinson, “Morning Tableau”
Major Jackson, “Aubade”
Lawrence Joseph, “Visions of Labor”
Julie Kane, “As If”
Suji Kwock Kim, “Return of the Native”
Loretta Collins Klobah, “Tissue Gallery”
John Koethe, “The Swimmer”
Yusef Komunyakaa, “The Fool”
Keetje Kuipers, “We drive home from the lake, sand in our shoes,”
Deborah Landau, “Solitaire”
Li-Young Lee, “Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet”
Philip Levine, “More Than You Gave”
Larry Levis, “If He Came & Diminished Me & Mapped My Way”
Robin Coste Lewis, “On the Road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari”
Thomas Lux, “Ode While Awaiting Execution”
Paul Mariani, “Psalm for the Lost”
Debra Marquart, “Lament”
Cate Marvin, “High School in Schuzou”
Morgan Parker, “Everything Will Be Taken Away”
Hai-Dang Phan, “My Father’s ‘Norton Introduction to Literature,’ Third Edition (1981)”
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, “The First Last Light in the Sky”
Stanley Plumly, “Variation on a Line from Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Five Flights Up’”
James Richardson, “Late Aubade”
Patrick Rosal, “At the Tribunals”
David St. John, “Vineyard”
Brenda Shaughnessy, “But I’m the Only One”
Anya Silver, “Maid Maleen”
Taije Silverman, “Grief”
Tom Sleigh, “Prayer for Recovery”
A. E. Stallings, “Alice, Bewildered”
Frank Stanford, “Cotton You Lose in the Field”
Susan Stewart, “What Piranesi Knew”
Nomi Stone, “Drones: An Exercise in Awe-Terror”
Adrienne Su, “Peaches”
James Tate, “Dome of the Hidden Temple”
Lee Upton, “The Apology”
C. K. Williams, “Hog”
Eleanor Wilner, “To Think of How Cold”
Al Young, “The Drummer Omar: Poet of Percussion”
Contributors’ Notes and Comments
Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published
Acknowledgments
About David Lehman and Edward Hirsch
Copyright
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