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Index
Cover
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sherman Alexie, “Terminal Nostalgia”
Chapter 2: Karen Leona Anderson, “Receipt: Midway Entertainment Presents”
Chapter 3: Rae Armantrout, “Accounts”
Chapter 4: Julianna Baggott, “For Furious Nursing Baby”
Chapter 5: David Baker, “Outside”
Chapter 6: Rick Barot, “Child Holding Potato”
Chapter 7: Reginald Dwayne Betts, “At the End of Life, a Secret”
Chapter 8: Frank Bidart, “Of his Bones are Coral Made”
Chapter 9: Bruce Bond, “Pill”
Chapter 10: Stephanie Brown, “Notre Dame”
Chapter 11: Anne Carson, “Sonnet of Exemplary Sentences”
Chapter 12: Jennifer Chang, “Dorothy Wordsworth”
Chapter 13: Joseph Chapman, “Sparrow”
Chapter 14: Heather Christle, “Basic”
Chapter 15: Henri Cole, “Broom”
Chapter 16: Billy Collins, “Delivery”
Chapter 17: Peter Cooley, “More than Twice, More than I Can Count”
Chapter 18: Eduardo C. Corral, “To the Angelbeast”
Chapter 19: Erica Dawson, “Back Matter”
Chapter 20: Stephen Dunn, “The Imagined”
Chapter 21: Elaine Equi, “A Story Begins”
Chapter 22: Robert Gibb, “Spirit in the Dark”
Chapter 23: Kathleen Graber, “Self-Portrait with No Internal Navigation”
Chapter 24: Amy Glynn Greacen, “Helianthus annuus (Sunflower)”
Chapter 25: James Allen Hall, “One Train’s Survival Depends on the Other Derailed”
Chapter 26: Terrance Hayes, “The Rose has Teeth”
Chapter 27: Steven Heighton, “Collision”
Chapter 28: Brenda Hillman, “Moaning Action at the Gas Pump”
Chapter 29: Jane Hirshfield, “In a Kitchen where Mushrooms were Washed”
Chapter 30: Richard Howard, “A Proposed Curriculum Change”
Chapter 31: Marie Howe, “Magdalene—The Seven Devils”
Chapter 32: Amorak Huey, “Memphis”
Chapter 33: Jenny Johnson, “Aria”
Chapter 34: Lawrence Joseph, “So where are We?”
Chapter 35: Fady Joudah, “Tenor”
Chapter 36: Joy Katz, “Death is Something Entirely Else”
Chapter 37: James Kimbrell, “How to Tie a Knot”
Chapter 38: Noelle Kocot, “Poem”
Chapter 39: Maxine Kumin, “Either or”
Chapter 40: Sarah Lindsay, “Hollow Boom Soft Chime: The Thai Elephant Orchestra”
Chapter 41: Amit Majmudar, “The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim”
Chapter 42: David Mason, “Mrs. Mason and the Poets”
Chapter 43: Kerrin McCadden, “Becca”
Chapter 44: Honor Moore, “Song”
Chapter 45: Michael Morse, “Void and Compensation (Facebook)”
Chapter 46: Carol Muske-Dukes, “Hate Mail”
Chapter 47: Angelo Nikolopoulos, “Daffodil”
Chapter 48: Mary Oliver, “In Provincetown, and Ohio, and Alabama”
Chapter 49: Steve Orlen, “Where Do We Go After We Die”
Chapter 50: Alicia Ostriker, “Song”
Chapter 51: Eric Pankey, “Sober then Drunk Again”
Chapter 52: Lucia Perillo, “Samara”
Chapter 53: Robert Pinsky, “Improvisation on Yiddish”
Chapter 54: Dean Rader, “Self-Portrait as Dido to Aeneas”
Chapter 55: Spencer Reece, “The Road to Emmaus”
Chapter 56: Paisley Rekdal, “Wax”
Chapter 57: Mary Ruefle, “Middle School”
Chapter 58: Don Russ, “Girl with Gerbil”
Chapter 59: Kay Ryan, “Playacting”
Chapter 60: Mary Jo Salter, “The Gods”
Chapter 61: Lynne Sharon Schwartz, “The Afterlife”
Chapter 62: Frederick Seidel, “Rain”
Chapter 63: Brenda Shaughnessy, “Artless”
Chapter 64: Peter Jay Shippy, “Our Posthumous Lives”
Chapter 65: Tracy K. Smith, “Everything that Ever was”
Chapter 66: Bruce Snider, “The Drag Queen Dies in New Castle”
Chapter 67: Mark Strand, “The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter”
Chapter 68: Larissa Szporluk, “Sunflower”
Chapter 69: Daniel Tobin, “The Turnpike”
Chapter 70: Natasha Trethewey, “Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright on Dissecting the White Negro, 1851”
Chapter 71: Susan Wheeler, From “The Split”
Chapter 72: Franz Wright, “The Lesson”
Chapter 73: David Yezzi, “Minding Rites”
Chapter 74: Dean Young, “Restoration Ode”
Chapter 75: Kevin Young, “Expecting”
Contributors’ Notes and Comments
Magazines where the Poems were First Published
Acknowledgments
About Mark Doty and David Lehman
Endnotes
Copyright
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