Title:
The best American poetry 2022
Summary:
"Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year's most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are "for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings" (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry."-- Amazon.com
Edition:
First Scribner edition.
Contents:
America / Text and image / Remembering / Vows / What the dead can do / Gaslighter / Anthony Bourdain / Inaugural / Proof / Outer lands / The innocent / Marriage / Broken sestina reaching for Black joy / Preparing for sleep / Today: what is sexy / Separate but umbilical situations relating to my father / Goblin / Advice for Pliny the Elder, big daddy of mansplainers / Let me / Ode to Sudanese Americans / A bulldozer's American Dream / 1965: Harriet Richardson wipes Galway Kinnell's face after state troopers beat him with a billy club / Sea: night surfing in Bolinas / Second wind / Into the mountains / Theories of revenge / The life of a writer / What would you ask the artist? / :::[to the voice of the age]::: / Against Death / Ode to everything / Capitalism / How much I loved this life / When a bold of lightning falls in love / Buried abecedary for intensive care / The rest is silence / Skeletons / Big clock / January garden / My father's mustache / the junkyard galaxy knocks / How to greet a warbler / Myths about trees / Trauma note / Quoting the Bible / Diego de Montemayor / Best friend ballad / In Virginia / Pandemic parable / Elegy on fire / After graduate school / The remaining facts / Follow them / La Época en que hay Olvida / Departure / Hair sestina / Modern poetry / Widowing / In the lockdown / Anthropocene: a dictionary / Hungry poem with laughter coming from an unknown source / Little time / Lest I forget thee / The infant's eyes / At this point my confusion / Reasons for staying / In a dark time, the eye begins to see / Hi, how are you / Elegy for the gnat / Final poem for my father misnamed in my mouth / What else in art do you pay for / First, chill / Spark theory / Chris Martin sings 'shiver' & I shiver: a poem for Madam Vice President / under the chiming bell
Physical Description:
xxvii, 207 pages ; 22 cm.
Genre:
Publisher:
Scribner Poetry,
Publication Date:
2022
ISBN:
9781982186692
9781982186685
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner Poetry, 2022.
©2022
Call Number:
811.6 BEST