The Best American Poetry 2005

Series Editor David Lehman

David Lehman, Paul Muldoon, David Lehman, Paul Muldoon

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2007
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781416592075
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the last word in poetry today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- from a pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year. "The all-consuming interests of American poetry are the all-consuming interests of poetry all over, " writes Muldoon in his incisive introduction to the volume.
The Best American Poetry 2005 features a superb company of artists ranging from established masters of the craft, such as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, and Charles Wright, to rising stars like Kay Ryan, Tony Hoagland, and Beth Ann Fennelly.
With insightful comments from the poets elucidating their work, and series editor David Lehman's perspicacious foreword addressing the state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2005 is indispensable for every poetry enthusiast.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Foreword by David Lehman
• Introduction by Paul Muldoon
• A. R. Ammons, “In View of the Fact”
• John Ashbery, “In Dearest, Deepest Winter”
• Maureen Bloomfield, “The Catholic Encyclopedia”
• Catherine Bowman, “I Want to Be Your Shoebox”
• Stephanie Brown, “Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane”
• Charles Bukowski, “The Beats”
• Elena Karina Byrne, “Irregular Masks”
• Victoria Chang, “Seven Changs”
• Shanna Compton, “To Jacques Pépin”
• James Cummins, “The Poets March on Washington”
• Jamey Dunham, “Urban Myth”
• Stephen Dunn, “Five Roses in the Morning”
• Karl Elder, “Everything I Needed to Know”
• Lynn Emanuel, “The Revolution”
• Elaine Equi, “Pre-Raphaelite Pinups”
• Clayton Eshleman, “The Magical Sadness of Omar Cáceres”
• Andrew Feld, “19—: An Elegy”
• Beth Ann Fennelly, “I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese.”
• Edward Field, “In Praise of My Prostate”
• Richard Garcia, “Adam and Eve’s Dog”
• Amy Gerstler, “Watch”
• Leonard Gontarek, “Blue on Her Hands”
• Jessica Goodheart, “Advice for a Stegosaurus”
• George Green, “The Searchers”
• Arielle Greenberg, “The Turn of the Screw”
• Marilyn Hacker, “For Kateb Yacine”
• Matthea Harvey, “I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run”
• Stacey Harwood, “Contributors’ Notes”
• Terrance Hayes, “Variations on Two Black Cinema Treasures”
• Samuel Hazo, “Seesaws”
• Anthony Hecht, “Motes”
• Jennifer Michael Hecht, “The Propagation of the Species”
• Lyn Hejinian, from The Fatalist
• Ruth Herschberger, “Remorse After a Panic Attack in a Wisconsin Field, 1975”
• Jane Hirshfield, “Burlap Sack”
• Tony Hoagland, “In a Quiet Town by the Sea”
• Vicki Hudspith, “Ants”
• Donald Justice, “A Chapter in the Life of Mr. Kehoe, Fisherman”
• Mary Karr, “A Blessing from My Sixteen Years’ Son”
• Garret Keizer, “Hell and Love”
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “The Wolf”
• Galway Kinnell, “Shelley”
• Rachel Loden, “In the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments”
• Sarah Manguso, “Hell”
• Heather McHugh, “Ill-Made Almighty”
• D. Nurkse, “Space Marriage”
• Steve Orlen, “Song: I Love You. Who Are You?”
• Eugene Ostashevsky, “Dear Owl”
• Linda Pastan, “Death Is Intended”
• Adrienne Rich, “Dislocations: Seven Scenarios”
• James Richardson, “All the Ghosts”
• Mary Ruefle, “How I Became Impossible”
• Kay Ryan, “Home to Roost”
• Jerome Sala, “Media Effects”
• Mary Jo Salter, “Constanza Bonarelli”
• Christine Scanlon, “The Grilled Cheese Sandwich”
• Jason Schneiderman, “Moscow”
• Julie Sheehan, “Hate Poem”
• Charles Simic, “Sunlight”
• Louis Simpson, “An Impasse”
• W. D. Snodgrass, “For Hughes Cuenod—in his 100th year”
• Gary Snyder, “Waiting for a Ride”
• Maura Stanton, “Twenty Questions”
• Dorothea Tanning, “End of the Day on Second”
• James Tate, “The Swing”
• Chase Twichell, “Marijuana”
• David Wagoner, “For a Man Who Wrote CUNT on a Motel Bathroom Mirror”
• Rosanna Warren, “From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine, VII”
• Marlys West, “Ballad of the Subcontractor”
• Susan Wheeler, from “The Maud Project”
• Richard Wilbur, “Some Words Inside of Words”
• Cecilia Woloch, “Bareback Pantoum”
• Charles Wright, “A Short History of My Life”
• Matthew Yeager, “A Big Ball of Foil in a Small New York Apartment”
• Kevin Young, “Black Cat Blues”
• Contributors’ Notes and Comments
• Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Copyright