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Title:
The best American poetry 2017
Author:
Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- editor.
ISBN:
9781501127755

9781501127632
Edition:
First Scribner edition.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 225 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Weapons discharge report / Commotion of the birds / Admission / On a Shaker admonition / Apophatic / Homage to a painter of small things / Intrigue in the trees / Bullet points / The dead / Elegy with a gold cradle / Fidelity and the dead singer / I forgive you / Steer your way / A wild tom turkey / The present / Two lives / Spontaneous remission / Kaddish / The boatman / Given to these proclivities, by God / Dead butterfly / Canasta / Passage / from The Black Maria / Higher education / Ars poetica with Bacon / Mounting the Dove Box / Cause of death: Fox News / Hamlet texts Guildenstern about playing upon the pipe / Certain things / The Flâneur tends a well-liked summer cocktail / History (n.) / Homecoming / Progress notes / Grackle / The age of anxiety / from The Last Bohemian of Avenue A / The watch / Lapse / Rain in winter / Kill list / Things that break / White / Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds / To Marlon Brando in hell / Ode to the glans / Letter beginning with two lines by Czesław Miłosz -- Three dark proverb sonnets / Rockabye / Halo / Names / Poliomyelitus / Assemblage of ruined plane parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi / The mercy home / Emanations / I went for a walk in winter / Where to put it / Seeing things / Last summer of innocence / Good bones / Maricón / Shattered / Afraid to pray / Sad song / Something / Dear skull / Deconstruction / Scheherazade / Double helix / Prelude / Greenacre / Precatio simplex / Infinitives / Money road / Poem for vows