The best American poetry 2023

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Author:

Equi, Elaine, editor.

ISBN:

9781982186760

9781982186753

Edition:

First Scribner Poetry edition.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 185 pages : illustration ; 22 cm

Abstract:

Presents some of the year's most striking and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering insight into their work.

Contents:

The Bluish Mathematics of Darkness / Covering Stan Getz / Fortune / We get the Dialectic fairly well / A Deafening Prayer / Three Poems / from 13th Balloon / That's American / Antediluvian / Yes / The Shape of Biddle City / World's End / The Songbird Academy / Photo Shoot / The Years / After the Exhibition / Instagram / Days at the Races / 330 College Avenue / Night Herons / Revisionary / Other News on Page 24 / Strange as the Rules of Grammar / All Right / Admonitions, Afternoons / Best Original Enigma in Verse / The Devil's Wife Explains Broken 45s / I Ask that I Do Not Die / A Marvelous Sky / Straight, No Chaser / Three Shrimp Boats on the Horizon / [Misread 'master craftsman'] / from Autobiography of My Alter Ego / I Meant To / Green Moon / Traces / Hooky / Places with Terrible Wi-Fi / Coffee with Lavender / Pi-Day / Moonrise / Tablets VI / Dating Buddha / Chopin in Palma / Extraordinary Life of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Several Invoices / As I Wander Lonely in the Cloud / The Facts / from The Feeling Sonnets / Sunday Cave / In space surface tension will force / a small blob of liquid to form a sphere / Film Theory / Brown Furniture / Poem No. 2: My Kind of Feminism / Something I've Not Bought / Dramaturgy / All the Time Blues Villanelle / Little Fugue (State) / A Lost Poem of Jesus / Only Death Wows Me / Green Goddess / These Squatting Girls in Black Spandex / Various Gloves / Wildfire Season / Listening in Deep Space / Full Haunt / The Steeplejack / The Poems Attributed to Him May Be by Different Poets / Three Poems from 13 Moons Kora / I can see Mars / And What My Species Did / Great Sizzle / Sweepstake / Song for Mie Yim / Parallel Bars / The Empty Grave of Zsa Zsa Gabor

Subject Term:

Poetry -- Collections.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Added Author:

Equi, Elaine,

Lehman, David, 1948-

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Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry , "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" ( Chicago Tribune).

Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents some of the year's most striking and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering insight into their work.

For The Best American Poetry 2023 guest editor Elaine Equi, whose own work is "deft, delicate [and] subversive" (August Kleinzahler), has made astute choices representing contemporary poetry at its most dynamic. The result is an exceptionally coherent vision of American poetry today.

Including valuable introductory essays contributed by the series and guest editors, the 2023 volume is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.

Foreword	xi
Introduction	xxiii
"The Bluish Mathematics of Darkness"	1
"Covering Stan Getz"	2
"Fortune"	3
"'We get the Dialectic fairly well'"	5
"A Deafening Prayer"	7
"Three Poems"	9
"From 13th Balloon"	11
"That's American"	12
"Antediluvian"	14
"Yes,"	15
"The Shape of Biddle City"	17
"World's End"	18
"The Songbird Academy"	19
"Photo Shoot"	20
"The Years"	21
"After the Exhibition"	23
"Instagram"	24
"Days at the Races"	25
"330 College Avenue"	26
"Night Herons"	28
"Revisionary"	30
"Other News on Page 24"	32
"Strange as the Rules of Grammar"	33
"All Right"	35
"Admonitions, Afternoons"	36
"Best Original Enigma in Verse"	38
"The Devil's Wife Explains Broken 45s"	40
"I Ask That I Do Not Die"	41
"A Marvelous Sky"	43
"Straight, No Chaser"	44
"Three Shrimp Boats on the Horizon"	45
"[Misread 'master craftsman']"	46
"From Autobiography of My Alter Ego"	48
"I Meant To"	51
"Green Moon"	54
"Traces"	56
"Hooky"	57
"Places with Terrible Wi-Fi"	59
"Coffee with Lavender"	60
"Pi-Day"	62
"Moonrise"	64
"Tablets VI"	66
"Dating Buddha"	71
"Chopin in Palma"	73
"Extraordinary Life of Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Several Invoices"	75
"As I Wander Lonely in the Cloud"	79
"The Facts"	80
"From The Feeling Sonnets"	82
"Sunday Cave"	85
"In space surface tension will force / a small blob of liquid to form a sphere"	86
"Film Theory"	87
"Brown Furniture"	89
"Poem No. 2: My Kind of Feminism"	90
"Something I've Not Bought"	91
"Dramaturgy"	93
"All the Time Blues Villanelle"	95
"Little Fugue (State)"	97
"A Lost Poem of Jesus"	98
"Only Death Wows Me"	99
"Green Goddess"	100
"These Squatting Girls in Black Spandex"	102
"Various Gloves"	103
"Wildfire Season"	104
"Listening in Deep Space"	106
"Full Haunt"	107
"The Steeplejack"	108
"The Poems Attributed to Him May Be by Different Poets"	109
"Three Poems from 13 Moons Kora"	112
"I can see Mars"	116
"And What My Species Did"	119
"Great Sizzle"	121
"Sweepstake"	122
"Song for Mie Yim"	123
"Parallel Bars"	126
"The Empty Grave of Zsa Zsa Gabor"	127
Contributors' Notes and Comments	131
Magazines Where the Poems Were First Published	175
Acknowledgments	179

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