American journal : fifty poems for our time

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"American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith has gathered a remarkable chorus of voices that ring up and down the registers of American poetry. In the elegant...

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Other Authors: Smith, Tracy K. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, in association with the Library of Congress, [2018]
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: This is why by Tracy K. Smith
  • The small town of my youth. "Second estrangement" by Aracelis Girmay
  • "In defense of small towns" by Oliver de la Paz
  • "N'em" by Jericho Brown
  • "Flat as a flitter" by Melissa Range
  • "Sugar and brine: Ella's understanding" by Vievee Francis
  • "The field trip" by Ellen Bryant Voigt
  • "Mighty pawns" by Major Jackson
  • from "summer, somewhere" by Danez Smith
  • "Walking home" by Marie Howe
  • "Music from childhood" by John Yau
  • "Girls overheard while assembling a puzzle" by Mary Szybist
  • "Passing" by Charif Shanahan
  • Something shines out from every darkness. "'Let me tell you about my marvelous god'" by Susan Stewart
  • "Sister as moving object" by Jan Beatty
  • from "The split" by Susan Wheeler
  • "The hypno-domme speaks, and speaks and speaks" by Patricia Lockwood
  • "The poet at fifteen" by Erika L. Sanchez
  • "My brother at 3 am" by Natalie Diaz
  • "Reverse suicide" by Matt Rasmussen
  • "Charlottesville nocturne" by Charles Wright
  • "Downhearted" by Ada Limon
  • "becoming a horse" by Ross Gay
  • "After the diagnosis" by Christian Wiman
  • "Heart/mind" by Laura Kasischke
  • Words tangled in debris. "Who's who" by Cathy Park Hong
  • "Minimum wage" by Matthew Dickman
  • "Proximities" by Lia Purpura
  • "Story of girls" by Tina Chang
  • "Fourth grade autobiography" by Donika Kelly
  • "No" by Joy Harjo
  • "The long deployment" by Jehanne Dubrow
  • from "Personal effects" by Solmaz Sharif
  • "We lived happily during the war" by Ilya Kaminsky
  • "Phantom noise" by Brian Turner
  • "Ten drumbeats to God" by Nathalie Handal
  • Here, the sentence will be respected. "38" by Layli Long Soldier
  • One singing thing. "Elegy" by Natasha Trethewey
  • "Object Permanence" by Nicole Sealey
  • "Crowning" by Kevin Young "Hurricane" by Yona Harvey
  • "Requiem for fifth period and the things that went on then" by Eve L. Ewing
  • "Dear P." by Victoria Chang
  • "Lines for little Mila" by Norman Dubie
  • "Mercy" by Patrick Phillips
  • "Apparition" by Mark Doty
  • "At Pegasus" by Terrance Hayes
  • "Scorch marks" by Dara Wier
  • "Dog talk" by robin Coste Lewis
  • "Romanticism 101" by Dean Young
  • "For the last American buffalo" by Steve Scafidi.

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